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**yQvpyNt3** · 02-06-2006, 07:23 PM

Still, pretty friggin good aim! One little slip up and they would've irretrievably missed the target and likely would not have recovered for another go. I've often wonder if that isn't what happened in Pennsylvania - just couldn't figure out how to haul it around for another go.

I don't think it would take extraodinary aim. Those buildings were pretty dang big, and at higher speeds airplanes get more stable. Considering that how big the towers were and how far out the could line up, all they had to do was keep the nose pointed at them. Consider that a better pilot can land consitently on the centerline of a runway - at slower, harder to control speeds.

The Pentagon plane is impressive, because they came in low enough to take out light poles. But that's not really incredible - there is just as much chance that they would be too high or right on level as too low.

Where would the Pennsylvania plane have been aiming for? It'd be pretty hard to miss by far enough that the target wouldn't know.

02-06-2006, 07:23 PM	#24
yQvpyNt3 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 425 Senior Member	Still, pretty friggin good aim! One little slip up and they would've irretrievably missed the target and likely would not have recovered for another go. I've often wonder if that isn't what happened in Pennsylvania - just couldn't figure out how to haul it around for another go. I don't think it would take extraodinary aim. Those buildings were pretty dang big, and at higher speeds airplanes get more stable. Considering that how big the towers were and how far out the could line up, all they had to do was keep the nose pointed at them. Consider that a better pilot can land consitently on the centerline of a runway - at slower, harder to control speeds. The Pentagon plane is impressive, because they came in low enough to take out light poles. But that's not really incredible - there is just as much chance that they would be too high or right on level as too low. Where would the Pennsylvania plane have been aiming for? It'd be pretty hard to miss by far enough that the target wouldn't know.
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