CM - no no I'm not trying to be smart with the words... I just read that you thought item 1 of a previous posters view was irrelevant, you used the term physics. Now of course given we are talking about an actual event that had to be actually flown I took it that you were making your reply relevant.
100ft to 500ft talking no time... Depends how quickly you pull and actually we can see from the video it takes time. Of course you could argue perspective of the camera but then you'd have to square that same argument for the people who oversee these things... From the ground.
I'd like to think we can agree that this system is less than perfect.