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Nice find...
this looks like a very close plaine crash!. Do you think its just a picture of the same plaine twice?
Nice find...
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thank.. to be honest I didnt find it.... its in the Biggest rollercoaster thread as "Pepsi Max" but theres no place mark there. so I throught I would do one as its quite strange!!
Well, they are both gliders, and the right hand one looks as if it is climbing. But the long range photography means that they could be separated by a long vertical distance. Size diminution though distance is very much less when the picture is taken at distance. I would guess at a couple of gliders in the same thermal, separated by a maybe a thousand feet.
If you scroll East (right) a mile or so you reach Dunstable Gliding club
( Postcode LU6 2JP ) You will see, from the number of gliders on the field, that it was a very busy gliding day there. So I suspect the close call was only in the horizontal direction.
Oddly enough, this was posted only a few days ago. The Gliding Club is also marked.
http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfi...iding-Club.htm
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Its two gliders thermaling, they spiral in an invisible current of rising hot air in order to gain altitude. They are a few hundred feet vertically apart, you can prove this as there is a 2 metre difference in their wingspan, although they are clearly the same type. They are however breaking regulations as they should stay at opposite sides of the thermal so they can both see each other at all times!!!! Oooops, busted!
**** man you can so tell that that is the same plane twice, now i dont know how they did it but it is the same place twice.FONTCOLOR
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Anyway.....! Says the guy who thought the Hong Kong airport at Kai Tak had a missle launch pad... LOL :-)
Seems to me to be Viking Winch Launch Gliders , Would have to agree they are sharing the same thermal they are identical aircraft the same type used by the UK Aircadets....!
J :-)
If you look on the Dunstable Glider club you can see the tractor with the winch in tow at the end of the field.....!
If you look closely you will see that the tail of the glider on the left is above the glider on the right, and yet the wing tip of the glider on the right is above the wing of the glider on the left so it can't be a twisted double photo of the same glider or one glider far above another. AND where are the shadows that should be to the north of these two gliders.
I think that one glider had to land in the field and his flying partner landed too and slid into him and that there is no shadow under their wings because it is taller plant growth there and not short mowed grass. Besides, if you look at the airfield some of those gliders sitting on the ground don't have shadows either.
But thats just what I get out of it.
Now that I've looked a little close: the right wing of the glider to the west is longer than it's left wing.
So either this glider was biult with different size wings, or a couple of feet of the left wing tip are hidden by the plants.
It also looks like the nose is sticking into the plants some too, which makes sense since it's tail is on top of the other glider pushing the front down.
Oh and now that I've looked a little harder it looks like there is a small shadow under the end of the right wing.
nice one. Kinda fools the eyes.
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