Did you or did you not pinpoint what you claim Paik could have seen using those specific angles?
How can they be an accurate reflection of what you are trying to say when the trajectory of the plane, which he personally drew on several maps,places the plane over his yard?
Gosh, could it be that you're getting very close to figuring what I've been trying to tell you? Now all you need to do is ask the
correct question: How could the trajectory of the plane, which he personally drew on several maps, be an accurate reflection of what he says he saw out that window?
You cannot make any estimation at all using the drawing you did. For the exact same reasons that I outlined in my previous post to you. End of story.
Oh, I made one accurate estimation, which I see you chose to ignore so I'll repeat it: If the plane had been on the track he drew on the map, then it would have been about 30 feet off the ground. If it had been about 30 feet off the ground, I "estimate" that it couldn't have cleared the Annex building.
How did you actually come to the angle of what he saw?
Hopefully,, showing you this for the third time will do it:
Even your angles are wrong when you look at what he actually said.
Um, I'm looking at where he actually
pointed.
He is also your average sized Asian guy. Not so tall. Was that taken into consideration?
And how would you suggest I take that into consideration in estimating where he's
pointing in that video? Was he shorter than he is now?
You have ignored the fact that he claims to have been bent down viewing upwards through the window.
He also claims that it was "very low".
Yeah, I'd say he looks like he's bent down viewing upwards through the window in the interview video, too. So what's your point?
You have also ignored the fact that the fuselage is depicted at @30ft SSE of that window" and that the wing extends a further 50ft.
I've ignored what? If he saw the fuselage while looking up at a maximum of 45
o angle, and it was 30' SSE of the window, then it must have been a maximum of 30' off the ground. The length of the wing is irrelevant. Are you saying you believe it the 30' altitude is accurate?
He is also unsure if the plane was in any bank, which would have further come into his view.
Uh, no, that wouldn't affect his viewing angle to
fuselage. You're confusing yourself.
Your drawing is rigid and does not take any variables into account whatsoever.
If by "variables" you mean "interpret what Paik said to support wacky CIT theories" then you are correct. And that's the point.
The reason I pointed out the Sheraton's position which is CRUCIAL, totally blows your depiction of the plane going over Paik's roof as you described out of the water.
What blows
Paik's own description of the plane going directly over his head is that he wouldn't have seen anything if it had, and my scale drawing shows why. And nice try, but I do believe the reason you pointed out the Sheraton's position was that you simply had no idea what I was trying to tell you about the drawing, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the location of the Sheraton or the trajectory. And it still doesn't.
The trajectory HAD to be further out for the plane to be able to pass the hotel which is in fact verified by his maps.
Well, not really. If we knew for sure that the plane passed over his head and that's
all we knew, then there are trajectories that could miss the Sheraton and pass over his head. But if he saw the fuselage and wing, then we know that's
not what happened; we know it was indeed farther out. Now, how much farther? That's where his description of seeing the fuselage comes into play.
When Paik says that the plane flew "very low" over his shop, just how literally are you taking this?
Excuse me, but you're the one trying to turn your own interpretation of what that means into a location, not me. Seems to me the "official path" is "very low" so I don't know what you're getting at.
He says that he "felt that" the plane was going to hit his roof.
And since we know it couldn't have been that low, that just tells us that his impression of the altitude was pretty far off.
That it cleared the Navy Annex gives you an idea in his map of just how "low" he remembered it to be.
Say what? Actually that sets a limit on how low it could have been, if his map were really accurate. Of course, if it actually passed south of the building, then the height of the building doesn't matter.
Which simply tells us how YOUR drawing exaggerates the size of the Navy Annex for this purpose.
Excuse me? My original drawing was 4 pixels per foot, but that was unnecessarily large so I resized it to 75%, 3 pixels per foot. There is
no exaggeration of the 70' height of the building relative to the 128' wingspan and Paik's approximate 5' viewing height.
Again, you are talking of geometry when ALL your parameters are off, including your angles going by his testimony.
None of my "parameters are off," most especially including the angle he pointed to. I believe that he clearly indicates that he saw the plane at less than a 45
o angle. If you think you can prove that wrong, then cut the hot air and get on with it.
And again, you have taken a literal approach to exactly what he said and ignored all of his other testimony, both in this video and in former interviews.
None of my "parameters are off," most especially including the angle
he pointed to,
and what he said about seeing the fuselage and right wing. Are you saying maybe he didn't really see the fuselage and right wing? (You might wanna think that through a little before you make that claim)
You used the plane furthest away in your drawing to depict the SOC path. Admit it. To reinforce the idea that the plane had to be further away towards SOC. Fail.
