First of all the plane took off on the runway not the taxiway. Perspective is the thing God gave us by putting two eyeballs in our heads. If you know anything about the layout of airports those two lanes tend to run parallel to each other on most all fields. The pilot lifted off, stayed in ground effect for a rather considerable amount of time (for a reason), built up a lot of punch and his/or her big "finale" was pulling the plane up into a brief hard climb. Notice that the hardness of the climb tapers off real quick once all that airspeed bled off. I've done this manuever hundreds of times in GA aircraft and BELEIVE IT OR NOT FOLKS it can be done in airliners too - epecially when they're relatively light on fuel and free of vomit hurling passengers. The latter is the main reason you don't see airliners doing that on a regular basis. Pulling up hard is no biggy... fact is that aircraft is capable of doing a roll too. In fact , just about any aircraft made is capable of doing a nice slow barrel roll maintaining 1G and still be well within safety margins.
I'm guessing it's not an airshow because there's no evidence of a crowd.
Anyone who's ever been around radio controlled model aircraft would know that ducted fan "toy airliners" bob around all over the place with the slightest puff of wind when they fly. They don't fly with the precision steadiness and mass that a real airliner like this one demonstrates. I could go one and one why this is real but I have to eat dinner... that's if you believe a guy who's an FAA certified pilot , a radio control airplane hobbyist and a regular airshow affectionado.
Not to mention that a plane that big can't accellerate that fast. That was accelleration characteristic of smaller twin engine jets and fighters. And there is no exhaust... All that thrust to get accellerate into a steep climb like that and no exhaust. I work next to LAS and watch planes take off all day. They all have a noticeable dirty brown exhaust trail.
didn't know that. i know it's possible, but that's good for the amount of space he or she had. mayb an old fighter pilot having fun.
Is it a bird? no, it is a model aircraft...
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Any person that can see, can see it is a model aircraft.Look when it passes the row of static aircraft. This model of a Airbus A319 is smaller than the Cessnas, Pipers and the Beach Sundowner. I rest my case. I have tqwo eyes and can see. there are none so blind as those who cannot see.
How come it sounds EXACTLY like a commercial airliner with it's gutteral ahine and high pitched whistles taking off, and not the buzz you would expect to hear from a Model aircraft?
1. if it was fake, they could dub sound on later
2. model airliners can be fitted with tiny jet engines (a comparatively simple design) as can be seen on another video on here; a scaled-down replica of a passenger jet. it has jet engines and does not buzz.
Do you really think they are going to bother their asses dubbing a fake soundtrack..... like so what!!??? It's just a bored pilot pricking around with a passenger airliner, like so what??? NOW GET OVER IT!!!
Yo this is a complete Hoax
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The plane is there taking off and shooting up, true, but u should realise that the dramatic accent into the sky is a simple video trick by simply accelarating the video frame rate soon after the accent and finally bringing back the frame rate to normal once the plane had stabilized in the sky.
It's not real, here's why...
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That bobbing you are talking about is present immediately after liftoff. Not to mention the runway it is taking off from is running in front of the little personal planes and cars. It's a scale model. The sound is dubbed. The way it was filmed makes it look fairly realistic but it's still very noticible when you are paying attention. If they wanted to make it look more real they would have slowed playback down about 10%
I believe you when you say a real plane can do that. But then again, look at the planes in the background, its so obvious those are bigger than the plane thats taking off :)
come on take a good look its sopooo obvious !
That is why he kept it level and low to the ground for so long he was picking up enough speed or momentum so that he could pull that manuever (sp) off, if he would of pulled up like that right after taking off, that planes engines couldn't have generated enough power to keep it from stalling, so he got a little speed going, and well as you saw, up he went.
It's airspeed that matters... not the angle of attack. Any flight instructor will drill into your head “watch that airspeed indicator†The max angle at which an aircraft can climb out is a constantly changing variable.
Hot days, cold days, humidity density altitude ect… My aircrafts’ climb performance would just about triple in the wintertime vs. summer.
and for those who model plane conspirators I already posted this enticing little factoid. This video is from Friedrichshafen Airshow, Germany Apr 26th 1997. If you don't believe me why don't you email the guy who actually made the video, instead of hypothesizing about toy airplanes. The videographer was Christian Haupt. His address is posted on http://www. flightlevel350 .com/video _streaming. php?id=959
Excellent insights and comments, 2000, thank you for your knowledge sharing. Are you married? lol Love the technical talk from someone who knows what they are talking about.
