"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
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.

He didn't move the statue, just the audience. The audience was
actually in on the trick (when I saw that in the "making off" I was
pretty disappointed to see the audience was faking it). The audience
sat on a moving platform that rotated so they were actually looking in
a different direction.
Some of these guys border on T.V. fakery. That David Blain guy claims
he can levitate. He uses a pretty simple trick of hiding one of his
feet behind the other leg to push himself up. However, when you see it
on T.V. they actually lifted him with a cable to make it look more
dramatic. So the audience is really (honestly) impressed but those of
us at home are mislead into believing he was much higher than the
audience saw.