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Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
It is impossible for images or footage of the plane flying AWAY from the event to disprove where independent corroborated witness say the plane flew on the approach TO the event.
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
reply to post by Reheat
CIT does not have a flight path.
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
But yes.....the true C-130 flight path as described by the pilot Lt Col Steve O'Brien and independently corroborated 4 times over by the employees at ANC most certainly can fit with the photographic and video evidence that is inconclusive as to the exact location of the C-130 to the ground as it banked AWAY from the scene.
Originally posted by ThroatYogurt
All you can do to discredit this person is his screen name? Pathetic.
mirageofdeceit
People clearly don't know their aircraft.
A C-130 flying at 300 kts IAS is getting very close to VMO of 320 kts. Turboprops aren't renowned for their speed (although that isn't to say they don't have good performance). That's not to say it isn't possible, just unlikely.
In the landing config, a C-130 can fly as slow as 80 kts. For reference, that's about as slow as a Cessna 150 on approach. The reason it can do that is because of its huge wing.
The C-130 can also be turned like crazy if the pilot so desired. It's one hell of an aircraft.
The point is that it is possible for it to pull off that seemingly tight turn.
Reheat
One thing to check if you're going to analyze the data is exactly to what heading the C-130 turned to on his departure from the area. Also, his exact heading inbound to the Pentagon, then we could plot the two and calculate a pretty exact radius of turn.
One thing is already for sure, what we see on the video matches the RADES plots close enough. I'm going to actually plot the speed and that would only leave the EXACT bank angle he used for the turn. However, just in looking at the aircraft it's pretty close to a standard rate for ~300 KIAS.
In my opinion, this wraps it up. The RADES data is correct and this video verifies it.
"They just hit the Pentagon!"
I turned. Rising up from the right center of the Pentagon’s mass was a gigantic spherical orange mass, the flames oddly bright and vivid in the clear direct sunlight. I stepped to the window, and instinctively put my hand to the glass. Verle and Ray were quickly on either side of me. A few seconds after the explosion, the glass rattled and a dull boom shook the room.
I yelled, "Jesus #ing Christ!" and the others yelled other things. The room seemed full of sound suddenly. Some people rushed in in response to the sound, then oddly left again.
Within seconds, the orange fireball had dissipated, replaced with an angry black plume, instantly bending to the southeast in the prevailing wind. I simply could not believe what I was looking at. To expect a bizarre, outrageous event like this, and then to see it happen, is literally the stuff of nightmares. The only similar experience I could compare it to was the Challenger explosion, when I actually believed that if I looked at the tape enough times and really concentrated, it wouldn’t blow up this time.
Originally posted by baffledon911
Not sure if this is to far off the topic here, but according to video evidence that pesky E4B was also taking a looksy at the pentagon event at about the sametime...