The Camera can capture some fantastic moments....

[Sixpackpert]

havoc said:

English Electric Lightning you fool!

(Looks like a late prototype actually as I can't see a radome. Where's Eric Mc when you need him...)

Correct.

[Einion Yrth]

MK4 Slowride said:

andygo said:

havoc said:

Yertis said:

Fordson Major...

English Electric Lightning you fool!

(Looks like a late prototype actually as I can't see a radome.

Looks like its going to be a very late prototype in second....

I was going to say Glostor Meteor.

There, you had the perfect opportunity not to look dumb, and you blew it

[anonymous-user]

Tall_Paul said:

walm said:

GuildfordPaul said:

LukeBird said:

daveco said:

aa2008 said:

What's happening there then? Looks like one hell of a wave!

Exactly what I was thinking!
Possibly an earthquake and the effect captured in the water...?

tsunami?? or maybe just a photoshop!

Definitely photoshop - the surfers are all looking the wrong way. They should be looking to the right looking for the next wave.
I think the background is just a regular picture of a huge wave at Jaws surf site or similar - it really does look like that. The wave is going to the left and the white bit is the previous wave having just broken.

Its not a photoshop, or earthquake, its a real wave called Teahupoo in Tahiti clicky and is (probably) the worlds heaviest wave.

The surfers aren't paddling for the wave, hence why they are not facing the correct way.

Do a search for "laird hamilton teahupoo" on youtube and prepare to be amamzed

cant believe the first one is real, the wave is vertical and not in keeping with the forward motion of how a wave breaks, there is not enough "curl" behind it and the surfers who are on the picture appear to be too large in number for such a wave. they cannot all be capable of surfing 40ft+ waves and even if they could, you just dont get that number of people in the water around 40+ ft waves.

there is not enough disturbance at the bottom of the water either, thats a hell of a lot of water being sucked into the wave, you would expect to see some foam around the bottom and a dip behind the wall as it surges forward. i can not see how the "tube" for the wave would form, the "wall of water" is too vertical.

also it appears to be wrapped around the small patch of white land, waves dont break 180 degrees... i dont dispute that 40+ ft waves exist.

[havoc]

Einion Yrth said:

MK4 Slowride said:

andygo said:

havoc said:

Yertis said:

Fordson Major...

English Electric Lightning you fool!

(Looks like a late prototype actually as I can't see a radome.

Looks like its going to be a very late prototype in second....

I was going to say Glostor Meteor.

There, you had the perfect opportunity not to look dumb, and you blew it

[MK4 Slowride]

havoc said:

Einion Yrth said:

MK4 Slowride said:

andygo said:

havoc said:

Yertis said:

Fordson Major...

English Electric Lightning you fool!

(Looks like a late prototype actually as I can't see a radome.

Looks like its going to be a very late prototype in second....

I was going to say Glostor Meteor.

There, you had the perfect opportunity not to look dumb, and you blew it

[thetrash]

pablo said:

cant believe the first one is real, the wave is vertical and not in keeping with the forward motion of how a wave breaks, there is not enough "curl" behind it and the surfers who are on the picture appear to be too large in number for such a wave. they cannot all be capable of surfing 40ft+ waves and even if they could, you just dont get that number of people in the water around 40+ ft waves.

there is not enough disturbance at the bottom of the water either, thats a hell of a lot of water being sucked into the wave, you would expect to see some foam around the bottom and a dip behind the wall as it surges forward. i can not see how the "tube" for the wave would form, the "wall of water" is too vertical.

also it appears to be wrapped around the small patch of white land, waves dont break 180 degrees... i dont dispute that 40+ ft waves exist.

It's definatly real, there could be a surf comp on and they are watching from a safe distance of the shoulder. I doubt many of them would be dropping in.

Waves do break in curves, we just don't see it in this country because we don't have any reef breaks.

From a different angle

[anonymous-user]

Blukoo said:

You don't see that one very often, but it gets me everytime.

[Flat_Steve]

[quote]

[/quote]

Can I ask where you found this great pic Dangerous Mike / aa2008?

Edited by Flat_Steve on Friday 27th June 22:34

Edited by Flat_Steve on Friday 27th June 22:35

[Famous Graham]

Flat_Steve][quote said:

Can I ask where you found this great pic Dangerous?

Edited by Flat_Steve on Friday 27th June 22:34

It's from a guy who recreates classic images in Lego

His stuff is on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/

[sstein]

pablo said:

Tall_Paul said:

walm said:

GuildfordPaul said:

LukeBird said:

daveco said:

aa2008 said:

What's happening there then? Looks like one hell of a wave!

Exactly what I was thinking!
Possibly an earthquake and the effect captured in the water...?

tsunami?? or maybe just a photoshop!

Definitely photoshop - the surfers are all looking the wrong way. They should be looking to the right looking for the next wave.
I think the background is just a regular picture of a huge wave at Jaws surf site or similar - it really does look like that. The wave is going to the left and the white bit is the previous wave having just broken.

Its not a photoshop, or earthquake, its a real wave called Teahupoo in Tahiti clicky and is (probably) the worlds heaviest wave.

The surfers aren't paddling for the wave, hence why they are not facing the correct way.

