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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by JPhish
Well....from experience in the simulator on the rare occasion when there was a lax bit of time in the schedule to fool around, it is really not that hard to pick a point, aim at and hit it. I've "hit" buildings in "flight"...flwon under "bridges"...all the normal things you do when the simulator is a novel fun toy...but, you soon grow tired of that. I mean, the novelty wears off quickly.
Hitting a particular point...say, on the ground for instance...well, that's really what a landing is, after all. Just at slower speeds, of course!!
I learned to fly in the civilian world...do not have perfect 20/20 uncorrect vision, so military fighters were not going to be an option. Correctable to 20/20 is perfectly acceptable, though, for the airlines (and even for military, ONCE you get in!)
Anyway, from working with and getting to know ex-mil colleagues from the various branches, the absolutely most demanding thing in aviation is probably a carrier landing...especially at night.
But, even in day....you have two moving targets, the airplane and the ship. It's purely visual, no electronic guidance to help, there is a light system (the 'meatball') to aid in the approach glideslope to the correct touchdown point to grab the arresting cable (well, there are three, just in case...).
BUT....the big ole' Pentagon, sitting there and not moving? Not hard at all. Unfortunately.
Placing the aircraft on the south path, lowered from the FDR altitude of 699 feet above sea level at this point in space to the top of the VDOT antenna, we can examine the pull up needed at pole 1 and measure the radius using a 3 point ark radius tool provided with this 3d animation software program.
Remember, the scale of this presentation is 100 feet= 1 cm box. To get an idea of how we demonstrate this in 3d software, we switch to an orthogonal view. An orthogonal view is different than a perspective view in that it eliminates the effect of distance from a viewpoint. Therefore, we can accurately determine radius of an ark and precisely draw an ark based on the pull up needed in this view.
Here is the ark drawn in the orthogonal view. We will remove the topography and obstacles in order to get a better view of the ark drawn. Again, we we will demonstrate the accuracy of the scale and topography at the end of this presentation.
The radius of this ark is 20.85 centimeters. But remember the scale of this presentation is 1 cm= 100 ft. So we need to multiply 100 to 20.85 and we get a radius of 2,085 feet.
With the radius, we can use a simple formula required for measuring acceleration as "a = v^2 / r". This is the proper formula to use for such a problem.
Using the velocity as provided by the NTSB for both scenarios, 781 f/s, we need to square that, then divide by 2085, to get 292.5 f/s squared. We then divide that by 32 f/s squared to get 9.14 G.
[The math involved]:
781*781 = 609,961
609,961/2085 = 292.5 f/s squared
292.5 f/s squared/32 f/s squared = 9.14G
G force calculation for this pull up equals 9.14 Gs. We also need to add 1 G for earth's gravity, for a total of 10.14 Gs required.
Transport category aircraft are limited to 2.5 positive Gs. Although a 757 could perhaps withstand more G forces then 2.5, it's highly unlikely it could withstand more than 5 or 6.
Remember, this calculation is for the least challenging pull. If we hypothetically lower the aircraft altitude from the NTSB plotted altitude, to the lower height of the VDOT antenna.
As we can see G loads required to pull out of a dive from the top of the VDOT antenna are impossible for a 757. It is off the charts if we account for altitude as plotted and produced by the NTSB.
Placing the aircraft at the FDR altitude, the most challenging pull, we can measure the radius of the ark needed to pull out of such a dive.
Again, we switch to the orthogonal view, for accurate measurements and we get a radius of 576.9 feet.
781*781 = 609,961
609,961/576.9 = 1057.3
1,057.3/32 = 33Gf
Plugging that radius into the same formula, and adding 1 g for earth's gravity, we get 34 Gs.
Impossible.
This is the proper way to determine G loads in a 2 dimensional problem.
Originally posted by talisman
jthomas
If there is no official story, are you suggesting that there is *No Official Truth* regarding 9/11 because there is no narrative?
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by talisman
jthomas
If there is no official story, are you suggesting that there is *No Official Truth* regarding 9/11 because there is no narrative?
There is the evidence. You know, all that evidence that 9/11 truth kiddies deny exists so they can claim, dismissively, that there is only an official "story"
thanks for responding WW but you didn't answer the question . . . how many times out of 100 do you think would you hit your mark?
You’ll forget you’re in a simulator.
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Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to
graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school. He was a below average
student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been
famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never been
allowed in the cockpit of a military aircraft.
**skip**
During his relative short stunt on flight status, McCain III lost five
U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents and one in combat.
Robert Timberg, author of The Nightingale's Song, a book about
Annapolis graduates and their tours in Vietnam, wrote that McCain
"learned to fly at Pensacola, though his performance was below par, at
best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it."
McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus
Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by
the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom.
McCain's second crash occurred while he was deployed in the
Mediterranean. "Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula," Timberg
wrote, "he took out some power lines which led to a spate of newspaper
stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an
admiral."
McCain's third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying
a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game.
