Oh boy...!
This one is gonna be another of your masterpieces, Robby. One completely wrong statement after another...
Damn, boy, it's fun to be a 400 hour C172 pilot that points out one piece of BS after another after another that an alleged ATP & instructor pilot. Especially one as baseless arrogant & GLORIOUSLY clueless as you are...
Well, let's get started.
QUOTE (rob balsamo @ Jan 9 2010, 04:53 PM)

Tom, lol, you're such an idiot.
We'll see shortly exactly who is The Idiot, Fyodor.
Let's start out with YOUR gloriously biggest analytic screw-up: You chose to attempt to do an aeronautical analysis based on a NARRATIVE by a bunch of lawyers & politicians. Exactly how idiotic was that, Fyodor?
If I were to do an engineering analysis based on a bunch of lawyers & politicians' statements, the fault would NOT be with the lawyers & politicians, Rob. I would be ME acting like an incompetent moron.
Since YOU choose to make this brain-dead mistake, I'll give YOU one guess who substitutes for "me" at the end of that last sentence.
But, you still got lucky taking this silly, silly action (i.e., trusting lawyers & politicians). Because it turns out that the only thing that they got wrong in the section that you quoted was to remove several instances of the word "approximately" from the NTSB report.
QUOTE (rob balsamo @ Jan 9 2010, 04:53 PM)

Note the date on the article you analyzed and the bolded title. Here' i'll help you.
07/20/06
Analysis of 9/11 Commission Report prior to release of Flight Data Recorder
Yup, that's right. It came out in 06.
And every single statement that you quoted was right in 2001. Was right in 2006. And is right today.
QUOTE
"At 9:29, the autopilot on American 77 was disengaged; the aircraft was at 7,000 feet and approximately 38 miles west of the Pentagon.59 ....
At 9:34, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport advised the Secret Service of an unknown aircraft heading in the direction of the White House. American 77 was then 5 miles west-southwest of the Pentagon and began a 330-degree turn. At the end of the turn, it was descending through 2,200 feet, pointed toward the Pentagon and downtown Washington. The hijacker pilot then advanced the throttles to maximum power and dove toward the Pentagon.60...
At 9:37:46, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, traveling at approximately 530 miles per hour.61 All on board, as well as many civilian and military personnel in the building, were killed."
Every single statement is true. Perhaps you'd care to point out the one(s) that you claim are in error?
QUOTE ( @ Jan 9 2010, 04:53 PM)

Yes, thats right Tom, the "math" in that article is based on the numbers given in the 9/11 Commission Report PRIOR TO THE RELEASE OF THE FDR DATA. Ya big dummy. lol
All of the math is yours & yours alone.
And it's ALL wrong. GLORIOUSLY wrong. Because you have not the SLIGHTEST clue how to turn English sentences into math equations.
Let's look at your incompetence, one step at a time:
These are YOUR statements, Rob. NOT the 911 Commission's. And nobody else's.
a. AA77 travelled 33 miles in 5 minutes just before starting the 330° turn.
b. Average speed over this interval was 396 kts.
c. AA77 entered the 330° turn at 396 kts.
d. travelled 5 miles in the turn
e. took 3 minutes to do so.
f. average speed thru the turn was 430 kts.
And EVERY ONE of them is wrong. Not because of anything that the 911 Commission said. But because of baseless, idiotic and wrong conditions that you attached to the situation. Conditions that nobody else, except you, asserted.
For example, the stupid statement that the plane could start out 5 miles west of the Pentagon, fly about 3 miles towards the building, make a giant (ahem, 19 mile long) sweeping 330° turn while descending over a mile, and then a 4 mile straight run into the building, and do all of that while traveling a grand total of ... wait for the stupid answer ... FIVE miles...!!!
LoL.
And here is my favorite. You, not the 911 Commission, YOU say that the plane, doing an average of 430 knots, travels only 5 miles in 3 minutes...??!!
Cripes, Rob. I'm only a C172 pilot. But I know that if I'm doing about 105 kts, I'm covering 2 miles a minute. Your failed attempt at a math has a 757, that is exceeding its Vmo by about 140 knots, covering 20% less distance than a C172 at 80% cruise power would in the same amount of time?!!
What does it say about an alleged instructor pilot who can not do simple speed-time-distance calculations?
QUOTE (rob balsamo @ Jan 9 2010, 04:53 PM)

And you are right, the numbers in the 9/11 Report dont match the FDR...
OK, I guess that I can play this game too, Rob.
You are right, Rob, when you say that everything that you've said is complete garbage & everything that I've said is right on the mark. I appreciate it when you concede utter, unconditional defeat like this.
Psst, Robby, I never said that these numbers from the 911 Commission are wrong. They are not. I say that it is YOU, Rob who is utterly incompetent at doing trivial calculations. And I've proved that point over & over & over again.
QUOTE (rob balsamo @ Jan 9 2010, 04:53 PM)

Tom, this is about as juicy as when you put your foot in your mouth on rotation data, MEL's, AOA data that could "never show -15.6 deg" (yet that is exactly what it shows in the data and it seems you still dont even know why...lol), the list goes on.
Except for the teensy little point that that data was NOT AoA... And the additional little annoyance that none of these planes ever flew at all, much less level, at a -15° AoA. for your brain-dead assertion
QUOTE (rob balsamo @ Jan 9 2010, 04:53 PM)

Dont you ever tire of eating your shoe?
Munch away, Robby. Filet of sole a la Balsamo...
QUOTE (rob balsamo @ Jan 9 2010, 04:53 PM)

As for your new AOA analysis, It also wrong, idiot. Look up what Deck angle means. ACTUAL AOA and Pitch will be positive in normal cruise. But you wouldnt know this as you never get above perhaps 5000 feet with all of your what, 3 hours in a 172? Nor have you even reviewed the data which also proves you wrong. Furthermore, the decrease in AOA on climbout is due to increase in speed, not due to retraction of flaps/slats...
[blah, blah, usual Balsamo blah... ]
Wrong, Robby, And it's all there in the data.
It is NOT air speed, Rob. The speed is held a constant 155 -160 kts throughout this entire portion of the climb out. I guess I shouldn't expect failed ATP pilots to be able to look at the chart and notice that the airspeed is sitting there, & show to be constant.
This change in behavior HAD to be due to some change in configuration of the plane. I thought it would be slats. It wasn't. What is was was changing the configuration of the plane, not the wings.
It was the gear being raised.
So much for your "increased airspeed" crappola...
How's that shoe tasting, Rob...??
QUOTE (rob balsamo @ Jan 9 2010, 04:53 PM)

Tom, crawl back into your hole. lol.. too funny.
You're right, Rob. It HILARIOUS when an alleged ATP pilot can't do simple speed-time-distance calculations.
When he asserts that a overspeed 757 covers significantly less distance than an 80% power Cessna 172.
When he asserts that a plane doing giant loops in the sky covers the same distance as it would if it flew in a straight line.
And it is achingly hilarious when an alleged professional decides to do his lame excuse for an analysis based on a bunch of aviation amateurs known as lawyers & politicians.
Too funny for words...
Thanks for the laugh, Rob.
Tom