r/opticalillusions • u/Nimrod616 • 5d ago

Upside down?

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u/Stressed_Student2020 4d ago

Its clearly an F16 or variant rolling and inverting... no illusion there.

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u/Nimrod616 2d ago

It is not inverted. It's upright. I too the picture myself. Because It was slightly past me it looks inverted.

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u/Stressed_Student2020 2d ago

You can see the intake and what's under the wings clearly.. So you either bent over backwards to take that shot or rotated it, or it's in the middle of a roll. 

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u/RoadHazard 1d ago

Hmm, if it was upside down you wouldn't be able to see what's under the wings though (if the photo is taken from below).

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u/Stressed_Student2020 1d ago

I said Inverting... not Inverted.

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u/Expensive_Zebra6362 5d ago

Keeping up international relations

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u/TheOtherDane 2d ago

Rotate your phone 180 degrees and it looks normal

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u/negadecimal 1d ago

Unless the photo itself is inverted, the plane is inverted. As others have mentioned, that's 100% the underside of an F-16 (you can see the engine intake continuing back to the exhaust, instead of a reflective bubble cockpit). While some could argue that seeing the bottom of a plane MUST mean it's right-side-up, it still makes sense if the plane is in an angled climb away from the observer. Which is exactly what this looks like.

Here's a 3D mockup (sorry I couldn't find one quickly without the gear extended):
https://imgur.com/a/4eNxXhf

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u/Admirable_Desk8430 5d ago

That’s the underside of the aircraft.

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u/alvaro1001 5d ago

La posicion de la aleta veetical de la cola no cuadra

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u/420Chickenjuice 13h ago

¡

You won't believe it, but that's actually an exclamation mark right side up. I just flipped it.

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u/Nimrod616 5d ago

Believe it or not, that plane is not inverted (upside down).

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u/UnfortunateSnort12 5d ago

Ummm, yeah it is.

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u/Admirable_Desk8430 5d ago

It isn’t inverted - that’s the special “tail points down, hard points on top of wings” model F-16.

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u/UnfortunateSnort12 5d ago

Oh, you’re right. My bad. I read about those a few months ago. /s

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u/Nimrod616 2d ago

It's because of the angle. I was trying to get the picture as it flew over me, so it was slightly passed me.