"..There were no "suicide" pilots on those September 11 jets.
The jets were controlled by advanced robotics and remote-control technology, not hijackers. Fantastic? Before I explain, read about the history-making robot/remote-controlled jet plane.

Global Hawk: Now You Have It ...
The Northrop Grumman Global Hawk is a robotized American military jet that has a wingspan of a Boeing 737. The excerpts below were taken from an article entitled: "Robot plane flies Pacific unmanned," which appeared in the April 24, 2001 edition of Britain's International Television News:
"The aircraft essentially flies itself, right from takeoff, right through to landing, and even taxiing off the runway," according to the Australian Global Hawk manager Rod Smith.

A robot plane has made aviation history by becoming the first unmanned aircraft to fly across the Pacific Ocean.
The American high-altitude Global Hawk spy plane made flew (sic) across the ocean to Australia, defence officials confirmed.

The Global Hawk, a jet-powered aircraft with a wingspan equivalent to a Boeing 737 [NOTE: two of the aircraft involved in the 911 crashes were Boeing 757s, two were Boeing 767s] flew from Edwards Air Force Base in California and landed late on Monday at the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh, in South Australia state. . . .

It flies along a pre-programmed flight path, but a pilot monitors the aircraft during its flight via a sensor suite which provides infra-red and visual images. (http://www.itn.co.uk/news/20010424/world/05robotplane.shtm [link expired])

... And Now You Don't
Then, on September 20, 2001, The Economist published comments from a former boss of British Airways, Robert Ayling:
On autopilot into the future "Robert Ayling, a former boss of British Airways, suggested in The Financial Times this week that aircraft could be commandeered from the ground and controlled remotely in the event of a hijack ..." (as quoted by KC <kettererkey@home.com> on alt.current-events.wtc explosion).
So, even though the ITN article was published on April 24, in September, after the 911 crashes, Mr. Ayling is pretending Global Hawk technology is a thing of the future.
Then The New York Times ran this:

. . . In addition, the president [President Bush] said he would give grants to airlines to allow them to develop stronger cockpit doors and transponders that cannot be switched off from the cockpit. Government grants would also be available to pay for video monitors that would be placed in the cockpit to alert pilots to trouble in the cabin; and new technology, probably far in the future, allowing air traffic controllers to land distressed planes by remote control. ("Bush to Increase Federal Role in Security at Airports," The New York Times, Sept. 28, 2001; emphasis added.)
So, then, right after Operation 911 was pulled off, two men of world influence were pretending such technology had not yet been perfected. That was dishonest. And revealing.
Run a Google Advanced Search on the phrase "Global Hawk," and you will find additional information. Meanwhile, I have attached the text of the ITN article at the end of this piece.

Technically speaking, we could have a "suicidal" airplane fly into a building without a suicidal pilot. Robotics and remote control technology has developed to the point that a high-altitude Global Hawk (or a low-altitude Tomahawk cruise missile) can be guided into collision with a target without a Kamikaze pilot in the cockpit.

America And Its Allies Would Never Attack America!
Now, hold it there! This is US military technology. We all surely know that the US and its allies would not conspire to attack America! Or do we?
The Army's School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS ) thinks Israel is capable of doing exactly that. On September 10, 2001, The Washington Times ran a front page story which quoted SAMS officers:

"Of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: 'Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.'" ("US troops would enforce peace under Army study," The Washington Times, Sept.. 10, 2001, pg. A1, 9.) Just 24 hours after this story appeared, the Pentagon was hit and the Arabs were being blamed.

These SAMS officers are obviously interested in protecting their country, but not all Americans are. Some are traitors and pay allegiance to Israel. Recall the June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, and American complicity in the attack.

During the Six Day War, the Liberty, an American intelligence gathering ship, was sailing in international waters. Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked it for 75 minutes. http://ennes.org/jim/ussliberty/

When four US fighter jets from a nearby aircraft carrier came to protect the Liberty, US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ordered the jets NOT to come to the Liberty's aid, and allowed the Israeli attack to continue. Thirty-four Americans were killed and 171 wounded. http://ennes.org/jim/ussliberty/chapter6.htm

Now consider Operation Northwoods: In 1962, US military leaders designed a plan to conduct terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba, to create popular sentiment for invasion of that country. Operation Northwoods included:

Plans to shoot down a CIA plane designed to replicate a passenger flight and announce that Cuban forces shot it down.
Creation of military casualties by blowing up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blaming Cuba: "....casualty lists in the US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation," and
Development of a terror campaign in Miami and Washington, DC.
Information on Operation Northwoods can be found in James Bamford's Body of Secrets (Doubleday, 2001), and at the following URLs..."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.md.nsa24apr24.story
http://www.earlham.edu/archive/opf-l/May-2001/msg00062.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/

Did someone recognise that at least two passengers of the hijacked planes had connections to "Global Hawk"?
(Look for the passenger list at GZ at
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ground_zero2001&msg=545.1 )

1) Herbert Homer, god bless him, was on United Airlines Flight 175, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California.
That was the second hijacked plane to strike the World Trade Center.

