{"id":389,"date":"2006-03-22T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2006-03-23T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T15:48:48","slug":"stealth-air-force-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/stealth-air-force-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth Air Force One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/af1.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>Completely unedited, the photo below seems to make the vertical fin on <strong>Air Force One<\/strong> look almost invisible! What&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p><em>Right: View of the vertical stabilizer from the first level.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I took this photo from behind the famous aircraft on the 3rd mezzanine level of the Air Force One Pavilion in the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=387\">Ronald Reagan Presidential Library<\/a> when I noticed the unusual reflection pattern on the glossy surface of the rudder and vertical stabilizer. I knew immediately that I had a great shot! The lighting angles and the highly-polished surface of the airfoil rendered this intriguing optical illusion of near-invisibility.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/stealthaf1.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo &copy; 19 MAR 2006 by Damsel. Canon Digital Rebel EOS camera. Permission to publish is given provided credit and a link is given to <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=389\">Cap&#8217;n Bob and the Damsel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/fix4rso.com\/\">Fix4RSO<\/a> linked with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fix4rso.com\/2006\/03\/23\/the-great-disappearing-air-force-one-trick\/\">The Great Disappearing Air Force One Trick!<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completely unedited, the photo below seems to make the vertical fin on Air Force One look almost invisible! What&#8217;s going on? Right: View of the vertical&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}