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Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2014, 20:16
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

Seasat

Perhaps I should have pointed out the implications for MH370 more clearly in my previous reference to my involvement with Seasat in 1978.

If the military had that in 1978 (and it was built for...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2014, 16:26
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

CowgirlInAlaska Best I've seen, by miles ...

CowgirlInAlaska

Best I've seen, by miles
Tomnod (http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/mh370_indian_ocean/map/835894)
Two windows indeed. About 8m square?
It appears to be at lat -43.78731 lon...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2014, 16:09
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

Synthetic Aperture Radar

RichManJoe


Synthetic Aperture Radar is wonderful. I worked on it in early days.
The problem with radar is that a very narrow beam requires a very large antenna.
Too large for an aircraft.
So...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2014, 13:22
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

McLauchlin is the official Inmarsat spokesman. ...

McLauchlin is the official Inmarsat spokesman.
I'll just leave these here without comment:

McLauchlin (to Bloomberg):


Hunt for Jet Switches to Visual Search as Radar Empty - Bloomberg...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 13:54
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

odoberon Maybe I'm confused, and my second...

odoberon

Maybe I'm confused, and my second interview was with Bloomberg. I had about seven interview windows open at one point.
Anyway, the link is there. Thats my source.

I'm confident he...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 13:49
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

Pontius Navigator McClaughlan said it, but...

Pontius Navigator

McClaughlan said it, but he gave no evidence.
Later he has said the reason he said it is that "it would have been seen if it went north".
Firstly, thats an assumption,...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 13:38
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

awblain Agreed. The only reasons I have...

awblain


Agreed. The only reasons I have seen against North are
"it would have been seen" - but how about the long transit across Indonesia?
And (more recently) "the pinger batteries will run...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2014, 13:27
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

Sorry oldoberon Both quotes are cut and...

Sorry oldoberon

Both quotes are cut and paste from the interview reports

IBTimes report of interview: Report 20 Mar
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Would Have Been Found If Communications Box...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 22:50
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

KLN94 You can't, it seems, directly. They...

KLN94

You can't, it seems, directly. They obscure it on purpose to prevent people picking and choosing and leaving coverage gaps. Maybe also to make clients pay who must choose.
There is a way to...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 22:35
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

glendalegoon I THINK I heard the minister in...

glendalegoon

I THINK I heard the minister in a Malaysian press conference say that all the cabin crew were in a union, but not the pilots. Only just audible, and a rapidly swallowed aside.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 20:26
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

Travel risk statistics

awblain


It's a personal choice, assessing risk, But I'm with Ettore…per journey.

Mind you - essential travel, and voluntary travel, might logically be assessed differently.
"Shall I go at...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 18:40
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

paull PPMAGENTO's arcs are guesses. Not...

paull


PPMAGENTO's arcs are guesses. Not because I say so. Because he says so. Look closely.

And in all these 6000 odd posts, and all my reading, I have never seen the number for any arc but...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 17:06
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

oldoberon Yes. On the probabilities I think...

oldoberon
Yes. On the probabilities I think they exist, and have been used. Available to some, but not to us.
And they are NOT as marked on PPMAGENTO's map. Those are guesses.

Just trying to...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 16:24
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

D.S. On more careful reading of your post, is...

D.S.
On more careful reading of your post, is see you were indeed using the word "ping" in a different sense. I should have concentrated harder on the context. Apologies. I shall take the liberty of...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 16:15
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

MagnusP I don't really think so. This is...

MagnusP

I don't really think so.
This is media garbage.
These images are not from a sensitive US source (implied "governmental") whose identity needs protecting. They are from a commercial...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 16:04
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

RetiredF4 Please lets not start a whole new...

RetiredF4
Please lets not start a whole new cascade of misunderstanding based on casual reading of PPMAGENTO's map. The arcs other than the red one at 8.11 are GUESSES. No such arc information has...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 06:23
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

Yawn said Indeed, but did you see my...

Yawn said


Indeed, but did you see my previous post where I suggested a different interpretation?
If this Aussie find turns out to be a red herring, thoughts might turn to the Northern Arc...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2014, 03:15
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

I have found something so ridiculous it just has...

I have found something so ridiculous it just has to be a stupid coincidence, but the logic is so good, I feel compelled to share it with you, even at risk of upsetting the mods.

Question…..If the...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2014, 22:27
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

For anyone wishing to explore exactly where the...

For anyone wishing to explore exactly where the inmarsat "arcs" are located.
This is a detailed description of how to use Google Earth to do it.
No speculation, no hypotheses. Just instructions,...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Mar 2014, 09:29
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

According to China.org.cn, 19 families have...

According to China.org.cn, 19 families have signed a joint statement saying that their family members' cell phones connected, but the calls hung up. The relatives have asked Malaysia Airlines to...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Mar 2014, 00:14
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

Perfect nosedive, engines off? How fast?

And of course, we can extend my previous crude argument to an engines-off perfect nose dive. The thrust provided by the weight will be three times that previously provided by the engines, giving a...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Mar 2014, 23:52
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

Fastest possible descent rate? People have been asking….

For those keen to discuss shortest possible time of descent, and hence to assume a full throttle vertical dive, we can calculate very crudely, incorporating air resistance, thus:

Thrust to weight...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Mar 2014, 22:44
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,124,367
Posted By fg32

"Yes, 40s is about right for an object released...

"Yes, 40s is about right for an object released with no initial velocity.

If an aircraft pitches down, however, some part of the horizontal velocity becomes the initial velocity (100% if it goes...
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