One of David Copperfield's most impressive illusions was making the Statue
of Liberty vanish. He raised a curtain in front of the crowd, made a very
poetic speech, dropped the curtain and the statue was gone, with just a
couple of helicopters circling overhead shining spotlights on the bare
base
of the monument.

Heavy sigh I don't suppose he could do this trick again. Everybody would
be up in arms about the helicopters flying too close to the statue and
over
a crowd of people.

I suppose he could still make a Lear jet disappear.

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I saw one of those 'Magician's Secrets Revealed' shows one time and they
showed how this illusion is performed. The object never actually disappears
of course, its done by moving the camera to a different scene without the TV
audience realizing it. Contrary to what the magician says, the people
present in the live audience are in on the joke and only pretend to be
amazed. Maybe he can make the TFRs disappear instead. He has apparently
already given the illusion to our government that their domestic security
policy over the last two years have made any difference other than to annoy
everybody and waste the taxpayer's money.