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Originally posted by weedwhacker
Same thing...ya know, that's me talking. BUT, let's let Goober and Wiki speak for me...(and if I'd done this the first time I would have been accused of just knowing it BECAUSE I Goobered it.....sheesh!!!)
Originally posted by weedwhacker
my dilemma is, speaking to laypeople who can't tell the difference.
Originally posted by Lillydale
Originally posted by weedwhacker
my dilemma is, speaking to laypeople who can't tell the difference.
Quantum Physics in English
is still English. I thought we were speaking the same language. If you cannot explain it with said language, the fault hardly lies in the technical vastness of your knowledge. Before you go into your next diatribe, tell it to Brian Greene who has been able to bring string theory to children by "simply explaining it in English." I guess you are smarter than him though and that is why you cannot explain the difference between something that does receive and something that does NOT receive.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Lillydale
Last time I looked this is NOT a 'court of law' and NOT a 'classroom'....
...but, if some get kicks out of impugning others, then so be it....
The British have a Tornado fighter equiped with a system that can take over control of a hijacked airliner.
Tornado jet fighters are being scrambled on intercept counter-hijacking operations every month to check on commercial airliners flying into British airspace, the head of the RAF has disclosed to The Times.
It is the first time since the end of the Cold War that fighters are being regularly scrambled from UK air bases to monitor aircraft in national airspace.
The operation to check up on planes is producing a bill running into tens of thousands of pounds as it costs between £7,000 and £9,000 for a Tornado to be in the air for an hour.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpey, the Chief of the Air Staff, said that since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington there had been at least one incident a month requiring an RAF fighter from a quick-reaction alert unit to intervene.
He told The Times: “The Tornados have been launching pretty regularly for any aircraft that appear to be behaving oddly: for instance, where airline pilots fail to communicate with flight control or take an unexpected route.”
He added: “We’re pretty acutely aware of the short time that we have to respond to these incidents. If there is any doubt at all about an aircraft, we launch the Tornados.”
Before the 9/11 attacks there were no interceptions of commercial airliners but the heightened terrorist threat now means that any deviation from a strict flight plan tends to trigger an interception by a Tornado. Four quick-reaction alert Tornado F3 planes are on permanent standby to investigate any plane that has not conformed precisely to accepted flight control procedures. Two are at RAF Marham in Norfolk and a further two at RAF Leuchars, the most northerly air defence station, in Fife, eastern Scotland. In addition, RAF fighter crews are kept in close proximity to royal flights in case of terror emergencies.
The RAF chief told The Times of an incident last month when the captain of a North West Airlines plane flying from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris to Detroit in the United States asked to divert to Prestwick after a passenger became disruptive. The RAF was alerted and a decision taken to shadow the flight with a Tornado F3 that was already airborne. When the passenger became increasingly agitated the airline pilot was put on route to Prestwick, near Glasgow, and landed safely.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by PHIXER2
The British have a Tornado fighter equiped with a system that can take over control of a hijacked airliner.
That is quite a statement.
AND it is unfounded and unsupported UNTIL you cite a source for it.
We are waiting.....
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
You're wasting your time.
That's Ultima you're responding to.
Originally posted by gavron
You are correct, Joey
I can link posts where he has made those exact statements...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
...plus his photobucket account is phixer6.
coincidence?
[edit on 16-10-2009 by gavron]
Originally posted by weedwhacker
That is quite a statement.
AND it is unfounded and unsupported UNTIL you cite a source for it.
We are waiting.....
Originally posted by PHIXER2
www.newscientist.com...
UK defence firm Qinetiq demonstrated the system on 30 March. The pilot of a modified Tornado fighter plane assumed remote control of a BAC 1-11 airliner carrying members of the press, including New Scientist, and flying at an altitude of 4500 metres (15000 feet).
Originally posted by gavron
March 30, 2007....
not exactly before the 911 attacks....