In article ,
"Ken Morano" wrote:

If you visit the following URL you'll see a video:
http://www.airspacemag.com/asm/mag/supp/fm00/Blues.html
the last portion of which shows what appears to be a Blue Angels F-18 roll
only to reveal that, in fact, it was 2 planes flying so close, the plane in
the background was completely obscured by the other.

I've stepped back and forth through this "footage" and I cannot believe it
is real. Those pilots are indeed praise worthy but the stunt captured in
this film looks too much like visual effects. The image of the one plane
simply separates from the other. Is there anyone here who can vouch for the
legitimacy of this video?

Well, if they did fake the last shot, they were really subtle about it,
since there are some reflections on the port wing on the front plane
that aren't there on the back plane. Might be video artifacts from the
process, though...

With a long enough lens, it's actually pretty easy to get an effect like
that in reality, since the difference in parallax would be small enough
to hide the other plane, if the angle was perfect.

Considering how many hundreds of hours there must be of Blue Angel
flights, I'd be shocked if something like this *didn't* happen in one or
two (the effect is only a couple of seconds before the separation).

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