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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1950 on: April 26, 2019, 03:23:18 PM »
 The tumbling plate date is from plates in excess of 40 lbs and no disturbance.
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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1951 on: April 26, 2019, 03:24:43 PM »
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Basing a parachute is entirely different from a card weighing less than an ounce. then you base the card from controlled testing. cards, plates, different size objects will behave differently. I'm now questioning the thickness of the placard. the card is not easily found either. Hominid might be right that it was exclusive to NWO.

My other concern is the tears and cuts in the card itself and how that would react vs a perfect 6x6 or 5x5 card. will it tumble in the condition it was in. you can't say one way or the other without some sort of testing or seeing the actual card itself.

Late for work...will continue later today..

Parachutes did not have anything to do directly with this analysis.  The 2011 analysis lists a source for the characteristics of tumbling plates as they fall.  That data has been used in all of these analyses.

Is there a reference to this  tumbling plates  analysis?

What does  'tumbling plate' mean? I have a feeling lots of variables are being fudged!

For the 2011 and subsequent analyses, the drag coefficient for the placard was estimated to be 1.0 based on information in Sandia Laboratories Report SC-RR-68-132, August 1968, title: Free-Fall Rotation and Aerodynamic Motion of Rectangular Plates.  The major points in the report are that all of their rectangular plates, which were made of wood, started to rotate about one or more axes after falling a relative short distance and that the drag coefficient was always in the vicinity of 1.0 regardless of how the plates tumbled.  I printed a copy of this report in 2011.

There used to be a direct link to the above report, but it can now apparently still be accessed by Googling the report and following some links.  The above report is apparently the same one that Georger is referring to at the bottom of his post number 1770 on this thread.  Georger gives a link so it can probably be accessed through that link also.

Any "fudging" involved ignoring wind speeds that appeared to be excessively high and were reduced to more realistic values using a number of other sources as guidelines.  Apparently, some of the radiosonde equipment malfunctioned as mentioned in my most recent analyses.  Reducing these wind speeds to lower values prevented the estimated separation point for the placard being further WEST.

If you think there was any "fudging" to support a western flight path then make your case and show your work.  And you had damn well better be ready to defend your allegations.

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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1952 on: April 26, 2019, 03:31:18 PM »
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The tumbling plate date is from plates in excess of 40 lbs and no disturbance.

Anything going through the downwash of a Boeing 727, whether it be a placard or 377 (who has commented on this before), is going to be disturbed about all axes.

If I remember correctly, the plates in the Sandia Report were dropped from helicopters.  Nevertheless, they started to tumble about one or more axes in a relatively short distance.
 

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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1953 on: April 26, 2019, 03:49:57 PM »
Correct, the problem is the plates are 50 times the size of the placard and weigh over 40 pounds? to me, it's like taking a Corvette and racing a VW. no contest... the data should be in the ballpark of the item in question. I believe you have some data that matches the card or similar. that's what should be presented IMO.
 

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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1954 on: April 26, 2019, 03:53:14 PM »
I showed a video I did with a similar piece of plastic. by releasing it the card started to tumble. when I put a spin on it, similar to the jet wash the card went into a spin. I don't know if it would do that all the way down so I'm taking the testing further. if it works out in the direction you believe. you have more data to back it up. if it doesn't hold up. then questions will come into play. I'm not doing this to prove anything but what can possibly be proven...
 

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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1955 on: April 26, 2019, 03:57:32 PM »
It was basically a quick test to see what the card would do. a first step. next will be a card damaged like the one found. I did a quick test of that the other day and it reacted differently. these are things that could end up helping. it's part of testing a theory. the card didn't like strong winds. I can say that. I didn't do any video on the second round because it wasn't very high. only about 20 plus feet.
 
video below is from 40 feet..

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« Reply #1956 on: April 26, 2019, 06:41:28 PM »
I believe the plates were metal. they are heavy coming in at over 40 lbs. they show the plates rotating, as in rocking back and fourth and then turning sideways. they show terminal up to 104 feet per second. they dropped them from different positions. I see mentions of spiraling as well. I just don't see the similarities?

48" x 18" .50 thick. 44 +- 1/4 lbs.

They remained in a flat position for 50 to 90 seconds before autorotational mode took place..
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« Reply #1957 on: April 26, 2019, 08:02:02 PM »
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I believe the plates were metal. they are heavy coming in at over 40 lbs. they show the plates rotating, as in rocking back and fourth and then turning sideways. they show terminal up to 104 feet per second. they dropped them from different positions. I see mentions of spiraling as well. I just don't see the similarities?

48" x 18" .50 thick. 44 +- 1/4 lbs.

They remained in a flat position for 50 to 90 seconds before autorotational mode took place..

I don't know where you obtained the above information but it definitely did not come from the Sandia Report.  Those plates were wood and did not weigh anywhere close to 44 pounds nor did they reach a speed of 104 feet per second which is more than 60 nautical miles per hour.

And all of them started rotating shortly after being dropped.  Even a metal plate would start rotating soon after being dropped.
 

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« Reply #1958 on: April 26, 2019, 08:15:40 PM »
The PDF was posted by Eric several weeks ago..Sandia's Labratories August 1968. Free-fall rotation and aerodynamics.

It must be similar to what you have. this test was also done with a helicopter but used metal plates. that's why I was questioning the data.

You were using "Sandia" often so I assumed you were talking about the same PDF I got from Eric's post. 2,000 foot drops as well as 10,000 etc.
 

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« Reply #1959 on: April 26, 2019, 08:21:26 PM »
Yes, it has the same number SC-RR-68-132
August 1968

Rectangular plates...wood is never referred to as plates.
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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1960 on: April 26, 2019, 08:25:27 PM »
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« Reply #1961 on: April 26, 2019, 08:27:18 PM »
One of the plates dropped. not the size with the car in the background...other photo;s show what happened to the plates on impact..some bowed, others bent on corners etc.
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« Reply #1962 on: April 26, 2019, 08:32:16 PM »
Metal plates that size and weight would get those terminals...
 

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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1963 on: April 26, 2019, 08:38:14 PM »
I don't believe the report references any particular material. However, when describing the damage that some of the plates endured they use the words "bowed" and "splintered."
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Re: Flight Path And Related Issues
« Reply #1964 on: April 26, 2019, 08:39:39 PM »
explain the weight of the the plate if it was wood? wood bends and bows? I didn't see "splintered"