It's airspeed that matters in climbing out... not the angle of attack. Any flight instructor will drill into your head “watch that airspeed indicator†The max angle at which an aircraft can climb out is a constantly changing variable.
Hot days, cold days, humidity density altitude ect… My aircrafts’ climb performance would just about triple in the winter time vs. summer.
and for those who model plane conspirators I already posted this enticing little factoid. This video is from Friedrichshafen Airshow, Germany Apr 26th 1997. If you don't believe me why don't you email the guy who actually made the video, instead of hypothesizing about toy airplanes. The videographer was Christian Haupt. His address is posted on http://www. flightlevel350 .com/video _streaming. php?id=959
You are absolute right, the link works, but you must cancel the spaces in the adress.
I know also, that sometimes ago pilots had the directive to stay near the groung as long as possible and then rapidely lift up in different directions. This should prevent terroristic attacs with missiles. Remember the reason...
stierus
Look let me tell you something. That IS A MODEL AIRPLANE.
1)No flaps take off and using that short distance for take off! Give me a break! That is not the real Macoy! Airliners that size won’t take off without flaps.
2)The airplane looks way too small compared to the Cessnas 172 parked in the background…
No airline pilot would dare to play games in small airport like that.. There are daredevils and there are airline pilots… Two different characters !
The pitch is to great for an aircraft that size… Is possible but it will require lots of power and being near the limit of angle of attack, you can get an accelerated stall doing that maneuver…. You have to be crazy to do that, with an aircraft that size…
THAT IS A MODEL PLANE!!!
I'm pretty sure you've been in the back ...
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.....you're the guy that has the flight attendant come tell the two of us that you heard a noise "that isn't right." If you were an FAA certified pilot you would see that the flaps are retracting as he's accelerating in ground effect. I've done this same type of a take off in an airliner and it is possible. I'm an airline pilot and a daredevil so you're wrong about the "two different characters" statement. It's called trading airspeed for altitude. If you notice he doesn't keep the nose high attitude for long because his airspeed is bleeding off fast. If this video were fake he would have kept the nose high attitude for a lot longer than he did. It's real, Monday Morning Quarterback.
I am clueless about planes but u are probably right. I have MS Flight Simulator and i cannot perform that maneuver so quickly and if i suddenly shoot up to that angle the plane usually stalls and come crashing back down to earth. and at the end it begins to look more and more like a useless crappy model.
then you are really mother theresa! OMG! :D
Seriously dude, its a model plane, look at the planes in the background, they make the plane look really small wich it is...
low cost german airline, gets you from A-B faster than anyone else. We are not worried about your comfort, only in turning around as fast as possible...
Enjoy the flight ;-)
I swear i have done it with Commandor 114-B
The V.S.I reached 2700 Feet ber minute
Pretty sweet I must say.
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However, after seeing the Blue Angels C-130 do a Barrel Role less than 1000ft from the ground, there isn't much that widdens my eyes. But I must say, having never seen a commercial aircraft go vertical, I am impressed. Oh and BTW it is very much real. I really dislike people who comment on some ones intillectual response with absolute dumbfounding, hard headed, ignorance. To lazy to even go research information and remotely attempt to prove his arguement wrong. Model airplane my ass...
‎2000footobservation is absolutly right. This is an god damn normal A319 commercial jet. You have to think about this: this bird is powered by engines, which are built to power this aircraft AND some 100 people AND a lot of fuel AND a lot of cargo. As ‎2000footobservation said, these aircrafts can do unbelieveable things when they are "empty"! They also can do a 115° bank angle ;)
brgds,
Phil
It's a commercial demonstration of the A319 by Airbus Industrie to potential buyers. Near-empty plane had huge power to weight ratio allowing very steep climbs. You can find the original full length footage of this event on many commercial aviation websites. The jet made many passes and some of the climbs were steeper than the one shown.
the aircrafts there look bigger then the one that is taking off. that is because those planes a closer to the guy that is taking the video. that is one of the tricks that movie makers used to use when they wanted to make someone look bigger then another person in the movie. for example anyone here seen the movie "Elf" in the scene that is playing in a class room they had the "big elf" sit close up to the camera and the "smaller elfs" sit about 10 meters behind him. plus the wings will not just fall of a plane. I say anyone that thinks that the wing would fall of a plane that makes a stund like that Go and watch the tests they do to the prototype. you will be like WTF. I have seen a test of the latest airbus. they have the wing pulled up to 90 deg. and it was still atached to the aircraft.
