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While acknowledging that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", I can attest to the above from the other side of the cockpit as a near zero-time non-pilot enthusiast. I've got about two hours of actual loggable flight time on various light aircraft, which includes landing at an international...

Cold War West Germany based F-15's were at 5 minute readiness according to my copy of this which I think can be regarded as reasonably definitive: http://www.amazon.com/F-15-Eagle-Engaged-successful-Aviation/dp/1846031699 RAFG QRA fighters were the same. UK based QRA was at 10 minute readiness...

I don't have the book to hand which gives a definitive answer but from memory they were at Alert 15, which I think would be reasonably normal for peacetime. Cold War USAFE F-15's in particular were at a much higher state of readiness, as were RAF QRA Phantoms and Lightnings (and I expect...

Video showing the full collapse sequence (from ~3:40), and not the 7 or 8 seconds truthers adhere to:

By the same token it's often cheaper to fly to Aus from Wellington than to Qtown - I once spent a weekend at an airshow in Sydney for less than what it would have cost to do the same for the Wanaka airshow. In fact one of my flights to Queenstown for Wanaka this year cost more in NZD than the...

Caribou?

Yup, Air New Zealand engineering would have been involved in mounting the camera. There may have been some stories about it at the time, but this is the first time I've seen the footage. At the risk of going off topic for those interested there are also videos of approaches into Wellington and...

Didn't do a very good job then did it? I'm not sure "prevents" means what you think it does given the significant damage to buildings around 7WTC.

Not sure if RNP applied at the time (although from the description of the weather it might), but a Pacific Blue Captain was prosecuted recently mainly for operating outside the times/daylight conditions permitted: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10873866

Here's what an approach into Queenstown looked like mostly without clouds in 1996. Love the thrust reversing system on the JT-8 powered 737's :). Noting also the sundogs and vortices at various points.

2G pullup + cool morning air gets nice vapour effects :) Photo mine from the RNZAF 75th Anniversary show in 2012. Being an airshow goer in NZ I've seen the 757 display many times, and it never gets old.

The only definite cockpit area wreckage I have seen are the images already in this thread. There might be others, but accounts are emerging today that cockpit wreckage may have been tampered with or removed.

That's the same section of tail wreckage and remnants of one of the horizontal stabilisers. It's lying inverted in these pics.

Agreed. That's the vertical stabiliser/tail fin. There is an identifiable section of wing or horizontal stabiliser in some of the pics though.

That's part of the tail section. The fairing at right is beneath the rudder, and the cutout where the horizontal stabiliser was.

You know it did occur to me, just for a fleeting moment, that images like this might kill the "Indestructible Passport" aspect of 9/11 truth stone dead, but obviously I was just being optimistic. It's also a poignant reminder of the losses involved. There is a life attached to each of those...

From 10:35, great quality shots for the era. Contrails from 13:28 Link here (it's not embedding for some reason) Camera ship I suspect was a Gloster Javelin or Hawker Hunter

I was randomly pondering the KC-10 video and KC10FE's pics of purely aerodynamic contrails, and suddenly remembered this image from my youth. I remember being totally unable to figure out what was going on in the pic. I first encountered it on a book cover (B-52 A documentary history, by Walter...

A slightly damp autumn morning at Wanaka last weekend produced some nice vapour effects I wasn't really expecting. I've seen the effects from the C-130 props before, and knew the warbirds could do it as well, but the overwing vapour on the C-130 during a high-speed pass I'd never seen anywhere...

I've seen this particular display several times in person, haven't got bored of it yet :) That's the end of the routine, the take-off that begins it is pretty sporty as well (pic taken by me a few years back):