RANDOM PROBABILITY

This page was generated by curiosity and is only "roughly" accurate. The point of it is to demonstrate the random probability of about 80% of the evidence outside the Pentagon being covered in lettering when in reality only about 1.7% of the entire aircraft actually has lettering. It is also worth mentioning that the pieces outside were not scorched.

This is very close to the actual dimensions based on the known size of the forward door. There is going to be minor distortion from the camera lens and the curvature of the fuselage. At the bottom of this page is the aircraft with a 1'x1' grid over it.

The numbers provided below are reasonably accurate numbers to work from. The fuselage calculation does not account for the taper of the nose and tail. The wing surface area is from the Boeing Facts website. I did not find any information for the area of the tail and didn't know how to calculate the triangle shape myself.

Fuselage length = 155 ft.
Fuselage diameter = 12 ft.
Fuselage circumference = 37.7 ft. (Pi times diameter)
Approximate fuselage area = 5843.5 sq ft. (155 times 37.7)

"The surface area of a pair of 757 wings is 1,951 square feet (181 square meters), about the same as the floor space of a three-bedroom house in the U.S."

Approximate surface area of the wings plus fuselage = 7794.5 sq ft.

With the exception of the capital "A", the following measurements include the space before the letter.

"A" - 33"x33" = 1089 sq inches = 7.56 sq ft.
"m" - 51"x27" = 1377 sq inches = 9.56 sq ft.
"e" - 36"x27" = 972 sq inches = 6.75 sq ft.
"r" - 24"x27" = 648 sq inches = 4.50 sq ft.
"i" - 15"x27" = 405 sq inches = 2.81 sq ft.
"c" - 36"x27" = 972 sq inches = 6.75 sq ft.
"a" - 36"x27" = 972 sq inches = 6.75 sq ft.
"n" - 36"x27" = 972 sq inches = 6.75 sq ft.

The word "American" is 27 inches x 22.5 feet = 7209 sq inches = 50.6 sq ft. x 2 = 100.13 sq ft.

The total surface area then of "American" on the fuselage is approximately 1.7% of the aircraft exterior.