I can put all of this nonsense to rest for you guys. I was on that 319 that is in the video. I was the first officer in right seat and Captain Ron Schultz was P.I.C. We had two flight engineers, one carrier exec. and no passengers, and a mere 15,000 pounds of fuel. It was a rare time when we had the right people on board, no passengers, and felt like having a lttle fun with a perfectly safe manuever. I don't believe that all five of us would have fit in a model airplane....but I bet if you took all of the brains of the people who think that this airliner is a toy, and put them all together, they would all fit in one of the overhead bins. Case Closed....
You people who say this is a model are morons.
If you're arguement is based on the airplanes in the FORE ground being too large then all the trees in the background must be fake because they're too small.
I'm surprised you're not saying it's actually prop driven as you can clearly hear a propeelrd engine at the start of the video.
If you lisen carefully the sound of the...
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aaaaa aaaaaaa aahhhhh hhhhhhhh hhhhhhh hhhhh
Come to think of it , ... I saw them d...
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got some pix of them too the first one I saw do it i could not get the camera on it has a ten second warmup.
darn i missed that one. made me do a double take, at the clime
They did this when i flew out of OIA in ...
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the air bus that left NJA did not but i was suprise to go over the NP to China.
Cool
I saw Santas house and it was for sale, BuyOwner
toyshop too
He ran out of runway air. "close c...
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only 10 ft. to go and he would have to apply the airbrakes.
the stewards made like bowling balls.
hope none were applying lipstick.
did they hand out wooden sticks for the passengers to bite.
there are two birds there that are going to retire after seeing that takeoff.
put my Uncle with the bad heart on that flight and i'll split the insurance $$$ With/u
I am a private pilot and ground Crew for air canada. I have seen a 319 pull this manouver. We had unloaded the plane and fueled it, told the pilot he was ready to go because there were no passengers on the way back, he was just ferrying it. He told us to watch the take off cause he was going to have some fun. He lifted off, built up speed then pulled up sharp but controlled and climbed until his speed bled off then leveled it out a bit and kept climbing away. and the GA planes are in FRONT of the airliner not behind it
What is wrong with you people are you really that dumb,
I have been building and flying RC aircraft and helicopters since I was 7 years old, that means I have 35 years of experience in modeling, I graduated from brooks institute of photography and am by profession a Videographer.
There are several items to consider in this video.
1. The location of the Airbus, In the first few frames of the video you can see that the camera man is close to the taxi way and not the runway.
2 Optics the camera man is using a very long lens (telephoto)
3 mass of aircraft, when the aircraft noses up there is a considerable delay before the plane begins to climb, If this would have been a model the climb would have been instantaneous.
Keep in mind that a telephoto lens changes the perspective of an image considerably as it compresses the field of view,
The GA aircraft are in the foreground not the background. The fact that they look so close to and almost the same size as the Airbus, is because the telephoto lens has compressed the image making everything look really close together.
You can prove this effect to yourself. Take a camera and find a street that is several miles long, with a lot of telephone poles. Take a picture aiming down the line created by the telephone poles. Now Zoom all the way in and take a picture (This only works with true optical zooms not digital zooms (all they do is crop the image)
First of all the plane took off on the runway not the taxiway. Perspective is the thing God gave us by putting two eyeballs in our heads. If you know anything about the layout of airports those two lanes tend to run parallel to each other on most all fields. The pilot lifted off, stayed in ground effect for a rather considerable amount of time (for a reason), built up a lot of punch and his/or her big "finale" was pulling the plane up into a brief hard climb. Notice that the hardness of the climb tapers off real quick once all that airspeed bled off. I've done this manuever hundreds of times in GA aircraft and BELEIVE IT OR NOT FOLKS it can be done in airliners too - epecially when they're relatively light on fuel and free of vomit hurling passengers. The latter is the main reason you don't see airliners doing that on a regular basis. Pulling up hard is no biggy... fact is that aircraft is capable of doing a roll too. In fact , just about any aircraft made is capable of doing a nice slow barrel roll maintaining 1G and still be well within safety margins.
