Looking at the descent of the second plane hitting the second tower makes me wonder how even an ace pilot could pull off such an maneuver yet most of these so called hijackers had problems flying a silly cessna . Man those terrorist's are great and lucky pilots.







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucT4-Q2gd9A

It takes miles to turn around... SAFELY... without having passengers possibly being thrown out of their seats.

The hijackers didn't care about that. There was a specific target - and they didn't really have to worry about precision - the buildings were big... easy to hit.

Ah! This is a job for Pilot Man!
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Even large aircraft can have an extremely tight turn radius. An airplane turns using not just the rudder but, also it's ailerons. Not to mention the weight to thrust ratio of those birds. You can almost stand one on its tail in a turn with low fuel and high thrust. Add to that, when you are up there you can literally see for dozens of miles. Also, fighter pilot like skills are not required to do what they did. All the "pilot" really had to do that day is locate the target and make incrementally small corrections as he closed on it.

Years ago, when they were still in the testing phase for the Bowing 747, one of the test pilots bet another test pilot that it could do a vertical loop. It turns out that if you don't have much fuel in the tanks, you in fact can loop the aluminum cloud. (With full tanks, it would snap the wingss off of it). It's still dangerous, and it's stupid to do it but, the guy got a free steak dinner out of it.

Don't be fooled by their size. Large planes, like the 727's that hit the WTC, ARE in fact very manuverable in the air. The rudder on a 747, for instance, is roughly the size of the roof on a single wide mobile home! They are not capable of the acrobatics of smaller planes like a Pitt or a cropduster but, they can change heading in a hurry when they have to.

And yet as we know, the did.

imo a 10 yr old could have steered the plane into those buildings with minimal instruction
flying isn't hard

take off, landing, calculating the weights... that stuff is more difficult but once in the air a kid could do what they did

That's right. It relly isn't hard to steer a plane in the air. Some even have. Driving a plane through the sky isn't that difficult, actually piloting it, well, that's not all that hard either but, you have to get a little training at least.

The hardest physical aspect of flying for most people to learn to do is land. Of course, these guys really didn't plan on thta anyway.

Just for educational purposes, go to the local airport where you live and see if they offer flying lessons. Tell the instructor that you just want to see how hard it really is. Some will take you up for the cost of fuel, some might take you up for free. You'll find out irst hand that there really isn't as much to it as people tend to think that there is.