Herbert Homer, described as "..worked for Raytheon Co." was more than only a worker for Ratheon.

He was the DCE CACO under DCMC Commander - Col. Bryon Young of the RSC Corporate Management (Raytheon)
Source: http://www.acq-ref.navy.mil/reflib/raytheon.pdf

Raytheon is the most succesful military-industrial complex, who is also in charge of Haarp
(after they bought APTI from ARCO in 1994).
They also developed the SCUD-busting Patriot Missile, which was used in the Gulf War.

But Raytheon also developed Global Hawk, which is a "..high altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial
reconnaissance system.." and includes "..Raytheon Systems (sensors)"
Source: http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/global/

A coincidence? Sure, maybe.
But maybe Homer was on another "harmless" test flight, but not involved how it will end this time?

The other passenger with connections to Global Hawk:

2) Charles S. Falkenberg

He was on AA 77 American Airlines Flight 77, from
Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard

Falkenberg, god bless him too, was described as "..director
of research at ECOlogic Corp., a software engineering firm.
He worked on data systems for NASA.."

This looks already like another connection, but there is more.

We know that Global Hawk is a Military-NASA project:

http://www.vought.com/prodprog/military_nasa/globalhawk.htm

"..Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial reconnaissance
system designed to provide military field commanders with high resolution, near-real-time imagery of large geographic areas..."

"..Vought was selected by Northrop Grumman in July 2001 to manufacture the wing for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP).
The contract is for two wings with an option for the next four aircraft on the schedule.."

Both Ecologic Corp. and Northtrop got a lot of military awards:
".http://web1.whs.osd.mil/peidhome/st/st25/fy2000/STIllino.HTM.."

This is for sure no direct connection. The NASA is a big company, so this connection doesn't count.

So we have to go more into details. Please don't be scared with the technogical intro:

In 1997 Renu Chaudhry (Ecologic Corp) gave a workshop about EOS Data for the NASA.

"..The first phase of DataBlade development will ingest HDF-EOS Grid data.
Metadata will be in the file and Grid info in data objects in the database.
The image will also be a binary object in the database..."

http://ivanova.gsfc.nasa.gov/hdfeos/notes.html

"..EOS-WEBSTER (a WEB based System for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research) is a digital library of
Earth Science data serving the needs of both the Earth System Science community and the general public..."

We learn on that website that "EOS Webster" is a mapping system which provides Landsat Images.

Charles Falkenberg worked also on this program.

"..The Federation GIS Services Cluster:.. We are very saddened to learn of the passing of
Charles Falkenberg, an active member of this Cluster since its inception..."
He is mentioned in the team of EOS Webster.

But why are landmap images important for "global hawk"?

http://oceanesip.jpl.nasa.gov/esipde.html

First of all: You need not to be a rocket scientist to know that the GLOBAL HAWK Program needs Landsat Images to work.
They don't use other images.
However they also explained, why:

"..Global Hawk Integrated Sensor Suite Thematic Mapper Simulator (TMS) -
The Thematic Mapper Simulator (TMS) is a Daedalus AADS-1268 scanner
that is flown on the ER-2 aircraft and simulates the LANDSAT Thematic Mapper (TM) instrument,
with slightly higher spatial resolution. The TMS is used for collecting data similar to data collected
by the LANDSAT Thematic Mapper with applications including Earth resources
mapping, vegetation/landcover mapping and geologic studies. The sensor acquires data in 12 spectral bands.."
http://www.imagery-analyst.com/airborne.shtml

Here you find also, no surprise, the connection to Raytheon again:

"..We specialize in providing scientific, engineering, and software support in the areas of Space and Earth Science,
Scientific Data Management, Remote Sensing, Satellite Ground Systems, Aerospace Engineering, Transportation
Management Technologies, Computer Networking, and Software Maintainence.."

Raytheon actually use these Daedalus Scanners.

Here it is described, what they need:

".Multi-band Identification and Discrimination Imaging Spectrometer (MIDIS) "
http://cdgrass.gtri.gatech.edu/MSIHSI_sumry.htm

In the Imaging Spectrometers -Summary Table it appears again:

Name:
Airborne Modis Simulator (based on Daedalus AADS-1268)

The Manufactor isn't mentioned, but the Operator: NASA

Also in this list:
MODIS Airborne Simulator by
Daedalus Enterprise Inc.

