Comment by heyflyguy

Comment by heyflyguy 19 hours ago

What a bummer. We helped map the Kerrville floods for support of the state. Same day we mapped it, so did this WB-57 - only 35K feet above us. Such a historic and unique aircraft - I feel bad for the pilots onboard knowing it will likely total that aircraft even if it was a mechanical failure.

dylan604 18 hours ago

Was it flying at the same time? Maybe your plane is visible in the WB-57's imagery?

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jstanley 17 hours ago

Maybe stretched out into one massive smear of a plane, like when you drag your hand across a flatbed scanner

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- dylan604 13 hours ago
  
  How long of an exposure do you think they would be taking?
  
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  jhayward 9 hours ago
  
  It's not uncommon for older aerial photos to be single-pixel lines that the film is moved past. The motion of the film is correlated with the motion across the ground, so you can reconstruct a 2nd axis from the exposure.
  There's no shutter speed, it's continuous.
  
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