Two things feed my suspicion.
1) If we treat the sun as a distant point source of light, surely we expect 
the shadow of the fuselage to be fractionally wider than the fuselage 
itself. Yet it appears to be the width of the runway centreline.
2) Look at the line where the shadow cast by the rear horizontal tail 
aerofoil (I forget what it's called) cuts through the letters SIID. Project 
that line to the ground. It hits the ground far to the rear of where the 
ground shadow of that aerofoil appears in the photo.
Richard
On 18 April 2007 04:50, Russell McMahon [SMTP:apptech@paradise.net.nz] 
wrote:
> 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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