barit1, re your posts #26 and #39, and all those who have helped with this question,
You may be interested to see the path the plane would have flown, if it had passed north of the Citgo service station on the way to the Pentagon, as asserted by some websites. Calculation shows that the plane would be banked at 77 degrees to perform the turn at the known speed. Or it would if it could complete the roll from a left bank to a right bank in 0.5 seconds. If it needed longer than that, the bank would have been even steeper.
The second image above shows a plane at about 70 degrees. Funny than none of the many witnesses mentioned this sort of bank angle. All witnesses either said the bank was slight or did not mention bank at all. Apparenly the bank angle was not thought worthy of comment. Do you think we can safely conclude the plane actually flew pretty well straight from its last radar position to the impact point?
