Things move on!

For all posters, to avoid upsetting the elders of the forum, it is best to refer to the post number when commenting on anything in a composite thread.

EG 'CJ' needed to refer to 'HD's' pics at post #20.

Hopefully that way blood pressures can be kept lower.

Not a great photo as it was all a bit quick - I was driving by!
Nice to see our Russian friends in town (well....Ukrainian )

Hey, that's a great pic Farrell

Thanks.
I'm sure some of the 'professional' spotters took better ones of it today.

Nice pic Farrell, anyone any idea what it was doing there? re-fuel en-route to PAK?

This must be a photoplopped one!!!!

As far as my records go the 225 has not been to DUB in the last few years!!!!!

When was alleged flight??

VEEPS

Deffo fake.

The size of the 225 does not match up with the other aircraft in the pic and the lighting looks wrong.

Ha ha.......just testing to see if the anoraks were awake!

It's my bleedin plane, gave me a cardiac!!!!!

and people wonder why spotters have a bad name...

Farrell, I'm shocked mate.

Yeah....

and I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!

An honourable move might be to delete the post .......

For the 225 fans, the Aircraft has been into Ireland a couple of times to my knowledge, a sight almost as good as a photo I have of six (6) 124's parked together, a little west of Dublin ..... a real photo, I hasten to add

Sellafield nuke farm blew up again today. You can see the radome in the background being illuminated by the atomic flash to the east while the Antanov is lit up by the sun in the west.

I am not sure if this is the right forum (apologies if it's not moderator) but i was browsing the sky news website where i came across the following pics:

Do you think these pics are real? The only reason i ask is that the 2 jets seem to get awfully close!

http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_...0294-1,00.html

Aircraft fly with a minimum of 1000ft vertical seperation. When viewed from below this can have the appearance of 2 aircraft becoming very close to one another. If you could view the above situation from the side it would look no where near as dramatic.

So I suggest the above is only uninformed media hype.

Look at these two pictures of the moon. Has the moon actually come closer in the second? Answer: no, it's an effect caused by use of a telephoto lens.

https://www.terragalleria.com/pictur....sagu1233.html

https://www.terragalleria.com/pictur....sagu1228.html

The aircraft are both A340s. Look at the distance between contrails of the Lufthansa aircraft - it's apparent that it is significantly further away (i.e. at least 1000' above) the Air France one.

The frequency with which aircraft 'seem' (to the uninitiated) to get close is vastly greater than the frequency with which they actually do (fortunately)!

'Twas the "Most Highly Derogatory Order of the Irremovable Finger" as PO Prune would say. I was called to the phone by crewing in the middle of a delicate surgical modding.......................

Nothing untoward there - happens over my house almost daily! It's nigh on impossible for the average observer to determine the height of a flying object accurately; even controllers and pilots can't do it! The only ones who stand a chance are trained Met Observers.
I took a sequence of pics over our garden last summer. An ex-colleague said they ought to be used in the "Fear of flying" programme:
http://members.aol.com/heathrowdirector/1.jpg
http://members.aol.com/heathrowdirector/2.jpg
http://members.aol.com/heathrowdirector/3.jpg
http://members.aol.com/heathrowdirector/4.jpg

WOW! What happened next?