Following the CIA's video and the discussion on the net regarding how
a test with model aircraft would turn out, Net Eagle
went out and actually performed the experiment.
The test starts as the glider is hand launched. A device inside the model aircraft is counting down to
begin the release of the nose of the aircraft after a few seconds. The model aircraft looks
very much like a Boeing 747 in flight. The glider is in stable flight at this time.
I placed a green dot near a tree branch in the following pictures as a position
marker.
About two seconds later the nose has just separated from the main portion of the
fuselage. Notice how the rear portion of the aircraft has already dropped down
causing the wings and horizontal stabilizer to stall. At this point the aircraft
is no longer flying. The forward speed of the aircraft is rapidly dropping. The stalled
wings are no longer lifting the aircraft.
The nose (circled in red) continues forward with only a small loss in forward speed.
The rear portion of the aircraft's speed is almost zero and the tail end of the fuselage
has dropped down een further. This terrific deceleration is what broke the necks of
almost every victim on Flight 800. The rear portion of the model rose only about
one foot after nose separation.
The nose of the model aircraft is no longer in the picture. The remainder of the aircraft
is now falling tail first. There is no more forward speed. I made numerous tests, taping each test
and each test had the same results. The jet engines on Flight 800 must have flamed out
very soon after the nose separated. Flight 800 stopped flying the instant the nose
separated.
© 1998 by Richard Hirsch.
Richard's comments on the engine are accurate. With the loss of the nose, and the
severing of their control cables, the fuel flow to the engines would have gone back
to idle. IN addition, the sudden pitch up of the wing would have induced tremendous
gyroscopic loads on the compressors, triggering a catastrophic turbine failure.
The pylons on which the engines are mounted are designed to sheer off above a certain
loading to prevent damage to the wing, and the location of the engines in the
debris field strongly suggests that they separated from Flight 800 during
the loss of the nose and subsequent pitch-up.
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