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Originally by weedwhacker
Not to "gang up" on you, Orion, but your post was granted a 'star', and it boggles the mind as to why...
posted by weedwhacker
First, this sentence fragment is such an incredibly outrageous assertion, I can only guess it is being parroted from some other source, and you've taken it to heart for some reason:
easy, the amateur videos are not all from "amateurs"..
Care to show your source on this claim?
posted by weedwhacker
And, on the following:
"and most have connections to the media and government which reasonably makes the videos suspect and potentially tainted aside from the evidence of tampering and editing that MOST of these videos contain."
Again...in the term "most" you are once more referring back to the 'amateur videos'. But then, with such a broad brush make the claim
that 'most' of those have "connections" to the media and the goverment?? Based on WHAT evidence, might we ask? I have a sense, again, that you are merely parroting what you've been spoon fed by various (and questionable) 'conspiracy' sites.
posted by weedwhacker
Following on, as well, further unsubstantiated claims of "tampering and editing" are made...this is clearly an OPINION being spouted, not verifiable and backed up with facts and evidence.
posted by weedwhacker
And, with this statement, you sum it up nicely:
"For anyone to ignore these FACTS and act as if its not evidence in support of what you claim has no evidence, shows either a bias, denial or intentional dishonesty."
...except, of course, when you used the bolded word "FACTS"...these are not 'facts', they are merely imaginations, suppositions and rampant speculations by those inclined to the 'conspiracy' side. In fact, some people seem to live for a 'conspiracy' -- they seem to be at a loss to function without one to grab with their teeth, and chew on for eternity.....
posted by weedwhacker
AS TO 'amateur' pilots??
Come on...the creeps had several hundred hours, at least!
posted by weedwhacker
There are commuter airlines that hire pilots with that amount of time!!
Anyway, in the case of large passenger jets, they handle very easily and very smoothly, even at high speeds.
posted by weedwhacker
Biggest thing to know (and this isn't even hard, every pilot learns it) is to use the elevator trim. Of course, the trim is electric/hydraulic, not 'manual' like on a small airplane, but it is activiated via a thumb-toggle switch (called a 'pickle switch---from ages ago) mounted in the control wheel. Dead easy to figure out.....
posted by weedwhacker
What the heck do you want? James Cameron-quality 3D???
"There is not one single original hi quality video from any source MSM or amateur that shows or conclusively shows any clear footage of any planes on 9/11 including flight 11 and 175."
There are AMPLE images of UAL 175! They're all over the web!
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Hint: WTC hit by airplane. Cameras tended to be focused there, AFTER AAL 11 hit (although undetermined, early on, as to exactly why or what hit, in the initial confusion).
BUT, because of the attention, cameras were in place to capture the event of UAL 175, numerous times!!! Numerous vantage points! Numerous angles!
posted by weedwhacker
Honestly, it is intellectually dishonest of the hard-core "conspiracy wannabes" to make the cliam, as you did, to the contrary. It boggles the limits of reason....
posted by weedwhacker
Your entire diatribe is worthless in the extreme, and full of addled references from fantasy, it seems. Also, has many factual errors.
posted by weedwhacker
The aluminum airframe is seen integrally penetrating the steel tower with no deceleration – without as much as a rear aileron breaking off. This is, of course, utterly absurd and makes a joke of the laws of physics.
Totally, unabashed utter nonsense.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Based on your reply to Neformore, and none to me, I assume I might be on your "ignore" list? Shame. Let me try again...since it's obvious you're not an airline pilot, I will try once more to clarify things, as simply aspossible.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
NO, i mean VNE or VELOCITY NEVER EXCEED.
'VNE' IS a term that is associated, generally, with
VMO is a compromise speed, in some instances...defined to be WELL below the margin of safety, to give a "cushion" between what is a stated 'Maximum", and what the airframe is actually capable of, when pushed. of the airframe, not just the wings, due to shape of the surfaces, and compressibility factors of the airflow.
The "550 MPH" figure is equivalent to 478 Knots. VMO on the B-767 is 360kt. VMO on the new Airbus A-380 is---380kt. SO, the published 'limitation' of the VMO varies
Here, everyone should read this exchange on the topic of speeds, especially asit cites the (late of ATS) Capt John Lear. I have disagreed with him on this topic (VMO) in the past, and I daresay he is in the minority belief of its "impossiblity" among airline pilots. Here is a discussion:
www.pprune.org...
Good forum to dip into, for you laypeople, as well. Keeps the 'truther' rubbish at bay....
Originally posted by weedwhacker
No, what i still think you don't seem to understand is i'm saying the oct claims they reached a speed of approx 550+ which far exceeded the VNE for the plane.
Again, you'd have to ask Mr. Boeing and his engineers about that, just what they determined to be the absolute "never exceed" for the airframe....I will tell you this, though; it is related to a percentage of Mach. And as I've
Originally posted by weedwhacker
"experts and engineers refute what you're claiming that it could have "easily" reached close to 590 at 700 feet in ANY dive and not suffered structural failure."
Wrong, only a mere handful make those claims.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
IF there had been turbulence, or the pilot had manipulated the controls roughly, damage would have ensued.
IN FACT, there probably was damage trending, in the few seconds of time the airplane sustained those excessive speeds, but not instantly catastrophic --- more like stress-related type that would have grounded the airplane, or necessitated repairs,
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Now, the next part? You just aim the shotgun, and scatter shot?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
you're telling me the real pilots would have agreed without struggle to commit suicide and not attempt to thwart what the alleged muslims with box-cutters were telling them to do?
"alleged muslims"?? Huh?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Oh, well...I think Neformore may have erred in implying that the REAL pilots assisted in any way. I suggest they were incapacitated and/or dead. Those "box-cutters" that you mock, when wielded by a murderous terrorist, on two defenseless men sitting, strapped in, with their backs to the assailant, would be defenseless, especially once their
matrix posted:
"And Even if they succeeded in having the pilots "line them up", by the time they got anywhere near lined up and killed them or whatever, the likely hood they'd be able to maintain control of the plane at 700 feet let alone not breaking up, to FOLLOW THROUGH and HIT the 200 wide target, is extremely remote and highly UNLIKELY"
What a load of crapdoodle!
As I've mentioned, the REAL pilots were in no shape to "line them up".
Originally posted by weedwhacker
You make it seem as if it's hard? To steer a jet, and 'line up'?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Well, it isn't difficult, not in the least.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
YOU could do it, with only a little bit of practice, even if you had NEVER flown before!
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Those terrorists were pilots, had hundreds of hours. HOW DO YOU THINK PILOTS LAND AIRPLANES! Yup, they 'line up' with a runway that's 150-200 feet wide!
Originally posted by Orion7911
Most of the videos show an almost horizontal approach. Therefore the power dive argument supports video fakery. You cannot have a power dive if the horizontal approach videos are accurate. But then if there is video fakery for the planes and the explosion is accurate, how can you argue that there was a real plane?
So the power dive argument is a catch 22.
Of course anyone will agree that a plane can reach speeds over 500 at sea level IF THE NOSE OF THE PLANE WAS POINTING STRAIGHT DOWN AT THE EARTH. There are many other experts that agreed that it could not go over 500 IN FLIGHT at sea level all included in the video. Most eyewitnesses agree it was in level flight and no such power dive; again supporting fakery.
Here's more than ample evidence to support my argument (if you claim any of this is wrong or not factual, please show a line by line counter-argument exactly how and where it is)
pilotsfor911truth.org...
..Pilots For 9/11 Truth have calculated the Equivalent Airspeed for EA990 peak speed of .99 Mach at 22,000 feet as the equivalent dynamic effects of 425 knots at or near sea level. This airspeed is 65 knots over max operating for a 767, 85 knots less than the alleged United 175. It is impossible for the alleged United 175 to achieve the speeds reported by the NTSB using EA990 as a benchmark.
he National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the EgyptAir flight 990 accident is the airplane's departure from normal cruise flight and subsequent impact with the Atlantic Ocean as a result of the relief first officer's flight control inputs. The reason for the relief first officer's actions was not determined.
As previously discussed, simulations showed that even if a failure condition had affected the elevator system, it would have been possible to regain control of the airplane at any time during the recorded portion of the accident sequence and to have restarted the engines and recovered the airplane during the climb after the recorders stopped. However, those simulations assumed that there were no opposing pilot inputs. The captain's failure to recover the airplane can be explained, in part, by the relief first officer's opposing flight control inputs. It is possible that efforts to recover the airplane after the airplane lost electrical power were also complicated by the loss of electronic cockpit displays.
Pilots For 9/11 Truth have further studied if a 767 could continue controlled flight at such reported speeds. According to the NTSB, EA990 wreckage was found in two distinct debris fields, indicating in-flight structural failure which has been determined to have occurred a few seconds after recording peak speed. Based on EA990, it is impossible for the alleged United 175 to have continued controlled flight at more than 85 knots over the speed which failed the structure of EA990.
forum.prisonplanet.com...
"..The "plane" is presumed to have struck its target at a height under 1000 feet at 9:02am
This is incredible target acquisitioning, but just as incredible is the fact that according to the NTSB report, which was founded on three sets of radar data ( FAA, JFK Approach and USAF) the alleged plane covered the sixty mile distance in approximately 4 minutes and 40 seconds. That works out to an average of 700 mph; this is above Mach 1!, a totally impossible achievement, on multiple levels, for a mid-size wide-body twinjet airliner."
s1.zetaboards.com...
".it would have been impossible for an alleged hijacker with little or no time in the Boeing 767 to have taken over, then flown a Boeing 767 at high speed, descending to below 1000 feet above mean sea level and flown a course to impact the twin towers
..To propose that a Boeing 767 airliner exceeded its designed limit speed of 360 knots by 127 mph to fly through the air at 540 mph is simply not possible. It is not possible because of the thrust required and it's not possible because of the engine fan design which precludes accepting the amount of dense air being forced into it."
www.911research.dsl.pipex.com...
The fact that all the videos apparently show a structurally intact Boeing 767 in controlled flight prior to its collision with WTC2 travelling at such a ridiculously high airspeed is another indicator that whatever the UA175 aircraft was, it was not a production model Boeing 767-200. it was simply something that has been added to the video recording in post production either to conceal what the video recording originally showed, or to add something to the recording that should have been there
how so? what exactly is bunk?
Uh, Mr moderator, If thats how you want to interpret what i'm explaining and believe i'm not serious even though i've been responding to everyones line of questions in-depth presenting a valid argument supporting what i'm claiming which so far imo hasn't been shown to be illogical or wrong, i guess you have a right to that opinion
Originally posted by jfj123
reply to post by warisover
I am shocked that anyone is still making these silly claims.
This is absolutely one of the worse ideas related to the 9/11 conspiracies and when associated with the other conspiracies, makes all people interested in 9/11 conspiracies look like tinfoil hat wearing lunatics.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
Looks like the plane is coming down from a higher altitude to me:
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Originally posted by warisover
Within 4 minutes of the first air strike on tower 1 all 5 TV networks had firsthand eyewitnesses handy on the phone, virtually all whom were news media professionals.
Originally posted by warisover
Within 4 minutes of the first air strike on tower 1 all 5 TV networks had firsthand eyewitnesses handy on the phone, virtually all whom were news media professionals.
You know, what really makes me mad, or should I say sad, is that human beings can be so evil and conniving. I think that's why so many people just cannot fathom this idea (of no planes), because to pull this hoax off, all the people involved have got to be soulless psychopaths.
Originally posted by warisover
Within 4 minutes of the first air strike on tower 1 all 5 TV networks had firsthand eyewitnesses handy on the phone, virtually all whom were news media professionals. This is how they sold the "plane" theory to the public.
Originally posted by kybertech
There is a point to no plane theory nobody has mentioned:
During the life transmisson on cnn you couldn't see a plane aproaching just an explosion when nobody was expecting it. This was supposedly the second plane hit. The commentary even said that and stated that they would "rewind the tape". Then you saw the plane passing the screen, a short blackout and then the as before explosion.
I don't have a particular opinion whatever there were planes or not, but I find the argument that there were no live shots valid. This however proves or disproves nothing you just don't have enough evidence either way.
Here is a video where a supposed witness says there were no second plane but a bomb.
*plonk*
Originally posted by Jbalon
Stop feeding these trolls, just delete this entire post, seriously.
Originally posted by Jbalon
Oh wow BIG WHOOPDEE DOOO , find one person who says there was no plane and all you truthers believe it as if its the gospel. You know, ignore the thousands of other New Yorkers who SAW AIRPLANES FLY INTO THE BUILDINGS.
Stop feeding these trolls, just delete this entire post, seriously.
[edit on 24-5-2010 by Jbalon]
[edit on 24-5-2010 by Jbalon]
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
Originally posted by Orion7911
Here’s where any rational-minded person should stop and ponder: What are the odds that so many amateur cameramen would capture a clear shot of an unexpected 550mph airplane[1] in its very last second of flight - both 'plane' and towers nicely framed - with no apparent motion blur of either?
I can't take you seriously either. But this bit just takes the cake.
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
What happened before the aeroplane hit the tower? There was a quite surprising event a bit earlier. Something that might have encouraged people to point their cameras at the WTC...
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
And of course you still haven't answered my point above. Put yourself in the shoes of the conspirators. How do you ensure that you have all the footage? Until you can answer that you're going to struggle to convince anybody. Here's a clue - just make up some sort of super-secret super-powered mind control machine. Something like that.
[edit on 21-5-2010 by TrickoftheShade]
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Sorry, but you're being horribly misled by a lot of amateurish "armchair noodling"....and I see it's mostly because you seem so incredibly focused on (and unfortunately, illogically convinced of) the "No Planes Theory".
Checking the "amateruish" comment, for just one moment..."YouTube" video #3, with Russ Wittenburg. YES, he is a valid, known former (retired) UAL pilot. He is also a bit of a loon, in the John Lear category...self-aggrandizing sort. (that means he's on an ego trip. Not uncommon, MOST airline pilots, like doctors, have enormous egos).
However, Wittenburg made quite a fuss and fool of himself, so much so that even though I didn't work for United, his name was tossed about within the industry, even before 9/11. He's a blowhard. Keep in mind, please, his provenance and how he came to be a "United Airlines" pilot. He was one of the lucky ones who survived the merger with PanAm, when that airline was failing and was acquired by UAL.
Video #2, above? YT user "skyarcher". Guessing here, looks to be a bloke from the UK, likely a private pilot, with some experience in general aviation type airplanes, but NONE in real transport category (except, of course, his home computer and the simulator programs, which he shows near the end).
Originally posted by weedwhacker
BTW, that video was overly dramatic, for television and entertainment purposes. In this modern age, with CAD and very powerful computer modeling, the engineers were quite certain of the safety, in these high-speed tests. The helmets, parachutes, etc are a necessary requirement, for the just in case aspect....BUT, if it was THAT dangerous, as breathlessly indicated by the narration, then there would have only been the TWO PILOTS onboard, for that particular test! Hard enough for two to evacuate, in case of dire emergency, then four or five!
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Video #4....again, was that Wittenburg? Forget, now...but anyway, the false comparison to flying a Cessna 172. Sure, it was Hani Hanjour, I think, who famously was so poor at landing technique that they wouldn't "sign him off" on the rental check out. So what??
ALL four of the prime terrorist "pilots" had training in 757 and 767 simulators, and they certainly didn't waste time practicing landings!
BTW...ask any airline pilot, once you're familiar with, and fly exclusively for months or years, ONLY one type of airplane, then decide to go rent a small general aviation airplane, it takes a little while to "unlearn" some hapbits and techniques that you utilize everyday on the big jets, and re-accustom yourself to how the smaller airplanes handle.
Originally posted by weedwhackerMany years ago I was lilving in Phoenix, and wished to rent a Cessna 210 for the weekend. A six-place, high perfomance retractable single. When I was a "newbie", it was a very complicated, intimidating machine! AND, compared to the little Cessna 150, VERY heavy on the controls (or so I thought).
Fast-forward to Phoenix, and I had to do the obligatory "check-out" with a CFI...same thing I used to do back when I was teaching, for renting customers. Anyway, we're flying, doing landings and he comments "Gee, I've never seen anyone fly this thing with only two fingers on the control wheel, before".
I laughed...I was on the DC-10 at the time, and I HAD to use the lightest touch possible, on the Cessna, because I was so accustomed to an entirely different "feel"....not that the DC-10 is hard to control it's just different, and in comparison, requires a bit more muscle than the Cessna. To me, the 210 felt light as a feather. It's just a matter of perspective.
OK. memory lane is behind us...video #5? Wing vortexes. Great, informative, but hardly applicable, to the events of 9/11.
What else, let me see....oh! "Pilots for Truth". Yeah...more gobble-dee-gook from Rob Balsamo, and company (actually, it's really just HIM, and a few boot-licking accolytes, in reality).
I attempted to set him straight on the Egypt Air 990 crash, but any time you dare to disagree with the "grand poohbah" on HIS turf, you don't last long. Spoiled brat, best way to describe him, and he should be judged accordingly, and treated as such.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Sigh...
In _BoneZ_ video examples, the upper (first) one is a shot from a different angle, obviously, and includes a capture of UAL 175 from farther out, SHOWING that it started from a ahigher altitude, and began the final descent in just the last seconds, to accelerate for its final impact velocity.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
The terrorist pilot did this to MAXIMIZE his effect.
In the second video, from the 'side' angle, you only see the very final, last moments...hardly a second...and it appears to be level, becuase he DID shallow out his dive slightly, as he aimed to hit the building.
IF YOU HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY FLOWN an airplane, then I doubt very much you will ever understand what I'm trying to describe.
What a shame......