Re: 28Year Career CIA Official Says 9/11 An Inside
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:04 pm
What a load of ill informed crap that page is.
The so called "pod" can easily be seen on both sides of the aircraft on this photo:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0963368/M/
and here one each side are visible from the rear:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0163671/M/
it is also visible here:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0023472/M/
What you are seeing is nothing more than the fairing between the wing and fuselage in the centre tank/undercarriage well area.
However, there looks to have been a bit of post processing done - and done badly - on the stills.
Now to the text:
"We already have one Fox News employee making the statement that the plane had no passenger windows." Oh. yeh?
I've been watching airliners since I was 9 years old - 50 years this year. At that angle of bank (and I watched the footage on TV live and many times since) and at the distance the TV crews were from the WTC, no-one, unaided by binoculars or a telescope could have seen if the aircraft had windows or not. Further, it is very difficult to distinguish windows on some aircraft. The United paint scheme current at the time of 9/11 had a grey top and sides, including the window area. I have a mirror lens terrestrial telescope with a magnification range from 15 to 60. I've seen hundreds of United aircraft in the US and Europe.
Even on the ground, without any magnification, that scheme makes the windows difficult to distinguish at a distance. It is easier with magnification but the windows are not as distinctive as they would be if, for instance, they were set against white.
The piece goes on to talk about the 767 tanker. Boeing have built these for the Italian and Japanese Air Forces. The announced contract to lease 100 tankers for the USAF (WHICH DID NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL 2003) was cancelled due to allegations of bribery which forced a major resignation at Boeing. To date the USAF has NEVER operated any form of B767.
According to the piece, the 767 tanker would replace the KC130. Oh really??. There are tanker models of the LOCKHEED C130 Hercules known as the KC130 but the 767 tanker was meant, had it been built, to replace the BOEING KC135, a smaller version of the B707.
The photos of possible aircraft illustrating the 767 "tanker" are of 767 of either the JSDAF or the IAF, which has been airbrushed with 767 Tanker Transport titles for publicity purposes and of an E-8C which is a communications aircrat based on the much smaller B707 which has FOUR engines, for God's sake.
It's about time some of these people coming up with wild theories did some research before spouting out of their anuses about things they know nothing of.
The so called "pod" can easily be seen on both sides of the aircraft on this photo:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0963368/M/
and here one each side are visible from the rear:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0163671/M/
it is also visible here:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0023472/M/
What you are seeing is nothing more than the fairing between the wing and fuselage in the centre tank/undercarriage well area.
However, there looks to have been a bit of post processing done - and done badly - on the stills.
Now to the text:
"We already have one Fox News employee making the statement that the plane had no passenger windows." Oh. yeh?
I've been watching airliners since I was 9 years old - 50 years this year. At that angle of bank (and I watched the footage on TV live and many times since) and at the distance the TV crews were from the WTC, no-one, unaided by binoculars or a telescope could have seen if the aircraft had windows or not. Further, it is very difficult to distinguish windows on some aircraft. The United paint scheme current at the time of 9/11 had a grey top and sides, including the window area. I have a mirror lens terrestrial telescope with a magnification range from 15 to 60. I've seen hundreds of United aircraft in the US and Europe.
Even on the ground, without any magnification, that scheme makes the windows difficult to distinguish at a distance. It is easier with magnification but the windows are not as distinctive as they would be if, for instance, they were set against white.
The piece goes on to talk about the 767 tanker. Boeing have built these for the Italian and Japanese Air Forces. The announced contract to lease 100 tankers for the USAF (WHICH DID NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL 2003) was cancelled due to allegations of bribery which forced a major resignation at Boeing. To date the USAF has NEVER operated any form of B767.
According to the piece, the 767 tanker would replace the KC130. Oh really??. There are tanker models of the LOCKHEED C130 Hercules known as the KC130 but the 767 tanker was meant, had it been built, to replace the BOEING KC135, a smaller version of the B707.
The photos of possible aircraft illustrating the 767 "tanker" are of 767 of either the JSDAF or the IAF, which has been airbrushed with 767 Tanker Transport titles for publicity purposes and of an E-8C which is a communications aircrat based on the much smaller B707 which has FOUR engines, for God's sake.
It's about time some of these people coming up with wild theories did some research before spouting out of their anuses about things they know nothing of.