[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by daepp
How are those flight shots taken - does anyone know? Is it safe?

First, it looks like the plane has taken off from the runway and is climbing like a scalded ass ape. It did not happen that way. You do a run down the runway at about 100 feet then before the end pull the airplane up into a very impressive climb. This way it looks like you just took off and are doing the impossible, which is what the aircraft makers want the buyers to think.

Next the camera ship. There is a gent named Clay Lacy out of Van Nuys who does 90% of these photos. He has an old 20 Series Learjet that has a camera in the belly, on top and so on and is ferried around the world to take photos of planes for everyone.

Go here and click on "Astrovision" and it gives a lot more information than I am going to post here.

http://www.claylacy.com/