Very cool!

OKAY, I know I'm not right with this post. I should be thinking about the hobby but this post gets my engineering juices flowing.

This plane is flying at 1100 feet per second. The camera's shutter is set at 1/1000 of a second or 1 millesecond. So now we have a speed of 1.1 feet per millesecond. Sounds simple right? Snap the photo with the plane speed versus the shutter speed being nearly equal.

Not so, it's like winning the Powerball....Okay not really, you'd actually be able to snap this photo about 120 times before you would win the Powerball. Perhaps it's time to get back to the ladies! Geez providers, if I win the Powerball I won't see the sun shine for about a month!

)))))))))

-- Modified on 2/1/2005 5:28:02 PM

I'd be sure to schedule a few appointments where I and the lady of my choice could see both sunrise and sunset (and have a damned good time in between!).

P.S.  Or should that be sunset and sunrise?

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure the photo on the left is a fake. I've seen it many times and it would be unbelievably dangerous and stupid to fly a Tomcat that close to the water - unless you had a death wish. The video on the right looks authentic to me, though.

It's fake.

It's actually a painting that was made into a poster for recruiting.  Pulling up the rooster tails does happen though if you fly close enough to the dirt or water.  

I've seen them live when I was in the service, but you usually have to be below 100ft or so and moving at the "speed of heat".

M

The article calls it a F18, but it sure does look like one of the F14 Tomcats I serviced back when I was on the Eisenhower.