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- stormgren, on 10/11/2007, -11/+245It should have been:
Title: AMAZING!!! Best picture of an airplane EVER!!!!
Description: Title says it all.
Much more descriptive. - Niddik, on 10/11/2007, -6/+167Those who say airplanes are like rollercoasters aren't joking.
- rupprupp29, on 10/11/2007, -10/+99IDK, my BFF Jill?
- geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -9/+96*ahem*
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Ghostly_UPS_Boeing_767_Taking_Off
But hey, who isn't digging up year old dupes? - ChromaVita, on 10/11/2007, -6/+77IDK about you, but my semen doesn't plateau, and then shoot wildly to the right...
- captinherb, on 10/11/2007, -6/+70@benjic:
What more did you want him to say? It was descriptive and concise. - rupprupp29, on 10/11/2007, -3/+53:(
TISNF!! - DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+38It's Wonder Woman's jet!
- mowyouover, on 10/11/2007, -4/+41This may be a stupid question, but where is the plane itself?
- twilightzone, on 10/11/2007, -0/+31You know how you look up at the sky at night and see blinking lights moving across the sky? Did you see a plane then? Not enough light reflecting off the plane itself due to long exposure.
- Wonderkind, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31"IDK about you..."
Oh man, that reminds me of when I once dated a trampoline girl from Cirque du Soleil. - gregm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28@mulling
It is obviously taking off. When was the last time you saw a plane do a nose-dive before landing?
Planes take off very sharply to get enough altitude to tun (like this one did) and to not 'buzz' any houses or businesses near the airport.
Also, you can kind of see the plane because it stopped short of the runway before taking off, not because its where the shutter closed. - frieddonuts, on 10/11/2007, -7/+33Now THAT'S a good Digg image title. Keep it descriptive, people!
- Emery, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Now if those lights were only sky roads and we all had flying cars.... life would be good.
- GuyHersh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20... I have noo idea what you're talking about.
I think i have to tell you that the plane is taking off, not landing. But I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not.. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21Paying this bill, that is what is SNF!!!
- Dotcommer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Those saying the plane is landing are retarded. First, look at it. No plane ***** nose dives when landing. second... the red light in the center is the tail light. Its mounted on the back airfoil. You wouldn't see that if it was landing. if it was landing, you'd see a white light in the center as well, for the belly of the plane.
- triplec76, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17Jesse I hate to break the bad news to you buddy, but you are, in fact the retarded one. This aircraft is not landing at all. While you did learn some good aviation lingo somewhere along the way, you lack basic observational skills that are necessary for day-to-day living. I don't expect everyone to be able to tell the difference between the path of an aircraft landing and one departing, but more than that you can clearly see the approach lights at the end of the runway in the near part of the photo.
Another digger got it correctly when they stated that the aircraft was climbing for noise abatement procedures before turning to a heading assigned by the controller before departure.
Please get some good sleep tonight and before going to bed, put on your list of chores for tomorrow to pay-the-*****-attention. - CatsAreGods, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14My flight instructor once did a short-field landing that looked kind of like that...I never forgave him (mainly because he didn't tell me about it in advance).
He dove *straight* at the ground with full flaps (40+ degrees in a Cessna 172) and pulled out in ground effect. I woulda crapped my pants if my sphincter hadn't crawled up my esophagus. - DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14It's a normal takeoff...cargo planes fly no differently than their passenger-hauling sisters....climbout angle was probably 10-15 degrees (normal for a 767), maybe lower if they were heavy (which is possible since they were probably headed to SDF). I think the illusion is due to zoom compression or something, but I am a novice when it comes to photography.
- HA5TY, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13if it is landing......
FREEFALL!! - jprichard, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14This same question was asked when it was posted on digg before.
See the comments here: http://digg.com/general_sciences/Ghostly_UPS_Boeing_767_Taking_Off
Basically the tail/wing lights don't provide enough light to illuminate the plane since it's a long exposure. If it was sitting still then it would show in the picture. - c-nug, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10@carguy84
It's not BS, it's the nature of taking pictures at low light, with long exposure time. A specific range of light is needed to be bouncing off the plane for it to be exposed and therefore show up on the picture. - dogstylee, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13old.
