Title: Duh, Gee Chumley, a building collapse in NYC that doesn't resemble 911's Source:
- URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvZcU_l6wc Published:Jun 13, 2013 Author:- Post Date:2013-06-13 10:33:13 by Katniss Keywords:None Views:491 Comments:15
Sounds familiar ...
But it doesn't look familiar ... where are all the upward and outward explosive clouds in this one?
Ah well, just another day in emotional fantasyland for most of the nation.
Which didn't have a damned thing to do with the implosion of said buildings. They were designed to take a hit from a plane just about the size of those that hit them and the engineer who designed them said that the effect would be like poking a pencil through a screen door.
Twin Towers' Designers Anticipated Jet Impacts Like September 11th's
Structural engineers who designed the Twin Towers carried out studies in the mid-1960s to determine how the buildings would fare if hit by large jetliners. In all cases the studies concluded that the Towers would survive the impacts and fires caused by the jetliners.
Evidence of these studies includes interviews with and papers and press releases issued by engineers who designed and oversaw construction of the World Trade Center. LINK 1960s-era Jetliners Compared to Boeing 767s
Contrary to widely promoted misconceptions, the Boeing 767-200s used on 9/11/01 were only slightly larger than 707s and DC 8s, the types of jetliners whose impacts the World Trade Center's designers anticipated...
Frank A. Demartini, on-site construction manager for the World Trade Center, spoke of the resilience of the towers in an interview recorded on January 25, 2001.
The building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it. That was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door -- this intense grid -- and the jet plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting. It really does nothing to the screen netting.
Demartini, who had an office on the 88th floor of the North Tower, has been missing since the 9/11/01 attack, having remained in the North Tower to assist in the evacuation. 6 Demartini had first worked at World Trade Center when Leslie E. Robertson Associates hired him to assess damage from the truck bombing in 1993.