Operator: NASA Ames & GSFC

Multispectral Infrared and Visible Imaging Spectrometer
Daedalus Enterprise Inc.
Operator: "CNR, Rome"


The essence from what we learned is that these Spectrometers and Image Mappings need the
Software EOS-Webster, ECOlogic Corp developed.

For sure only a coincidence. Global Hawk may need houndreds of different softwares.
And every day a software developer dies.
But he had the bad luck to be involved in a "Global Hawk"- Conspiracy theory.

So if someone installed the program into the four planes, we have to find out, what happened
with the four machines before. A big job. Maybe without success.

Below you will find a list who is also involved in the "Global Hawk" Project.
Northrop Grunman Corporation is one of them.

"..Global Hawk can carry out reconnaissance missions in all types of operations. The 14,000 nautical mile range and 42 hour
endurance of the air vehicle, combined with satellite and line-of-sight communication links to ground forces,
permits world-wide operation of the system.."

"..The program is funded by the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) and managed by the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Air Force.
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Ryan Aeronautical Centre is the prime contractor and the principal
suppliers include Raytheon Systems (sensors), Allison (turbofan engine),
Boeing North American (carbon fibre wing) and L3 Communications (communications system).

The Global Hawk air vehicles are built at the Northrop Grumman (formerly Teledyne Ryan) Aeronautical facility in San Diego

In March 2001, the US Department of Defense awarded Northrop Grumman a contract for the
engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the program, to last until March 2003 and
in June 2001 a contract for two low rate initial production UAV’s.
Global Hawk successfully completed a military utility assessment in June 2000, carried out at Eglin Air Force base, Florida.

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/global/

"..Friday, 18 Jun 1999:
Global Hawk - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle stays airborne for more than 27 hours.."
http://www.af.mil/news/radio/Jun1999/

A wild construction between these two people and Global Hawk?

Sure it is, but maybe not for the supporter of the Global Hawk theory.

They will be able to "construct" other connections with other passengers.
The guy who worked for Akamai or everyone who was a computer specialist, or electric engineers etc..? Sure that's nonsense.

But i found some other interested guys:

3) Kenneth Waldie (AA11), 46, of Methuen, Massachusetts, was a Raytheon Co. senior quality control engineer for electronic systems in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
He had worked for Raytheon for 17 years.

4) Peter Gay (AA11), 54, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was a Raytheon Co. vice president of operations for electronic systems based in Andover, Massachusetts.
He had worked for Raytheon for more than 28 years.

5) Wilson "Bud" Flagg (AA77) of Millwood, Virginia, a retired Navy admiral and retired American Airlines pilot.

Actually the whole passenger lists look like a creme de la creme of high technicians, but that should be yet another coincidence.
We will never find out what their reason for these flights have been.

Do we need a forth "test person" for the last of the four flights, UA93?
I couldn't find one. Maybe it wasn't important to "put testpersons" on every flight. Maybe it's really only a stupid sub theory.

This plane had anyway another tragic fate. It crashed in Pennsylvania.

PS:
Remember Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, where Mohammad Atta, one of the hijacker took flying lessons?
Noone knows why he didn't learn in Europe or Sudan, even cheaper.
Now it's odd to know that Atta was also "..reported to have attended the International Officers School at
Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama..

..The Pentagon quickly disputed the reports, which had appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post and the Miami Herald."

GZ reported that already in an investigation by Daniel Hopsicker, author of
"Barry & 'the boys:The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History".

He also wrote:
"..We know of at least one woman in Montgomery Alabama who has credibly insisted to local reporters
that she met Atta at a party on the base. She remembers because she then introduced him to her friends:
"Mohamed, meet my friend the Colonel.."

At the airport is a trapez by the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus, a school which owner
Kenneth Feld (according to a salon story) hired former top CIA honcho Clair George to torment a hapless freelance
writer for eight years because she wanted to write a book about his family.

This Clair George "..ran Latin America for the Agency under then-Vice President Bush during the period of Iran Contra during the '80’s."
Source: Daniel Hopsicker at http://www.madcowprod.com/

GZ researched, too:

"..Air Force spokesman Col. Ken McClellan said a man named Mohamed Atta --
which the FBI has identified as one of the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 --
had once attended the International Officer's School at Maxwell/Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala..."
http://www.pressconnects.com/archive/attack/stories/091701N1.html

Ken McClellan is indeed still spokesman of the Air Force and furthermore "..official spokesman for the office of the secretary of defense.."
http://ww2.pstripes.osd.mil/01/oct01/ed102401j.html

He just declared on October 24th, that the closure of Bad Aibling (a ECHELON base, but that's another story) has to be postponed for two more years:
"..The closure was postponed for two years to help fight America’s newest war, according to military officials in the United States.
"We basically couldn’t get it done in time..." (Lt. Col. Ken McClellan)

Did McClellan make a mistake with mentioning Atta at Maxwell Air Base One?
It looks obvious, that he didn't say that on purpose, which was later denied by the Pentagon again.
But maybe it was only embarrassing for the Pentagon.

