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Uh, actually it does. You see there's a thing called an analogy here: the airplane can be crushed like an empty beer can, and lose its shape, and the broken pieces can still have enough kinetic energy to punch through columns and walls.
Originally posted by LaBTop That's a nice analogy, but has nothing to do with my remark about the deflection probability. Human soft tissue is in no way a comparison to a welded steel beams, kevlar netting, reinforced concrete and bricks wall.
I don't know if I'm getting through to you, but even the floor beams are 1/8 inch thick aluminum, too. It's an airplane! Made out of the lightest weight materials possible!
It is also not in fact the thin alu airframe I'm interested in, it's the 2 motors, the 3 landing gear struts, the main-body luggage area beams, stretching the whole length of the floor and the overall 1/3 lower part of the plane which has the most sturdy beams in it.
You're right that those are the strongest peices, and the ones most likely to survive. But, they're not going to "deflect." I guess I don't understand why you think they would. Run a car into a wall at 200 mph. The engine block will almost certainly travel through wall, but will you be able to identify it as an engine block afterwards? The car body pieces have less energy and might "deflect" but the heavy parts won't. -Boenoid
The motors and the landing gear area is the strongest part of the plane, logically, because that's the part which has to be the best shock resistant during landings, which can be rough at times. At least a few parts of those should have been deflected, not those flimsy skin parts. But they didn't. Everyone is obliged to his/her own conclusion.
I said all the JETLINERS were accounted for. But seriously, all the little planes are accounted for as well - that's how the CIA renditions were discovered! By tracking tail numbers. And if you change a tail number, guess what - the changed number gets tracked and eventually they find you.
Originally posted by LaBTop It was you who said all airplanes in the world are accounted for. How come, in Europe they do have such difficulties to pinpoint the CIA flights...
Really. Did a CIA agent tell you this? But I'm sure the CIA has a bunch of accounted for airplanes that are registered to various front companies.
The CIA has a whole fleet of unaccounted planes, which they use for all kinds of operations.
Uh, last time I checked, the Pentagon had roughly $30B in "secret" budgets annually. Everyone believes that there is two or three times more money than that being spent, but it's still not trillions. It can't be. There's not enough tax dollars for trillions to be missing. You can look up where tax $ come from and are going to at: www.taxpolicycenter.org... And what do you mean to imply when you say the military can "buy" corporations? Do you propose that the government can buy my silence if they commit a murderous, treasonous act? Because you're talking about me and my coworkers here, if I'm not mistaken. -Boenoid
I'm really interested to know if the mainstream US citizen is not interested to know at all anymore, where all these unaccounted TRILLIONS of $$$ went, spent by the Pentagon brass, spent from hard earned tax payments from US citizens and corporations. I'm quite sure that those corporations already know, and really don't want the public to know. You must realize soon, that if you can't keep your military accounted for what they spent from the gross national product, you in fact have no democracy anymore, but are left with something very SINISTER. A military which can buy all the heavy industry, most corporations, all politicians, and most legislature. You already past that point, a long time ago. The sad conclusion must be, that a majority of you do not care anymore.
Well i am saying that is an aluminum airframe is fragile when it comes to hitting things and for it to do all the things the official storry says it did is kind of hard to believe. Here is a pic of a plane that hit some small trees and see what happened to the airframe. x10.putfile.com...
Originally posted by BigMoserSo, the picture of what your saying is that the Boeing should have been shredded up real badly enough not to make it perfectly into the pentagon like it did? The hole that ripped through those walls, was it the nose-cone? Or was that part 1/8" thick too? [edit on 11/7/2006 by Mirthful Me]
Originally posted by ULTIMA1 1. Well as i recall from what a 757 is made from the landing gear doors are made
What -- those perfectly clear frames that they've thrown in our faces twice weren't enough?
Originally posted by In nothing we trust Or maybe feeding the controversy by holding back evidence is exactly what THEY want.
Maybe you can explain how the torn up airframe would make nice perfect entry and exit holes after hitting lampost, generator, and the ground. And where is debris that should be left over from an 80 ton aircraft.
Originally posted by Zaphod58 Whether the airframe is fragile or not, you're still talking about near EIGHTY TONS moving at around 500 mph. The only concrete wall in existance that would withstand that is around a nuclear powerplant, and they're like 10 feet thick or more.
Well the entry hole is pretty good for a fragile airframe. Well according to the pic i posted earlier if a vew samll trees can tear up a airframe, at the 500 mph hitting lampost and the generator would have caused some damage. Hitting the ground would have caused damage. If the lampost were hit by the wings it would have damaged them severely.
Originally posted by Zaphod58 It was hardly a "perfect" hole. The exit hold could have been expanded for better access by rescue crews. What makes you think that hitting a 250 pound lamp pole with an engine would tear up the airframe? The engine yes, but not the airframe. Even the generator which was hit by the engine wouldn't tear up the fuselage.
Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) - created out of the Defense Protective Service after 2001. www.pfpa.mil... --- THE HISTORY OF THE DEFENSE PROTECTIVE SERVICE (PENTAGON POLICE) www.dtic.mil... Ok maybe not the most heavily armed or physically secure installation, but definatly a place that had more than 2 video cameras watching every angle around the building. Hell, the last time I went to Walmart I saw about 40 cameras, and they probably had another 100+ cameras hidden from view. And all thier gaurding is a bunch of cheap imported junk from China. [edit on 16-7-2006 by In nothing we trust]
Originally posted by tuccy Where did you get that idea the Pentagon is the most guarded installation of the world?
And in Walmart you don't need special security clearances to get in. Obviously there's no way any video footage from inside would be usable. And the cameras outside were made for identifying faces, not incoming planes. If the Pentagon was freely open to the public they might need 100's of security cameras. but otherwise it's simply speculation that they have 100s of cameras. And your theory would have to also assume that everyone who worked at the pentagon or was contracted by them to maintain or work on the camera systems is also in on the conspiracy. And then there's everyone who works there or has visited and could attest to the large number of security cameras. When making assumptions there's no limit to how far you can go. Perhaps since they it's the pentagon and they have access to super technology, everyone there has camera implants and so they should release the footage from everyones videos that day. Just imagine the arguments I can make up when left only to my imagination.
Originally posted by In nothing we trustPentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) - created out of the Defense Protective Service after 2001. www.pfpa.mil... --- THE HISTORY OF THE DEFENSE PROTECTIVE SERVICE (PENTAGON POLICE) www.dtic.mil... Ok maybe not the most heavily armed or physically secure installation, but definatly a place that had more than 2 video cameras watching every angle around the building. Hell, the last time I went to Walmart I saw about 40 cameras, and they probably had another 100+ cameras hidden from view. And all thier gaurding is a bunch of cheap imported junk from China. [edit on 16-7-2006 by In nothing we trust]
Originally posted by tuccy Where did you get that idea the Pentagon is the most guarded installation of the world?