Boeing 767-200ER and Twin Towers Reconstruction

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The fly sits at the controls of a procedural Boeing 767-200ER flight deck in a metric reconstruction of the World Trade Center towers; the default pre-programmed approach ends on the North Tower's north face within floors 93–99.

Setup

• Towers and aircraft share a scale of 10 m per scene unit: roof heights of 416.9664 m and 415.1376 m, a 63.6524 m exterior width and a 110.3376 m North Tower antenna.
• The 767-200ER is 48.51 m long with a 47.57 m span.
• A procedural flight deck with paired seats and yokes, six instrument screens, analog dials, twin throttles and overhead switches; the fly's forelegs reach the captain's yoke grips.
• Twin Towers, North face / 93–99, Fly / controls, Cockpit / over shoulder and Plaza plan cameras.
• The four-second entry animation ends with a schematic facade mark; no collapse or structural response is simulated.

Measurement

• Retinal-only input; an external nearest-example readout of six downstream population rates selects a lateral endpoint within the floors 93–99 band.
• The aircraft uses simplified kinematics; instruments and control motion are non-functional visual elements, not flight dynamics or avionics.

Limitations

• The contact point uses simplified, equally spaced floors; it is not the surveyed impact coordinate.
• Tower placement and plaza massing are approximate; the playback is not a historical speed trace.
• Activity version 2; earlier version-1 packages describing different geometry are rejected.

Sources

• 9/11 Memorial & Museum FAQs
• NIST NCSTAR 1-5A
• NIST WTC towers investigation FAQs
• Boeing 767 airport-planning dimensions
• Smithsonian 767-200 flight deck photograph