Quote Originally Posted by Rainfall
Yes, 45 mph winds on 9/11. Your graph is for ground level, 300 metres up is a different animal. That's why they make the wind turbines along the coasts so tall, sustained winds of 100 kph+. You can quadruple my 15 seconds suggestion to one minute, or take 10 minutes, 40 times as much. No need to be petty-minded here. 1 second or 10 minutes is almost equally far away from the about one hour between impact, and collapse of the towers, which therefore can't have been caused by burning kerosene. You know you're wrong, but are not a man enough to admit it.
^strange you have now changed from "a few seconds" into it dosn't really matter 1 second or 10 minutes. Makes me wonder why you didn't say that in the first place... I am sure you had your reasons.

However with your new stance, you will be glad to hear that you are with agreement with the NIST report which states that given ideal conditions the fuel could have burnt within 2 minutes releasing 2MW of heat per M^2 whilst experts consulted by popular mechanics belived that under the conditions of the twin towers a 10 minute burn time was possible. both far more than a few seconds but well within what you are now accepting.

and as for the wind speed NIST states that ACARS reports on the day indicated wind speeds at 400M as being between 5-10M/s.