Timberg reported that McCain radioed, "I've got a flameout" and went
through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one
thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the
plane slammed into a clump of trees.
McCain's fourth aircraft loss occurred July 29, 1967, soon after he
was assigned to the USS Forrestal as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot. While
seated in the cockpit of his aircraft waiting his turn for takeoff, an
accidently fired rocket slammed into McCain's plane. He escaped from
the burning aircraft, but the explosions that followed killed 134
sailors, destroyed at least 20 aircraft, and threatened to sink the
ship.
McCain's fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North
Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain's A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
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"McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat," explains Bill Bell, a veteran
of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs --
the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall
of Saigon. "Since McCain got 28 medals," Bell continues, "that equals
out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat.
There were infantry guys -- grunts on the ground -- who had more than
7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and
situations where I'm sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good
to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that
number of medals for not being shot down."
The over whelming number of aircraft mishaps occur on approach and or takeoff.
Originally posted by talisman
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by talisman
jthomas
If there is no official story, are you suggesting that there is *No Official Truth* regarding 9/11 because there is no narrative?
There is the evidence. You know, all that evidence that 9/11 truth kiddies deny exists so they can claim, dismissively, that there is only an official "story"
Right, so now you are talking about "evidence" as if it is not part of the Official Narrative.
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by talisman
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by talisman
jthomas
If there is no official story, are you suggesting that there is *No Official Truth* regarding 9/11 because there is no narrative?
There is the evidence. You know, all that evidence that 9/11 truth kiddies deny exists so they can claim, dismissively, that there is only an official "story"
Right, so now you are talking about "evidence" as if it is not part of the Official Narrative.
Read more carefully. The 9/11 Truth Movement does not talk about the "evidence." They dismiss the evidence. They say it doesn't exist, it's made up, part of a "false-flag, pre-planned operation", that it's just an "official story" and, as such, can be ignored.
Jezus's response I quoted is one such perfect example.
Originally posted by mrwiffler
stop cluttering up these pages with meaningless rhetoric. Damn annoying. We just need the facts.
The plane was seen to hit the building by many credible witnesses. There WAS wreckage...there WERE bodies...there WAS luggage. All quite easy to verify.
Anyone new to this subject please read this paper in it's entirety. It is an expose of the ridiculous fly over theory advocated by the ridiculous CIT group:
Originally posted by jthomas
Read more carefully. The 9/11 Truth Movement does not talk about the "evidence." They dismiss the evidence. They say it doesn't exist, it's made up, part of a "false-flag, pre-planned operation", that it's just an "official story" and, as such, can be ignored.
this is what you missed in the last quote.
First tell me in how many times these supposed terrorists landed a sizeable jet airliner? Any freakin jet.
I might just try to muster a positive thought in the direction of your concern for the Facts of the 911 TRAGEDIES.
No one ever flew a 757 under a bridge at 500 mph.
Originally posted by mrwiffler
Balsamo is bad news. All the double happies (John Lear et al) have congregated over at 'pilots for 911 bulldust' and are up to their usual disinformation tricks. Any of the respectable websites like AE911truth, 911review.com(not those .org idiots), 911research.wtc7.net etc have taken 'pilots for 911 rubbish' off of their links pages.'
Originally posted by mrwiffler
The plane was seen to hit the building by many credible witnesses.
Originally posted by mrwiffler
There WAS wreckage...
Originally posted by mrwiffler
there WERE bodies...
Originally posted by mrwiffler
there WAS luggage. All quite easy to verify.
Originally posted by mrwiffler
Anyone new to this subject please read this paper in it's entirety. It is an expose of the ridiculous fly over theory advocated by the ridiculous CIT group:
911review.com...
Originally posted by mrwiffler
Weedwhacker, I believe you when you say you could fly into the pentagon but do you think our official suspects being as inexperienced as they were could have done it? I personally like the remote control theory. That seems like the easiest option to me.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by scott3x
Sorry, scott...
Balsamo, et al, for all theit "calculations" are just blowing smoke.
They start from what they have already assumed to have been "impossible", then work it to justify their claims. Instead of looking at REAL data.
Originally posted by weedwhackerLots of red herrings in there, used to confuse.....
Look...there was no "10-g" pull up, alright?? There was no need for one.
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by scott3x
reply to jthomas' post #148
Originally posted by jthomas
Would you mind if I have this reprinted in my Regional NWO Newsletter next month?
Let me guess; you're sarcastically asking if you could reprint it in your fictional New World Order Newsletter, that it :-p? I have heard that some -bloggers- are being paid by the government, but I haven't heard that any forum posters have been. Nevertheless, I wouldn't put it past those who were behind 9/11.
Gosh, that's spooky. Imagine Al Queda paying people to argue against 9/11 Twoofers who are on a 21st Century Crusade to Insult Muslims by claiming they "all live in caves" and couldn't possibly know how to pull off 9/11.
Originally posted by jthomas
There is the evidence. You know, all that evidence that 9/11 truth kiddies deny exists so they can claim, dismissively, that there is only an official "story"