Tornado picture - wingtip a foot off the runway
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Despite jindabyne's protestations, and as per Leon's youtube clip, it is indeed a genuine photo. It's a jet belonging to the RSV (Reparto Sperimentale Volo), Italy's version of the RAF's 41(R) TES...
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One recalls many years ago at an open day display practice at (IIRC) Chiv, one of the Ginos from the Frecce dug a wingtip into the (fortunately soft and muddy) grass.
By the evening celebrations, the Chiv groundcrew had recovered the nav light from the divot
, had it mounted on a polished wooden plaque, and presented it to the Italians .......
....... who were allowed to display the next day.
And of course that was years before Ramstein......
But that was then ................
By the evening celebrations, the Chiv groundcrew had recovered the nav light from the divot
, had it mounted on a polished wooden plaque, and presented it to the Italians .............. who were allowed to display the next day.
And of course that was years before Ramstein......
But that was then ................
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jindabyne, perhaps you'd justify your post; the thermal distortion in the jet efflux and the wingtip vortices match perfectly. If it's photoshopped, someone's gone to immense effort.
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I'd echo that - if someone is going to post "Photoshop", at least present some of the reasoning or evidence that this is the case please, otherwise it just comes over as a cheap shot.
The youtube video was filmed in Cameri, where the Italian Air Force maintains its Tornadoes (and where the F-35 FACO has been built).
Il portale dell'Aeronautica Militare - 1° Reparto Manutenzione Velivoli
I have no clue about this specific case, but, given the setting, there is a possibility that the aircraft was being flown by a test pilot from the manufacturer Alenia.
Il portale dell'Aeronautica Militare - 1° Reparto Manutenzione Velivoli
I have no clue about this specific case, but, given the setting, there is a possibility that the aircraft was being flown by a test pilot from the manufacturer Alenia.
Never mind the distance - think of it in time, inertia and speed. That f*ckwit was a mere millisecond away from being an ex-f*ckwit.
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For me , the salutary warning was that photographic sequence of the Argosy in the Middle East doing a "beat up " and hitting that water tower around 1969. It never left my mind. Later the Herc decapitating a soldier reinforced the point.
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Memories of the dramatic [and fatal] Lightning vertical departure from Tengah, for a home movie, which didn't work out. Happily, I wasn't in Local that day.
ISTR, from conversations after the event, that one should pull 2.4g instead of 4g.
Movie camera and FJ pilots make a bad mix, IMO
(Edit = I am advised by PM that there was more to the event than I was aware of, and that the pilot was not entirely to blame)
ISTR, from conversations after the event, that one should pull 2.4g instead of 4g.
Movie camera and FJ pilots make a bad mix, IMO
(Edit = I am advised by PM that there was more to the event than I was aware of, and that the pilot was not entirely to blame)
Last edited by MPN11; 15th Apr 2015 at 09:04. Reason: Factual error
And he still didn't manage to pick up the handkerchief !
(Actually allegedly he did cheat by using a wire hook -but it looked like he was picking it up with the wingtip- as if a few inches made much difference.)
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.....as if a few inches made much difference.
More idiocy than skill in that video clip.
He was lucky. One day, he wont be.
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This picture's been posted and deliberated before on PPRuNe. Someone had gone to great detail and analysed the spectra of the shot and concluded that it was "photoshopped" per Jindabyne's assertion.
I'm not a photo guru but the evidence presented then seemed compelling enough to say it was a false image.
This is all recollection so not entirely backed up.
I'm not a photo guru but the evidence presented then seemed compelling enough to say it was a false image.
This is all recollection so not entirely backed up.