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      Jim Meads took the photo. He and his family were neighbors of Bob Sowray, who was supposed to be flying the plane originally. He told Jim he was going to be flying that day, so Jim took his kids to see it.

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      Especially with the photo technology back then. I guess there wasn’t really time for a second shot. It’s actually a quality pic as well.

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        I have a camera from… before that era (a cannon retina II from 1937-1939 that my grandfather used during the war), it has a textured film advance knob that’s super easy to use quickly. Someone skilled with their camera could probably get 3-4+ shots if they were prepared for it. If they had a camera with a film advance with the flip-up swivel knob, it could be considerably more.

        I used mine for a photography course (everything about it still works flawlessly, just missing some powder coat paint from a couple places) and without much skill I could have managed maybe 2 myself - but analogue cameras were dying when I was growing up, the closest you’d usually come is those disposables or cheap plastic shell cameras, and you couldn’t do much with those. So totally different skillset than I was exposed to.

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          Thanks for the knowledge, didn’t know :) just knew I had a lot to learn regarding old cameras

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    This amazing picture looks like an opening slide to WTYP.

    Justin: “In this picture you can see a Lightning F1… It’s not supposed to be like that. But before we get ahead of ourself, we have to ask the fundamental question of: What is a plane.”

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      You probably have never been under a fighter jet before. Hell even f13s flying normally catch me off guard. Just out of nowhere the fuckin sky just randomly goes KABOOM. Imagine one of those crashing right behind you. I almost guarantee you if you were that man you to would be turning around to see what is making that deafining sound that’s rattling your entire body.

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        The field he just ploughed that’s about to have a fighter jet sized crater in it…