9/11 Stand Down - New York, D.C. Unprotected
Dude, Where's My Freedom?
news:06bmhv492inv9gn0f...@4ax.com:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:32:54 -0400, Hit1Hard <Hit.On...@iaehv.nl>
> wrote:
>
>
>>>>So what? That they have only fuel for a one way trip..
>>>
>>> If they fly at 1800 mph they run out of fuel in about ten minutes
>>> and
>>> fall out of the sky.
>>
>>But they would only have to fly at that speed to get accros 80 miles.
>>Thats almost 3 minutes? Duh!
>
> Plus climb out and descent time.
>
>>Forget about that target.. There might be more comming. We'll bite
>>the bullet on this one.. but the others we will give a warm welcome.
>
> And when they took off, they really didn't know Flight 11 was going to
> crash into a building. They weren't being sent to shoot down the
> plane, they were being sent to shadow and escort it. Read the FAA
> regs sometime.
>
>>> And then they're on the ground again, unable to patrol the skies
>>> and
>>> possibly prevent another attack.
>>
>>Forgetting the forewarning capabilities of NORAD. As everyone else
>>including NORAD on that day?
>
> NORAD could forewarn that Flight 11 was going to crash into the WTC?
> Must be that new psychic radar. NORAD did not have the radar
> capability to scan WITHIN the United States.
>
>>>You might like to note that after the
>>> two aircraft actually got to Washington they orbited above the
>>> Capitol for over an hour since they still had fuel left in their
>>> tanks.
>>
>>Noted.. And now what?
>
> Yes, and now what? It took that hour or so for additional planes to
> be put into the air.
>
>>>There
>>> was a real perceived worry that there would be more attacks.
>>
>>Oh those David Copperfield terrorists.. Put a plane under a tarp and
>>then appear above the target out of nowhere.
>
> You really don't have a clue as to how many planes are in the sky at
> any one time across the United States, do you?
>
>>>>Stand down son. It is an order, You can't go yet.. Nevermind that
>>>>the British got V1 out of the sky and the Chinese an EP-3 without
>>>>shooting..
>>>
>>> In the British case they had hundreds of planes patrolling the
>>> skies of
>>> southern England as they were under continuous attack day and night
>>> for years. They saw the V1s coming on radar and they were able to
>>> vector fighters in to intercept them between the AA gun belts on the
>>> coast and on the southern edge of London. On 9/11 America had 14
>>> fighters on hot standby, of which four covered the north-east
>>> region, an area ten times bigger than the entire country of Britain.
>>
>>But better yet.. They found a way to "tip" them out of there path.
>>Nothing else needed then a skilled pilot.. A Top Gun.
>
> Oh, yeah, that would really work. An F-16 tipping a piloted 767 over.
> You do understand what a V1 was, don't you? BTW, where do you think
> the 767 would go at that point, assuming, of course that a) the F-16
> would have been successful in "tipping" an aircraft that was many
> times it's mass and wingspan, and b) the pilot wasn't able to recover?
>
>>> In the EP-3 case the Chinese regularly intercepted US
>>> reconnaissance
>>> planes off their coast and had been doing it for years. They could
>>> see it coming on radar for hours before it got to its patrol area
>>> and they could schedule an interception flight at their leisure.
>>
>>Did they "shoot" it down?
>
> No, they didn't. In fact, they (the Chinese) lost a pilot and
> aircraft. The EP-3 made an emergency landing at an airport.
>
>
Why do you constantly excuse the bumbling fuckups?
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