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remote control 757

by 911-inside job
remote control 757

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48

Two of the aircraft exceeded their software limits on 9/11.

The Boeing 757 and 767 are equipped with fully autonomous flight capability,
they are the only two Boeing commuter aircraft capable of fully autonomous
flight. They can be programmed to take off, fly to a destination and land,
completely without a pilot at the controls.

They are intelligent planes, and have software limits pre set so that pilot
error cannot cause passenger injury. Though they are physically capable of
high g maneuvers, the software in their flight control systems prevents high
g maneuvers from being performed via the cockpit controls. They are limited
to approximately 1.5 g's, I repeat, one and one half g's. This is so that a
pilot mistake cannot end up breaking grandma's neck.

No matter what the pilot wants, he cannot override this feature.

The plane that hit the Pentagon approached or reached its actual physical
limits, military personnel have calculated that the Pentagon plane pulled
between five and seven g's in its final turn.

The same is true for the second aircraft to impact the WTC.

There is only one way this can happen.

As well as fully autonomous flight capability, the 767 and 757 are the ONLY
COMMUTER PLANES MADE BY BOEING THAT CAN BE FLOWN VIA REMOTE CONTROL. It is a
feature that is standard to all of them, all 757's and 767's can do it. The
purpose for this is if there is a problem with the pilots, Norad can fly the
planes to safe destinations via remote. Only in this flight mode can those
craft exceed their software limits and perform to their actual physical
limits because a pre existing emergency situation is assumed if this mode of
flight is used.

Terrorists in fact did not fly those planes, it is totally and completely
impossible for those planes to have been flown in such a manner from the
cockpit. Those are commuter aircraft, not F-16's and their software knows
it.

Another piece of critical evidence: the voice recorders came up blank.

The flight recorders that were recovered had tape that was undamaged inside,
but it was blank. There is only one way this can happen on a 757 or 767.
When the aircraft are commandeered via remote control, the microphones that
go to the cockpit voice recorder are re routed to the people doing the
remote controlling, so that the recording of what happened in the cockpit
gets made in a presumably safer place. But due to a glitch in the system on
a 757/767, rather than shutting off when the mic is redirected the voice
recorder keeps running. The voice recorders use what is called a continuous
loop tape, which automatically re passes itself past the erase and record
heads once every half hour, so after a half hour of running with the
microphones redirected, the tape will be blank. Just like the recovered
tapes were. Yet more proof that no pilot flew those planes in the last half
hour.

Eight of the hijackers who were on those planes called up complaining that
they were still alive. I'd bet you never heard about our foreign minister
flying to Morocco and issuing an official apology to the accused, did you?
No, terrorists did not fly those planes, plastic knives and box cutters were
in fact too ridiculous to be true. Any of the remaining accused have
certainly been sought out and killed by now.

Our information IS controlled

The cell phone calls from the aircraft could not have happened. I am a
National Security Agency trained Electronic Warfare specialist, and am
qualified to say this. My official title: MOS33Q10, Electronic Warfare
Intercept Strategic Signal Processing/Storage Systems Specialist, a highly
skilled MOS which requires advanced knowledge of many communications methods
and circuits to the most minute level. I am officially qualified to place
severe doubt that ordinary cell phone calls were ever made from the
aircraft.

It was impossible for that to have happened, especially in a rural area for
a number of reasons.

When you make a cell phone call, the first thing that happens is that your
cell phone needs to contact a transponder. Your cell phone has a max
transmit power of five watts, three watts is actually the norm. If an
aircraft is going five hundred miles an hour, your cell phone will not be
able to 1. Contact a tower, 2. Tell the tower who you are, and who your
provider is, 3. Tell the tower what mode it wants to communicate with, and
4. Establish that it is in a roaming area before it passes out of a five
watt range. This procedure, called an electronic handshake, takes
approximately 45 seconds for a cell phone to complete upon initial power up
in a roaming area because neither the cell phone or cell transponder knows
where that phone is and what mode it uses when it is turned on. At 500 miles
an hour, the aircraft will travel three times the range of a cell phone's
five watt transmitter before this handshaking can occur. Though it is
sometimes possible to connect during takeoff and landing, under the
situation that was claimed the calls were impossible. The calls from the
airplane were faked, no if's or buts.

