[duxford]

F-4 vs. Concrete Wall
I received this from a friend. Despite its age, many of you may never have seen this. Good luck:

The passenger jets that hit the WTC towers and Pentagon were doing over 500 mph!!! Watch this video: An F-4 phantom jet VS. A solid, reinforced concrete wall, at 500 mph. When you view this video, you'll see what actually happens to an airplane when it hits a concrete wall.


Many of you may have seen the web site that asks the question; "If it's true that a Boeing airliner hit the Pentagon, what happened to all the parts of it? Why'd we only find very few pieces of the aircraft? Where did all the mass of that entire 737 GO? Well, for those of you who question what happened to "all the mass of that airplane ", watch this clip.

It's an Air Force engineering test:
A section of a concrete barrier that was to surround a nuclear reactor dome, to test if it would indeed survive an aerial attack. With the high speed cameras rolling, they attached an F- 4 Phantom to a sled on a tract, and then accelerated the jets speed up to 500 mph. And, what happens when a 'seemingly unstoppable force', meets a "Stationary, Immovable Object?" Now, in slow motion, an F-4 collides with a wall.) I bet you'll play it more than once just to believe it. Where do all the 'flying parts' go? The fact is, the entire plane is instantly atomized. The only parts that were even remotely recognizable , were the very tips of the jet wings, that barely cleared the edge of the concrete structure. That's why NO pieces larger than 3 centimeters were located at the Pentagon, or the World Trade Center Towers . And, because nothing in the planes paths were 'indestructible or immovable,' everything hit directly by the planes was immediately vaporized.

[no4mkit]

Good one Duxford. I have some conspiracy nuts who need to see this.....

[duxford]

My son, now an LTC, back from a second tour in Afghanistan, works in the Pentagon. His boss was at a meeting at the time of the crash. EXCEPT, he was sent to get another report for the meeting--and thereby was spared. The AG general was killed, along with some other 180 or so military and civilian employees.

The memorial was opened on 9/11/2008.

I have been in my son's office, in his boss's office--and the boss has a few display cases with remnants of his old office (destroyed) and some pieces of the plane (nuts and a few bolts). Not much else.

I have been to the beautiful chapel which now looks out onto the memorial park. I have never seen any memorial like it. Beautiful--and a place for true reflection.

Dux

[STARMAN 352ND]

I have seen that F4 crash test before...Something else isn't it.
One minute it's there and the next gone....Except for the wing tips...
JP

[rdenham]

One of my AFROTC buddies was in a near by parking lot when the plane hit the Pentagon he saw everything and gave me a chilling account not long after 9-11-08.

[11SQNLDR]

Originally Posted by duxford

My son, now an LTC, back from a second tour in Afghanistan, works in the Pentagon. His boss was at a meeting at the time of the crash. EXCEPT, he was sent to get another report for the meeting--and thereby was spared. The AG general was killed, along with some other 180 or so military and civilian employees.

The memorial was opened on 9/11/2008.

I have been in my son's office, in his boss's office--and the boss has a few display cases with remnants of his old office (destroyed) and some pieces of the plane (nuts and a few bolts). Not much else.

I have been to the beautiful chapel which now looks out onto the memorial park. I have never seen any memorial like it. Beautiful--and a place for true reflection.

Dux

I too visited the chapel as part of my tour of the Pentagon several weeks ago - a very special place as you you say Duxford. I signed the visitors book and noticed the construction going on outside the window & i'm pleased to hear that work was completed for the 7th anniversary commemorations. It seemed quite surreal to be standing on the actual "ground zero" of the Pentagon. I noted that the most senior ranking person killed that day was a 3 star LTG.