Plane Optical Illusion

Plane Illusions

Here is a collection of pictures showing a plane near, formation flying, optical illusions, and possibly some faked photos.

• Aircraft Optical Illusion
• Formation Flying
• Plane Near Miss? - Too Near Miss?
• Plane Illusion - Or Narrow Escape?
• Not an Illusion - Just a Globemaster Releasing Flares
• Parachute Dilemma

Aircraft Optical Illusion

My first suggestion is to click on this picture and enlarge the image.  You should see what looks like a faked picture, but I assure you it's no fake.  See if you can make out 'Lufthansa' on one plane and ' United Airlines' on the other.  Read on when you have examined the two planes in the picture.

Here above is a great optical illusion photo taken of a Lufthansa 747-400 and a United Airlines 757-200 that were on simultaneous approaches to runways 28L and 28R at San Francisco (SFO).

The separation requirement for flying parallel and simultaneous approaches is 225 meters (738 feet). These two aircraft are at a safe distance for the approaches they
are each flying.

Due to the Lufthansa 747 being three times larger than the 757 plane and being slightly behind , gives us this incredible optical illusion.

Formation Flying

Classic old and new planes.

If you can identify the planes, please let us know.  A wild guess, the propeller plane is Corsair.  Could the jet fighter be a F/A-18E Super Hornet?

Shelby wrote saying their dad identified the planes as an F4U Corsair and an F-18 Hornet.

Plane Near Miss? - Too Near Miss?

Is that a runway that we can see in the middle just to the left of the car.  Do the shadows confirm that it is indeed a near collision?  Guy thought this was a near mess, rather than a near miss. 

Clever Air-show Picture or a Cut and Paste Illusion?

Here is Another Plane Near Miss

Plane Illusion - Or Narrow Escape?

Not an Illusion - Just a Globemaster Releasing Flares

The United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III Military Transport with the 14th Airlift Squadron located at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina flies away after releasing flares over the Atlantic Ocean.

Smoke from the flare salvo reveals a crisp, dramatic, startling, and beautiful visual of the turbulent air - including two vortices each with an "eye" - created by the plane as it flies through the air.

Parachute Dilemma

There were three passengers in a light aircraft but only two parachutes.

The first, Seamus, was the Irish Master Mind Champion.

The second, Larry, was an American Hall of Footballer.

The third, Bruce, was an Australian dual Olympic Games Champion. 

The conversation went thus,  Seamus said, 'There have been many American Hall of fame footballers and several people have won Olympic Gold medals, but there has only ever been one Irish Master Mind Champion.  So I'll take the first parachute and you two can fight it out for the last one'.  With that Seamus took a parachute and leapt out of the plane, which incidentally, by now was in considerable distress.

'How shall we decide who has the last parachute?' , Larry asked Bruce.' No worries' , Bruce said, 'Yonder Irish Master Mind Champion has jumped out with my rucksack'.

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