Reply #33: are you a lawyer in real life?

[spooked911]

I get the distinct impression that you would rather nitpick on every little word than try to make a basic assumption about what a person is trying to say.

You've provided absolutely no support whatsoever for your (to be polite) conjecture that the "official story thus holds that the plane was coming out of a 'power dive', in order to reach this extreme speed." You may believe, deep in your heart, that NTSB cooked the flight path in response to questions about the "extreme speed" -- or maybe you believe something else.

I could look up the DU thread where this was discussed, but I didn't think it was a significant point of contention-- the point that the official story held that the "power dive" aided the ability of the plane to reach that extreme speed. I don't think the NTSB cooked up the flight path in response to questions about extreme speed at all. I suspect that the radar data was a military simulation as part of the wargames going on, if you really want to know.

The "dead-on" argument is silly. Clearly they needed to hit the tower close to the core to get collapse-worthy damage, which officially they did. 50 feet or 100 feet, whatever-- it's still a fairly narrow window. And what you wrote did seem to suggest you though the hijackers banked in to make it easier to hit within the tower. But this is not a important point.

As far as the Vmo, I wish I could be more precise about the max possible speed. The problem is we don't have concrete numbers for maximum possible speed the plane could be operated at without breaking up or being inoperable. I suspect some of this is because Boeing is hiding their full data on the planes, but a fairly simple extrapolation indicates that 540 mph is WAY over Vmo at that altitude, and that 540 mph likely exceeds the max possible speed the plane could be operated at.

This video series from Pilots for Truth is good on this exact issue, particularly if you don't prejudge what they have to say. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg_GArE7UBQ