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Not Sure Donating Member (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-11-06 11:43 PM
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Where does this piece fit (AA 77)?
I decided to browse the September 11 forum today and read a few of the topics, which meant I clicked link after link and wound up here, posting this.

I live near DFW airport, headquarters of American Airlines, so I've seen AA jets as long as I can remember. I'm also a bit of an aviation nut, so when I saw this photo on the 9-11 Research site, something about it caught my eye:

http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/photos/hullpiece.html

Which red areas on an American 757 have white pinstriping around them? The striping on the sides are equal width red, white and blue bands. The lettering is the only type of marking I can find with this feature. The red with white pinstriping area appears to be curved in relation to the rivet line to the right of the outer edge of the white pinstriping, in relation to the rivet line to the right of that, and in relation to the shorn edge (presumably along a similar rivet line) to the left of the inside edge of the white pinstriping. Photos I've looked at on airliners.net of the nose of other AA 757s do not resemble the figure painted on this piece of debris, not to mention the pinstripe, so that can't be it. Which letters have curved surfaces? "m" "e" "r" "c" "a" and "n". Of these letters, which are painted on a gray painted background? None that I can find. I can only find these curved letters applied to the polished aluminum finish of the fuselage. The large "AA" on the tail has a light gray background, but those letters aren't curved. And I can't imagine how a polished aluminum finish could appear as gray paint in this photo, since there would surely be some amount of reflection of the sky, grass, etc. rather than the even, dirty, satin finish I see.

So, if this piece of debris fits on an American Airlines 757, where exactly does it fit? I don't have anywhere near enough time to spend the next several days at the computer trying to answer this, so I'm hoping someone else can. Surely, someone has noticed this before or I'm missing something obvious (which wouldn't surprise me).
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sgsmith Donating Member (305 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 06:08 AM
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1. Lettering on fuselage
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 06:27 AM
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2. The paint job is different
On the AA 757's I've looked at, where the word AMERICAN is painted on the plane is usually surrounding by very shiny metalic silver, not this duller whiter silver color in the Pentagon pic. Nor are there any windows or other openings cut into that part of the plane.







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KJF Donating Member (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 06:55 AM
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3. The best site for the Pentagon is
www.pentagonresearch.com

You can find the thing you're looking for here (I hope):
http://www.pentagonresearch.com/080.html
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Not Sure Donating Member (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 12:12 PM
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4. Yes, that link points to this piece
but I do not see how the gray paint on the debris and the polished aluminum of all the 757s I can find are a match for each other.
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Nozebro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 01:27 PM
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5. That's because they aren't. The piece on the Pentalawn was planted.

Remember the photograph of those gentleman in the white shirts? They were most likely F.B.I. agents or military intelligence agents walking around out there for the purpose of hiding Easter eggs and planting those pitiful few pieces of airplane parts that would be later cited as proof of the impossible (a huge 757 created a hole in the Pentagon that is smaller than some birds I've seen.
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