Who gets credit for this kickass pic?

[JohnMitchell 16]

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You can see, from the smoke trail, where the shuttle begins its roll program and that's at about 12 seconds after liftoff. So someone should be able to figure out what that altitude is (where the roll begins) and then do some eyeball extrapolating!

Assuming a 4 G accelleration would put them at ~9000 feet in 12 seconds.

[thrillstalker 0]

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Although, if some tandem camera took the shot, he/she would have their name plastered all over it.

One would assume that these days , however this photog is one of the most un assuming people I've ever met, and the photo belongs to the Tandem Passenger who is the one that submitted it.

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Unless there is a window we can't see, that is complete overcast and they flew above the cieling. If in the US against USPA/FAA regulations. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong). Just makes me wonder if it's real where it is.

The DZ is about 8 miles from SLC-2 and the marine layer (1100 AGL) ended about 5-6 miles from the DZ. SLC-2W is less than 1/4 mile from the coast. Jump was about 2 years ago.

Even though this jump was done over clear skies, as an exercise tell me where is says that it is against regulations to fly over clouds.

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not the young Upstarts, they haven't learn that their art is worth soemthing,,,I gave away plenty when I started!

And not some of the old dogs.... Mauro is well over 13,000 jumps. And the rights to most tandem shots in this country have either been given to or are shared with the purchaser of the tandem video.

any picture is the sole property of the photographer, unless otherwise stated in a contract.

"Never grow a wishbone, where your backbone ought to be."

[NickDG 23]

>>Assuming a 4 G accelleration would put them at ~9000 feet in 12 seconds.
You know, looking at it again it might be the shadow of the smoke trail in parallax against the upper cloud deck. The roll may have begun below the cloud deck. Mathematics aside the clouds still look too tiny to be real. But maybe. At that point on a tandem I was always too busy checking and rechecking handles to look down . . .

NickD

[bfilarsky 0]

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Even though this jump was done over clear skies, as an exercise tell me where is says that it is against regulations to fly over clouds.
It's not, you just pull above them and fly to the edge. You can just see the edge of that cloud cover in the bottom right corner, I believe you when you say it was legal.

61.89 - limitations on student pilots:

(a) A student pilot may not act as pilot in command of an aircraft:
(7) When the flight cannot be made with visual reference to the surface; or

91.155 requires you to be at least 1000 ft above clouds whenever you're VFR in controlled airspace (other than class B)

So, unless you're a student pilot trying to fly over a solid overcast, or a certified pilot trying to fly too close to clouds in controlled airspace, I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.

[diablopilot 2]

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any picture is the sole property of the photographer, unless otherwise stated in a contract.

Yep, however there are a couple of contracts in effect at most DZ's in the states. First is the waiver which usually allows the DZ ownership. Second is the implied contract when the video/photog services are purchased giving the purchaser ownership.

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[cocheese 0]

Nice picture.

[champu 1]

As JP mentioned, it's not a shuttle it's a Delta II out of VAFB. Most likely one of these guys (an Italian SAR bird)

The knee in the trajectory is the launch vehicle making a b-line South to get into a sun-synchronous orbit.

[fossg 0]

Its a cool pic and kudos to everyone involved