gumboot
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No, but here is footage of one of the missiles that was fired at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49NZWGWNGz8
Ridiculous. The AIM-9 travels at Mach 2.5, and the AIM-120 at Mach 4. Such a missile caught on a video camera would travel 28.3m or 45.3m in the space of a single frame, generating a single enormous blur and quickly vanishing. For reference the WTC towers are each 63m wide.
This "missile" takes about 21 frames to cross the screen, meaning if it was an AIM-9 it covered almost 600m and if it was an AIM-120 it covered over 950m. Neither of these missiles, at this distance, would be visible (the AIM-120 has a diameter of 7in, the AIM-9 5in).
