Can we agree at this point in this thread that the picture from Cat_herder with the socalled wing impact damage :
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is a wrong interpretation of collumn damage before and after facade collapse, especially after looking at this Pentagon pre collapse picture :
www.dodmedia.osd.mil...
(Just open it in a second tab or window, it's a 1.6 MB high resolution picture).
Here is a cropped down version for use in the small space of this board software :
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There is no damage at all on that first-row collumn you see standing to the right of those 3 cable spools in the middle of the picture.
So Cat_herder's wing imprint interpretation of the past-collapse picture he used was totally wrong. He should have taken into concideration also the
front row collumns damage clearly visible in the DoD pre-collapse pictures, which were online shortly after 9-11 already, I looked at them for weeks
and weeks in 2002.
In his defence, I must admit that ALL of us up till now also haven't done that.
We are just as guilty of overseeing those important details.
The more I look at this last particular picture,nr. 03886, the more confused I become.
How could all this contradicting damage be inflicted by a 757 or similar airplane?
First, I do agree with lots of members here that the entry hole could eventually be fitted with the round curvature of the passengers cabine of a big
airplane, especially when you see the small curve in the broken limestone at the right top side of the entry hole.
But then I see the perfectly horizontal second floor concrete slab at the top of the entry hole in the other DoD pictures, like in 03880 , (the next
picture is a cropped down one, open the original highres for better details) :
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and then I ask myself how the limestone has been broken off from that floorslab front, in a perfectly straight and horizontal fashion. And I don't
see any imprint of the tail section impact, anywhere near that entry hole, above or beside it.
You will also notice that strange bungling piece of concrete (or whatever else) in the middle of the entry hole in picture 03880.
In picture 03881 it seems clear that this is a collumn :
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If that is the remnant of a collumn, then the 757 entry hole theory even becomes more unreal.
Can you believe, that such a collumn could have kept standing after the whole length of a 757 cabine plus underlaying fuselage beams and luggage
compartment and its tail piece has passed through, when impact was at a 757 engines topspeed.
Picture 03879 shows the best image of the entry hole and the collumn damage to the right of it :
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It is clear to see that besides the whole reinforced wall area, also a substantial part of the concrete floor slab in the entry hole has been slammed
into oblivion. That is the floorslab inbetween the ground floor and the first floor.
But where does the right wing fit in the damage pattern, when you look at the three broken and bended outwards collumns at ground level (or bended to
the left, relying on another possible interpretation of what you will or want to see in this picture).
I can't find any other pre-collapse pictures where you could conclude without doubt, that those 3 collumns bend either straight outwards, or to the
left.
If that is damage done by the right wing of a 757, then the jet engine hanging under that right wing must have been dragged about 3 meter under the
lawn. And the cable spools would have been smashed into thousand pieces by the wing and engine.
And what caused that huge dent at the first floor level, 3 windows to the right of the entry hole, if the right wing caused those broken 3 collumns at
ground level?
And why is the damage to the floorslab under that huge dent indicating a force impacting from above, so coming down?
Jet engines from a 757 hang under the wing. And the wings hang under the passenger cabine and luggage space.
If you declare that damage to the 3 groundfloor collumns to be from a 757 right wing, then that line of thought changes the whole official Pentagon
story. In that case, the 757 must have impacted under a sharp angle to the ground, so it must have impacted like a divebombing plane, much steeper
then told to us by the media.
There are too many objects in the path of a wing plus underhanging engine which are not smashed apart.
Like the generator on wheels, cable spools, fences, parked SUV's and cars in front of the walls.
But why and how were those 5 lamppoles then clipped off?
Something could underwrite that steep impact theory.
There is a big thick concrete slab, clearly tilted out of the ground, to be seen between the 2 most left cable spools.
If you open all DoD pictures 03879 up to 03903 in that second link above, you will see that slab clearer, and a lot of other details also.
I still keep looking at that picture of the Tomahawk cruise missile attack on president Milosivitch's villa in Belgrado, Serbia, posted by a member
here somewhere.
And then compare that to DoD picture nr. 03880. (and the others)
Take your pick at the bend out collumns at floor level and the still standing collumn in the entry hole.
In both pictures they are identical.
Both were warning signals.
The Pentagon attack seems to have been an additional warning signal to part of the military top brass.
Seemed to have worked. No strange deadly accidents with top brass involved anymore after 9-11.
Or not?
Some retired brass with too loud mouthes has been erased?
You know who I mean.
PS: The dense woven white fabric you can see under many windows in the DoD pictures are the Kevlar re-inforcement mats implemented in the renovated
portion of the Pentagon. A few posts back I postulated that the Kevlar would be black or grey, but I was mistaken in that opinion.
That Kevlar fabric was bolted and clamped to the top, sides, and bottom of the metal window frames under the glass portions.
Most of it in the past-collapse DoD pictures looks undamaged by impacting debris.
EDIT: changed the cropped DoD images from 665x292 into 650x428, so the dimensions are right again.
[edit on 26/3/06 by LaBTop]