peter green wrote:
> Roger, in Bangkok wrote:
>   
>> Given a know wingspan, and the approximate height of the 4 balconies,
>> shouldn't be too difficult to approximate how close:-)
>>   
>>     
> As wouter says that's not enough information. That only tells you the 
> ratio between the distance between camera and building to the distance 
> between camera and plane. The planes apparent size is about 3 stories 
> which a quick search tells me is about 9m. another quick search tells me 
> a f18s wingspan is about 13.5 meters. This would indicate that the 
> distance between camera and plane was about 1.5 times the distance 
> between camera and building.
>
> So to figure out the actual distance you need to know how far the camera 
> was from the building, wouter says that this may be possible from other 
> abberations in the image. I've no idea how to calculate this but the 
> lines look very straight to me (I think the big vertical through the 
> building is within a couple of pixels of being dead straight)which would 
> indicate that this picture was taken from a considerable distance.
>
>
>   
Here's the story from the Detroit news.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/20043046/index.html

Jim
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