The insane spitfire video clip

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:50:03 GMT, gatt wrote:
I've only watched it about a hundred times now. Let's see...ballpark
estimates would put the prop diameter at around 7', and he appears to have
been some fraction of that off the ground, GEAR UP...

If it's the video I'm thinking of, I got it a while ago, and I load it
up whenever I need a good laugh :-)

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

On 27 Oct 2003 19:04:38 GMT, Teacherjh wrote:
... and those who filter out .wmv files in their entirety (because of payloads)
won't get to see them.

wmv is just MPEG-4 with some MS "improvements", IIRC. I'd rather have
the MPEG-4 file, but I can play wmv with my non-Microsoft system so it's
not such a big bother (payloads won't have an affect).

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:55:07 -0800, Peter Duniho NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.
com wrote:
Secondly, my comment about not opening a web broswer was simply addressing
the fact that you have the EXACT same vulnerability when playing a WMV file
(if you've chosen to expose yourself to that vulnerability) as you have when
surfing the web.

I dunno, there are some very serious vulnerabilities in MSIE that have
turned up recently - including one allowing a malicious user to execute
arbitrary code as the logged in user (which is also trivial to exploit).

A patch a day keeps the trojans away.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:50:20 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:
Hey -- for $10K, I'll take the time to learn whichever programming language
is necessary to beat that bet!

i386 assembly included? :-)

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

"Dylan Smith" wrote:

A patch a day keeps the trojans away.

I thought the Trojan was to keep the nasties away.

Jay,

Don't worry about converting. You should be running Zone Alarm Pro on your
computer anyway or an equivalent that tells you when any program is trying
to communicate with the outside world. If you run a clip and don't get an
alert, it's free of web links.

The wmv files are much better for viewers due to the smaller size. I can't
imagine anyone would bother putting a virus into an aviation clip. They
would go with something with wider appeal like cheerleaders ....(never
mind).
--
Roger Long

There is a company called Acacia that claims to own the patent on recorded
streaming media.
They are asking that people pay them huge amounts of money to license
their DMT
patents. How do I know about this, because we got a letter from them
asking us
to pay them $10k to license their patents. They are not playing around,
they
even sent these letters to universities, online radio stations and so
forth.

They claim a patent on ALL streaming media? Wow -- that's arrogance of
Microsoftian proportions.

Well, I suppose if they want to stop our fun, they can have a whack at me.

But they'll have to stand in line to do it. ;-)

(What's a "DMT patent"?)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Dylan Smith wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:50:20 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:
Hey -- for $10K, I'll take the time to learn whichever programming language
is necessary to beat that bet!

i386 assembly included? :-)

Hey, for 10K, I'd learn it!

George Patterson
You can dress a hog in a tuxedo, but he still wants to roll in the mud.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:50:03 GMT, "gatt" wrote:

I've only watched it about a hundred times now. Let's see...ballpark
estimates would put the prop diameter at around 7', and he appears to have
been some fraction of that off the ground, GEAR UP...

Good God. I just can't imagine who would do that. Reminds me of Piece of
Cake where they're flying under the stone bridge (best flying footage in
anything I've ever watched, really.)

Do you know any details about the shoot? What airplane was it?

I read an explanation in another group.

The gist is as follows: It was to be an introduction to a Discovery
program, if I remember right, and is about two years old. The
"talent" is supposed to introduce the piece and he's supposed to
finish his introduction in time for the Spitfire to zoom past.

I will extrapolate a bit and suggest that very likely the Spitfire had
run a pass or two ahead of time so that the filmers could time his
approach and work out how long the intro could be.

This could have happened at any time prior to the "talent" arriving
for his part. I say this because it seems pretty obvious that the guy
has no idea how close the pass will be.

This, again pretty obviously, is the first take.

Here's an additional detail: the pilot of the Spitfire is a guy who
flies it in shows a lot and has the reputation for flying extremely
low. If you watch the approach carefully, you'll notice that the guy
is so low, he actually has to climb a bit to clear the camera crew.
His prop disc, at one point, appears to be only about four feet above
the turf.

It was a pass in which the Spitfire circles out of camera view, and
dives down to begin the approach. He isn't taking off and climbing
out right over the crew.

Corky Scott

"Brian Burger" wrote in message a.tc.ca...


I've used my firewall to cut RealPlayer off from the internet - now it's a
*much* better behaved program. No irritating popups, no demands to be
updated, it just plays .rm videos when I want it too...

Only if you also kill off the @*&#! start center feature. We had a customer who
was griping about our software burping every second. Sure enough even when
RealPlayer isn't supposed to be doing anything it wakes up once a second and
steals away the CPU.