I'm guessing it's not an airshow because there's no evidence of a crowd.
Anyone who's ever been around radio controlled model aircraft would know that ducted fan "toy airliners" bob around all over the place with the slightest puff of wind when they fly. They don't fly with the precision steadiness and mass that a real airliner like this one demonstrates. I could go one and one why this is real but I have to eat dinner... that's if you believe a guy who's an FAA certified pilot , a radio control airplane hobbyist and a regular airshow affectionado.
Not to mention that a plane that big can't accellerate that fast. That was accelleration characteristic of smaller twin engine jets and fighters. And there is no exhaust... All that thrust to get accellerate into a steep climb like that and no exhaust. I work next to LAS and watch planes take off all day. They all have a noticeable dirty brown exhaust trail.
didn't know that. i know it's possible, but that's good for the amount of space he or she had. mayb an old fighter pilot having fun.
Any person that can see, can see it is a model aircraft.Look when it passes the row of static aircraft. This model of a Airbus A319 is smaller than the Cessnas, Pipers and the Beach Sundowner. I rest my case. I have tqwo eyes and can see. there are none so blind as those who cannot see.
The plane took off from the runway much further away then the place other planes were sitting, that's why it looks smaller.
It's a large model aircraft. Lengthy, seemingly intelligent answers as to why it's not a model won't work on me :P
How come it sounds EXACTLY like a commercial airliner with it's gutteral ahine and high pitched whistles taking off, and not the buzz you would expect to hear from a Model aircraft?
1. if it was fake, they could dub sound on later
2. model airliners can be fitted with tiny jet engines (a comparatively simple design) as can be seen on another video on here; a scaled-down replica of a passenger jet. it has jet engines and does not buzz.
...it is the exacly noise for an A319. ^^
Do you really think they are going to bother their asses dubbing a fake soundtrack..... like so what!!??? It's just a bored pilot pricking around with a passenger airliner, like so what??? NOW GET OVER IT!!!
The plane is there taking off and shooting up, true, but u should realise that the dramatic accent into the sky is a simple video trick by simply accelarating the video frame rate soon after the accent and finally bringing back the frame rate to normal once the plane had stabilized in the sky.
That bobbing you are talking about is present immediately after liftoff. Not to mention the runway it is taking off from is running in front of the little personal planes and cars. It's a scale model. The sound is dubbed. The way it was filmed makes it look fairly realistic but it's still very noticible when you are paying attention. If they wanted to make it look more real they would have slowed playback down about 10%
I think you're wrong it just life sized model.
A life sized model of a A-319 doesn't exist
its possible the 20000 foot observation guy seems to kno wat hes talkin about he right u kno
lol...sweet
I believe you when you say a real plane can do that. But then again, look at the planes in the background, its so obvious those are bigger than the plane thats taking off :)
come on take a good look its sopooo obvious !
Would the plane of stalled at that angle?
can a plane fart
That is why he kept it level and low to the ground for so long he was picking up enough speed or momentum so that he could pull that manuever (sp) off, if he would of pulled up like that right after taking off, that planes engines couldn't have generated enough power to keep it from stalling, so he got a little speed going, and well as you saw, up he went.
Funny read.. don't feed the trolls
It's airspeed that matters... not the angle of attack. Any flight instructor will drill into your head “watch that airspeed indicator†The max angle at which an aircraft can climb out is a constantly changing variable.
Hot days, cold days, humidity density altitude ect… My aircrafts’ climb performance would just about triple in the wintertime vs. summer.
and for those who model plane conspirators I already posted this enticing little factoid. This video is from Friedrichshafen Airshow, Germany Apr 26th 1997. If you don't believe me why don't you email the guy who actually made the video, instead of hypothesizing about toy airplanes. The videographer was Christian Haupt. His address is posted on http://www. flightlevel350 .com/video _streaming. php?id=959
Excellent insights and comments, 2000, thank you for your knowledge sharing. Are you married? lol Love the technical talk from someone who knows what they are talking about.
