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On 4/30/2020 at 9:23 AM, sputnik said:

Just spent a few days at the ranch to get some work done.  Would've been nice to stay longer - great place to social distance and stay off the internet.

 

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View from the porch the other morning.

 

We hiked up to the high ground behind our barns (the white buildings across the way.)  Beautiful view from there overlooking the neighbors place - took the picture as they were out checking their horses below.

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snow in the mountains , nice -

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On 4/29/2020 at 10:05 PM, sunburnwilly said:

Can't say I've seen this before

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I'm calling BS on this photo.  The F/A-18 (Blue Angels) is a significantly larger aircraft than the F-16 (Thunderbirds).  In the photo, the F-16 clearly appears larger.  Obviously a Photoshopped composite image of two formations.

 

(From Wikipedia)

F/A-18 General characteristics
•    Length: 60 ft 1¼ in (18.31 m)
•    Wingspan: 44 ft 8½ in (13.62 m)
•    Height: 16 ft (4.88 m)
•    Wing area: 500 ft2 (46.5 m2)
•    Empty weight: 32,081 lb (14,552 kg)

 

F-16 General characteristics
•    Length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m)
•    Wingspan: 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m)
•    Height: 16 ft (4.9 m)
•    Wing area: 300 sq ft (28 m2)
•    Empty weight: 18,900 lb (8,573 kg)
 

 

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8 hours ago, Seadog said:

I'm calling BS on this photo.  The F/A-18 (Blue Angels) is a significantly larger aircraft than the F-16 (Thunderbirds).  In the photo, the F-16 clearly appears larger.  Obviously a Photoshopped composite image of two formations.

 

(From Wikipedia)

F/A-18 General characteristics
•    Length: 60 ft 1¼ in (18.31 m)
•    Wingspan: 44 ft 8½ in (13.62 m)
•    Height: 16 ft (4.88 m)
•    Wing area: 500 ft2 (46.5 m2)
•    Empty weight: 32,081 lb (14,552 kg)

 

F-16 General characteristics
•    Length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m)
•    Wingspan: 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m)
•    Height: 16 ft (4.9 m)
•    Wing area: 300 sq ft (28 m2)
•    Empty weight: 18,900 lb (8,573 kg)
 

 

 

Probably, but both teams did a flyover in New York. At around 8 minutes you can see how close they got...

 

 

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3 hours ago, JohnJ said:

Parallax  @Seadog ?

I'm assuming they are not on the same "plane" or altitude with the wing overlap.

Yeah, I considered that but the formation seems almost too perfectly nested together considering the altitude difference that would have been required to get that exact perspective.  Also, in that video, the only significant cloud cover seen over NYC is in that still shot at 8:21, which would have been necessary to add to blend the images while hiding the obvious discrepancies in the ground features.  I may be wrong, but I still think it is a composite image.  That takes nothing away from the spectacular display of those two teams flying together.  Excellent video. 

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My departed friend Joel, whose camera I was borrowing when I took this picture, referred to this as a "Jesus sky". The lines in it appeared after several years. I guess the original file is partly corrupted. Shot with a Nikon digital camera sometime in the early 2000s

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I took this photo from our table at the Windows on the World restaurant, on top of the World Trade Center, almost exactly one year before 9-11.  Not the best quality, hand-held long-exposure on film, but one of my most treasured.

 

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On 5/10/2020 at 1:19 PM, sputnik said:

I really like skyline photos.  Here’s one I took in Hong Kong a few years ago - I imagine it’s already changed.
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Love that pic! I wish I would have had some filters when I took this from the Peak. Plus, it was a small pocket camera.

 

 

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