The return of the fly by...

Just a few days ago I wrote about this incident when I saw a Air New Zealand flight cross my flight mid air. Recently I got this mail of a Lufthansa and a United flying next to each other. Due to the telephoto distortion, the Jumbo 747 being 3 times larger than the 757 and being behind it, gives this fantastic optical illusion that they are flying inches from each other when they are actually 225 metres apart and about to land at SFO!!!

The photo was taken by Ben Wang an Airline photographer (Ben Wang's homepage). Apparently the photo is copyrighted. I tried to get the link of the photo from Ben Wang's website, but he has posted lots of hotos and there is no search feature. So, here is the link from another blog 757-747 telephoto distortion

The website Airlines.net has several other photographs of planes landing and taking off with one photo that has 5 flights in one shot!!