But what's so special about Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama (btw. Orville Wrights former Wright Flying School) ?

Maybe nothing for Daniel Hopsicker, Newsweek, Washington Post or Miami Herald.

But for this topic:

:"..The Air Force has begun a series of wargames entitled Global Engagement at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
These wargames are intended to illuminate the capability of joint air and space power..."

These "wargames" include also Network Centric Warfare:
"..Future sensor grids will feature a variety of new imaging and signals intelligence sensors,
currently in advanced stages of development, deployed aboard the Global Hawk, DarkStar, and Predator unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),
as well as new space-based sensor grids,
like the high and low orbit elements of the Space-Based InfraRed System (SBIRS).
http://www.dtic.mil/execsec/adr98/chap15.html

So was Atta maybe involved in a secret "global hawk"-program?
Did he know that or not? I guess not, if he was on board.
Maybe that's the reason why he had to die or "committed suicide".

But back to the ranch.
It wasn't a global hawk flight, everyone will say.
That could be true. Because Bin Laden has no idea of Global Hawk.

He even has no idea how to spread videos in which he finally confirms that he was the only mastermind. He ignores Al-Jazeera. What lame!
He forgot these videos in Jahlalabad. :)

[ADMON: Here was for a long time a typo. The ability to fly unmanned was 27 hours, not 72 as misprinted. I'm not sure about the latest abilities. Sorry for that mistake]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011220/bs/arms_northrop_dc_2.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) -
Dec 20 2:04 PM ET

"..Northrop Grumman Corp.'s (NYSE:NOC) chief executive on Thursday said he was confident higher U.S. defense spending would boost sales, but he had no clear view on how the Pentagon would divide new funds.

Still, Chief Executive Kent Kresa said he could bank on at least one of his programs.

``Global Hawk,'' he said, stretching the words for emphasis. ''It's on everybody's mind. Whenever they say transformation, they say Global Hawk. So it's very much a program that we'll see go forward.''

Northrop, maker of the B-2 bomber and warships for the U.S. Navy (news - web sites), produces the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, which now has four of them.

The long-range drone, capable of flying and loitering above a target for 24 hours, was used in the Afghanistan (news - web sites) campaign even before completing testing, providing commanders with high- resolution, real-time imagery of large areas.

Two more are in production to be delivered by the end of the current fiscal year, or next October.

Defense Department officials have noted the project is still in the research and development phase, but other nation's have already expressed interest in the aircraft, including Australia and some European armed forces..."

UAVs with the Global Hawk technolgy are used in the War in Afghanistan and confirmed since Mid-October.

You might ask, what happened to the fourth plane, Flight 93? According to
one theory, Global Hawk technology malfunctioned on Flight 93. Somehow the
pilots onboard were able to regain control of their aircraft. If Flight 93
lands safely on the ground, the secret of what was really happening on all
four planes would be revealed. A back-up plan had to be implemented.

Flight 93 was then supposedly shot down by a US military jets. There are
verifiable facts to substantiate this possibility. There were a number of
eye witnesses who claimed to have seen flight 93 explode before it fell to
the ground. These eye witnesses also saw a military jet in the sky near the
crash site. Plus, there were reports of a small white private plane circling
the crash site immediately after the crash - even though all private
aircraft were supposed to be grounded at the time. Aircraft debris from
Flight 93 was strewn over an area six to eight miles from the crash site,
which would be impossible if, as the government said, some of the passengers
assaulted the hijackers onboard.

Now comes the hero story from the government. This story is used to supply
all the answers to all the questions about what happened on Flight 93 and to
avoid any further inquiry by a gullible American public that accepts most
anything their government officials say is truth. As George Bush, Sr. was
quoted as saying: "Don't confuse people with the truth."

CONTRACTS United States Department of Defense
January 25, 2002

Northrop Grumman Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $41,500,000 modified 'Other Transaction' which definitizes engineering and manufacturing development efforts in support of the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle.

(An 'Other Transaction' is a unique contracting authority that permits greater flexibility to negotiate contract terms under special circumstances such as this program.) At this time, $7,000,000 of the funds has been obligated. This work will be complete December 2003. The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-01-C-4600, PZ0003)