Jeez, and I thought you were starting to get it... No, I put two plane images in that drawing on the 45
o line to illustrate a simple fact: You
can't locate the ground track just by knowing the viewing angle, but you
can use the viewing angle to say that if the plane had been 30' SSE of the window then it was 30' or less in the air. If you think that's what really happened just because Paik drew that line on a map, then
you need to explain how it cleared the Annex building. You are the one who persistently fails to address that simple point -- that Paik's map
can't be accurate if he saw the fuselage -- and I don't think anyone is mystified about why you don't want to address it.
The altitude and positioning of the plane, when scaled to the rest of the drawing is TOO CLOSE and TOO HIGH.
Fix the scale and THEN talk about geometry and angles proving any point you have.
There's certainly nothing wrong with my scale, and you have yet to give any reason why the viewing angle Paik
actually points to is not the one he actually saw. If that disagrees with where you want the plane to be, then it's obvious to me what needs fixing.
Again your "angle" is off according to his testimony.
Get it now?
Really?
Get it now?
You do NOT have the FUSELAGE at 30ft SSE of his window.
Oh, so
that's why you're having so much trouble grasping such a simple concept? Why didn't you say so. Here you go:
Paik's map
cannot be accurate, unless he didn't really see the plane (which of course would leave you asserting that he somehow guessed the right path).
You haven't taken any variables into account such as a possible bank at this point, even though Paik didn't describe one.
LOL. Yeah, there a lot of things he didn't say that I didn't take into account.
He "lied"? NOW we are getting to the crux.
Nope, I think it's crystal clear that he simply misjudged the distance and altitude of the plane. There's nothing unusual about that, either: It happens all the time with "UFO" reports. You're trying to use a meaningless map as proof of an outrageously implausible claim.
YOU are wrong. YOUR drawing is wrong.
Sez you. Please let me know when you understand what I'm saying well enough to come up with a coherent refutation.
Not so "stupid" a question if you had been following the recent posts. Even posters here won't pin their colours to it.
Yes, asking where the plane really was is a stupid question to ask someone who isn't buying CIT's stupid arguments, and I don't yet see any reason to treat it as a reasonable question. You guys keep claiming that you're going to prove it wasn't where every sane person
knows it was when it hit the building, but all you can come up with is stupid "evidence" like Paik's obviously incorrect map and stupid reasoning such as the map must be correct so simple geometry must be wrong.
You obviously didn't follow your advice to me to ascertain the SOC path for the drawing. No matter how much you deny that this wasn't what you were intending to show.
It's taken you four posts to even partially figure out what I was intending to show. Sorry, but I'm really not interested in whatever misconceptions you had along the way. Let's do it again: Paik's map
cannot be accurate, unless he didn't really see the plane, in which case his whole testimony is meaningless.
You have it too high and too close.
Your parameters are wrong.
As you've said, but failed to prove.
Your drawing is not witness compatible...
Oh? Let's take another look:
What's incompatible -- his map? Yup, now you're getting it.
... as is Rob Balsamo's which actually used a
program for such illustrations.
Rob's is also based on publically available data.
LOL, really? Got any proof of that? Like, say, his scene files? See, Balsamo tried to bamboozle me once before with a bogus graphic: He was trying to claim that the plane couldn't have hit the light poles, and his "proof" was a drawing in which he had cocked a compass a few degrees off of North to make it line up with his incorrectly drawn heading. When I look at the mountain of bogus evidence and dishonest arguments he's used over the years, it's clear to me that the one and only thing Balsamo cares about is suckering more people into buying his DVDs. Trust Balsamo at your own risk, but no thanks.
The plane was allegedly @230ft agl according to Warren Stutt's decode at this point, though Terry Morin has it at only 50ft above his POV in the Navy Annex.
Ever heard the saying, "all measures are approximate?" Ever hear of a case where someone misjudged the height of a flying object?
That's around 120ft agl at the midpoint of the Annex.
At the official speed that is roughly a DIVE of @90 ft per second taking the elevation of the Annex into account.
AND if you take it literally.
Uh, no I don't. Why should I take Morin's (or Paik's) guesses as anything more than guesses?
Either way you would HAVE to almost halve your estimate of what Paik could and couldn't see.
"No more than 430ft up"?
Where did you pull that figure from?
