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contrarian
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The flight was 3 hours late leaving by Kennedy's own choice. He then chose to fly over open water instead of spending an extra 5 minutes flying along the coast and having lights from towns etc. Kennedy had very limited experience and NO instrument training at all.
He didn't even file a flight plan.
The problem is when you fly over water, in hazy weather at dusk is that there is no horizon, no reference that you are flying level. Spatial perception is lost. It seems to have taken about three minutes for him to lose visual reference with the horizon, go into a climb, stall the air over the wing and then enter a spin and crash. |
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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: Another JFK Conspiracy Connection |
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regicide:
Are you familiar with the murder, or rather hit job on one of JFK's longtime lovers, Mary Pinchot Meyer, in October, 1964. IF not, or if you haven't read this story, here's the weblink:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmeyerM.htm
Pay particular attention to the last part of the article and the comments by her spouse, who was in the CIA. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| contrarian wrote: |
The flight was 3 hours late leaving by Kennedy's own choice. He then chose to fly over open water instead of spending an extra 5 minutes flying along the coast and having lights from towns etc. Kennedy had very limited experience and NO instrument training at all.
He didn't even file a flight plan.
The problem is when you fly over water, in hazy weather at dusk is that there is no horizon, no reference that you are flying level. Spatial perception is lost. It seems to have taken about three minutes for him to lose visual reference with the horizon, go into a climb, stall the air over the wing and then enter a spin and crash. |
Happens to even experienced pilots, let alone lots of inexperienced ones. Also why helicopters tend to slam into the sides of mountains during the day.
There are instruments to check if you are level, but you have to keep looking at them....and if you're only VFR rated (visual flight reference--outside--not the cockpit!) you have close to zero experience flying by instruments only (IFR) and wouldn't know if you're flying up your own back passage anyways.
Girl who fly upside down have crack up 
Female pilot to co-pilot: "Honey this isn't the cockpit, it's the box office!"
By the way, I'm unstickifying this to make way for an election sticky. |
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Jandar
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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