- Note - Many/most surveillance
systems do not record realtime video at 30 frames a second. As with bank
surveillance cams, for example, a single image is recorded every few seconds.
Television newscasts and other programs have shown many examples of bank
'video' of robbers in action which clearly show 'jumps' in the movement
of the robbers and bank patrons and employees. It is not hard to understand
why Flt 77 would not necessarily have been captured in the released Pentagon
sequenced recording frames.
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- In what appears to be a major disinformation exercise,
a French web site has caused a minor storm on the Internet by claiming
American Airlines Flight 77 did not crash into the Pentagon on September
11. That's right folks, American Airlines was and still is merely a figment
of your overworked imagination!
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- This is heady stuff, perhaps enough to put genuine sleuths
off the track, and direct even more suspicion and hatred towards the United
States military, who many mutter darkly are an evil bunch of people who
wantonly killed their own men, and vast numbers of America's women and
children.
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- Starting where the French start, let us take a closer
look at this new conspiracy. The French claim that the Boeing 757 was "too
big" to fit in the hole left in the Pentagon, which therefore proves
that a Boeing 757 could not have hit the Pentagon. It proves no such thing
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- Visit any one of several hundred vertical or near-vertical
high-speed crash sites and you will observe a strange phenomena
the aircraft all seem to vanish into relatively small holes. There is no
easy explanation for this, but rest assured I speak from direct experience.
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- In the early sixties we were sent out to find the crash
site of an English Electric Lightning Mach 2 fighter, which went in vertically
at nearly 400 miles per hour during an aerobatics display. Despite
having a wingspan of 35 feet, the Lightning impact crater measured only
22 feet across. Did we find the wings lying around in the field next door?
No, we did not.
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- By some strange twist of physics the wings were in the
same impact crater, near the top. What was left of the Lightning fuselage
lay many feet beneath the wings, having acted in all respects like a Barnes
Wallace "Earthquake Bomb".
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- American Airlines Flight 77 was seen to take off from
Washington, was tracked somewhat erratically on radar because its transponder
was off, and was then seen by hundreds of people as it hurtled back overhead
Washington at high speed , before pulling an almost impossibly-high "G"
turn through 180 degrees, and slicing down towards the Pentagon in a steep
dive.
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- Civilian aviation eyewitnesses at the time estimated
Flight 77's speed to be in excess of 400 miles per hour, which in the dense
atmosphere found at low altitudes, is almost enough to tear the wings off.
Not only that. Two airline captains pilots on the internet speculated meaningfully
that no human pilot could have held the control yoke through the 180 degree
high "G" turn, which they estimated at a minimum of 5G but more
likely 6 or 7G. The term "G" simply means gravity, so if
your arm weighs 20 pounds at rest, at 5G it will weight 100 pounds.
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- If you want to get a feel for this, stretch both of your
arms right out in front of you as far as they will go (no bending please),
and then ask a friend to place a 100 pound weight on the palm of
each of your hands. Now simply stand there for 15 seconds without either
arm dropping below the horizontal. Tricky, huh? But I digress, back to
the French conspiracy.
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- Next up the French show you dazzling "proof"
that the Boeing 757 did not slice down through the roof, but instead managed
to squeeze its way into the Pentagon through a single first-floor window.
To reinforce this Gallic claim they show you a genuine photo taken by a
genuine US Marine. As American as apple pie, so it must be true! This is
stirring stuff until you peer through the thick smoke haze on the photo
and realize this is a different part of the Pentagon. Sacre Bleu!
These French are as slippery as frogs
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- Next, before turning to the hard evidence, the French
try to distract us with a parallel or sub conspiracy. The evil American
military have spread sand across the perfectly good green lawn outside
the Pentagon. "Why", they ask, "did someone cover up the
lawn with sand?" Obviously the French believe we are looking
at an evil sub-conspiracy here which rivals their home-grown Count de Marenches
of the SDECE. Perhaps the sinister sand obscures a secret missile silo
pointed at Paris, or something like that?
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- Well, not exactly, you wine-swilling Parisians. The American
military engineers built a road covered with sand, over which they could
drive their heavy trucks to and from the disaster area. You know how it
is with these ten and twenty ton trucks. They all have the same irritating
tendency to become completely bogged down on soft ornamental lawns.
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- Hard evidence? Ah, yes. Despite having access to the
same images as you or I, the French cunningly edit their copies to obscure
the large pile of second-hand Boeing 757 spare parts piled outside the
left front of the Pentagon disaster area, shown in the center picture at
the top of this page. Click on the red link below it and you will be taken
as if by magic to a giant high-resolution photo on an American military
server, which will show you the entire area in huge detail.
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- You
don't have to be James Bond, and no password is required at all. Fancy
that! The American military covering up its terrible guilty secrets by
posting them on a server with public access.
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- Which bits of the pile are which bits of American
Airlines Flight 77 you had best decide for yourself, because there are
lots of bits to choose from. The three men in white at the front of the
pile are grouped around a Bobcat, which provides a handy scale for this
massive photograph taken on September 14 by the USAF's Tech. Sgt. Cedric
Rudisill.
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- Though most of the Boeing 757 was still in the Pentagon
basement [or even below it] on that date, only three days after the crash,
there is already enough scrap metal on the pile to construct a pair of
fighter aircraft from scratch. And because this aircraft wreckage
utterly destroys the French conspiracy, they failed to show it to you.
Worse than that. The French deliberately edited it out completely, so you
would be unable to reach your own conclusions.
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- As the picture at top right shows, once the French cat
was out of the bag, others decided to cash in on the story and build thrilling
sub-conspiracies all over the Internet. This pic shows what is claimed
to be an American F-16 fighter approaching at about zero feet [circled
in red], presumably just before the point of impact.
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- Oh, sure! And obviously, immediately after this
picture was snapped the "F-16" suddenly skyrocketed upwards,
looped the loop at near sonic speed, then came down vertically on the building.
Then it probably used advanced American military alchemy to double in mass
to equal the pile of junk already gathered at the front left of the Pentagon
building. All good clean fun I suppose, but I doubt Captain Charles
Burlingame's widow would be amused.
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