Anyone see something strange in this picture?

Published on: October 6, 2010 at 9:45 PM

David Cenciotti

I took the following picture on Sept. 30, 2010, in Paris, France, at 16.47LT. Can you see something strange?

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If you open it you will notice what seems to be a small aircraft above the Paris Opéra: that is actually an Emirates A380 just departed from Charles De Gaulle-Roissy airport. Below you will find one of the pictures I took a few seconds earlier, as soon as I spotted the plane and identified it as a “380” and a close-up of the wide body.

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.