Simviation Forum - Real or fake?

Dec 24^th, 2008 at 8:29pm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5kLrXhx_LY

Real or fake? You decide.

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Reply #1 - Dec 24^th, 2008 at 10:37pm

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I don't think the Air Force would permit an aircraft to do that. Too high a risk, especially a tanker plane. What do you guys think?

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Reply #2 - Dec 24^th, 2008 at 10:52pm

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I don't know. The guy on the right is tracking it with his camera and the sound very much resembles a low altitude pass. Having been in the Air Force myself, I can tell you sometimes boredom becomes a problem and has to be dealt with by doing something totally insane. Cheesy

The one thing I didn't see was a shadow and the perspective really doesn't look correct. It looks as if the aircraft is farther away than it should be.

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Reply #3 - Dec 24^th, 2008 at 11:34pm

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Mushroom_Farmer wrote on Dec 24^th, 2008 at 10:52pm:

I don't know. The guy on the right is tracking it with his camera and the sound very much resembles a low altitude pass. Having been in the Air Force myself, I can tell you sometimes boredom becomes a problem and has to be dealt with by doing something totally insane. Cheesy

The one thing I didn't see was a shadow and the perspective really doesn't look correct. It looks as if the aircraft is farther away than it should be.

What do you mean you didn't see a shadow? it was directly in front of the plane the whole time.

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Reply #4 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 12:45am

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I watched again and saw it. Actually it looks to me like the shadow starts in front of the plane, by midway it is directly under the plane, and toward the end it is behind the plane. It also looks darker than the other shadows.

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Reply #5 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:01am

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I'm calling bullcrap, no dust flying up from the air displacement or the thrust of the engines...well done, very realistic, but it's gotta be fake.

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Reply #6 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:46am

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BigTruck wrote on Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:01am:

I'm calling bullcrap, no dust flying up from the air displacement or the thrust of the engines...well done, very realistic, but it's gotta be fake.

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Reply #7 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 5:19am

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T1MT1M wrote on Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:46am:

BigTruck wrote on Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:01am:

I'm calling bullcrap, no dust flying up from the air displacement or the thrust of the engines...well done, very realistic, but it's gotta be fake.

You read that off the comments below the video Tongue

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Oh yeah? I see they were on there after you mentioned it, but I got that from my own observations. Am I wrong?

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Reply #8 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 7:43am

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BigTruck wrote on Dec 25^th, 2008 at 5:19am:

T1MT1M wrote on Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:46am:

BigTruck wrote on Dec 25^th, 2008 at 4:01am:

I'm calling bullcrap, no dust flying up from the air displacement or the thrust of the engines...well done, very realistic, but it's gotta be fake.

You read that off the comments below the video Tongue

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Oh yeah? I see they were on there after you mentioned it, but I got that from my own observations. Am I wrong?

Of course your wrong didn't you see all the dust Cheesy

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Reply #9 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 9:06am

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I'm voting real, I've seen other planes of similar size do it.

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Reply #10 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 7:36pm

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ShaneG wrote on Dec 25^th, 2008 at 9:06am:

I'm voting real, I've seen other planes of similar size do it.

So you Did not notice no Dust? Cheesy

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Reply #11 - Dec 25^th, 2008 at 7:46pm

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Maybe the video was taken on a cell phone, in which case you would not see everything clearly, it just looks real to me. More real than the airplane losing a wing and landing did. I could be wrong. Cheesy

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Reply #12 - Dec 26^th, 2008 at 3:24am

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I've seen it done plenty of times in my career in the field...it's a common everyday thing for the military, making supply drops and such...so yeah it could happen, but there is much more dust and dirt flying.

Shane makes a good point though, it could be a low low quality camera, but still for a 4 engine jet to breeze the ground like that, I would think that even a crappy camera would catch the cloud of dust kicked up behind it.

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Reply #13 - Dec 26^th, 2008 at 8:20am