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Originally posted by trebor451
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Originally posted by ANOK
reply to post by GoodOlDave
Dave the plane in that vid is not doing 500mph, probably doing around 200, if that.
Find a vid of an amateur pilot actually doing 500mph at that height, and you might have something. Otherwise you are comparing tortoises and hares.
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by Shephardmix
NEWSFLASH....during flight testing they routinely exceed those limits on the airframes.....and its not often you hear about an airliner falling apart during its flight testing.....well Airbus has been known to have issues....but not Boeing.
Those limits, in all actuality are not even close to the point where the airframe would start to come apart. I am pretty sure that if you looked in the manual, it would say that performing a roll or loop would cause the airframe to come apart, and yet, test pilots have been known to do those very things during testing.
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by BRAVO949
To be fair, the pilots had training in how to move a plane around. They didn't have to start the plane up or land it or anything. All they had to know was how to use autopilot and then take control once they got close, and push the throttles as fast as they'd go.
The speed wasn't sustained long enough to cause damage. Maybe a few seconds longer or a minute longer and the plane would have started to break up, but they were only at that speed for the last couple seconds of their flight. The rest was just line of site steering. There is a windshield on the plane after all.
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by BRAVO949
I'm sure I don't understand it, but the pilots on 9/11 had logged a couple hundred hours of training, did they not? That's enough to figure out how to use autopilot.
Originally posted by trebor451
Take your pick....wings, fuselage, empenage, tail assembly, windscreen, whatever) - to the right of your colorful hand-made and hand-drawn charts and either a) not suffer any structural failure, major or otherwise or b) suffer some level of failure in some capacity, and keep flying?
We'll await your answer.edit on 17-11-2011 by trebor451 because: clarificationedit on 17-11-2011 by trebor451 because: (no reason given)
I would like to make it clear that one knot over Vd does not guarantee structural failure. All it means is that you are now a test pilot flying in what is defined as the Structural Failure zone.
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When going through certification, the aircraft prototypes are subject to high speeds in the wind tunnel. When the aircraft develops an onset of buffeting, flutter, instability, CG v CP.. .etc, Vd is set. If they go too far with the wind tunnel, the above video is what you get.
Then the test pilots go out and try to do it in the real airplane. If they can get to Vd without problem, then Vmo is set using the safety margin calculations mandated by the FAA.
If they experience any problems prior to Vd, a new and lower Vd is set, which in turn lowers the Vmo, or the aircraft prototype is modified to achieve those speeds.
Line Pilots are not given Vd performance speeds in their aircraft manuals as the manufacturer doesn't want pilots anywhere near Vd. They are only given redline, ie. the barber pole.. Vmo (and other lower speed limitations, such as Va, flaps, gear.. etc)
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Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
Until someone can bring forth a reasonable answer to the following question, the Truth movement will remain a joke.
Why put forth such an overly complicated plan when you could have just blown up the buildings and have gotten the same psychological results?
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by usernameconspiracy
Until someone can bring forth a reasonable answer to the following question, the Truth movement will remain a joke.
Why put forth such an overly complicated plan when you could have just blown up the buildings and have gotten the same psychological results?
Your question is a joke.
An overly complex plan, I thought it was Arabs with box cutters?
Physics doesn't care about plans, or opinions. There is overwhelming evidence that all three WTC buildings were demolished by something other than just plane impacts and fire.
But having said that, well they had to have the plane impacts for something to blame the collapses on. If they had just demolished them, then there would be even more questions, like how did the terrorists plant the bombs?
The towers were demolished to kill many birds with 2 stones.
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by Shephardmix
And he posts a picture of an Airbus. See early statement about Airbus and their design issues.
Originally posted by vipertech0596
It was his crappy takeoffs and landings that caused said instructor to NOT let said terrorist take one of his planes solo.
"weak student" who "was wasting our resources."
I didn't allow him to come back. I thought, 'You're never going to make it.' www.capecodonline.com..." target="_blank" class="postlink">Source
He also was trained for a few months at a private school in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1996, but did not finish the course because instructors felt he was not capable.Source
instructors regarded him as a poor student, even in the weeks before the attacks.
"He had only the barest understanding what the instruments were there to do"
got overwhelmed with the instruments." He used the simulator perhaps three or four more times, Fults said, then "disappeared like a fog." www.capecodonline.com..." target="_blank" class="postlink">Washington Post, 10/15/2001
"He could not fly at all." -New York Times (5/04/02)
flying skills were so bad...they didn't think he should keep his pilot's license.
" I couldn't believe he had a commercial license of any kind with the skills that he had." Peggy Chevrette, Arizona flight school manager."CBS News (5/10/02)
More here...
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Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by ThePostExaminer
And as I pointed out to you, if you had bothered to read the whole post, one would need to know what was identified as the nosecone. Was it the composite cap that mounts to the forward most bulkhead of the airliner, OR was he referring the the nose section itself which would include the nose gear bay, and cockpit. And it is also possible that what was left of the composite cap was still present, but flattened against the bulkhead. What you fail to understand in your rant about the vertical stab, is that there is nothing behind it. Nadda, zippo, zilch. The composite cap on the front of the aircraft...has an cast aluminum bulkhead that it mounts to. In other words, when it contacts the wall, its going to get shoved aft.....against the bulkhead.
BTW....during the clean up...they discovered a flaw in the exterior walls of the Pentagon dating back to its original construction....which made it EASIER for Flight 77 to punch through it.edit on 16-11-2011 by vipertech0596 because: (no reason given)
It was his crappy takeoffs and landings that caused said instructor to NOT let said terrorist take one of his planes solo.
Originally posted by ThePostExaminer
reply to post by vipertech0596
It was his crappy takeoffs and landings that caused said instructor to NOT let said terrorist take one of his planes solo.
Utter nonsense.
Hanjur was meant to have made what resembled a "landing" in the manouevre the OCT claims that he made to "penetrate" the first floor of the Pentagon way outside the safety envelope of a 757 at cruise speed. Didn't he?
Buck Rodgers eat your heart out.
Did you watch the "WTC 9/11 - Controlability" video linked to? The proven limitations of a 757?
Or National Security Alert?