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originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Jacobu12
And what do you think a wing impacting the wall and shattering is going to do to the column it hits? Nothing? It won't penetrate the wall but it's still going to damage the column at impact. If only four columns were damaged the wall wouldn't have collapsed the way it did.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Jacobu12
Engine length is meaningless. It has nothing to do with ground clearance. I can't link a PDF on my phone. The airport planning document shows 8 feet 1 inch.
originally posted by: Jacobu12
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Jacobu12
I am just pointing out that if the wings and fuselage were structural comprised do to exceeding speed limits, the few the broken columns indicates the more correct you were in flight 77 was braking apart...... or did you not argue flight 77 should have structural failure?
If a plane crashed there 8 columns would have got smashed and thats what they reported. Only 4 or 5 are broken and missing. So something smaller than a 757 hit the wall or a bomb blast blew from inside the Pentagon.
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: neutronflux
You cannot prove that certain named passengers and crew (not including the hijackers of course, they didn't name them on the list at first) were found at the pentagon.
Yes, you can incessantly repeat pentagon press releases, but that doesn't make it so. Mary Tillman believed those guys for a few months, but then realized they had lied to her. The Pentagon is really good about lying, and Mary Tillman found out the hard way.
Because there was no airliner at the pentagon, there could not have been passengers or crew or their DNA.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Jacobu12
No, it doesn't. Length is the distance from the front of the engine to the back of the engine. What does that have to do with how low they were flying?
originally posted by: Jacobu12
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Jacobu12
I am just pointing out that if the wings and fuselage were structural comprised do to exceeding speed limits, the few the broken columns indicates the more correct you were in flight 77 was braking apart...... or did you not argue flight 77 should have structural failure?
If a plane crashed there 8 columns would have got smashed and thats what they reported. Only 4 or 5 are broken and missing. So something smaller than a 757 hit the wall or a bomb blast blew from inside the Pentagon.
originally posted by: Jacobu12
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Jacobu12
No, it doesn't. Length is the distance from the front of the engine to the back of the engine. What does that have to do with how low they were flying?
Plane dropped to just 20 feet- ground to the top of the plane. 20 feet that's it. It's the amount space Hani have to fly the plane.
The top of the plane to the bottom is going to minus 12 feet taken from 20 feet. The engine extend even further down so that eats up the 20 feet of space had to fly very fast..
originally posted by: neutronflux
originally posted by: Jacobu12
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Jacobu12
I am just pointing out that if the wings and fuselage were structural comprised do to exceeding speed limits, the few the broken columns indicates the more correct you were in flight 77 was braking apart...... or did you not argue flight 77 should have structural failure?
If a plane crashed there 8 columns would have got smashed and thats what they reported. Only 4 or 5 are broken and missing. So something smaller than a 757 hit the wall or a bomb blast blew from inside the Pentagon.
For the bomb....
Then why was everything pushed in? The entrance hole was pushed in. The items in the construction yard were pushed in towards the pentagon? Why was there no interior of the pentagon exploded out. Why were windows in the pentagon not exploded out. Why no crater or pitting in the concrete floors conspiracists say were undamaged. Why were the columns not broken in a patten of a sphere or cone. A blast wave gets wider and less intense with distance. How was a smaller and smaller hole knocked through the sequence of walls. Why was there no indication of an over pressure event caused by a bomb as in no near by car windows blown out or near by vegetation blown over.
Almost all eyewitnesses agree to a large jet impact.....
altitude on aircraft is determined by where the landing gear is. When a pilot sees his altimeter it is telling him when his wheels would hit. You have a weird standard for aircraft height. What good would it do to measure from the top of the fuselage.
originally posted by: Jacobu12
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Jacobu12
No, it doesn't. Length is the distance from the front of the engine to the back of the engine. What does that have to do with how low they were flying?
Plane dropped to just 20 feet- ground to the top of the plane. 20 feet that's it. It's the amount space Hani have to fly the plane.
The top of the plane to the bottom is going to minus 12 feet taken from 20 feet. The engine extend even further down so that eats up the 20 feet of space had to fly very fast..
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Jacobu12
I feel like I'm talking to that wall, although I suspect I could get my point across better if I was.
The column was damaged behind the facade. The wings hit, and the force of the impact was transferred to the column that was behind the wall. The wing didn't go through the wall, but damage was done anyway. Since the wall was still intact, you can't see the damage on those columns. That doesn't mean that they weren't damaged, only that you can't SEE the damage to them.
originally posted by: dragonridr
altitude on aircraft is determined by where the landing gear is. When a pilot sees his altimeter it is telling him when his wheels would hit. You have a weird standard for aircraft height. What good would it do to measure from the top of the fuselage.
originally posted by: Jacobu12
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Jacobu12
No, it doesn't. Length is the distance from the front of the engine to the back of the engine. What does that have to do with how low they were flying?
Plane dropped to just 20 feet- ground to the top of the plane. 20 feet that's it. It's the amount space Hani have to fly the plane.
The top of the plane to the bottom is going to minus 12 feet taken from 20 feet. The engine extend even further down so that eats up the 20 feet of space had to fly very fast..
This is why you believe stupid things you have no clue how things work. Even people claiming no bodies were found is silly there was 4 people they couldn't identify. Through DNA testing they were able to return remains to there families.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Jacobu12
Dear God are we back to this again?
Length is the distance from the front of the engine cowling, to the back of the exhaust pipe. It has nothing to do with distance to the ground.
I gave you the numbers but apparently you don't want to do the math. Call it five feet of engine hangs below the wing.
You don't subtract the fuselage diameter from the altitude. Altitude isn't measured at the top of the fuselage, it's the distance from the aircraft to the ground. The pitot tubes that measure airspeed and altitude are on the side of the fuselage. When they said 20 feet, it was 20 feet from the ground to the aircraft.