Plane takes up to half a second to travel its own length at ground speed -- enough for camera to show several full, clear images before explosion, Leonard asserts
Washington, DC, May 20th, 2006 (Progressive Press / Free-Press-Release.Com) Amid massive publicity, the government released a few more frames last week of footage allegedly showing the crash of a Boeing 757 at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
One point has not been made in the debate, says John Leonard, publisher of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, which he calls the most radical 9/11 critique in print.
The ground speed of the plane has been estimated at 250 to 350 miles per hour.
That equals 360 to 500 feet per second.
The Boeing 757 measures 155 feet.
For the plane to travel its own length, approximately the width of the field of vision in the video, would take 0.3 to 0.43 seconds. Anyone who has watched planes at an airport knows how slowly they pass.
Most cameras take 24 frames per second. So there should be 7 to 8 frames showing the plane approaching the building before it hits. Even at 600 mph there would be a couple frames before impact.
What does Leonard himself believe about the Pentagon? He says it was probably sleight of hand, the simple first trick any apprentice magician learns. A large plane may have approached the building in a diversionary maneuver, to fool the witnesses, then avoided it by flying over it -- the building is quite low -- while a cruise missile was tested against the specially reinforced structure. Such missiles may fly at around 1,800 mph near the surface, making them hard to see.
9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA proposes the thesis that 9/11 was an inside job by a war faction within the government, heirs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Lemnitzer, who signed off on the 1962 Operation Northwoods scheme to shoot down a plane and blame it on Cuba to fabricate a pretext to invade that country. The author Webster Griffin Tarpley, like Leonard, believes that there were no Arab hijackers; he says they were patsies or decoys who were framed to invent a pretext to invade Arab countries.
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