On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/6/08, Walter Hamler, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>OK, I printed Bill's full image at 10" on a piece of paper. Assuming >>he was shooting with a standard 23.5 x 15.7 mm sensor, the image is >>10.8X on the paper. Measuring the image size with a machinist ruler I >>come up with an image size on the sensor of .033 inch. Assuming the >>plane to be a DC-10, at 180 feet long, he was flying at 43000 ft. >>That's probably pretty close. Now, I still haven't figured out the >>pilots name but I'm still working on that !! >>:-) > > NOT being a plane geek at all (Adam is best at that), may I offer that > the plane in the pic is not a DC-10 as that type does not have winglets > (visible in the pic). I think it might be a 757-200 :) But hey what's a > few feet between friends as he actress said to the bishop.... > > (cue Mr Maas) > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty >
Walter was actually closer ;-) It's an MD-11, most likely a FedEx MD-11F freighter. The MD-11 is a stretched and updated DC-10, with winglets and updated avionics. 200-201' long (depending on engines, as one of the choices is a foot longer in the tail-mounted postion). You can clearly see the third nacelle and exhaust along with the winglets which indicate its not a DC-10 -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
