N2124v
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I know nothing about the picture. I just thought it was cool and wanted to share.
Just thought this was cool
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Jaybird180
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A true highway in the sky
flyingcheesehead
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I know nothing about the picture. I just thought it was cool and wanted to share.
Very cool! You can even see how the winds aloft changed - I don't see a wing drop at that first slight turn in the light paths. The pitch changes are interesting too.
denverpilot
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Ooh. Cool!
Let'sgoflying!
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was that a flap change?
Unbeliever
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I wonder if that's the KSNA noise abatement profile.
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Teller1900
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My guess would be a level off before joining the glide slope.
flyingcheesehead
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A glideslope is not nearly that steep, and the lights are white. That's a departure.
david.h
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Looks to me initial climb at Vx to put some money in the bank, then acceleration to Vy.
Let'sgoflying!
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Pretty sure the big guys don't climb at vx or vy. I like the idea of banking altitude though!
david.h
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Totally agree, but it was the quick way to get my point across.
Jeanie
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Ok, I'm clueless confused.... What are we looking at? I don't see a plane
denverpilot
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It's a long-exposure photo on a tripod of an aircraft departing an airport. The streaks in the sky are the wingtip lights and the dots are the flashing beacons/strobes.
Teller1900
En-Route
Ahh, good call, I wasn't paying close enough attention. I've only ever seen that kind of shot for arrivals, not departures. In that case, I'll change my answer to "Flap retraction."
Jeanie
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Why don't you see an elongated plane or something? If the plane is gone, how are the lights still there? And, no, I'm not blonde.. Just not photography
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denverpilot
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In really long exposure night photography you're just barely getting enough light to "see" that background scene after leaving the shutter open for many seconds of time. Anything moving fast across the frame relative to the amount of time the shutter is open is going to have to be very bright to show up on the final image.
The airplane body itself in this shot is just an extremely dim streak that isn't bright enough to show up in the final photo, but the aircraft's lights are bright enough to leave trails across the field of view by "exposing" the film.
It is a cool camera trick.
(So to speak... This was probably shot with a digital camera but they've typically been designed to behave as if you were exposing film. The sensor is on all that time, and the camera is ignoring low light items and not storing them as part of the image in memory. Depends on if there's a real iris/f-stop setting, or if the camera does it digitally with math, or a combination of both.)
I'm a rank amateur photographer but it's fun.
http://flickr.com/#/photos/den_pilot/sets/72157627499202924/