skyeagle409, on 03 May 2011 - 02:39 AM, said:
Since the BGR has been in operation for decades with thousands of sorties flown each year, and added flare drops, note where they said they didn't know what the lights were. Keywords to understand from those who have lived in the Phoenix area for many years.
I pass the through Phoenix again, this time in the afternoon where I observed the mountains from the airport. So once again, I will reiterate that the lights were nowhere near the BGR, but much closer to Phoenix.
So once again, you have nothing to offer in this post beyond blathering nonsense. I do hope that you had a good trip to Phoenix though.
skyeagle409, on 03 May 2011 - 02:48 AM, said:
Once again, do some distance measurements between those two furthermost lights as if there were 50 miles away, and estimate the distance between those two lights. We can then try to calculate how fast an aircraft would need to go in order to fly at such distance to deploy the flares between those two turthermost lights in the time frame as shown in the video.
What it is, those are not flares. You can break up the photos, but that isn't going to change anything because they were not flares. The Air Force made up that story of flares just as it made up the weather balloon story tof a balloon that never was.
The old saying goes: Those who failed to learn from history, are doomed to relive it, and here is just another prime example where the Air Force sought to deceive the public and there were those who took the bait, and that, after initially denying any involvement.
Once again, the measurements have been done. The speed has been calculated. And you don't have a chicken leg to stand on.
I've corroborated the speed calculations done by LS and Peri, by the way. I haven't posted it, but by my initial calculations they are correct. I'll need to recalc after re-triangulating the four videos (yes, 4, not 3).
I'll post the whole bit after I'm done with what I'm working on. That could be a while though (probably quite a while because I keep getting distracted and it is time consuming work in the first place). Even so, I thought I'd let you know that they are in the right ballpark.
This is the range of speeds I initially came up with (this was based on my first triangulation, which I already know was incorrect, but definitely in the range of acceptable margin of error for horseshoes and hand-grenades)...
After placing flares 3 thru 8, they appear to be separated by roughly .5 and .6 miles. They also appear to be dropped roughly every 8 seconds.
5280 feet in a mile
0.5 mile = 2640 feet / 8 seconds = ~330ft per second = 225 MPH = 195.52 Knots
0.6 mile = 3168 feet / 8 seconds = ~396ft per second = 270 MPH = 234.62 Knots
I was also working on confirming from R's video, and accurately calculating rate of ascent, which would be easier from R's perspective because flares 4 and 9 appeared to have been dropped on a nearly perpendicular plane from his point of view. But it was around that point that I realized that I had my triangulation off by a bit.
With a more precise triangulation I expect that I'll be able to derive a more precise flight speed and path. For now though, I'd say they were definitely flying somewhere between 200 and 300 MPH, for ballpark estimations. I'd aim a bit on the higher end of that scale personally, around 250 - 270 MPH, but time will tell I guess.
And work.
skyeagle409, on 03 May 2011 - 02:52 AM, said:
Since that Chicago photo is under a copywrite, I cannot show the comparison here, but, anyone can do their own comparison on your own computer.
I can't say that I'm surprised that you are unable to show your work. Of course, you probably didn't actually do any work on this that is producible. Why? Because it is most likely all in your head. And it isn't really work. It is just imagination...