This is Different

[dodger]

Hi,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eOjOqAj4Hc

Roger.

[Vancouver]

Clearly a staged event else we would have had complaints from pilots akin to the recent drone events.

[dodger]

Clearly a staged event else we would have had complaints from pilots akin to the recent drone events.

Yes most certainly Alex, they do a lot of Sky Diving at Dubai.

Roger.

[Dev One]

Glad they kept out of the tip vortex, although it could have been a great confirmation (or otherwise) of the winglets efficiency if they had flown in front of the wingtips!
Keith

[Airspeed]

Couldn't get over the air pollution!
How did they manage that in the middle of a desert?

[cstorey]

I regard it as yet another fairly obvious fake. Note where the smoke trail goes through behind the 380, towards the end - not a trace of wake

The sky really is like that in Dubai a lot of the time - it's not pollution so much as sand , which is ever present in the atmosphere

[Airspeed]

...- it's not pollution so much as sand , which is ever present in the atmosphere

The jet engines would love that! YUM!

[Nick M]

There's a 'making of' video for anyone interested. Staged? Well, of course. However, "carefully choreographed" is how they prefer to describe it. The 'official' link to the original video has nearly 10 million views already.

Cheers,
Nick

[RobDob]

I regard it as yet another fairly obvious fake. Note where the smoke trail goes through behind the 380, towards the end - not a trace of wake

The sky really is like that in Dubai a lot of the time - it's not pollution so much as sand , which is ever present in the atmosphere

Nope, its not a fake! Its very, very real!

[petermcleland]

Doesn't seem to be available now due to legal problems