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To: El Gato
"The smokes trails are more a function of the backwash from the jet and of the winds aloft. The winds vary by altitude (The jet is diving) and time. The backwash is turbulent flow, with alot of randomness. No way three flares would have the same kinks, with the same spacing, in their smoke trails."

See my previous response. An F-16 is roughly 50 feet long. The length of those smoke trails is roughly 200 ft long. That jet is conservatively traveling at 480 knots or 800 feet per second. The smoke from those flares has existed for less than a second. Possibly less than half a second. The difference in wind in that altitude delta and timeframe is essentially nothing. And any vortice impact from the jet will hit all the smoke trails equally. I spent 15 years training with those flares. There is absolutely nothing in that picture that strikes me as odd, and a few things that make at least the flares seem completely authentic.

With regard to the "bombs". Who knows. The resolution of the whole picture is pretty poor. You can't even tell the canopy from the rest of the aircraft. For all we know this photo was taken with a telephoto lens from 15 miles away. Which goes back to my original point. There is enough ambiguity in this picture to set it aside and pummel the clown with his more obvious glaring forgeries.

116 posted on 08/06/2006 10:04:45 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: Rokke; El Gato
There is enough ambiguity in this picture to set it aside and pummel the clown with his more obvious glaring forgeries.

Then how do you explain how he's got three trails in one version of the photo, but four trails in another version of it?

Methinks he steppeth on his richard, LOL!

(Discussion on it here.)

120 posted on 08/06/2006 10:23:14 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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