"DM" wrote in message
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thank you to everyone who replied. I've been considering all the
explanations offered and appreciate the information. I'm pretty close to
accepting the "optical illusion" idea but am not quite there yet.

Airliners simply don't stop in midair. You have no choice but to accept the
"optical illusion" idea.

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Fly safe everybody.

We do. Now, since you brought it up, how about you quit panicking every
time you see an airplane go overhead doing something other than what you
think it ought to be doing. We're not the dangerous boogey man that you,
the general public, apparently think we are. Tell your friends.

Thanks.

Pete