Paul Zarembka wrote:
All,
I ran into this new article by a pilot who is also an aeronautical
engineer. It is entitled "The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft
Without Training". I had read the print version and then found it on the
web at:
http://www.venusproject.com/ethics_in_action/911_Impossible_Flying_757.html
.
I couldn't comment on the relationship between theoretical Marxism and
9/11, except to say that when your society lives off the slave labor of
a goodly portion of the world's population, once in a while someone will
fly an airplane into one of your skyscrapers...
What I DO know:
When I was about 10 years old, my parents took me to visit a friend of
theirs in Kansas City Kansas who happened to be a flight instructor. He
took his daughter & I for a flight in a single engine Cessna. About 15
minutes into the flight, he asked me if I wanted to take the controls,
and after a wee bit of coaxing I did.
Flying an airplane once it's off the ground is easy... size doesn't
matter, assuming you have knowledge of where the controls are (...and a
757 has innumerably more that a cessna, but there are flight simulators
for Windows & Mac that show you the whole layout with realistic precision).
It's the takeoff and landing that requires a lot of practice... with the
landings being more difficult.
The only thing I've heard in regard to 9/11 was that the plane that hit
the Pentagon was SO close to the ground when it came in, that it snapped
the power lines on the other side of the parkway. That takes some
specialized skills, as a large aircraft is aerodynamically more like a
rock than an airplane when it is that close to the ground.... which is
also one of the reasons that landings are more problematic than takeoff.
Ask Northrop-Grumman, they train fighter pilots for the Saudis and other
nations in the Gulf.
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
