Uh huh. A priori reasoning doesn't have anything to do with physical reality:
Posted on 11/13/2010 2:55:59 PM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009
You went through all that to point out a simple typo, as a means or defense to support your own opinion?
wow...
lol
The flight has now been narrowed down to one of two likely candidates... To take a look at the filght path data -- in 3-D -- go to this long page of photos and graphics. (Be sure to look all the way down the page to get the flight path graphics.
Nicely done! ‘-)
That puts it to bed, doesn’t it? It was an inbound airplane from the Pacific, not an outbound missile.
Now, Yaelle actually lives here, in the LA-Orange County area. I actually live here, as well. Unless NAH commutes every day to LA/centralOC area (south OC is pretty far-flung from LAX), NAH doesn't regularly see LA area's airspace any more than Yaelle and I see San Diego's airspace.
Remember, this one was an MD-11 too. 3 Engines that are much closer together overall then spread out across winds. Trijets and MD-80’s tend to look like having 1 big output from that.
Sheesh! "Just because I'm ignorant, the facts must not exist." Great logic.
proving my point
look how thin it is next to the jet exhaust
then, look at it MILES back, it is much wider but CLEARLY distinctive of each engine!!
I been around planes many years, grew up near an airport, worked in aviation in the Marines and for 11 years afterwards and am back in aviation now, so, try someone else to convince
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Some people can’t get their heads around the seeming appearance of a single contrail. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but this particular aircraft has three engines which are grouped relatively close to the body, so their separate contrails might appear as one, especially from 35,000 feet. That’s another thing. Some people here are perplexed at the absence of more contrails in the sky over LAX. We have to remember, this flight was overflying LAX on it’s way to PHX, at approx. 35,000 feet....cold as hell....conducive for big time steam making if you will. Practically all other commercial aircraft were coming in or out of various LA airports....low level...warm temps.....little contrail making opportunities.
But it still was an aircraft in level flight (following the curvature of the earth) flying TOWARD the camera.
That is the 800 lb. gorilla in the room.
National security are you kidding?
What national security?
Bush's Homeland Security Chief Chertoff, was found to have people wandering around the inside of his private residence that were in the country illegally.
During war time
Ya can't make this stuff up.
In fact, during the Bush war years, we had tens of millions from God knows where enter this country, while Bush celebrated Cinco De Mayo up in the White House...All this during war time!
Oh man...This is too good... Hey Tex, how do ya spell appropriate?
lol....
I hear you. :)
Lay people with brains and decades of first-hand sightings of missile launchs as well as airplane contrails, non-lay aviation and missile professionals with brains, and people who are close to them, generally (with some exceptions) look at the video -- not still photos, which tell you very little, but actual moving video -- and conclude that it was, indeed, a missile launch.
The cameraman who shot the video is either deliberately perpetrating a hoax AND lying outright in his description of the event, OR he is a blithering moron if he, after 11 years of filming LA skies via helicopter and using very high-quality lenses to see what he's looking at, cannot tell a commercial airliner contrail from a missile launch.
Frankly, that a guy like the camerman couldn't tell the difference is a hell of a lot more far-fetched than the missile shot scenario. Less far-fetched is the possibility that he's lying and deliberately manipulated the video to look like a missile shot.
Either way, we have seen arrogance on high display here among people who assume an immense amount of stupidity and ineptness on the part of pretty qualified folks who openly state their opinion that the video showed a missile launch.
Thank God LAX only gets one Pacific flight per hour.
The vapor trail is HUGE. Thanks for your input.
Which brings to mind motives.
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