Much higher than 100 meters, but probably no higher than 2000 meters.
J-20... The New Generation Fighter III
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How sure are you about that? From where the camera is, looking at the edge of the runway, it looks to be within 2000 meters, I was trying to sort of triangulate based on that spot... And the plane, when closest to the camera (which doesn't seem to be zooming in and out), looks too large to be that far/high, doesn't it?
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At 100 meters the plane wouldn't have enough room to maneuver for the stunts it's doing. Also keep in mind that just because it looks like it's only about two or three times higher up than the trees (using around the 1:20 mark as reference), it could look that way because it's much further away from the trees and apartments than it looks. For the J-20 to be exactly where the trees are, its length would probably have to match the height of the tree to be only 100 meters up, but it's much smaller than that, which tells me it's both further and higher...
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That would be impossible, seeing as this is a video and we have no fixed relative point.
2000 meters is really not that high up if you think about it. 2000-5000 meters is about the height they do airshows in if I'm not mistaken..
We have one fixed point: The camera. We need another reference point far away but at a known distance. I was using the runway roughly for that purpose... But without any object-of-known-hight over there and without knowing the distance between the camera that that object, it probably is as good as useless.
Except for the South China Morning Post, I almost never buy into the HK press. Too much yellow journalism. At least with Mainland Press you can parse the news based on the propaganda position.
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