I hope I made sense, if you have questions I will respond if possible. If I
do not respond, please research this out yourself, search the boeing site,
search the DARPA site, search were you have not searched before. Some of the
information is classified and leaked by individuals, and it is also being
scoured from the net. I have all of the original documents on my computer to
safeguard against this.

Please do not ignore this, because only Norad has the flight codes for those
aircraft, we did 911 to ourselves. Hitler had the Reichstag, we have 911. If
911 proves to not be enough to make the US citizenry set aside its rights
for safety, the people who did 911 most certainly have access to nuclear
material. 911 must be exposed for what it was before that material is used.
by /
Thank you for this excellent article and keep publishing on this website. This is a crucial issue.. I wish all the websites featured this issue, as does Portland Indymedia.
by TW
"The cell phone calls from the aircraft could not have happened."

This has been asserted many times by many authorities, including Prof. A.K. Dewdney of the University of Western Ontario, a respected scientist who confirmed his claim with experiments (something none of his detractors have ever done)

http://www.physics911.ca/Dewdney:_Project_Achilles

The US media lockdown on this subject is truly terrifying. I don't think even Stalin's and Hitler's media control was as effective at strangling an idea. The main problem is you just cannot get most Americans to understand how cheesy and childish their assumptions are

Dr. Dewdney has also investigated remote control and uncovered a few different **existing technologies** that may have been used

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/operation_pearl.htm

Carol Valentine's "Flight of the Bumble Planes," also linked in this article, is another excellent read

Screw the pod planes, screw the 'missiles into the Pentagon' malarkey, I think this is what really happened. The remote control hypothesis totally trashes the "too many would have to know" objection
by um
"who confirmed his claim with experiments (something none of his detractors have ever done)"

Cell phones can work in airplanes during flight but only if the plane is near a cell tower. Since airplanes fly over many unpopulated areas an "experiment" may show that it doesnt work but that is equivalent to trying to use a cell phone in a car while driving through Death Valley and concluding that cell phones never work in cars. The height of an airplane probably improves rather than hinders reception since nothing is in the way (the distance hurts things a bit but cell towers have to be strong enough to work through buildings and trees so.... )

as a note

"Using cell phones aloft on commercial and private aircraft is banned not by the FAA but by the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates telephone use. In prohibiting airborne use in 1991, the FCC was mainly concerned about cell phones' potential to interfere with ground-to-ground cellular transmission.

The FAA has never outlawed cell-phone use in airplanes. But the agency supports the FCC ban "for reasons of potential interference," according to an FAA advisory. Despite the findings of the 1996 RTCA study, the FAA remains concerned about anecdotal evidence of cell-phone interference in flight records, says an FAA spokeswoman.

The FAA isn't the only party still concerned. Boeing continues to advise airlines against cell-phone use in the sky. That's because the electrical charge from the batteries in most handsets exceeds the plane maker's standards. Although Boeing's tests have never shown this to be a problem, in theory the electricity emanating from the device could create interference with airplane systems. "

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-501431.html?legacy=zdnn

"Although many airplanes have public "air phones," passengers flinch at the fee of $6 per minute. (Airlines get a cut of the profits, which casts suspicion on why airlines want to keep cell phones turned off in the air.) Despite government regulation, or perhaps because of it, chatting above the clouds on a cell phone has proved irresistible for some. I've seen passengers hunkered in their seats, whispering into Nokias. I've watched frequent fliers scurry for a carry-on as muffled ringing emanates from within. Once, after the lavatory line grew to an unreasonable length, I knocked on the door. A guilt- ridden teenager emerged. She admitted that she'd been in there for half an hour, talking to her boyfriend on a cell phone.

