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I guess "stubby" is this airplane:



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Do-17z fact and history site, setting it straight.
There is something deeply wrong with a society more offended by breasts than by entrails.

That size oddity is caused by using a very long lens-it's the same reason why the batter in a baseball game appears to be taller than the pitcher even though the pitcher is 66 feet closer to the camera when the broadcaster uses the center field camera, forced perspective

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Yes you are correct, Formerly from Jackson Park in Windsor Ontario.

Cheers Dave C

Joking of course.

It is trick of the eye caused by the combination of the telephoto lens effect and the dihedral of the wings.

With the long telephoto, the roundels are say 500' and 520' away from the eye of the viewer.

At this distance the eye is actually looking at two ellipses of almost equal 'major diameter' but due to the dihedral of the wing, the further roundel/ellipse has a greater 'minor diameter'. In two dimensions the further roundel/ellipse presents a greater surface area to the viewer and the eye/brain interprets this as 'larger'.

PeterA

I thought you were joking, but I wasn't quite sure. I know about telephoto compression, but I had never seen that effect on one single object so pronounced! Thanks for the explanation!