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Zaphod58
They climbed to 52,000 feet, where they put it into a half G pushover (a dive no steeper than 175 performed, and possible not as steep), at 45,000 feet, while in perfect control, the aircraft reached Mach 1.01 for 16 seconds. They were able to recover at 35,000 feet, with no damage to the aircraft.
Equivalent Airspeed of south tower plane:
510 knots (9/11 Commission Report, 500+ confirmed by radar) = 575-600mph, observation for ground speed calculations using building distances = 586mph - at Sea Level.
= 1.38 Mach @ 35,000 feet or 915 knots
= 1.19 Mach @ 22,000 feet or 722 knots
wmd_2008
reply to post by leostokes
Don't want a reply DON'T post anyone can reply to anything Judy Wood just
You said this
leostokes
For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
1. The plane (in motion) hitting the tower (sitting still) is the same as the moving tower hitting the still plane. Like swatting a fly. The plane would be squashed. We do not see this in the videos. Something is wrong.
2. The tower hitting the ground is like the ground hitting the tower. That would cause the ground to shake. We do not see the ground shaking in the seismic record. Something is wrong.
, the ENERGY the aircraft has can only be absorbed by the areas of the building it touches, that's WHY column trees broke at the joints.
1) The aircraft can ONLY interact with the parts of the building it touches
The whole mass of the building has NO repeat NO influence on the impact damage.
This image shows it well
Plane Damage
The column trees are coloured to show the staggered joint system.
2) The Tower collapse was like an avalanche it wasn't like the Kingdome were one 25,000 ton section could impact the ground at once.
As for seismographs
WTC Impacts & Collapse
anyone can reply to anything Judy Wood says
1) The aircraft can ONLY interact with the parts of the building it touches, the ENERGY the aircraft has can only be absorbed by the areas of the building it touches, that's WHY column trees broke at the joints.
1) The aircraft can ONLY interact with the parts of the building it touches
2) The Tower collapse was like an avalanche
the Kingdome were one 25,000 ton section could impact the ground at once.
As for seismographs
NewAgeMan
Pilots, real pilots, with 1000's of hours of flight time experience, flying heavy aircraft, could not even hit the target (south tower) in the UA flight simulator, unless they slowed the plane down to near landing speed, in trying to do it over and over again, and failing, at the higher speed.
Isn't it very telling that there are JUST a handful of those sorts?? Out of tens of THOUSANDS of real pilots --- who vehemently disagree with, and (in my case) are disgusted by their antics??
in this case a purely factual one based on observation alone
Ah, but ask yourself what agenda those Pilots have when starring in that portion of the video?
Ask yourself why other Pilots expressed their opinion that the demonstration was bogus and designed to fail.
"During the descent from 12,000 feet to 6,000 feet, the aircraft groundspeed remained between 500 - 520 knots. As the aircraft made it's descent to 1000 feet, it accelerated (there goes Zaphod58's hypothesis about the speed at level flight on final approach) and impacted World Trade Center tower #2 at approximately 510 knots groundspeed.
Radar_Data_Impact_Speed_Study--AA11,_UA175 (pdf)
NewAgeMan
An unmodified, Boeing 767, cannot under any circumstances exceed anything beyond around 425 knots EAS in a dive, let alone retain controlled flight either in or coming out of such a dive.
It is simply impossible for an unmodified Boeing 767 to exceed the Vd speed limitation of 420 knots (EAS) by NINETY knots, let alone remain in control at that airspeed and altitude.
The speed factor is critical and it proves this case beyond any doubt.
NewAgeMan
reply to post by leostokes
No need to apologize. There's still lots to talk about ie: Hani Hanjour's "piloting" of "flight 77" for one, we still haven't gone there, or the war games operations, we haven't really touched on that yet either, and then there's that passport, the missing black boxes, high temps in the pile.. (oh, never mind because I know where you'd like to run with that). Provided you can keep DEW and NPT out of the thread, then you're more than welcome to participate Mr. Stokes.
leostokes
What is NPT?