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Strange But (Un)True?
Hani Hanjour, the pilot of Flight 77, was so incompetent he could not
fly a Cessna in August, but in September managed to fly a 767 at excessive speed into a spiraling, 270-degree descent and a level impact of the first floor of the Pentagon, on the only side that was virtually empty and had been hardened to withstand a terrorist attack, merely demonstrates that people can do almost anything once they set their minds to it. (Un)True? |
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Quaalude wrote: Hani Hanjour, the pilot of Flight 77, was so incompetent he could not fly a Cessna in August, but in September managed to fly a 767 at excessive speed into a spiraling, 270-degree descent and a level impact of the first floor of the Pentagon, on the only side that was virtually empty and had been hardened to withstand a terrorist attack, merely demonstrates that people can do almost anything once they set their minds to it. (Un)True? Even you, "Quaalude," could fly that pattern. After all, you don't have to take off or land, or even reconfigure the aircraft. No real skill required! |
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On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:38:35 -0400, Orval Fairbairn wrote:
Hanjour The instructors at the airfield in Maryland said, "It was like he had hardly even ever driven a car. He could not fly at all." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/us/a-trainee-noted-for-incompetence.html And yet, Orval Fairbairn asks us to believe that Hanjour pulled off a stunt that would press the limits of even the most experienced aviation test pilot. Perhaps you need to remove you head from Mary's drums, Orval, the banging has advanced your senility. |
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:47:05 -0400, Tom wrote:
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:38:35 -0400, Orval Fairbairn wrote: Hanjour The instructors at the airfield in Maryland said, "It was like he had hardly even ever driven a car. He could not fly at all." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/us/a-trainee-noted-for-incompetence.html And yet, Orval Fairbairn asks us to believe that Hanjour pulled off a stunt that would press the limits of even the most experienced aviation test pilot. Perhaps you need to remove you head from Mary's drums, Orval, the banging has advanced your senility. Pilots for Truth: "Our conclusion is, the maneuver looks possible, for guys like us. But for Hani? Unlikely. He either got REALLY lucky, or someone/something else was flying that plane. Sure wish we had clear video of a 757 hitting the pentagon to silence all these "Conspiracy theorists". They want us to believe the pentagon is only covered by a parking gate camera? C'mon..." |
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:58:36 -0400, Quaalude wrote:
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:47:05 -0400, Tom wrote: On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:38:35 -0400, Orval Fairbairn wrote: Hanjour The instructors at the airfield in Maryland said, "It was like he had hardly even ever driven a car. He could not fly at all." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/us/a-trainee-noted-for-incompetence.html And yet, Orval Fairbairn asks us to believe that Hanjour pulled off a stunt that would press the limits of even the most experienced aviation test pilot. Perhaps you need to remove you head from Mary's drums, Orval, the banging has advanced your senility. Pilots for Truth: "Our conclusion is, the maneuver looks possible, for guys like us. But for Hani? Unlikely. He either got REALLY lucky, or someone/something else was flying that plane. Sure wish we had clear video of a 757 hitting the pentagon to silence all these "Conspiracy theorists". They want us to believe the pentagon is only covered by a parking gate camera? C'mon..." The reactive force of the hugely powerful downwash sheet, coupled with the compressibility effects of the tip vortices, simply will not allow the aircraft to get any lower to the ground than approximately one half the distance of its wingspan ¡X until speed is drastically reduced, which, of course, is what happens during normal landings. Flight 77 "hit the Pentagon" at cruising speed. So speaketh an aeronautical engineer. |
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On Oct 3, 12:13*pm, Tom wrote:
The reactive force of the hugely powerful downwash sheet, coupled with the compressibility effects of the tip vortices, simply will not allow the aircraft to get any lower to the ground than approximately one half the distance of its wingspan — until speed is drastically reduced, which, of course, is what happens during normal landings. Flight 77 "hit the Pentagon" at cruising speed. So speaketh an aeronautical engineer. Looks like another alumnus of Coldine University. |
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Quaalude wrote:
Pilots for Truth: "Our conclusion is, the maneuver looks possible, for guys like us. But for Hani? Unlikely. He either got REALLY lucky, or someone/something else was flying that plane. Sure wish we had clear video of a 757 hitting the pentagon to silence all these "Conspiracy theorists". They want us to believe the pentagon is only covered by a parking gate camera? C'mon..." Babbling nut case. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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In article , Tom
wrote: On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:38:35 -0400, Orval Fairbairn wrote: Hanjour The instructors at the airfield in Maryland said, "It was like he had hardly even ever driven a car. He could not fly at all." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/us/a-trainee-noted-for-incompetence.html And yet, Orval Fairbairn asks us to believe that Hanjour pulled off a stunt that would press the limits of even the most experienced aviation test pilot. First of all, if that maneuver would "press the limits of even the most experienced test pilot," I would have to question both his experience and expertise. It didn't take much ability to perform a diving 270 degree kamikaze turn. The Kamikazes in WW-II did it all the time, and with only rudimentary training. Only a fool would arge otherwise. Perhaps you need to remove you head from Mary's drums, Orval, the banging has advanced your senility. Obviously, neither "Tom" nor "Quaalude" has ever operated the controls of a plane, or they would not have posted such utter nonsense. |
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