430' out at a maximum 45
o angle = a maximum 430' up. Didn't need my calculator for that one. You're supposed to be proving that can't be correct. So far, all you've got is naked assertions, contradictions, your own interpretation of Paik's statements, and Paik's obviously inaccurate map.
As I said, according to Stutt's radalt data it was 233ft MAXIMUM.
At what point? And what is the accuracy of that measurement?
Also take into account that he claims to have been at a LOWER POV.
Remember we are talking of an average sized Asian guy here.
And a lower POV wouldn't change the angle he's pointing to.
Do you see where you have been going wrong?
If you mean the futility of arguing with no-planers, I'm accustomed to that, but fortunately trying to convince you of anything is not my objective.
Your drawing is totally inaccurate on every front.
The only inaccuracies you've shown so far are you own misinterpretations.
You are drawing conclusions that are not based on anything apart from a literal translation of a portion of this guy's description of what he saw. What he has described on three separate occasions to three different interviewers. One CIT, one who turned out to have his own agenda and a vociferous anti-CIT "truther".
If the plane was where he drew the line on the map, then he couldn't have seen any part of the fuselage. YOU are the one who wants to take a literal translation of his words to put the plane where you want it.
Paik said that he "felt that" the plane went over his roof. His various maps has the plane over his front yard.
What you should be doing is calculate the actual height and position of the plane according to HIS testimony.
How Paik "felt" is even less relevant than his guess about the path, and you refuse to understand that neither you nor he nor I can "calculate the actual height and position of the plane" from what he saw out that window. We can, however, set some limits, and those limits show that his map cannot be correct about where it passed by his shop. I don't want to intrude on another poster's argument, but you also haven't addressed the point that he couldn't have seen enough of the trajectory to draw an accurate heading, either.
Taking ALL values into account including the witness margin of error which has been narrowed down significantly in this case due to the physical view he described regarding the plane.
No, taking ALL "values" into account, Paik's account is consistent enough with the "official" flight path that it's absurd to continue offering it as proof of anything at all.
What is repeated in every interview is that he could only see the right wing and part of the fuselage and that IF it had been further off he would have been able to see the whole plane. His words.
I do believe you embellished his words just a bit, didn't you, but simple geometry proves the assertion wrong, whoever said it.
He describes ANYTHING BUT THE SOC PATH.
Baloney.
You say you drew "the angle at which Paik viewed the plane".
That is a SPECIFIC measurement added to a drawing that is also not to scale on any level as well as ignoring his testimony.
Oh, you think the
angle should be scaled? Sorry, they didn't teach us how to do that in drafting class. Can you show me an example? And no, I'm
not ignoring his testimony; I'm taking his word for it that he saw the fuselage and wing -- and that's the whole point.
The "planes" are not positioned correctly to scale.
Which is to show why the positioning doesn't change the geometric relationship. It's rather tedious to keep having you throw your own misconceptions up as having any relevance. But anyway, you now have a drawing that shows the plane passing the window where Paik drew the line. Are you saying you now think that's accurate? The plane was 30' high?
The buildings are not to scale.
The Annex building certainly is, and the height of Paik's building is irrelevant.
Your "angle" is meaningless in the context of all this.
It's the angle
Paik pointed to, and it's the angle that limited his view. Why would that be "meaningless" but his guess about the over-ground path be "evidence?" I do believe that his estimate and memory of that angle would be far more accurate than his estimate and memory of how far away the plane was.
Wrong again according to HIS testimony.
It is not something I'm pulling out of the air, like your conclusions, but testimony that has been verified THREE times.
The "important features" are the cumulative points I have listed which you totally ignored.
You've completely failed to give any coherent rebuttal to my actual arguments while reeling off a string of distractions and irrelevancies. Show me how Paik's map could possible be accurate if he saw the fuselage and wing out that window. You can't without distorting the viewing angle -- as Balsamo apparently did in his graphic -- so much that it would be obvious that it doesn't match where Paik pointed.
The worst thing about this "debate" on the subject is that even though I showed you where you went wrong, and they are patently obvious, you actually cannot concede ONE point I have made, even going to the point of calling it "irrelevant" (LOL) and I have had to spell it out again.
You've showed me nothing of the sort. You've showed me that either you don't understand what I'm saying, or you don't want to address it honestly. And frankly, I'm not much interested in figuring out which it is. Either way, you have failed to prove that Paik's map means anything at all, and you've failed to make the case that Paik's story is inconsistent with the "official" flight path. Either address that point or quit wasting everyone's time.