From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Mon Feb 15 1999 - 21:56:25 MST
At 02:45 PM 2/16/99 +1100, you wrote:
>> the CIA proclaims that FLT800 fell from the apex of a
>> dramatic climb (and thus from rest)
>
>Even if it is no longer climbing, that does not mean at rest. It has
>considerable forward momentum: that was, and is, what generates the lift
>to get to that apex.
IAN: It's basic physics that when you throw a ball
up and it reaches its apex, it is there at zero mph.
Momentum and velocity are at zero at the apex. The
noseless airframe would have expended it's forward
momentum long before it even reached its peak, much
less have kept it thereafter. The mathematical analysis
of aerodynamics engineer Edward Zehr is agreed on by
all on that matter, which is, the rate that it would
stall, which both his static and dynamic flight models
prove is within 5 seconds after the forward section
broke away, which voids the 3,200 foot climb to 17,000.
Ed Zerh's math: http://www.angelfire.com/hi/TWA800/#zehr
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