Look at these, pilots were always crazy:

http://members.home.nl/bdaanje/forumpics/ErnstUdetKunstflug.wmv
http://www.sn-medien.de/modellpilot/images/videos/flamingo/udet-landung.wmv

Tamas


On 4/22/07, Howard Winter <HDRW@h2org.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:20:32 +0100, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>
> > >If the runway is very wide (ie, 50 feet?  100 feet?) and the
> > >photographer low to the ground (5 feet off the ground, 400 feet away)
> > >then the shadows would look very similar to what we see in the photo.
> >
> > At Fairford the runway is wide enough to take a B52 ... I guess that
> makes
> > it pretty wide ...
>
> Standard RAF runways dating from WWII are 46m wide (150 feet in old
> money).  And the centreline is much wider than
> you'd expect - people expect it to be like the lines on roads, but they
> start at about two feet wide and go up from
> there!
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
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