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Nov 27, 2009, 4:57 pm
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Nov 27, 2009, 10:18 pm
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My BS meter/Spidey sense is tingling. There are two open seats just behind this giant - if it was an FA that actually took the pic, why not get him moved to the two open seats behind? (Assuming the boarding door has closed, of course.)
Nov 28, 2009, 8:01 pm
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I do not believe they would take off that way but this could be something that happened during the flight--he's sitting elsewhere but sat there to talk to the guy next to him or maybe due to turbulence.
Of course photoshop is a definite possibility.
Nov 28, 2009, 8:37 pm
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Discussed at length in the AA forum. Best explanation is he is assigned to the two empty seats but the pax in the window had to use the lav. (Plane is being boarded and is not in the air. Look at the overheads.)
Nov 29, 2009, 12:17 am
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As has been pointed out, there is already a very extensive discussion in the AA forum here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...-mean-big.html
Nov 29, 2009, 11:06 am
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Nov 29, 2009, 10:37 pm
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He's so large he made the seat top disappear.
Pretty sloppy Photoshopping
Pretty sloppy Photoshopping
Nov 30, 2009, 1:33 pm
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The angle that would cause 2 vertical inches to appear as about 1/2 inch would cause the rest of the seat to compress to the same amount - the seat back would be 1/4 the size, about a 60-70 degree angle.
Some more sophisticated PS processing with Curves and Levels shows me the pattern noise profile above and below the "seat edge" to be very different. My semi-informed opinion, from using Photoshop about, oh, a thousand times over the last 5 years, tells me it's altered.
Some more sophisticated PS processing with Curves and Levels shows me the pattern noise profile above and below the "seat edge" to be very different. My semi-informed opinion, from using Photoshop about, oh, a thousand times over the last 5 years, tells me it's altered.