Posted: 7/6/2005 9:53:16 AM EDT
Can a F 16 actually go slowly enough to be of any real use on a surface search?
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Sure... they're looking for the blur out of the corner of their eyes that looks most like her. That's about the stupidest thing I've heard lately... since "Michael Jackson is innocent" |
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My few thoughts on this one: 1. It looks like the Dutch are doing something. 2. A few 16s are better than nothing. 3. Not everyone has the airlift capability we do. The Dutch can't load a few Pave Hawks on a C-17 and drop them anywhere in the world within 12 hours and the F-16s have long enough legs to make it over with a few stops. |
It's not so much the distance they can cover as the speed and height from which they're covering it. How can someone expect to find a person by looking out of the cockpit of a fighter jet? They'd be better off doing it from a hotair balloon... ETA: Oops... hold on. I missed this...
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tELL ME (FUCKING CAPS .....Tell me what good IR is would it detect a "differance" between bone and sand or correl cooling rates . Or do they think she's being held in some discreat location that they can "see" with IR . Probably just more "feel good , we tried " HARR F-16's to search for a body , those planes make bodies they dont findem . Wheres 10 Dutch Helo's .....I really dont think the Dutch really want to solve it at this point . There would just be to many embaresing details to deal with . Edited to add I'm sick of trying to edit misspellings so I'm not |
more likely fish poop. thermal imaging will be of no value in searching a body that has assumed ambient temperature weeks ago. |
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We deal with a contractor that offers thermal imaging services to locate buried pipe lines and underground leaks. They look for slight variations in color in the data they obtain. They have also sucessfully used their technology to locate long abandonded grave yards as part of survey work. I saw the images where they found one unmarked graveyard outside a prison that dated to the early 1800's. These guys attach their imaging equipment to a fixed wing aircraft or simply hang out the window of a helicopter. I suppose they could do the same thing from a slow flying jet. Probably a long shot though. I agree this girl's body was probably fish food. Sad, sad situation. |