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I believe the helicopter was within 100 feet of me when I took the
photo. It looks small, so you might think it is farther away.

As a former armature photographer (used to have my own darkroom and all) I
offer the following: The stock lens on that Cheap Olympus camera doesn't
distort perspective unless you are using the zoom function. The chopper is
roughly the same apparent size as the red truck seen waaaaay at the end of
the parking lot - approximately 500 to 700 feet away horizontally. My
trained eye places the chopper between 100 to 200 feet closer to you than
the red truck - 400 to 600 feet away. It's vertical height, then, is
approximately 300 to 400 feet.

If the chopper were in a rapid ascent as you claim, it was many hundreds of
feet above Wal-Mart as it flew over.

Therefore, I am sorry to say that you are simply nutso and possibly
delusional.

--
Jim Fisher