TM7,
I have given thought to opening my own building and high rise demo service but the prohibitive cost of flying 757s into the buildings leads me to have doubts about the profit potential for such an enterprise. Not to mention the difficulty in finding pilots that have the flying skills needed to hit the exact floors in which my Israeli contractors have rigged explosives.
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About two years after the event, I heard a talk radio interview of a retired airline pilot who, along with a dozen or so others, according to him, with similar experience; Viet Nam era military freight pilots, C130s, and thousands of hours of flight time- attempted to duplicate the events of 9-11 on a flight simulator.
He described how aircraft of this size don't handle like a Porsche 911, but more like a boat.
He claimed that they used the same air speeds given by the commission (omission) with the same approach and obstacle/building layout as with New York City. The end result was that not one of these veteran career professional pilots was able to do it under manual controls one time or in 100 attempts.
He went on to say that the only way that such a precise aeronautical feat could be performed at the speeds given was with the flight computer and that none of the people that were said to be involved could have possibly had the know how or ability to program the flight computer without specific codes that could only be provided through inside sources at a level untouchable by them.
He and his peers were of the opinion that to do this not just once, but twice would have been more challenging than what NASA pulled off with the moon landing- like flying through the eye of a needle.
It was just something I heard flipping through stations. Never known any airline pilots personally so I've never followed up on this. I do have an airline stewardess ex with whom I am on friendly terms. Never occurred to me until now to hit her up and see what she can get out of one of the pilots.
