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Originally posted by LaBTop
If your bank angle of 53° is about right, than I do agree that I never ever heard one eyewitness mentioning such an extreme bank angle for AA77.
Originally posted by LaBTop
I like simple evidence, and this seems to me such simple proof.
Originally posted by LaBTop
I am still confused about the two Pentagon Police men.
How on earth could they have seen that plane flying so damn low, NORTH of their positions?
Especially Lagasse, who stood filling up his gas tank at the furthest northern gas pump, under the northern canopy!
He could not ever have seen a SoC flying plane and describe the window shades down, so close he must have been.
Originally posted by LaBTop
Refined calculation based on turn radius of 2.7 km :
At 528 km/hr (328.035 MPH, 285 KTS) as the speed entering the turn, and a rated stall speed of 296.38 km/hr (184.160 MPH, 160 KTS) and a bank angle of 40°, the turn diameter is 3.3 miles.
3.3 miles = 5.4 km, divided by 2 to get the radius =2.7 kilometer.
That is still a constant steep bank angle of 40 degrees needed to perform that whole constant right bank from Paik to impact point.
That is still far too steep, over that whole trajectory, and that was not at all seen by any witness at all.
I think reheat has a point. A strong one.
Any one finding any miscalculations in there?
If not, I can go to sleep a lot easier than the past 10 years. At last.
The(re) is a major problem with the 185 MPH (LT : no, 285 KTS) speed at 40 degrees of bank. The stall speed becomes 183 MPH. That is too close as the aircraft would be entering an accelerated stall. No one in their right mind would do that.
Originally posted by LaBTop
Yes, I already mentioned that the plane had to stay in a steady 40° turn to fulfill the online calculator demands.
Originally posted by LaBTop
Do you think that the plane could have flown nearly level/horizontal over Paik and Morin's heads and thereafter started a right bank?
Originally posted by LaBTop
Like the Helipad Tower operator Sean Boger said, who saw the plane descending towards him from right over the Y-shaped antenna on the 8th Annex-wing roof's center position, while slightly banking to the right (its pilot's right! ), thus come banking toward the left side of his Tower. What boundaries in speed and turn radius is that plane then held to? What angle of bank must it come up with to fit that description? And how long takes the roll maneuver to execute it?
Originally posted by LaBTop
And yes, Edward Paik was sitting behind his desk inside his office and looked up through his front office window to see the BELLY and the RIGHT wing of the plane passing low over his repair shop's roof with its LEFT wing (which he could not see at all).
Originally posted by LaBTop
And Morin says he stood 10 feet (3 meter) inside the space between Annex wing 4 and 5, when the BELLY of the plane flew over his head, about 100 feet high up.
To be clear, NOT on the other side of the street while just missing that tall radio mast in the parking lot at the other side of Columbia Pike, like we were told so many times, during so many years.
And so to hear in his words, the plane flew as good as leveled out.
Originally posted by LaBTop
And can such a plane then change attitude to switch to a circa 40° right bank, leading over the north side of the CITGO, and towards Route 27? And then correct that circa 40° right bank again, back to level flight crossing Route 27?
Originally posted by LaBTop
I know now, it sounds a bit far fetched, knowing now how turn radius and bank angle depends on the initial speed, before entering a turn maneuver. If we however enter a slow enough speed (without nearing stall conditions) into the online calculator, would it be possible at all, in your opinion? And thus introducing two rolls, at start and end of the turn, the first one to the right, and the second one back to level, to the left.
Originally posted by LaBTop
Second question : If the pilot solely engages the tail rudder, does the plane drift too far away from where he aims at? And are there any more hidden effects with such a single maneuver, using no ailerons at all? Like excessive height loss? Or can use of the tail rudder minimize to a certain degree, the subsequent use of the ailerons? Or is drift then again a too big effect?
Originally posted by LaBTop
The one I found after many tries, with a turn diameter of 3.3 miles (which means a turn radius of 2.7 kilometer, as shown in my earlier post and in my viable arc), has a bank angle of 22° and an initial speed of 200 KTS (230.200 MPH) at its known stall speed of 160 KTS (184.160 MPH).
That 22° bank angle is for the observing lay-men, a near level flight.
In my OP I showed a photo of what Sean Boger would have seen, that's about this bank angle.
It's truly a shame that you've obviously spent quite some time studying these issue, but your conspiracy mindset is not allowing you to think logically and understand the issues.
Originally posted by LaBTop
PS: your proposal in your signature-link, still is a sharp IMPOSSIBLE to fly, S-shaped maneuver.
I think it is clear from my two proposals, that mine is a long slightly right wing down one.
Ending in level flight over Route 27.
Originally posted by LaBTop
If there was a conspiracy, it wasn't a very complicated one, i.m.h.o.
Too dangerous to complicate it with too many humans.
If there was a conspiracy, it was as simple as can be thought out :
1. Far on top of possible scenarios : Steer real terrorists and facilitate their plans, very subtle. Nearly no proof ever.
2. Let the CIA and FBI steer a bunch of patsies into believing they were participating in the many war games planned for 9/11. (The terrorists were partying too much, to be real fundamental Muslim terrorists)
Then build a simple mechanical remote control in each plane, which steers the plane into the planned objects, only in the last seconds. No pilot interrupt possible in such a small time segment.
That would be the easiest and simplistic method to falsify data in that FDR.
Why falsify the rest?
If the pilots thought they were acting inside the executed war games of that day.....
....(t)hey did not know that a simple mechanical remote-control was build-in their plane....
It should be very obvious to you by now that the aircraft CAN NOT fly from where Paik said it was to over where you think Morin was to pass North of the Citgo, thence to the impact point without an enormously spectacular bank angle at an extremely low altitude that would have awed all who saw it. Once you get that aerodynamically established FACT through your head maybe you'll understand.