09-09-2014, 05:10 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:Weight and balance is mainly for even distribution of the cargo and passengers to create a predictable center of gravity for flight control settings. For smooth flight but mainly for the optimal attitude setting for fuel conservation. The couple of spook wound alterers and shifting of JFK's body to the forward hold would be negligible and well within the tolerance of the 300,000 pound aircraft. It would be no different than passengers and flight attendants walking around in the cabin.
With all due respect, you and I are engaging in the behavior that hinders the research community IMO. I've postulated that a manifest might exist somewhere in the archives that might have information that could shed some light on what happened on Air Force One on 11/22/63. You either disagree, which is fine, or just don't like my thought.
As I said, I spent eighteen long years with United Airlines. I worked and managed all aspects of airport operations. I"m intimately familiar with the modern version of weight and balance, aka load planning, and the pilots would have a list of everything and everyone on the aircraft and their locations on the aircraft regardless of whether it was within the takeoff specs which I'm sure it was. That is my ONLY point - at least in the modern version of flight planning this information would exist, and may have exited then, and could be in a dusty file waiting to see the light of day. Period.
Arguing whether the weight of an extra coffin and mortician changed the takeoff specs and flight settings is NOT my point and is a waste of our collective time.