G-DBCE weird protrusion
 

An acquaintance sent me this asking if I know what it is? I have no idea, looks like a bad photoshop to me.
Any suggestions?

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....822198331d.png

Yeah, looks like it has been cropped out of another pic and overlaid on the shot of the 777s. They used Photoshop's "magic eraser" or whatever (been far too long since I had access to Adobe Creative Suite :{) and missed a bit of something behind in the orignal pic... the triangle of the drag strut on the nose wheel is also suspiciously bright, also the scissor link. Pic's been used in the Daily Mail and elsewhere...

It`s to stop banging the backend by ex-tailwheel drivers..

The idiots at Simplistic Flying even used it to illustrate their article on BA's use of the A318. :ugh:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3448ee0066.png
https://simpleflying.com/british-air...-a318-history/

Not wishing to join the ranks of the pedantic :rolleyes: .....but the aircraft is actually an ex BMI A319-131 that is a mere 21 years young. It isn't a A318, which is ever so slightly smaller in stature than the A319. :p

In another photo, it seems to have sprouted its very own stand form the tail too. This aircraft is obviously a very clever clone, that has perfected the art of fooling a photographer many times ;) :p


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3290cd7012.png

https://www.airfleets.net/photo/Brit...40327_a319.htm

Er, yes, that was my point.

Hence my reference to idiots.

I thought they built one A318 and flew it at Farnborough; from the control tower looking down you could see it was a few feet shorter .

Airbus built 80 A318s, of which around 20 are still active. Air France fly three, occasionally to be seen at Heathrow (most recent was a couple of weeks ago).

It's about 8 feet shorter than the A319.

The other suspicious part is the position of the aircraft itself , seemingly taken from the perimeter road area near T5 most short haul aircraft are much higher up at that point than this picture shows. It is far too bright white for BA as a rule-look at the parked t7s and is there really distant mountain range north of LHR?

Whole thing looks completely fake

Background pic is probably looking south between T5A and B towards the North Downs ridge...

Apparently it's a Shutterstock photo, shame on them.

at least they got the type right :)

Thanks to all, Ppruners never cease
to amaze me with their detailed knowledge

:8

The background hills are accurate yes, they're quite far but visible and prominent on pics taken from here. It's seemingly taken from the balcony at the Thistle Hotel, but God only knows why the image has been whitened so much and the protrusion may even be a large bird?