Anyone who took first-year physics? A fully loaded 767 weighs approximately 395,000 lb (179,000 kg). You can plug in your 540 mph figure. The equation is F=MxA. Click here for a calculator if you like.
Needless to say, it could easily cut through the outer walls, steel beams in the building and the stairwell. I think people have this idea that because the plane was made of aluminum it would be like taking an empty beer can and smashing it into the wall. That’s true of the can at the speed of hand. Fire that same beer can at the wall at a few hundred miles per hour, however, and the result will be quite different (get yourself an air cannon and compare and contrast smashing the can with your hand then firing that same can at your hand at 100mph and see what that difference is). Fill the can with beer and the result will be different as well. Now, look at the plane. It’s not an empty beer can without structural support…and it has a LOT of mass.
I have no idea about a custard (in a container or something that would hold it together? What mass?), but basically, if you throw something with mass fast enough it will penetrate just about anything. Throw something that has a lot of mass and is going really fast and it’s going to transfer a lot of energy into the structure. That mass and energy don’t just go away.
The argument has been expressed that the airliner did indeed slow down & stop even
however inside the building. but that is a problem, because people are expected to believe
that an airliner having to overcome HUGE friction + bending & breaking steel bits of the building
displacing mass that would be required to make the hole, and with all of that going on,
the airliner did not slow down so as to be seen on the video?
I don’t believe Jay Jay is denying two airplanes crashed into the Twin Towers, he just doesn’t believe those crashes caused the towers to fall.
Now that he brought this compelling theory to my attention, it makes sense. The airplanes contained no terrorists. The pilots just accidentally flew into the towers at the exact same moments that the actual, wily terrorists pushed the Acme TNT plungers. Simply a coincidence.
Again, you need to understand the force here. It’s not going to stop on a dime. Basically, when the airplane hit the building it became almost a liquid moving at very high speed. And imparted a massive amount of energy into the structure. It’s not going to just stop, it’s going to cut through anything in its way until the energy is dissipated. Basically, it’s going to work just like the shaped charge in an RPG hitting a piece of armor. Even though it’s only a really small and relatively light piece of copper, it’s concentrated at a small point and moving very fast due to the explosive charge…that’s how a small piece of copper can cut right through a vehicle. This would work very similarly and would cut through steel beams, structural supports and anything else in its way.
The airliner did slow down, and stopped inside the building. You can see that on the video.
What does friction have to do with it? The plane crashed into the building, leaving a large hole.
I also would like to hear a more detailed explanation of what you think happened. AFAICT, your idea is that the place crashed into the building, but didn’t penetrate, but flattened against the outside, and then demolition charges on that exact floor went off at that exact minute and brought down the tower. Is that it?
the link has pictures of a LOT of different windows, many of them are NOT WTC tower windows at all and the pix at the top of the page showing those very tall windows, are of the top floor Restaurant … however, the office space windows are the ones where the alleged airliner crashes happened and those windows are smaller and in fact make only 40% of the total area. Can you get your head around that?
Seriously, what do you mean ‘did not slow down?’. It certainly did slow down and most of it was still in the building. That’s pretty slow.
What do you expect? Did you think it would be like some drill that when it hit the harder amterial would slow down and start grinding. That’s not how it happens. Did you think it would hit like a lawn dart and stick out of the building?
You obviously still have no concept of the kinetic energy those planes had. You whine that nobody should beleive what was seen by people and dozens of videos, you handwave and special plead other examples of high velocity objects breaking tougher objects, and yet to studiously avoid giving any reasonable explanation for what you think should have happened to a plane hitting the tower at the speeds they were going.
"What does friction have to do with it? The plane crashed into the building, leaving a large hole. "
Friction, note that the airliner body was 5 meters in dia, and the space between decks was 3.6 and with further impediment of the floor truss structure in that space.
so there would be LOTS of friction in getting the airliner inside the building.
Jay_Jay, after ten pages of back and forth, perhaps it’s time you enlighten us by telling us exactly what you think happened and why? Go ahead. The forum is yours. We’re all ears/eyes.
from the very moment that the nose encountered the tower wall, there would have to be slowing down caused but the resistance from having to displace mass, bend/break structural members ( etc… ) and this slowing down would be significant in that it would cause g force stress to the aircraft, and such g force stress to the aircraft would cause breaking up such that the contents of the plane, that is luggage, passengers ( whatever ) would spill out and be deposited in the street below.
this is what should have happened if a real airliner had crashed into the side of the tower. however the “news” reporting of the day, proves beyond any doubt that the whole scene is fraud, the media lied!