Do a search for "laird hamilton teahupoo" on youtube and prepare to be amamzed

cant believe the first one is real, the wave is vertical and not in keeping with the forward motion of how a wave breaks, there is not enough "curl" behind it and the surfers who are on the picture appear to be too large in number for such a wave. they cannot all be capable of surfing 40ft+ waves and even if they could, you just dont get that number of people in the water around 40+ ft waves.

there is not enough disturbance at the bottom of the water either, thats a hell of a lot of water being sucked into the wave, you would expect to see some foam around the bottom and a dip behind the wall as it surges forward. i can not see how the "tube" for the wave would form, the "wall of water" is too vertical.

also it appears to be wrapped around the small patch of white land, waves dont break 180 degrees... i dont dispute that 40+ ft waves exist.

Someone posted a link to a youtube video of it, looked stunning! Wouldn't get me going in that water!

-

Stuart

[Battenburg Bob]

Yertis said:

speedtwelve said:

According to the book 'Testing Times' by Don Middleton, it says that George Aird got a double reheat fire warning but believed that it may be spurious, deciding to try and make it to Hatfield. Quite close to touchdown, he experienced a sudden and uncommanded pitch up (believed to be the flying surface actuator shearing off due to the intense heat), moved the stick and found that it appeared disconnected. He immediately ejected.

[Ravell]

MK4 Slowride said:

havoc said:

Einion Yrth said:

MK4 Slowride said:

andygo said:

havoc said:

Yertis said:

Fordson Major...

English Electric Lightning you fool!

(Looks like a late prototype actually as I can't see a radome.

Looks like its going to be a very late prototype in second....

I was going to say Glostor Meteor.

There, you had the perfect opportunity not to look dumb, and you blew it

English Electric Lightning


Gloster Meteor

Edited by Ravell on Saturday 28th June 02:17

[central]

Fordson Major

[Olf]

We used to have a Super Major. Great tractor.

[The Count]

Buster Bakdorzin said:

10 Pence Short said:

Right. I'm going to make a stand here.

Some of them are true, though

nice hair...

[Tall_Paul]

sstein said:

pablo said:

Tall_Paul said:

walm said:

GuildfordPaul said:

LukeBird said:

daveco said:

aa2008 said:

What's happening there then? Looks like one hell of a wave!

Exactly what I was thinking!
Possibly an earthquake and the effect captured in the water...?

tsunami?? or maybe just a photoshop!

Definitely photoshop - the surfers are all looking the wrong way. They should be looking to the right looking for the next wave.
I think the background is just a regular picture of a huge wave at Jaws surf site or similar - it really does look like that. The wave is going to the left and the white bit is the previous wave having just broken.

Its not a photoshop, or earthquake, its a real wave called Teahupoo in Tahiti clicky and is (probably) the worlds heaviest wave.

The surfers aren't paddling for the wave, hence why they are not facing the correct way.

Do a search for "laird hamilton teahupoo" on youtube and prepare to be amamzed

cant believe the first one is real, the wave is vertical and not in keeping with the forward motion of how a wave breaks, there is not enough "curl" behind it and the surfers who are on the picture appear to be too large in number for such a wave. they cannot all be capable of surfing 40ft+ waves and even if they could, you just dont get that number of people in the water around 40+ ft waves.

there is not enough disturbance at the bottom of the water either, thats a hell of a lot of water being sucked into the wave, you would expect to see some foam around the bottom and a dip behind the wall as it surges forward. i can not see how the "tube" for the wave would form, the "wall of water" is too vertical.

also it appears to be wrapped around the small patch of white land, waves dont break 180 degrees... i dont dispute that 40+ ft waves exist.

Someone posted a link to a youtube video of it, looked stunning! Wouldn't get me going in that water!

-

Stuart

Here's a couple...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9nR90ee-bM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E91pK-2TUFg

This one is excellent, at about 1:00 it shows the wave at a similar angle to the photo above
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQQtxb8wv0

[mybrainhurts]

Ravell said:

Gloster Meteor

Too late, shot down....

[RobM77]

Thanks for those videos Tall Paul. Amazing!

Oh, and that photo's definitely fake. For start there appears to be a buoy in the middle of the shot Plus I can't quite believe that all those people have just paddled up over the face of the wave as you would with, say, a 4 foot wave! You have to get onto waves that big with a jet-ski tow, you can't just paddle out like you would in Newquay!

Edited by RobM77 on Saturday 28th June 10:50

[tim the pool man]

RobM77 said:

Thanks for those videos Tall Paul. Amazing!

Oh, and that photo's definitely fake. For start there appears to be a buoy in the middle of the shot Plus I can't quite believe that all those people have just paddled up over the face of the wave as you would with, say, a 4 foot wave! You have to get onto waves that big with a jet-ski tow, you can't just paddle out like you would in Newquay!

Edited by RobM77 on Saturday 28th June 10:50

I'm not so sure about that. The bouy has no signigicance, it might mark a channel or something. While I have never ridden anything like these monsters, I have paddled out to plenty of breaks where there aws a channel beside the break where the swell was almost unnoticable.
This wave gets its power from the sudden change from deep water to a very shallow reef.

[skid-mark]

Edited by skid-mark on Saturday 28th June 18:24

Edited by Gazboy on Sunday 29th June 12:28