"Newps" writes:

"Greg Copeland" wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:57:13 -0400, Peter R. wrote:

Greg Copeland ) wrote:

Aside from the fact that there is no shadow,

Look again. There is a shadow, just at the crest of the road.

If that's the shadow to the plane, the angle doesn't appear to match any
others. All the other shadows would appear to place the sun directly
overhead. Which means, if what you're calling a shadow is supposed to be
coming from the plane, it was put in badly. Otherwise, we'd have to
simply call it an unidentified dark area in the picture. Furthermore,
look at where the shadow is cast under the wing.

The shadow is directly underneath the plane, as you would expect. The
shadow is clearly shown on the chain link fence, just to the right of the
light pole, crosses the road and is just in front of the trees.

I think you're probably right; but the plane *looks* as if it's much
closer to the camera than that shows it is, and than it probably
really is. I don't know that plane from first-hand sightings; but
it's a *big* one, right? So it's a lot further away than it looks.

I'm used to a *small* 4-engine high-wing passenger plane (I think the
BAE; something the Northwest feeder operation flies a fair number of,
anyway), so it's even eaiser for me to misinterpret the size in that
photo, maybe.
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