Permission to come aboard sir?

If its Photo-Shopped, it is arn good fake. At first I thought what the heck
are they doing. There appears to be a movie camera mounted in front and to
the side of the "marshaller."

There has been a couple references to C-130's. This is not a C-130, the
ramp is W A Y too narrow maybe six feet wide and too short. Any Chinook
experts out there?

"Daan" wrote in message
...

Damned straight it looks dangerous! Wouldn't catch me that near those
intakes!

Do not fear, that close to the C130 would cause the engines to stall...

Exactly my point in the initial post. But, I agree that a 'tele' might have been used to
add a bit of drama to it, and make things look closer than they are.
Al Camp

"Daan" wrote in message ...

Damned straight it looks dangerous! Wouldn't catch me that near those
intakes!

Do not fear, that close to the C130 would cause the engines to stall...

Exactly my point in the initial post. But, I agree that a 'tele' might have been used to
add a bit of drama to it, and make things look closer than they are.
Al Camp

"Daan" wrote in message ...

Damned straight it looks dangerous! Wouldn't catch me that near those
intakes!

Do not fear, that close to the C130 would cause the engines to stall...

Blume, Alf wrote:
A tele-lens was used - the aircraft is at least 30 feet away, a bit closer
perhaps than when refuelling from a C-135 (and definately higher), but not
much.

Exactly. What you see in these pictures is a typical illusion of
"closeness" produced by a long-focal-length lens. In reality the planes
are not that close to each other.

Remember not so long ago there was a lot of buzz in mass-media when some
kid took a picture of two passenger planes "almost colliding" in the
sky? Was it near some US airport? Don't remenber... But anyway, that was
the same kind of illusion.

--
Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich

Blume, Alf wrote:
A tele-lens was used - the aircraft is at least 30 feet away, a bit closer
perhaps than when refuelling from a C-135 (and definately higher), but not
much.

Exactly. What you see in these pictures is a typical illusion of
"closeness" produced by a long-focal-length lens. In reality the planes
are not that close to each other.

Remember not so long ago there was a lot of buzz in mass-media when some
kid took a picture of two passenger planes "almost colliding" in the
sky? Was it near some US airport? Don't remenber... But anyway, that was
the same kind of illusion.

--
Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich