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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
Sorry, Detective, but this is not "new" information spewing from the pie-hole of this guy....look at the original date!! 2007!!
This guy, "Razer", is NO DIFFERENT than the other (handful) of miscreants and self-deluded sad sacks,
The same cast of silly characters, same silly, toothless and also deluded 'organizations'.
In the case of 911, evidence was being removed even during the rescue operation.
Debris was being removed by a carting company that is co owned by known mafia members and that debris was immediately being recycled or sold for scrap within the first 15 days of the attack.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
But, you aren't a pilot, you've never flown?? You base this entire opinion from being a mechanic??
Don't have to. Not relevant. ("ground level" is an inaccurate, and doesn't describe the actual flight path of American 77, anyhow). The airplane spent a mere second, or about two at most, at just a few feet above the ground.....impact occurred milliseconds later. The approach was a descent all the way in, using the help of gravity (and full thrust) combined to accelerate above the airspeed that would normally be achievable in just level flight.
And, there is no problem controlling the airplane, at that airspeed. Obviously, since it happened.
Since you aren't a pilot, you will probably never understand.
The NTSB video (which data-set stopped a second or two before impact, because of corruption of that last bit of data) the trend was obvious.....the aim was obvious....the impact was inevitable, from that position and direction of motion. Physics. The last speed shown, from NTSB re-creation video, was 483 KCAS. Every single aspect of that NTSB video is completely understandable to REAL pilots...and especially to those of us who have actually flown the damn airplane! The Boeing 767 FAA certification data has been posted, showing a demonstrated speed of AT L:EAST 420 KCAS in flight testing. The 757 is type-certificated separately, but since (to pilots) they are similar enough in design, layout, and handling behavior to share a "common" type rating, then it is reasonable to presume that the 757 flight testing ALSO exhibited the same results. The airplane was controllable at 420 knots...there is no reason to infer it wouldn't be at 483 knots. The actual "problems" with controllability begin to show up when you are approaching the critical MACH number. The airspeed versus percentage of Mach is temperature-related. At near sea level, normal temperatures.....even at 483 knots, the Mach number is well within normal limits for the airplane. (Calculating it, based on a "Standard Day", works to about 0.73 - 0.74M. The Mmo --- Mach Max Operating --- is 0.86).
Obviously, you can see it in the NTSB video, from the Flight Recorder data. But, they just aimed, and steered on a suicide mission. THAT takes a lot less skill than what most professional flying consists of.
I use this analogy: YOU can drive a car, yes? Do you intuitively know that when you are on the freeway at 70 MPH, it is a bad idea to turn the steering wheel violently and a great amount to either side? Compared to, say, slow speeds, and when parallel parking?? HOW do you know this? Did you learn it VERY early, in your driving lessons? Is it something that is hard to understand? Do you find it "harder" in a car of another make and model, to understand? Or, isn't it about the same, with just minor different "feels" to how the various cars handle and behave?
Flying airplanes is a lot like that, in terms of controls and the responses and reactions......
Well...it would have taken a determined effort, to attempt a "lawn dart" into the ground. You can see, with United 93, he didn't just push it forward....he did what's basically a "wing over"....a lot of bank, which allows the nose to drop without many negative G-forces on the airplane....AND, then once the nose is down, and you are going towards inverted, you use UP elevator to further change the attitude, to aim the nose more towards the ground. The American 77 hijacker needed to only aim, as he did.....worst case (for him, and his intended mission) would have been to drag an engine nacelle on the ground, for a bit....STILL would have impacted the Pentagon, since momentum would have carried the airplane forward anyway. As it is, there was the diesel generator that was hit, by the (right engine, IIRC). This, just milliseconds before impacting the building.
The Wing-Over is a competition maneuver in glider aerobatics. You pull up and at the same time bank the plane. When the bank increases past 45°, the nose will start to drop while the bank keeps increasing and the plane keeps turning. Halfway through the maneuver, the plane has turned 90°, the fuselage is level with the horizon and the bank is 90°. The plane is above the original flight path. The nose then keeps dropping below the horizon and the plane keeps turning, while the bank is shallowed. When the bank drops below 45°, the nose is pulled up towards the horizon and the plane reaches horizontal flight with wings level after 180° of turn. At the completion of the maneuver, the plane is at the same altitude as on entry and flying in the opposite direction.
Where DO you make this crap up?? :shk:
Oh, brother!!! Not that baloney again!!! You are continuing with that nonsense? (Getting it from the "conspiracy" websites, I'll bet?).
Here you go again, with this silliness. It is obvious you don't know what you're talking about....not from any practical, real-world experience. (Hint: Do you know what the Stabilizer Trim is? On small Cessnas and such, it is referred to as "Elevator Trim", but serves same basic function).
Oh? earlier, you used the incorrect "ground level"...to imply, what? "Inches" off the ground? Now, it's 50 feet. Funny, though...50 feet is WAY EASY!! And, yes....even for an "experienced" (he had several hundred hours!!) pilot. AND, it was, as I keep pointing out, very brief anyways. The die was cast.....back at about 200 feet.
Doesn't work like that....it isn't on a "knife's edge" of control.....it is a rock-solid, easy to handle jet.
Well, the airline I retired from, after almost 24 years, THEY did. So did my colleagues. And the commuter airlines I worked for, previously. So do all of my former students, from when I was flight instructing.....and, so do several ATS members, here on this board, who have no doubts regarding my history.
What do YOU bring to the table? Oh, a former Navy engine mechanic (not that there's anything wrong with that...my good friend, ALSO not a pilot, was an avionics tech, for the A-6. Served in Desert Storm, on the Kennedy. He has never flown an airplane in his life, but is able to understand the events of 9/11 quite well. Of course, he is pretty logical and rational, too....).
Originally posted by liejunkie01
reply to post by ANOK
Again I apologize. I stand corrected on the lift post above. You were obviously talking about to much lift. I got lost in all of the reading I was doing..lol
reply to post by weedwhacker
You are (either knowingly, or innocently, perhaps) repeating lies. Falsehoods. You have accepted (or chose to repeat them) without any verification, and fact-checking:
Some 185,101 tons of structural steel have been hauled away from Ground Zero. Most of the steel has been recycled as per the city's decision to swiftly send the wreckage to salvage yards in New Jersey. The city's hasty move has outraged many victims' families who believe the steel should have been examined more thoroughly. Last month, fire experts told Congress that about 80% of the steel was scrapped without being examined because investigators did not have the authority to preserve the wreckage.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by ANOK
There is so much BS out there, on the Internet, it has thoroughly poisoned the well, in the minds of those who have no idea about flying airplanes in the first place, and just spew the same recycled nonsense......
Originally posted by Utah62
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
I am a retired Navy Commander, Fighter Pilot with similar credentials to the Colonel aforementioned. I have also worked professionally as an expert witness and aircraft crash investigator. The most well known case I worked on was the Payne Stewart Lear 35 crash in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Several years ago someone came up to me at work (I now fly for a major airline) and asked if I had looked at the Pentagon attack on 9/11. I replied that I just saw what everyone else saw on television. He recommended to me that I go to all the available sites and look at it. On many hotel layovers I combed over numerous sites, watched many videos and looked at hundreds of pictures...
There is something that is undeniable in aircraft crash investigation....Physics Never Lies
-There is no way a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon that day...there should be 3 holes in the building. One big one for the fuselage and two smaller holes for the engines
-The tail section is the weakest part of the aircraft and almost always snaps off at impact...where is the tail?
-100 plus tons of metal does not disintegrate on impact...There should be seat frames, luggage and contents, 60 human bodies with some bones/tissue left even after the impact...And most of all (Most of 100 plus tons of aircraft in that hole)...
-From a flying standpoint when you are piloting a transport category aircraft at almost redline or max speed at low altitude the pitch axis is very and I mean very sensitive. To fly that sized airplane into the building on the profile described would be a miracle that would even top Capt. Sully's amazing story.
I don't have all the answers and I can't answer where the real Flight 77 went or what exactly flew into the building that fateful day.
To put this to rest the Federal Government should release verifiable DNA evidence of the victim's on the aircraft and release all the known other videos that would have given a better view of the aircraft and impact into the Pentagon. Plus show the public all the aircraft wreckage.
By the way, the NTSB was not allowed to inspect the 911 crashes right after it happened. There are so many reasonable "red flags" no wonder there are many legitimate people who believe 9/11 did not happen as advertised...
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
reply to post by GoldenFleece
How do you know he's real?
Only the right wing, I had it handy to post. Others can be found, I forget where I found that one....YOU can search on your own, of course. Oh, and you DID realize that the vertical stabilizer is made of composites, right?? Look at this website (FAA Repair Station) and on the right, the listing of all the composite components:
Originally posted by liejunkie01
reply to post by ANOK
I had to take a break from this topic. I thought my head was going to explode trying to understand all of the technical data. I will take another crack at it sometime...lol
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
reply to post by GoldenFleece
How do you know he's real?
Uhhh, because he doesn't spend his life as an internet pseudoskeptic?
Originally posted by DragonTattooz
Wow, that's pretty strong stuff. Talk about a credible opinion!
For me, I tend to try to boil things down to their basics, or to try to look for an anomaly that discredits the "official story". In this case the "anomaly" is the fact that the Patriot Act was written so quickly and had so many specifics that were targeted at giving the gov't more power. I've always wondered how they got that thing written so quickly. It had to have been written beforehand and was just waiting for the right moment to be sprung on us. What better way than to create a bogeyman?
I believe 9/11 was just another scam perpetrated by gov't/corporate interests to give themselves more power and money. I believe the Saudi's (and other Arab nations) were complicit along with our own government. Just follow the money trail. Who has made billions and billions and billions off of 9/11? That tells the story right there; look no further. Create even more instability in the ME so that oil prices are volatile.
Originally posted by DABIGRAGU
You're keen to question the Patriot Act, it's first debut was in 1995 by Clinton, called the Ombnibus Act after the 1993 WTC bombing. It failed.
roughstock.blogspot.com...
Where is his evidence? He offers zero evidence. Not one piece of evidence, not any proof of research. Words and he sounds a lot like Tim McVeigh, but in this case his only action is trash talk against his country.
Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer, USAF (Ret)
“After 4+ years of research since retirement in 2002, I am 100% convinced that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were planned, organized, and committed by treasonous perpetrators that have infiltrated the highest levels of our government. It is now time to take our country back.”
So you don't.
Great way to assess your sources. If they're nameless internet posters who agree with you, then they must be what they claim.
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by TrickoftheShade
So you don't.
Great way to assess your sources. If they're nameless internet posters who agree with you, then they must be what they claim.
But you only question the ones that disagree with you..
Why haven't you questioned Weedwhacker's credentials or any of the other "so called" pilots on here that agree with your stance ??
Pot calling kettle black me thinks..edit on 18-3-2011 by backinblack because: (no reason given)