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Uriel999
10-05-2009, 05:36 PM
http://www.infowars.com/missile-narrowly-misses-continental-airlines-flight-in-texas/

WTF?!!
Uriel999
10-05-2009, 05:37 PM
BTW the link may be infowars but the video is FOX.
ForLiberty-RonPaul
10-05-2009, 05:43 PM
the hiring standards for the false flag cia guys seem to be dropping
Austrian Econ Disciple
10-05-2009, 05:46 PM
Aye. NORAD would know about this...You think if a missle was really fired that they would keep sending up planes and they wouldn't be grounded? Please. Something smells fishy...most likely it's a false report. Can we get the black box recording also? I'm also wondering how a missle would miss something so easily hit....NOT ONLY that, missles are fucking loud when launched, even Stingers.
ForLiberty-RonPaul
10-05-2009, 05:50 PM
Liberty county is not exactly densely populated. so loud noises probably get ignored.
Reason
10-05-2009, 06:48 PM
hmmm
Anti Federalist
10-05-2009, 06:48 PM
This is about the fourth or fifth time this has happened.

EDIT - look at the orginal story, this was reported 1 June 2009.
Dr.3D
10-05-2009, 06:53 PM
Aye. NORAD would know about this...You think if a missle was really fired that they would keep sending up planes and they wouldn't be grounded? Please. Something smells fishy...most likely it's a false report. Can we get the black box recording also? I'm also wondering how a missle would miss something so easily hit....NOT ONLY that, missles are fucking loud when launched, even Stingers.
If the missile were home made, it would probably be loud but not necessarily accurate. I don't recall them mentioning the altitude of the plane at the time either. A small home made missile fired at the proper time could get close to or even hit a low flying plane.

If it happened near the airport, I would suspect the plane was flying at a low altitude.
pcosmar
10-05-2009, 06:56 PM
If it happened near the airport, I would suspect the plane was flying at a low altitude.

12,000 feet according to the report.
Damn nice rocket for a home built.


Things that make you go ,,Hmm.
Dr.3D
10-05-2009, 07:03 PM
12,000 feet according to the report.
Damn nice rocket for a home built.


Things that make you go ,,Hmm.

Wow, I guess so.
I have to wonder why a plane would be flying that high near the airport.
Must be it had not taken off from that airport nor would it be getting ready to land if it was that high.
Bruno
10-05-2009, 07:09 PM
12,000 feet according to the report.
Damn nice rocket for a home built.


Things that make you go ,,Hmm.

Its possible

Air Force Academy cadets hit space with homemade rocket
Media Article by TOM ROEDER, The Gazette
Friday, April 17, 2009
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colorado USA — A rocket built by Air Force Academy cadets hurled a dart 20 miles into space early Friday.

The solid rocket booster burned for less than five seconds after the 5:18 a.m. launch at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico but reached speeds of more than six times the speed of sound, Capt. Luke Sauter, a faculty adviser on the project said. The 20-pound dart topped out at more than 422,000 feet.


http://www.rocketryplanet.com/content/view/2841/31/
ForLiberty-RonPaul
10-05-2009, 07:26 PM
damn!
pcosmar
10-05-2009, 07:27 PM
Its possible


Oh, I know it is possible. Remember this thread?

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=137345&highlight=Rocket

Just not your average hobby-shop kit. :D
Bruno
10-05-2009, 07:30 PM
Oh, I know it is possible. Remember this thread?

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=137345&highlight=Rocket

Just not your average hobby-shop kit. :D

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)
Number19
10-05-2009, 07:40 PM
Old news.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=194524


This was covered in the Houston Chronicle and is not the first time. The same thing happened about a year ago in the same location. The first incidence didn't come nearly this close and it was reasonably assumed to be a model rocket. A second rocket, coming so very close to actually hitting the plane, is more suspicious. A lot of expense (in time, effort, research and money) is involved in building a model rocket capable of reaching this altitude, and with the publicity of the first launching, a second launch can not reasonably be assumed an innocent act.


There was a follow-up story in today's Houston Chronicle and investigators have concluded it was indeed a model rocket. There was also details on last year's incident, which occurred last Memorial Day.

Last week's rocket was between 5 ft and 7 ft in length, with triangular tail fins - not a military design. When it passed within 100 ft below the commercial jet, it had already reached its apogee at 16,000 ft and was in level flight before starting its descent. Calculating from known data, investigators believe it was launched from adjacent Chambers County. They are still hoping to find the rocket.

Last year's rocket encountered the commercial jet at a much lower altitude - 4,750 ft - and was in vertical flight when it passed between one and two miles in front of the jet. This rocket was never found/recovered.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6460030.html
pcosmar
10-05-2009, 07:49 PM
Old news.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=194524

Well,
Apparently citizens do have air defense capability. :D
FSP-Rebel
10-05-2009, 07:50 PM
Its possible

Air Force Academy cadets hit space with homemade rocket
Media Article by TOM ROEDER, The Gazette
Friday, April 17, 2009
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colorado USA — A rocket built by Air Force Academy cadets hurled a dart 20 miles into space early Friday.

The solid rocket booster burned for less than five seconds after the 5:18 a.m. launch at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico but reached speeds of more than six times the speed of sound, Capt. Luke Sauter, a faculty adviser on the project said. The 20-pound dart topped out at more than 422,000 feet.


http://www.rocketryplanet.com/content/view/2841/31/
Interesting, I was appointed there back in the day.
Number19
10-08-2009, 09:41 PM
Two days after this thread started, a follow up appeared in the Houston Chronicle today, Thursday. The search has been turned over to a private, professional organization and 45 volunteers who are using remote controlled drones, ATV's, boats and horses to search a narrowed down 5 square miles of river bottom land, swamps and forests along the San Jacinto River in east Harris County. An eye witness thinks she saw it descending near her home with the aid of a parachute.

Otherwise, nothing new to report : http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6657639.html
idiom
10-09-2009, 04:21 AM
Well, people who respect ATC go to Tripoli or some such.

Texans...
tangent4ronpaul
10-09-2009, 06:50 AM
12,000 feet according to the report.
Damn nice rocket for a home built.


Things that make you go ,,Hmm.

http://tripolimn.org/taxonomy/term/51

Michael Koppelman's minimum diameter Cindy Loo Hoo screamed to over 12000 feet at the May research launch on an L motor. Words can describe the flight as well as this video.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3567638739_4a5397fa70.jpg

that looks very buildable...

parachute = hobby rocket
timing of news of old event = DHS propaganda

-t