Recently, because of US flag respect/disrespect controversies, I read the US governments guidelines about the display and handling of the Stars-and-Stripes, or images of it. One of the requirements was that representations of the flag should be imaged as if the flagstaff was on the left, and another was that the starfield should always be on the side nearest the flagstaff. Therefore the starfield should be on the left of the flag on Air Force One's vertical stabiliser. Therefore the image of Air Force One is flipped. However, the image of the Mandalay Bay Hotel is not flipped, because the broken windows are in their correct positions. Therefore, the picture is a composite of a true picture of the hotel and a reversed picture of Air Force One. I'm Australian and saw it in about ten seconds. How many Americans would it have taken before one spotted it. Mike Wilson is English and smelled a rat, though I'm not sure he knows why his BS detectors trembled.
regards, Anthony On 14 October 2017 at 08:31, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > So it looks like the picture is possible after all. I was somethat thrown > by > the caption, which, as in the article Larry found, says something like "AF1 > flies past the broken windows...." Clearly, it is flying behind the whole > hotel. > > > On 13 October 2017 at 22:18 John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > > > I also found this regarding "right turn" departures from McCarran > > International Airport. > > > > https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/effort-to-change-flights-on-brink/ > > > > > > On 10/13/2017 13:59, mike wilson wrote: > > >> On 13 October 2017 at 17:31 John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> More likely it would be a right turn departing runway 25R. > > >> > > >> http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLAS > > >> > > >> Runway 7L/25R (the Airnav sheet has it as 8L/26R) is the longest > runway at > > >> McCarran. Traffic departing 25R should normally go straight ahead or > turn > > >> right. > > > > > > It says traffic pattern _left_ which I would expect - away from high > > > population > > > areas. If you do turn right I would expect a very high rate of climb, > > > making > > > the pictures less possible again. Although, as I wrote earlier, > traffic > > > rules > > > may not aply to AF1. Some planes are more equal than others, it seems. > > > > > >> > > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfield_traffic_pattern > > >> > > >> You could get that angle of view standing near the Las Vegas Village > > >> concert > > >> venue's Gate #5 on Giles St and have a pretty good chance that Air > Force > > >> One > > >> would be departing in that direction. > > >> > > >> 36.095449, -115.170635 > > >> > > >> > > > > -- > > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow > > the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
