Originally Posted by
franklin_m
For a single airplane. But LAX has parallel runways, with aircraft stacked up and approching both runways from before sun up to well after sun down. He didn't need to hear an airplane first then go through your sequence, he just had to go through the sequence and fly on just about any given day of the year and have a high liklihood of being in the middle of traffic.
Somewhat revisionist history? That's NOT what he said initially. Speedy, in his "expert" opinion, ruled it out, and postulated it was an "inflatable." NOWHERE did he mention RC:
"... so that about eliminates the vertical take off and landing jet pack. That leaves us with the wing type that have to be launched from a manned aircraft in flight ... My guess at this point is that the pilots saw a promotional inflatable that got away..."
Did you not read the part about impacting the earth before one got the second or third engine started? Talk about twisting ones words.....
And I believe Echo was talking about the noise signature of an airliner on final approach drowning out the noise generated by one of these jetpack things. Nobody said anything about waiting to hear an airliner before jumping out of another aircraft.....
That's why I keep you on ignore.
R_Strowe