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Originally posted by hooper
Here, this may help you understand a little better, give it a good read.
www.fire.nist.gov...
Yes sirrrree folks, step right up and see this epic smack down by the notorious Mr Thermo Klein of a team of experts in their field who have provided a detailed analysis of aircraft damage to the Pentagon.
Originally posted by Reheat
reply to post by Thermo Klein
Yes sirrrree folks, step right up and see this epic smack down by the notorious Mr Thermo Klein of a team of experts in their field who have provided a detailed analysis of aircraft damage to the Pentagon. Mr Thermo Klein chooses a couple of photographs, one of which was taken by a telephoto lens from hundreds of yards away, expresses incredulity that what this highly qualified team of experts shows in detail is bogus and wants someone to take his comments seriously.
There are not enough Bwahahahahas in the English to express how incredibly hilarious this is.......
The reasoning in the preceding paragraphs is not presented as a prediction of an orderly process but as a preliminary rationalization of the distribution of severe damage to the spirally reinforced column cores immediately after impact.The important conclusion is that the observed distribution of failed columns does not contradict simple estimates made on the basis of elementary mechanics.
Yes you're missing something, re-read the section of the report on page 47 that you pulled the illustration from. Re-read all of it, but here's a hint:
Originally posted by Yankee451
Am I missing something or did they?
Throw me a bone, will you?
Do you have any idea what "completely notional" means?
A frame from a physics-based simulation of an idealized airplane
loaded with fuel impacting a set of spirally reinforced concrete
columns (by Hoffmann and Kilic of Purdue University) is shown in
figure 7.4. Although completely notional...
There's nothing in the report you cited that contradicts that explanation, your attempt to take an illustration from the report completely out of context notwithstanding.
As the front of the Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon, the outer portions of the wings likely snapped during the initial impact, then were pushed inward towards the fuselage and carried into the building's interior; the inner portions of the wings probably penetrated the Pentagon walls with the rest of the plane. Any sizable portions of the wings were destroyed in the explosion or the subsequent fire.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Yes you're missing something, re-read the section of the report on page 47 that you pulled the illustration from. Re-read all of it, but here's a hint:
Originally posted by Yankee451
Am I missing something or did they?
Throw me a bone, will you?
Do you have any idea what "completely notional" means?
A frame from a physics-based simulation of an idealized airplane
loaded with fuel impacting a set of spirally reinforced concrete
columns (by Hoffmann and Kilic of Purdue University) is shown in
figure 7.4. Although completely notional...
It means it's not intended to be an accurate model of exactly what happened.
If you did you're intentionally misrepresenting what it says. If you didn't then you may want to read it.
The security camera was operating at a low frame rate not conducive to a clear visualization of the impact. Perhaps if a higher frame rate camera had been aimed at the impact point, as happened at the World Trade Center, the impact could be seen more clearly.
I don't know if the Snopes description of what happened at the Pentagon is completely accurate, but I haven't seen any evidence presented to refute it as a possibility:
As the front of the Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon, the outer portions of the wings likely snapped during the initial impact, then were pushed inward towards the fuselage and carried into the building's interior; the inner portions of the wings probably penetrated the Pentagon walls with the rest of the plane. Any sizable portions of the wings were destroyed in the explosion or the subsequent fire.
There's nothing in the report you cited that contradicts that explanation, your attempt to take an illustration from the report completely out of context notwithstanding.
Originally posted by Yankee451
Wow, only one security camera was working?
Originally posted by Yankee451You can't have it both ways even if this was cartoon-land and aircraft aluminum wings were able to maintain their integrity long enough to fold back after colliding with reinforced concrete. It's an absurd story you'll have to prove or withdraw. Claiming "official" sources won't do. Prove it...provide any forensic evidence of a wide body jet. There should be hundreds of serial numbered parts.
Originally posted by Yankee451
IT'S CALLED A WHITEWASH
Originally posted by Yankee451
reply to post by Reheat
Are you in politics?