That's just moving the camera at the same speed as the plane, except
rotational instead of translational. That means, the plane and its
shadow move along with the camera imaging direction, so they're sharp,
and all the people on the ground & background and so on are blurry
since they "move" with respect to what the camera is photographing.

On 18/04/07, greydove <greydove@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Looking at the photo things do not add up, the persons holding the poles are
> fuzzy due to movement yet all aspects of the plane are sharp including the
> prop...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU [mailto:piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Russell McMahon
> Sent: 18 April 2007 04:50
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> Subject: [OT]:: Darwin award candidates - Sukhoi SU62 G-SIID and 5 friends
>
> The most impressively bizarre and *apparently* dangerous feat of
> flying that I've ever seen (photo only so far).
>
> You'd have to think this photo was a makeup but odds are its real**.
> Don't try this at home (even if you have a Sukhoi G-SIID).
>
>        http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/airshow05/riat05/partone/curtis.jpg
>
> I suspect that the level of skill and / or bravery required by all
> concerned must be rather less than it appears.
>
> Gargoyling on the tail number (G-SIID) for images finds it doing many
> interesting things (so somebody here has probably seen it), but none
> of its other feats seem to quite match this one for utter fine tuned
> death-to-everyone-if-any-of-slip-or-even-flinch derring do.
>
> Just think what he could do if the engine was running! :-)
>
>
>        Russell
>
>
> Apparent motion blur of poles, if this is real, is caused by an
> impressive feat of camera focusing, a long lens at large aperture and
> more foreshortening than the brain suggests - just as well for all
> concerned.
>
> ** Even though there are a number of similar photos of this around
> it's still hard not to feel it's a makeup and the shadow looks strange
> compared to other shadows in the picture. But the sites where this
> appear lend credibility to it being real.
>
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