Well apparently they think we are that stupid. I remember seeing the first pictures of it and knew, without being an aeronautical engineer, that it could not have come in at ground level, you know because of physics and stuff. However, aside from myself and husband, no one I know even questioned it, or exactly how it made such a nice neat hole with no airplane debris scattered around.
I think about it from an aerodynamics perspective. Think about the effect the plane would have on the air just above the ground. You have a plane coming down that would pancake that air, which would actually push the plane upward (if the pilot were truly trying to keep flat as opposed to diving). It creates an oscillating effect on the plane and would make it very hard to control.
You can even replicate this with your hand if you have a source of very fast moving air like a compressor hose pointed along a wall. If you semi-quickly approach your hand to the wall, but don't try to actually hit the wall, like the pilot not trying to hit the ground, you'll actually feel your hand press against the air and then your hand will lift off the wall for a moment.
Well apparently they think we are that stupid. I remember seeing the first pictures of it and knew, without being an aeronautical engineer, that it could not have come in at ground level, you know because of physics and stuff. However, aside from myself and husband, no one I know even questioned it, or exactly how it made such a nice neat hole with no airplane debris scattered around.
I think about it from an aerodynamics perspective. Think about the effect the plane would have on the air just above the ground. You have a plane coming down that would pancake that air, which would actually push the plane upward (if the pilot were truly trying to keep flat as opposed to diving). It creates an oscillating effect on the plane and would make it very hard to control.
You can even replicate this with your hand if you have a source of very fast moving air like a compressor hose pointed along a wall. If you semi-quickly approach your hand to the wall, but don't try to actually hit the wall, like the pilot not trying to hit the ground, you'll actually feel your hand press against the air and then your hand will lift off the wall for a moment.