- ithinksometimes, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12Title: "Long exposure of a plane TAKING OFF at night"
I capitalized the important part for you.
EDIT: beaten to it. - candyman420, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7it is a pretty steep looking takeoff.. could that be because those freight pilots tend to fly more aggressively when there are no passengers to consider..
- andy17null, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8fail.
- iamagrenade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7*cue actual pilot informing me how, with those kind of tactics, i'm gonna to slam the runway like an ICBM with a moon tied to it*
*and that, in addition, i'm a moron for not reading in the title that it's a TAKE-OFF, not a LANDING.* - freehunter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Okay, I know people are complaining about the title and description, but at the very least you can get that it is taking off, not landing.
- bdh8, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8It must be a photography trick, because there's no way that it took off that steep. Proportional to the size of the plane according to the lights, that thing went nearly straight up right off the runway.
Also, as mentioned before, where is the plane? - Amplix, on 10/11/2007, -8/+13yeah I submitted that a while back and it too made the front, still a cool picture though =D
But at least I bothered writing a description :P [comment] - DigitAl56K, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Of course, I could be wrong:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0640853&size=L&width=1280&height=865&sok=&photo_nr=
Damn! - Coffeedemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Its a cargo plane and like deskflyer said it takes off at a steeper trajectory. I know this because this picture is old and I remember the last discussion about it - it also featured a number of people who know a load more about planes than I. Still cool light trails I guess.
- brkn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5It's taken with a very long telephoto lens, which tends to give the appearance of squashing perspecive and making everything look flatter. In reality, that section of that path where it's climbing would be over many hundreds of metres.
- prockcore, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5It's just the angle. Look at the runway, it looks only twice as long as it is wide.
- IsaacCubed, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Tried to get a bigger image of the photo and I was told:
"Fit Screen is an Airliners.net First Class Member benefit."
Oh, my mistake. I am not a first class member. - oMeSSiaHo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I think it just looks steep. If I take a pencil and point it up at a slight angle and then look at it from behind and below it almost looks like it's point straight up.
- ronk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Folks. This is *not* a landing. If it were a landing, the headlights of the plane (or whatever you called it) would have been visible ruining the shot.
Again, I am no plane expert, but that is a pretty steep climb. I guess that is how cargo planes take off.
Cool shot anyhow... - Coffeedemon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4At least you didn't say AMAZING...
Pretty simple if you have a tripod and live anywhere close to an airport. - jayteeeeee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3photo by: al-qa'ida.
was that over the top? - KiloCharley, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Add in a little foreward slip, (not recommended with C-172 with more than 20 degrees flaps),...passengers dont like flyin' sideways...
- coheedcollapse, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7Supremely old. I've seen this on Digg at least three times and I've only been here for a year or so. It's also been featured all over the internet at various times. I know I've stumbled it more than once.
- LeggNet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Here's a similar one I took a while back:
http://www.leggnet.com/2006/10/slc-departure.html - dbr_onix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"I looked at it again and it looks the plane is sitting on the runway [..] So it appears it was a landing, not a takeoff."
Planes don't stop in the middle of the run way after landing (at the planes I've seen or been on don't).
But, when they are taking off, they do sit on the run way for a while... Which would far better explain why the plane is visible on the runway.. - KiloCharley, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4with those kind of tactics..............and....
- Managore, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Maybe it was landing backwards? I bet you didn't think of that, did you? That's what I thought.
(sarcasm, of course) - dugR, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2looks like an intergalactic space highway
- PIlotJLR, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I am a professional pilot.
- this airplane is definitely taking off
- this was a normal takeoff
It is normal to climb less than or equal to 200 knots until over 3000' above ground, at which point most airports want you to nose over and accelerate to 250 kts.
Cool pic though :-) - JorgeGT, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2brkn is right. Have you ever seen those pictures or videos of ships (or planes) that appear to be very close but they are, in fact, more that half a mile from each other? It's the same effect.
- PolarPyro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9M-9SyaB4
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