These violators on U.S. airlines face harsh words and a fine. But cell-phone scofflaws on foreign airlines can face more serious consequences. In 1999, oil worker Neil Whitehouse refused to switch off his mobile phone on a British Airways flight. When a cabin attendant advised him to turn off the unit because it could interfere with navigation systems, Whitehouse replied, "Why? Are we going to get lost?" The captain arrived and told Whitehouse to hand over his phone. He refused. The 28-year-old was arrested upon landing and later sentenced to one year in prison. Last February, cell-phone abusers received yet another warning. This time it came from Saudi Arabia. Despite orders from the cabin crew to turn off his cell phone before takeoff, a Saudi passenger continued to chat away."

http://www.caa.co.za/Public/Air%20Rage/docs/cellp0622-01.html



Aside from being in an area with no reception why would a cell phone not work in an in flight test in some cases but not others:

" First one is the visibility of many cellular networks from the air, usually a phone can't register because the airplane moves quickly between the networks. The second problem is more obvious. At a great height phones have a maximum power or they don't see a cellular network. One of possible limits is a limited number of phones working aboard simultaneously (only 10-15 passengers)."
http://www.mobile-review.com/articles/2002/plane-en.shtml

In rural areas with fewer towers the cell size is larger so the speed issues wouldnt matter whereas near an urban center it might (ie a test over Chicago with one phone with a dense number of towers bellow the plane will be different from a test with the same phone in a rural are near a tower which will be different from a rural area away from a tower)






by TW
...it doesn't really resolve the question: could flight 77's passengers possibly have communicated via cell phone? Your info doesn't say "yes, they definitely could," while Dewdney's experimental results still give reason to wonder. A better experimental design would be to reproduce the conditions of flight 77 as exactly as possible. My hunch is that a cell signal will have a weaker effective signal from an airliner as compared to a light plane, given the far larger proportion of window area in a light plane and the fact that metal is much more radio-opaque than glass or plastics
It's not hard to comprehend- unless you have an ideologically predetermined conclusion which you're determined to protect from the touch of evidence.

Here's how it works: if the hypothesis to be tested is "you can't make cell phone calls from an airliner", which is the gist of the conspiracists' efforts to pooh-pooh the calls made by passengers on the hijacked planes, and an experiment- even an impormtu one like the incidents cited in the caa.co.za article- demonstrates that a connection can be made, then the hypothesis is *falsified*. Period. Finito. For the blanket statement that these calls were "impossible", it's curtains.

I've been earning a living by troubleshooting professional audio equpment for nigh on twenty years now, and I've had my face rubbed in the slaying of a seductive hypothesis by an ugly demonstration too many times to count. If the observed symptoms lead me to suspect that a particular component- say a chip- is the cause of the problem, and I replace it with no effect on the problem, my hypothesis, no matter how well-supported it seemed up until then, is *proven false*. There's no good arguing about it, I've just got to buckle down and think of other possibilities which conform to the available data and are testable.

There are some other warning signs of woo-wooism in the OP. One is the anonymous claim of expertise; a claim which is utterly unverifiable. Appeal to anonymous authority is every bit as invalid as appeal to no authority at all. Besides the impossibility of testing the author's claim, there's no reason to believe that a specialization in electronic warfare, which has historically been concerned with the interception of and interference with an enemy's signals and the protection of one's own from interception and inteference, implies expertise in the workings of aircraft control systems or the kind of specific product knowledge necessary to support a claim of the B767 being remotely controllable.

I'm a genuine expert on the inner workings of the SSL 9000K recording console. That doesn't qualify me to make expert pronouncements about the workings of something like a digital video switcher, although the general electronics knowledge involved in the former provides a headstart in learning about the latter, should I care to do so.

Appeal to inappropriate authority is as much a fallacy as appeal to anonymous authority, and on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Finally, the author appears to be confusing Airbus' design philosophy, which has encompassed true fly-by-wire systems in which the automatic controls are intended to overrule the pilot in circumstances where the designers think it appropriate, with Boeing's, which didn't produce a fly-by-wire airplane until the B777 and generally amounted to "we'll let the pilot do what he wants, but blare alarms at him if he does something risky".
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