Photo shopped? What you think...

[ianrauk]

 

[Beebo]

I've seen Top Gun so I know this is true.

 

[Francesca]

errr...photshopped - those guys would be sucked into those engines! not standing there taking snaps FFS!!!

 

[col]

Id go for true, the pic makes it look closer than it actually is.

 

[Archie_tect]

Wouldn't everyone be strapped back to smething solid?

 

[ianrauk]

errr...photshopped - those guys would be sucked into those engines! not standing there taking snaps FFS!!!

Not if both planes were moving forward....

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Only a fool breaks the two second rule.

 

[PpPete]

Not sure, but I think the foreplanes would be at a sharper angle for a Typhoon to fly as slow as a Herc.
I could be wrong - and the Herc is a very stable platform, whilst the Typhoon is about as manoeuverable as they come.

 

[oldfatfool]

The probe thingy for re-fueling mid air is missing from the front of the nose??, PS is my guess.

 

[MontyVeda]

isn't the Herc actually reversing towards the Typhoon?

 

[Risex4]

The probe thingy for re-fueling mid air is missing from the front of the nose??, PS is my guess.

On the modern fast aircraft fleet (Tyhpoon and Tornado principly as far as the RAF is concerned), the recepetor probe is retractable and sits in the airframe along side the cockpit, in the case of the Typhoon just above the canards IIRC. [/geek]

Whether its PS or not, I wouldn't have a clue. Seems rather pointless just for a flight photo-op.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yeah, you never see all of the plane, I think it's a tiny one and a bloke just off camera is holding the end of one wing. That's what I reckon.

 

[Archie_tect]

I believe MrP thinks it would work if they were on a treadmill. Why would someone photoshop something that the RAF probably mess about doing every day... what else have they got to do to fill the tedium?

 

[vernon]

I've had a search around the Internet and the general opinion on specialist forums is that the photos are real but clever cropping and the use of a telephoto lens makes the Eurofighter look closer than it is. There was a chap who saw the photoshoot taking place from the ground near Grimsby and apparently there were lots of reports of a near miss made to the emergency services/air force.

 

[Bluenite]

[QUOTE 1763590, member: 45"]It would work if they were on a treadmill...[/quote]