A 330 Degree turn, and remote controlled flight.

[gumboot]

I like how they always bring up the "330 degree turn at 500 MPH" or whatever, argument.

The arc of the turn, and speed, are meaningless on their own. I am pretty confident I could fly a 757 at any relevant speed in a circular arc of anything from 1 to 360 degrees, and once I reached 360 I could then keep going until my fuel ran out, producing a 360+ degree turn.

The only thing of significance is the diameter across the turn (because it dictates bank angle), and CTers never mention this.

-Gumboot

 

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

http://www.911myths.com/Remote_Takeover.pdf

 

[beachnut]

If this thing really was an inside job and the planes were flown by remote control, you'd think they would have planned the route so that they wouldn't have been forced to make difficult manuevers. Maybe the guys operating the remote controls wanted to show off how good they were?

There were no difficult maneuvers, not any. Just regular rookie type flying, zero hard stuff.

The turn flight 77 made was sloppy and easy to do. Can you push up the throttles? That is about the only thing needed to make the planes go faster when they saw their targets moments away.

No difficult maneuvers, just poor flying, just hitting large targets.

 

[rwguinn]

Does anyone recall the test NASA did --crashing the 707/whatever for fuel/fire suppression testing? It was remotely piloted, by Fitz Fulton--One of the most precise pilots I have ever known.
I worked with him a NASA-Edwards (now Dryden) back in the early 1970's, and he flew some pretty high-performance, very high speed aircraft at outrageous altitudes. All flight tests require precision, and Fitz was one of the best.
With the RPV crash test, he missed his target--significantly. Remote piloting is far for easy--and going where you want to go with any kind of precision is difficult, even for the best.
I fly Radio Control models. The worst guys to teach are full-scale pilots. They are used to physical feed-back from the airplane. Remote vehicles don't give you that.

 

[aggle-rithm]

I work autonomy projects for NASA in real life (references available upon request),

I reject your references as government shills!!!