9/11: A Boeing 757 Struck the Pentagon, page 10

Guys, for the record. I was wrong when I repeated that it was a 6 fps security camera - it's a 2 fps securty camera. Whomever at the Pentagon said it was a 6fps camera was mistaken. (Not a big deal, obvioulsy somebody in the media asked the wrong person, got a guess or an assumption, ran with that as "fact" and nobody ever followed up asking the right person). What this camera does is views at 30fps like any normal video camera, but it only stores 2 frames every second. Reason behind this is twofold - one it's meant to monitor traffic coming and going at the gate and you can get a good shot of anyone arriving or leaving in 1/2 a second -- you probably get 10+ frames of every person and vehicle coming and going via that gate. (That was what that camera was for, not for surveillance of the grass and far off objects like the helipad.) The most important reason, however, is storage. If you have a 3 hour tape, you can store 15 times as much "time" in the day on the tape, so it would only need to be replaced every day (with 21 hours to spare in case you didn't replace the tape right at 8AM it would still function properly until noon, etc. Or you could just replace the tape every 3rd or 4th 8 hour shift, etc. It's just common sense... nothing exciting there. Reason I arrived at 2fps is this: I know the wall of the Pentagon is 921.6 feet long (I know too much useless crap now after all of this by the way) and half of that is 460.8 (lets round it to 461). I also know the trajectory of the plane as it came in (not accounting for any yaw) by drawing a line from the middle of the hole in the building through the middle of the downed light poles and through the "damage path" inside the building. I then drew a line from the security camera building to an ojbect (building) I can see behind/past an object that I think is the plane in the photo (what appears to be the tail ). I now know where the plane is sitting on the trajectory path. I also know the 757 is 155 feet 3 inches long (again lets be lazy and round that to 155). I can now either measure the distance from the wall to the intersection of the flight path and arrive at the distance by dividing it into the length of the wall (or half the wall since it's closer to the length from the wall to the point where the plane is on the flight path), or I can just say hell, why not see how many 155 foot plane lengths fit on this flight path. In any case, the intersection is about 460 feet from the wall. So the plane was about 460 feet from the Pentagon in frame 1. So, the plane is 460 feet from the wall, and in the next frame it's hitting the wall that means it pretty much travelled 920 feet in a second. That fits with the 757's flight data recorder (which was recovered in the Pentagon...) and it said the last recorded speed was 780 f/s (400 kts). That 140 feet per second of travelled distance difference in there is because I should have measured from the nose of the plane - but I wasn't positive where it was. And the pane is 155 feet long... so we can move it forward 155 feet and it l fits perfectly with the plane's position in frame 1, and the exploding plane in frame 2. If we deduct 100 feet from the equasion (a few feet behind the wings of a 757) - and say the distance travelled was 360 feet, that would mean it was travelling at 720 feet per second (490mph). But, if I compare a GlobalHawk, which is 44 feet long it would have to complete the same distance while going ~836 feet per second. Well gosh, that global hawk SHOULD be about 88 to 122 feet from the building in frame 2. Unless it was going faster than 836 feet per second (570mph) - but the GlobalHawk goes 404mph top speed. How did it get that extra 166mph? It didn't because it can't be a GlobalHawk in the first frame, it has to be something going faster than 490mph. Lots of blah blah blah for what? For nothing. I already know what hit the Pentagon. I already know you cant fit 60 people inside a global hawk or a cruise missile. But most importantly, I'm intelligent enough to realise that if you were planning some great conspiracy and it involved a 757 crashing into the Pentagon? You crash a bloody 757 into the Pentagon. Why risk exposure of you nefarious deeds? There is just no reasonable explaination to deny a 757 hit the Pentagon. I've wasted enough time on this.