With a large passenger jet It would be a very difficult target to hit (more difficult than a tall tower) unless you were a very experienced pilot and had the benefit of a long approach. You won't get much of an approach flying at low altitude so you would need to be "lined up" at around a minimum of 2500 feet I would think. A runway is narrow but its long and pilots do not always land near the start of it. Sometimes touching down quarter of the distance in (and thats with a nice gradual decent, lined up several miles out)
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With a large passenger jet It would be a very difficult target to hit (more difficult than a tall tower) unless you were a very experienced pilot and had the benefit of a long approach. You won't get much of an approach flying at low altitude so you would need to be "lined up" at around a minimum of 2500 feet I would think. A runway is narrow but its long and pilots do not always land near the start of it. Sometimes touching down quarter of the distance in (and thats with a nice gradual decent, lined up several miles out)
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Well, yes, but you're talking about normal, 'safe' flying, with an angle of approach of only a few degrees. The sort of people we're talking about are capable of adopting a 'near-vertical' 'descent' (as high an angle consistent with retaining some control) from a high altitude, in which case I imagine that it would be much easier to hit a ground target.
Kind regards, John.
Don't forget that most airliners use GPS for navigation, so it would be no great difficulty to enter the latitude & longitude of the target into the flight management system!
Which will be one of these bits of kit!
Flight deck of an Airbus 380
Which will be one of these bits of kit!
Flight deck of an Airbus 380
Yup, and alien abduction also happens. They all live clinging to the underside of the world, which really is flat, a fact kept from us by a world-wide conspiracy of every government.
But don't worry, skenk - as long as you wear your tinfoil hat you'll be safe.
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True, but I would be inclined to factor the following into that:
- The pilot on this specific mission would probably not be type rated for the specific aircraft. Would need to try become familiar with it in flight on the mission.
- The pilot would need to disengage many safety features, the procedure for which he may not be familiar with (even some type rated pilots are not familiar with)
- Not all safety attitude compensating devices can be disabled, the pilot would need to fight against them.
- Compensating for cross winds while dive bombing a a wide body aircraft would probably take a huge amount of practice. At low altitude the target would be bobbing around quite a bit.
Non of this is impossible of course but I would put money on odds no better than 50/50.
I'm not sure that the auto navigational system will allow anyone to plug in an arbitrary ground target. These systems contain all sorts of protocol to compensate for human error. For example if you made a sharp left or sharp right turn the system (depending where you are) may "help you" place the aircraft into a holding pattern for a nearby airport. Again, you can probably override such features if familiar with the specific systems.
Of course we all know from 10 years ago that it is not impossible but I suspect that lately is has been made a lot more difficult.
Do read the thread. I posted that link a week ago.
So - does anybody make an overvoltage detector which I could put at the origin of my installation to cut the supply if L-N rose to more than, say, 260V?
Goodness knows (I imagine probably Yes) - but if you wanted to, the BAS Manufacturering Division could probably produce one, based on an RCD, some zener diodes, a resistor and a bit of experimentation!
Kind Regards, John.
From yesterday's incident, it seems that he survived. Though he did manage to cause 2 x 400A fuses to blow at the substation 100m away!
Quite possibly - but you could always make one depending on how adventurous you are
I'm sure there will be a number of commercial items that would protect lover loads, couple one to a contactor and there you go!
Of course you will need to fit a main switch and the contactor on the outgoing meter tails!
Did you really intend to write that (without adding a winking smiley)?
Kind Regards, John
Ah, I thought it looked familiarDo read the thread. I posted that link a week ago.
Nice of you to point it out though
My mistake, apologies. The paper only proves the existence of unreacted thermitic expolsives, as well as the products of an explosive thermitic reaction (iron mircospheres) in all known tested samples of 9/1 dust.
http://tinyurl.com/3e5nsuz
There is a vast amount of genuine evidence though which has been thoroughly assessed by independent scientists, architects, engineers and scholars which supports the controlled demolition hypothesis. By contrast the official explanations don't stand up to high-school-level scrutiny.
Clearly the world is not flat, just as clearly as steel cannot be melted by unpressurised hydrocarbon fires (1) and 47-storey steel-and-concrete skyscrapers cannot come down in perfect symmetry at free-fall acceleration because of fire (2) so please leave your wacky conspiracy theories to the side and concentrate on the actual facts and evidence.
(1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-J60B4kOq0&feature=related
(2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDvNS9iMjzA
For anyone unaware of the third skyscraper which collapsed that day (and was not hit by an aeroplane): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv7BImVvEyk
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