Airline pilots landing at LAX report "a guy in jetpack" flying alongside them WTF?!?
It's certainly LAX. Probably a decent camera.
Google Street View LAX - https://goo.gl/maps/xF89fLJ3Jc8HPyTL8
Frame from video:
The curved roof buildings may be here.
https://goo.gl/maps/9Wt2NoSioNWH5EYNA
Google Street View LAX - https://goo.gl/maps/xF89fLJ3Jc8HPyTL8
Frame from video:
The curved roof buildings may be here.
https://goo.gl/maps/9Wt2NoSioNWH5EYNA
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Besides, you can compare the height of that "person" to Vstab. The person lands behind the buildings far away from the taxying plane, yet it's the same size as the stab? Dead giveaway that it's fake.
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Well first why do this above an airport where the chances' to hurt yourself are pretty high, not to mention getting caught, and secondly if it was a true event far more people would have reported it and probably filmed it with their phones I would say ..
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Source: I've been a hobby photographer since forever, including large-frame photography, which has movements to counteract some of the perspective distorsions
Take a picture with one person 6 feet from the camera and one person 12 feet from the camera. The closer person will look twice as big (assuming they're actually the same size).
Now walk away 1000 feet and take another picture. The person 1006 feet away will look (almost) the same size as the person 1012 feet away. That would be true even if you used the same lens for both shots (assuming you could otherwise make that work).
Now walk away 1000 feet and take another picture. The person 1006 feet away will look (almost) the same size as the person 1012 feet away. That would be true even if you used the same lens for both shots (assuming you could otherwise make that work).
Quite so.
The focal length of the lens has little or no relevance if you simply want to calculate the relative sizes (in real life) of two objects in a photo.
Given that we can be reasonably confident (see post #41) of where the photographer was filming from, we can use the known location (and size) of the CES 777 rolling on 24L in order to approximate the size of the airborne "object" - the only unknown is how far away it is, but it looks to be around 1500-1800 m from the camera.
I'll leave the math/maths for the interested reader, as the saying goes.
The focal length of the lens has little or no relevance if you simply want to calculate the relative sizes (in real life) of two objects in a photo.
Given that we can be reasonably confident (see post #41) of where the photographer was filming from, we can use the known location (and size) of the CES 777 rolling on 24L in order to approximate the size of the airborne "object" - the only unknown is how far away it is, but it looks to be around 1500-1800 m from the camera.
I'll leave the math/maths for the interested reader, as the saying goes.
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Looks like jetpack man (or the balloon?) may be back
https://abc7.com/lax-jetpack-pilot-drone/11991998/
https://abc7.com/lax-jetpack-pilot-drone/11991998/
Friday, June 24, 2022 7:57AM
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's happened again. A pilot preparing to land at Los Angeles International Airport alerted the control tower about an apparent person flying a jet pack in one of the world's busiest landing zones.
The incident was reported at about 2:45 p.m. some 15 miles east of LAX, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
A jet pack sighting has been reported by pilots landing at LAX a number times before, sparking many theories about jet packs, drones and balloons.
It's illegal to fly any type of drone near an airport.
The FAA is looking into the latest jet pack sighting at LAX.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's happened again. A pilot preparing to land at Los Angeles International Airport alerted the control tower about an apparent person flying a jet pack in one of the world's busiest landing zones.
The incident was reported at about 2:45 p.m. some 15 miles east of LAX, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
A jet pack sighting has been reported by pilots landing at LAX a number times before, sparking many theories about jet packs, drones and balloons.
It's illegal to fly any type of drone near an airport.
The FAA is looking into the latest jet pack sighting at LAX.