It's airspeed that matters in climbing out... not the angle of attack. Any flight instructor will drill into your head “watch that airspeed indicator†The max angle at which an aircraft can climb out is a constantly changing variable.
Hot days, cold days, humidity density altitude ect… My aircrafts’ climb performance would just about triple in the winter time vs. summer.
and for those who model plane conspirators I already posted this enticing little factoid. This video is from Friedrichshafen Airshow, Germany Apr 26th 1997. If you don't believe me why don't you email the guy who actually made the video, instead of hypothesizing about toy airplanes. The videographer was Christian Haupt. His address is posted on http://www. flightlevel350 .com/video _streaming. php?id=959
You are absolute right, the link works, but you must cancel the spaces in the adress.
I know also, that sometimes ago pilots had the directive to stay near the groung as long as possible and then rapidely lift up in different directions. This should prevent terroristic attacs with missiles. Remember the reason...
stierus
blablablablblblaaablablaaablblaaaa....
get a life u fukin homo, no need to write paragraphs on this shit
Homophobic person! ! ! ! !! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! !! ! !
It's real. And the maneuver is called a "Chandelle". No big deal about it. Just a couple of Gs.
Look let me tell you something. That IS A MODEL AIRPLANE.
1)No flaps take off and using that short distance for take off! Give me a break! That is not the real Macoy! Airliners that size won’t take off without flaps.
2)The airplane looks way too small compared to the Cessnas 172 parked in the background…
No airline pilot would dare to play games in small airport like that.. There are daredevils and there are airline pilots… Two different characters !
The pitch is to great for an aircraft that size… Is possible but it will require lots of power and being near the limit of angle of attack, you can get an accelerated stall doing that maneuver…. You have to be crazy to do that, with an aircraft that size…
THAT IS A MODEL PLANE!!!
.....you're the guy that has the flight attendant come tell the two of us that you heard a noise "that isn't right." If you were an FAA certified pilot you would see that the flaps are retracting as he's accelerating in ground effect. I've done this same type of a take off in an airliner and it is possible. I'm an airline pilot and a daredevil so you're wrong about the "two different characters" statement. It's called trading airspeed for altitude. If you notice he doesn't keep the nose high attitude for long because his airspeed is bleeding off fast. If this video were fake he would have kept the nose high attitude for a lot longer than he did. It's real, Monday Morning Quarterback.
I am clueless about planes but u are probably right. I have MS Flight Simulator and i cannot perform that maneuver so quickly and if i suddenly shoot up to that angle the plane usually stalls and come crashing back down to earth. and at the end it begins to look more and more like a useless crappy model.
is a model airplane then I am Mother Theresa PERIOD.
then you are really mother theresa! OMG! :D
Seriously dude, its a model plane, look at the planes in the background, they make the plane look really small wich it is...
background? they are on the foreground! they are closer to the cameraman then the runway the plane was takin off from, thats why it looks smaller.
prove the case .... heres the truth
search 707 roll on youtube
low cost german airline, gets you from A-B faster than anyone else. We are not worried about your comfort, only in turning around as fast as possible...
Enjoy the flight ;-)
I swear i have done it with Commandor 114-B
The V.S.I reached 2700 Feet ber minute
However, after seeing the Blue Angels C-130 do a Barrel Role less than 1000ft from the ground, there isn't much that widdens my eyes. But I must say, having never seen a commercial aircraft go vertical, I am impressed. Oh and BTW it is very much real. I really dislike people who comment on some ones intillectual response with absolute dumbfounding, hard headed, ignorance. To lazy to even go research information and remotely attempt to prove his arguement wrong. Model airplane my ass...
If I was in that plane I think I'd poop my heart cuz of the downforce...
An ex fighter pilot i reckon they were!!!!
