J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread V
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Sttrange .. since she was said to be at the CFTE already !
By the way this first image looks strange, since IMO the vertical tail seen in this image does not fit to the '2016' in front "showing" to the left.
The photo could have been taken by someone in CFTE, a serious security breach though. The perspective of the photo seems to mean that the phtographer was on the ground and close. Not from a position over a wall (at Chengdu therefor).
I believe that there are two J-20s. The vertical stablizer belongs to another J-20 on the right side, you can see its canopy just on the right side of the vertical stablizer of the J-10.
I don't think it's a problem with the picture exactly, just the exhaust from the J-10's engine distorting the view.
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But there is an image of another canopy we clearly see the background though. So there one J-20 is heading east-west direction while the other is north-south direction with the J-10 with a in the way in the foreground.
Yes, there are definitely two J-20s in the picture...
I'm only saying the J-20 2016 that Quickie is referring to, has its number look like a "double image," because of the J-10s exhaust, not because of any problem with the picture itself.
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Imo, the exhaust wouldn't have a prism like effect that would cause a double-image like that. At least, I don't recall ever seeing such an effect.
The picture can still be genuine though, albeit with the number photo-shopped.
I don't think what we are seeing is a "double image".
Of the serial number "2016" that is distorted, I think the 1 and the 6 are distorted the most, however the 6 is half covered up by the J-10's engine nozzle, so the 1 is seen from the photographer's point of view through the camera with distortion with the most effect... and that distortion makes the "1" seem like half of a "0"... due to a combination of the engine's exhaust distortion, the possible heat of the day, as well as the distance of the subject from the camera.
I think distortion is a perfectly reasonable explanation. More importantly, there is no reason for the photographer to have bothered with PSing that particular number in such a specific way, especially when the rest of the photographs in his set are all untouched -- it makes no psychological sense for the photographer to to so.
I think all the pictures are genuine and the "double image" we see is merely a result of distortion, rather than the photographer PSing it for some strange unexplainable reason.
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