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Originally Posted by Ian Goddard
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Originally Posted by Cl1mh4224rd
Umm... Pay close attention to the location of the sun with respect to the camera. You're going to get little to no reflection from the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer. Given the plane's approach, the side of the stabilizer visible to the camera is going to be self-shadowed. In fact, due to the low angle of the sun, the fuselage of Flight 77 would also be self-shadowed and thus not appear to be bright white on the camera-facing side. You may get a shine from the top of the fuselage, but certainly not the whole thing.
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Well, there is cylindrical lighting and shading across the fuselage with maximum brightness along the top (see). Notice the police car here, its top and hood are fully sunlit and bright white, while its side is self-shaded and is still white! Yet you assume that the vertical stabilizer is self-shaded and as dark as the trees. Since most of your alleged stabilizer is in front of dark trees, most of it should appear white in contrast to the dark trees. The police car shows that a white object in shading is still white, just not a bright has its parts in direct sunlight. |
Attached to this reply is an analysis using a better lighting calibrator than the police car,
a sunlit and self-shaded piece of Flight 77. It provides a clear example of the relatively bright tone of shaded Flight 77 skin, especially relative to the dark trees. It still looks like a white (or maybe light blue or gray) object. Placing a reduced piece of the piece of Flight 77 up against the trees shows that it is far more like what the
ASCE report (see page 13) identified as Flight 77 than the pointed-to dark tree-line protrusion, which if it were Flight 77 we should expect to look as bright as the self-shaded debris sample.
A shortfall of the attached analysis is that since the object lacks uniform curvature, full sunlit luminosity is confined to a more narrow band than would occur over a smooth, uniformly curved surface like the fuselage of Flight 77. So if the piece of debris was smoothly curved like a pristine fuselage, it would look even
more like the white object that the ASCE report identifies as Flight 77. The attached analysis clearly indicates that the dark tree-line protrusion is
not what one would expect Flight 77 to look like even with self-shading, and that it is the white object that is obviously Flight 77. ~Ian
Pentagon and Flight 77: an animated size analysis