See also Pallywood
Jihad = WAR
‎2000footobservation is absolutly right. This is an god damn normal A319 commercial jet. You have to think about this: this bird is powered by engines, which are built to power this aircraft AND some 100 people AND a lot of fuel AND a lot of cargo. As ‎2000footobservation said, these aircrafts can do unbelieveable things when they are "empty"! They also can do a 115° bank angle ;)
brgds,
Phil
It's a commercial demonstration of the A319 by Airbus Industrie to potential buyers. Near-empty plane had huge power to weight ratio allowing very steep climbs. You can find the original full length footage of this event on many commercial aviation websites. The jet made many passes and some of the climbs were steeper than the one shown.
the aircrafts there look bigger then the one that is taking off. that is because those planes a closer to the guy that is taking the video. that is one of the tricks that movie makers used to use when they wanted to make someone look bigger then another person in the movie. for example anyone here seen the movie "Elf" in the scene that is playing in a class room they had the "big elf" sit close up to the camera and the "smaller elfs" sit about 10 meters behind him. plus the wings will not just fall of a plane. I say anyone that thinks that the wing would fall of a plane that makes a stund like that Go and watch the tests they do to the prototype. you will be like WTF. I have seen a test of the latest airbus. they have the wing pulled up to 90 deg. and it was still atached to the aircraft.
...but a really good stunt. Imagine you're sitting in it. What a feeling!!
I can put all of this nonsense to rest for you guys. I was on that 319 that is in the video. I was the first officer in right seat and Captain Ron Schultz was P.I.C. We had two flight engineers, one carrier exec. and no passengers, and a mere 15,000 pounds of fuel. It was a rare time when we had the right people on board, no passengers, and felt like having a lttle fun with a perfectly safe manuever. I don't believe that all five of us would have fit in a model airplane....but I bet if you took all of the brains of the people who think that this airliner is a toy, and put them all together, they would all fit in one of the overhead bins. Case Closed....
He can fly!!!!
thats how to drive a passanger plane :D
You people who say this is a model are morons.
If you're arguement is based on the airplanes in the FORE ground being too large then all the trees in the background must be fake because they're too small.
I'm surprised you're not saying it's actually prop driven as you can clearly hear a propeelrd engine at the start of the video.
ahhh man that clip is hilarious
Get over it...
aaaaa aaaaaaa aahhhhh hhhhhhhh hhhhhhh hhhhh
got some pix of them too the first one I saw do it i could not get the camera on it has a ten second warmup.
darn i missed that one. made me do a double take, at the clime
the air bus that left NJA did not but i was suprise to go over the NP to China.
Cool
I saw Santas house and it was for sale, BuyOwner
toyshop too
only 10 ft. to go and he would have to apply the airbrakes.
the stewards made like bowling balls.
hope none were applying lipstick.
did they hand out wooden sticks for the passengers to bite.
there are two birds there that are going to retire after seeing that takeoff.
put my Uncle with the bad heart on that flight and i'll split the insurance $$$ With/u
I am a private pilot and ground Crew for air canada. I have seen a 319 pull this manouver. We had unloaded the plane and fueled it, told the pilot he was ready to go because there were no passengers on the way back, he was just ferrying it. He told us to watch the take off cause he was going to have some fun. He lifted off, built up speed then pulled up sharp but controlled and climbed until his speed bled off then leveled it out a bit and kept climbing away. and the GA planes are in FRONT of the airliner not behind it
i have no doubt that u know most, alright??? :)
So the pilot's an asshole!!!
yya pro
I'm not sure if its real or not, if its real, holy shit! If its not, good try!
What is wrong with you people are you really that dumb,
I have been building and flying RC aircraft and helicopters since I was 7 years old, that means I have 35 years of experience in modeling, I graduated from brooks institute of photography and am by profession a Videographer.
There are several items to consider in this video.
1. The location of the Airbus, In the first few frames of the video you can see that the camera man is close to the taxi way and not the runway.
2 Optics the camera man is using a very long lens (telephoto)
3 mass of aircraft, when the aircraft noses up there is a considerable delay before the plane begins to climb, If this would have been a model the climb would have been instantaneous.
Keep in mind that a telephoto lens changes the perspective of an image considerably as it compresses the field of view,
The GA aircraft are in the foreground not the background. The fact that they look so close to and almost the same size as the Airbus, is because the telephoto lens has compressed the image making everything look really close together.
You can prove this effect to yourself. Take a camera and find a street that is several miles long, with a lot of telephone poles. Take a picture aiming down the line created by the telephone poles. Now Zoom all the way in and take a picture (This only works with true optical zooms not digital zooms (all they do is crop the image)