FA-18 Is Flying Too Damn Terrifyingly Close to That Building

Awesome....must've had the burners down or else that bird woulda shattered a lot of glass

Exactly right.

I'll bet that the aircraft is nowhere as near as it appears.

Great shot, although.

This would have been good on "Caption This"...!!!

"Caption: What really made the Tippycanoe cat go apeshit?"

Chris, (I'd tell ya, but then I'd havta .... ..)

...wonder if the window cleaner got the fright of his life?

wingspan : 40 feet,

so i don't have a clue what the code for height of a room is. or the railings code.

years ago while in Germany ,

the Lockheed F104 was in the Luftwaffe; the pilots did some very fine , very impressive flying w/ that bird.

The Snowbirds also perform very impressive formation flying in their shows.

so i , for one , accept the skill level to accomplish this fly by.

..photo shop skills , i don't have any, so i am fooled over that.

ahuha

Well if you consider that the average height of a room is 2400mm or 8 feet on the old money add say 300mm or 1 foot as the depth of the floor/ceiling (it is a apartment building). Id say 2700mm / 9foot a floor. That would do for rough estimate for someone to do an estimate how close the plane is to the building.

It'd be a WTF! moment for anyone in that building during the flypast.

Certainly get me out of bed! LOL!

"Hey, buddy. Get in line at the drive in counter, like everybody else!"

Oh, sorry. This isn't the Friday "Caption this" thread. Never mind.

Pilots get in BIG trouble for buzzing flight towers. So I doubt if its as close to the building as it looks. It's got to be a perspective thing. Wouldn't the person on the balcony get quite a bit of wind turbulance even at the jets lowest speed if it were really that close?

I've been beat up by the air coming off Nascar cars while working at the track. And they don't move nearly as much air as a jet does do they?

during the show .. the pattern is closed to all other traffic..

permission is granted .

might be kinda loud..over 110 dba.. exhaust is pointed away from the building in this outside manouver.

In a surprise development, Pizza Gogo tries a new high-speed delivery option.

More at ten.

Bah, that 18 is flying over the Detroit River, well away from the building. The photographer had a really long lens, as evidenced by the blurred tree(?) in the foreground, with the building and plane in focus.

I've seen closer at Virginia Beach with the 18's on their standard approach to NAS Oceana.

Hooker

....and to they deliver pizzas too?

Like this photo of a C-17 taking off from the airbase at Bagram. Of course the folks who forwarded this one around intimate that the plane is landing, but the clouds of dust are the clue it is taking off because aircraft landing don't raise much dust until they are much closer to the ground. This photographer used a long lens and took the picture at the southern end of the airstrip near where they set up the Friday bazaar.

It's a 10,000 ft runway so there is plenty of room to take off and land.

Tippycanoe is exactly right; telephoto lenses compress the field of view so as to exaggerate the closeness of objects so that far objects seem closer to each other as well as closer to the camera.

Wide angle lenses do the opposite and exaggerate the distance between near and far subjects.

If you have digital camera with a generous zoom range, try shooting an object using a varity of focal lengths with you standing in the same place. Then, using the same variety of focal lengths, shoot the same object again only this time you move forward or backward to keep the object the same size in the viewfinder. The results will give you a good illustration of how this distortion works.

Have fun.

tommm

I hope the guy on the balcony had earplugs.