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Empire State Building Sustained Crash (Plane hit Empire State Building)
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| 10/11/06
| ABC News
Posted on 10/11/2006 1:24:35 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: UNGN
A fully loaded B-52 hitting the empire state building, brings it down. Really? I always thought that the B-52 was based (loosely,at least) on the 707...which is substantially smaller and lighter than the 767.
Granted if it has a full compliment of ordnance...that detonates upon/after impact you've got a different story.
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posted on
10/11/2006 1:46:45 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
To: Wuli
Don't know how much credit to give this, but Neil Cavuto just stated twice that he heard the pilot might have been Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle.
No flames please, just reporting what I just heard on his show while he was interviewing Charlie Rangle.
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posted on
10/11/2006 1:47:21 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
It's also interesting that the article is dated today, October 11th, but the text heading says September 11. Kind of spooky.
To: CaptRon
Thats the story breaking all over. He was 34
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posted on
10/11/2006 1:53:14 PM PDT
by
winodog
To: UNGN
A B-25 is small and light in comparisonBut a whole carrier of B-25s can do a lot of damage...to the psyche of the enemy at least!
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:07:24 PM PDT
by
Lekker 1
(("...the world will be...eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" -- K. Watt, Earth Day, 1970)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
ABC cannot even get this one right. The last time a plane crashed into a New York City skyscraper was September 11, 2001.
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I was wondering when someone was going to point this out.
If the Drive-by Media had its way - down the memory hole.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:18:00 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: Cheburashka
To: Zuben Elgenubi
We remember - ABC tries its best not to.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:22:02 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: Lekker 1
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:26:26 PM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: Zuben Elgenubi; Rb ver. 2.0
Is this from today? The date says September 11 and I'm not even sure that's 9/11 of this year.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:35:48 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Gay State Conservative
NO! The B-52 is is not even remotely like a 707.
Also a B-25 is MUCH smaller than a 707, 767, OR B-52
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:39:23 PM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: Mr. Mojo
Could it be due to less fuel in that plane?
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:42:15 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: Gay State Conservative
Really? I always thought that the B-52 was based (loosely,at least) on the 707...which is substantially smaller and lighter than the 767. Granted if it has a full compliment of ordnance...that detonates upon/after impact you've got a different story.
Take off weight of a B-52 is 480,000 lbs
Take off weight of a B-25 is 35,000 lbs.
You can do the math.
Take off weight of a 767 is only about 400,000 lbs.
You do not want to be in a building hit by a B-52
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:47:55 PM PDT
by
UNGN
(I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
To: Mr. Mojo
They sure don't build 'em like they used to... The World Trade Centers could, almost certainly, have sustained a collision comparable to the ESB one with minimal damage.
The jets which hit the World Trade Centers were several times heavier than a B-25, with proportionately larger fuel tanks, which were nearly full (instead of nearly empty), and were traveling much faster when they hit. The net effect of all this is that each of the jets had to dissipate about 2 orders of magnitude more energy (both kinetic and potential) than was the case with the B-25.
Think of the difference between a motorcycle, with a nearly empty fuel tank, hitting a house, at 30 mph, then imagine a truck, with a nearly full fuel tank, hitting the same house, at 60 mph, and you will get an idea of the difference.
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posted on
10/11/2006 3:14:37 PM PDT
by
3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
This is a spoof site. Look at the url :
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92525&page=1
abcnews.GO.COM ??
And look at the opening of the story, "Sept. 11 The last time a plane crashed into a New York City skyscraper was July 28, 1945."
Granted the date at the top of the article is 10/11/2006 but the rest is a dead giveaway........
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posted on
10/11/2006 7:39:20 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: festus
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posted on
10/11/2006 8:01:00 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: jiggyboy
I stand corrected.
Well its official then. They are dumber then dirt in the newsroom over there........
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posted on
10/11/2006 8:34:24 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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