I like Richard Hall, but I'll have to disagree about the planes. There were no planes. Rather than rehash any analysis presented elsewhere, I've got something I haven't seen anyone else mention, something you can really only see in hindsight. Everyone is free to ponder this for themselves:
It's seems like it would be a hella difficult feat to pilot a jumbo jet into a building, and not just first time, but two first-timers going 2-for-2. But even if you grant that, there's something even more unlikely.
The buildings were about 210' wide (interestingly, this is not an easy number to come by). The 767's have a wingspan of 156'. So if if the plane was not banked and the nose was more than 27' left or right from the vertical centerline of the building, what would happen?
Well, the wingtip outside the silhouette of the building would shear off and go flying across lower Manhattan. Everyone would be able to watch it sailing through the air. It would have been quite a sight, I imagine.
But then, we didn't get to see that, did we? Nope, both very wide planes hit with such precision and in such a way that their entire silhouettes were completely contained within the profiles of the buildings. Just like Wile-E-Coyote.
A response would be, "Well, they hit at a pretty sharp angle, and that lowered the vertical width." That just makes it worse. A plane banked like that means that upward lift is turned into sideways force, so now you're trying to intersect a building with a huge plane sliding sideways.
But we all saw it happen just like that, I guess. Bush even saw the first one.
I like Richard Hall, but I'll have to disagree about the planes. There were no planes. Rather than rehash any analysis presented elsewhere, I've got something I haven't seen anyone else mention, something you can really only see in hindsight. Everyone is free to ponder this for themselves:
It's seems like it would be a hella difficult feat to pilot a jumbo jet into a building, and not just first time, but two first-timers going 2-for-2. But even if you grant that, there's something even more unlikely.
The buildings were about 210' wide (interestingly, this is not an easy number to come by). The 767's have a wingspan of 156'. So if if the plane was not banked and the nose was more than 27' left or right from the vertical centerline of the building, what would happen?
Well, the wingtip outside the silhouette of the building would shear off and go flying across lower Manhattan. Everyone would be able to watch it sailing through the air. It would have been quite a sight, I imagine.
But then, we didn't get to see that, did we? Nope, both very wide planes hit with such precision and in such a way that their entire silhouettes were completely contained within the profiles of the buildings. Just like Wile-E-Coyote.
A response would be, "Well, they hit at a pretty sharp angle, and that lowered the vertical width." That just makes it worse. A plane banked like that means that upward lift is turned into sideways force, so now you're trying to intersect a building with a huge plane sliding sideways.
But we all saw it happen just like that, I guess. Bush even saw the first one.