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Quoted: Throw out a few of the head scratchers. I'm all ears.
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I think they seem to make a very interesting case about explosions that occurred WELL before the collapse of the towers. There was a very large number of eye witness accounts that had some very interesting things to say about that. I recall the news broacasting that all day... That there were "explosions" in the towers WELL in advance of their falling down.
Also, is it true that there were no bodies found at either the site in PA or the Pentagon? They claim that to be true in the movie. Furthermore, is it true that the “hole” in the Pentagon before the wall collapsed was 16’ in diameter? That is very intriguing and I wouldn’t believe that a 100’+ jet airliner fit through that without leaving any traces of it’s existence. Is it true that there was really no damage to the grounds ahead of the actual pentagon structure after the plane impacted?
They make some very intriguing claims about the engine components and forge a fairly solid case in favor of their NOT being native to the jets that crashed into the Pentagon. Is that true? Any jet experts here?
See, all of this stuff might be simply explained away. I am not a jet expert, nor am I a structural engineer or an aircraft designer. And I would wager most of the people blowing hard in this thread aren't either.
I would like to hear a solid case to refute it rather than a bunch of droolers blathering "BS" at every turn without any substance behind it.
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I don't know if you can call me a jet expert or not, I've only been fixing heavy planes for nearly 10 years. I do not know the exact size of the hole in the outer wall of the pentagon, and I'm not going to pull figures out of my ass, but you claim it was 16 feet in diameter, anoter retrieved a figure from a report stating it was 75 feet. The Boeing 757-200 series (the one that crashed into the pentagon has a fuselage diameter of 12 foot 4 inches (Technical specs can be found here
757 Tech Specs). Now considering that the skin on the fuselage is aluminium 2024 T3 that ranges from .120 inches to .032 inches thickness. Think about a piece of aluminum, you know the stuff your Bud Light cans are made of, that's .120 inches or roughly 1/8 th of an inch thick moving at 350 + Knots Indicated Air Speed at a downward angle to hit a target, and your aluminum can that you call the fuselage of the aircraft will crumple just like a drunk college frat boy smashing that can against his head. And if you're going to ask about the wings, at the angle that the aircraft hit the target from the security videos, the rear spar of the wing will just snap and fold back along the fuselage to create a mass of metal that will form a most effective ballistic shape for penatration. Think of a tungsten penatrator in a bullet. Larger pieces of the aircraft did make it through, and pictures of them can be found throughout the net (such as the combustor case of the Rolls Royce RB-211-535 engine, what appears to be the nose landing gear piston and trunnion assembly, and a picece of aircraft skin which would appear to come from the right side of the fuselage where the "n" in American would be). If you'd like to talk airplanes, come join any aircraft forum, and several mechanics and pilots would be glad to educate you on aircraft.