I could be wrong...but I'm calling "slow news day" on this one: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/10/19/nr.plane.golden.gate.cnn?hpt=C2 I have a feeling the proximity to the bridge is illusion. Then again, I wasn't there.
Yeah, it didn't look too close, maybe if we saw other angles of it then we'd be able to make a better judgement of it, but like you said, we weren't there.
I suspect this is another case of a big lens making things appear a lot closer than they really are. As for people being traumatized by 9/11 memories? I suspect you would find a high correlation between people who would like to get rid of the airshow altogether and people who were traumatized by this event. I dunno how they would make it through the Blue Angels. OH MY GOD! OMG OMG! They are gonna hit each other! OMG! They just missed each other! It really irritates me when incompetent people who can barely parallel park get their panties in a wad over people performing at a high level of competency.
I call "totally bogus" on this one. The telephoto lens made it look a lot closer than it really was. Probably hundreds of yards, in fact.
Exactly 1/2 the population is below the median intelligence so it's no surprise that some people will freak out about nothing. I don't see what the big deal is. Awesome 744 flying over a bay next to a nice city? Okay.
I was there, it was close, relatively speaking, but not that close. Here's what it looked like with a "normal" lens after the turn; things are much further apart than the telephoto makes it look. This was actually my cellphone camera as the camera I brought was a brick when I discovered the battery was discharged after leaving it on in the bag. Image Unavailable, Please Login
More than likely. Foreshortening with a telephoto lens. I can't believe not one person in the news room could figure that one out.
Nothing more than the compression effect of a long telephoto lens at work here. A great example of this is this photo I took on a clear day at SFO with a 500 mm lens. http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5662215 Another taken at PHX with a 300mm lens makes the control tower look a lot closer than it really is. http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5808107
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/19/nothing-wrong-with-jets-air-show-maneuver-faa-says/?hpt=C2 "The video, recorded during Fleet Weeks October 9-10 air show, may make a viewer believe the plane was banking over the bridge. But FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said Tuesday the radar track shows the planes closest proximity to the bridge was 1,200 feet, and no regulations were broken. The camera position and angle make the plane look closer than it was, he said."
