Wierd Rusky Chopper

fantacmet wrote:

http://www.break.com/deltafarce/rookie_howitzer_loader.html Absolutely lucky guys.

I like how the other guy on-screen just casually walks back to to the other guy like nothing out of the ordinary just happened. Business as usual?

Thats cool, but if you think thats bad, watch these two.

http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=141381

http://www.break.com/deltafarce/rookie_howitzer_loader.html

Absolutely lucky guys.

Wow, that is so bizarre. I kept staring at the blades expecting to see some kind of blurring along the edges but nothing!! Even the shadow cast on the fuesalage doesn't move.

Rich

It's called stroboscopic effect (at least I think you use the same term in English).

You get the same effect when looking at a spinning wheel and the lights going on and off very quickly (stroboscope). The eyes get confused and tell your brain that the wheel is standing still or even spinning in the opposite direction.

On cameras (digital or not) you get that effect when you set a high shutter speed.

Class dismiss ... lesson's over!

Don't worry, the rotors are actually turning.  I've shot digital video of our Apaches out at Hooper Stagefield and when I looked at it on my computer, it looked as if the rotors were not turning.  I don't know why, but for some reason that happens with digital video.  Bizarre.

Jon