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Old 3rd Feb 2022, 23:39
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Originally Posted by Pilot DAR
I suspect that the video is showing the event very "speeded up". The time between the two flashes of the top and bottom red flashing beacons is 12.3 seconds in the video, where other videos I find of B747 beacons appear to show the beacon flash period to be just over a second. So the video is maybe ten times actual speed?
If the video was speeded up the interval between flashes would reduce not increase.
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