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Originally posted by Ivar_Karlsen
Originally posted by pinkbirdatabaseplease explain your flight skills -
Skills, well i've been flying transport category airplanes for 41 years.
And you are dead wrong.
This is just about how a sweptback jet would look like in clean config close to the ground.
Originally posted by pinkbirdatabase
Get real! You have no idea about flying or you are deliberately placing red hertings
High Speed Fly Past (which is not shown here), was at the Barbers Pole of 375 KIAS
(due to the density altitude at Harare True Air Speed was approximately 400 Knots)
Originally posted by C0bzz
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Both planes were flying > 500 knots. Also, I took both photos from the ground. Both pictures were ISO 100.edit on 3/8/13 by C0bzz because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by SMOKINGGUN2012
Any camera.
Here are just a few more high speed passes, all of which are perfectly clear.
F-14 passing through Mach 1 next to the carrier.
Hani Hanjour as a Cessna 172 pilot
However, when Baxter and fellow instructor Ben Conner took the slender, soft-spoken Hanjour on three test runs during the second week of August, they found he had trouble controlling and landing the single-engine Cessna 172. Even though Hanjour showed a federal pilot's license and a log book cataloging 600 hours of flying experience, chief flight instructor Marcel Bernard declined to rent him a plane without more lessons.
In the spring of 2000, Hanjour had asked to enroll in the CRM Airline Training Center in Scottsdale, Ariz., for advanced training, said the center's attorney, Gerald Chilton Jr. Hanjour had attended the school for three months in late 1996 and again in December 1997 but never finished coursework for a license to fly a single-engine aircraft, Chilton said. SOURCE
"For a guy to just jump into the cockpit and fly like an ace is impossible – there is not one chance in a thousand," said [ex-commercial pilot Russ] Wittenberg, recalling that when he made the jump from Boeing 727’s to the highly sophisticated computerized characteristics of the 737’s through 767’s it took him considerable time to feel comfortable flying. Lewis News
Former Vietnam Combat and Commercial Pilot Firm Believer 9/11 Was Inside Government Job
There was no fooling former Air Force and commercial pilot Russ Wittenberg the morning of 9/11. He knew it was an inside job from the get-go, knowing the ‘big boys’ were up to the same dirty tricks they played in the Kennedy assassination and Pearl Harbor.
The government may have fooled millions of Americans with its cockamamie official story, but the former fighter pilot who flew over 100 combat missions in Vietnam and who sat for 35 years in the cockpit for Pan Am and United, wasn’t one of them. MORE
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by UnifiedSerenity
Did you miss the 707, the 747SP, the Airbus, all doing high speed, very low passes? There is no reason a commercial plane can't fly in ground effect at high speed.
In fact the 707 that was pictured in an earlier post, did the pass down to 30 feet, at 400 knots.
The latest round of pictures was simply to prove that a camera can take clear pictures at 400 knots. The claim was made that the Air Zimbabwe 707 should have been blurry, if it was even seen, at 400 knots, in the picture.edit on 8/3/2013 by Zaphod58 because: (no reason given)
So, you think a guy who can't fly a Cessna can fly a Boeing 757
Originally posted by OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by UnifiedSerenity
So your just ignoring then the fact that Hani Hanjour had a commercial air license (Issued by the FAA in 1999) and had trained using flight simulators on a 737 and completed the initial training.
In other words, yes he knew how fly a commercial aircaft.
Originally posted by Zaphod58No, I don't believe he could fly a 757 that low from using Microsoft Flight Simulator, but he could learn the autopilot, and other systems on the plane from it, and be able to operate them in the real world.