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Mesmerizing Time-Lapse of the Day: Six Hours of Airplane Takeoffs (Plus One Parachuter) Condensed Into 32 Seconds

Jan. 31, 2013 6:47am Liz Klimas

Unless you’re delayed at the airport, you probably don’t have several hours to watch planes take off. But San Diego-based filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker with his latest video from the San Diego International Airport, gives you the opportunity to watch six hours of planes roaring into the sky faster than it would take you to brew a single cup of coffee in your Keurig.

Kuckenbaker condensed all the outgoing air traffic from 10:45 a.m. until 4:45 p.m. on Dec. 27 into a 32-second video.

Filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker Creates 32 Second Video With Hours Worth of Airplane Takeoffs in San Diego

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

“This one was a doozy to put together,” Kuckenbaker wrote on his website. “Managing so many small elements relative to one another – I kind felt like I was making a Fabrege egg.”

Check it out — and note the parachuter toward the end:

Kuckenbaker posted a similar video of landings earlier in December that has received more than 2 million hits on YouTube to date:

(H/T: io9)

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MMCUSN
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 4:57pm
Whether it is “real” or not, it was fun to watch.

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Colorado7972
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:36pm
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Colorado7972
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:35pm
Well of course it overlapped it says in article>>

“gives you the opportunity to watch six hours of planes roaring into the sky…”

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Old_Bones
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:15pm
Another fake. Poo on The Blaze.

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- NLN
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:47pm
  Right. Where is their strobe lights.
  
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bankerpapaw
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:41am
I don’t blame ‘em. I’d be getting out of Californicate too.

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- TheBurningTruth
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:59pm
  Yeah, you’ll note that it’s small 737s carrying the wealth OUT of state with huge 747s carrying illegals and chronically unemployed INTO the state.
  
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Noah_fing-whey
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:38am
It was just the wealthy leaving CA. Get used to it.

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- Winedude
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:16pm
  I don’t know if you would say that I’m wealthy but I sure ain’t leaving California. I’d have to say thank you secessionists for teaching our children that when something happens that they don’t like, it’s perfectly acceptable to throw a tantrum and leave.
  
  Like I’ve said all along, if someone doesn’t like the way things are run in California, GTFO! No end of semi-educated folks on here that wouldn’t want to like in California and I surely wouldn’t want to live in Texas (or anywhere else in the former Confederacy.)
  
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- dblaess
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 1:05pm
  @Winedude
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:16pm
  I don’t know if you would say that I’m wealthy but I sure ain’t leaving California. I’d have to say thank you secessionists for teaching our children that when something happens that they don’t like, it’s perfectly acceptable to throw a tantrum and leave.
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  Robert Redford and group have taught well on how to throw a tantrum. The rest have just decided when a state fires you (the wealthy) go somewhere else, much as you would to find a job.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:36pm
  WINEDUDE, so maybe you should go live in Great Britain? Apparely, we should have never declared independence, huh? Sounds to me like you’re the whiney baby who can’t stand that most people don’t like living in the conditions you like living in. It must be really sad to be a liberal.
  
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carhouse
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:25am
not a parachute but a paraglider

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SilentRunner
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:10am
They’re all trying to get out of Dodge before Obanana can find them and take their money.

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mewnani
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:21am
Am I the only one who thinks of the theme from Flying Toasters when I see this?

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Quiata
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:14am
Not “time lapse”: FAKE. Shadow on building does NOT change, nor does the angle of sunlight on the bodies of the planes.
Appears to be the same planes repeated.

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:55am
  Good eye!
  
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- slipstrm
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:47am
  Yes, very good catch.
  
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- Armyof One
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:37am
  Shadow does move. Start the video and place your cursor at the shadow edge. Movement will be obvious.
  
  Lindbergh Field is a heavy hub for Southwest Airlines, so the red aircraft will be numerous and identical in model. Most major airlines will also run the same type of aircraft, especially the shorter range planes for commuters.
  
  I’m not sure where the paraglider came from, especially in that heavy traffic area, but no doubt the slow ride and great views over the harbor are worth it. I’m more surprised that I didn’t see any military traffic.
  
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- FreedbyTruth
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:38pm
  Of course it is not time lapse. Nevermind the shadows. The the planes are not only moving at normal speed, but they over lap each other. If this were time lapse you would see a bunch of planes moving one by one very quickly across the screen. This is just a bunch of planes superimposed over the same background.
  
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- TheBurningTruth
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 1:04pm
  Clearly it’s NOT a “time lapse” video as that would just be a series of planes moving very quickly through the frame.
  
  It is also not “Fake” as each plane was real.
  
  This is a composite video where the the basic frame of the building, ground and any fixed objects were locked down and then the sky part of the frame was updated with new information. That’s why the sun angle doesn’t change much but the planes and the clouds do. It takes moderately sophisticated software as the cheaply available software to put home DVDs together don’t allow frame-by-frame editing or overlays.
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:45pm
  @ARMYOFONE Over a six-hour period, the shadows would shift, distort, and stretch DRAMATICALLY…there would be no debate. As a visual artist, I pay keen attention to these kinds of things. There are so many things wrong with this supposed “time lapse” that it’s not worth wasting time on.
  
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- Armyof One
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:51pm
  Then you are refusing to see! The bridge is its own video…including the moving shadows… the sky are is a separate video, all the aircraft…and the paraglider.. are also individual videos, taken over 6 hours, then superimposed into a single scene video.
  
  That’s why the clouds rush by, but the shadow barely moves, then dozens of aircraft all share the same piece of sky!
  
  E Pluribus Unum= From many, one :D
  
  As a visual artist, you should start thinking about improving your eyesight :)
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 7:27am
  @ARMYOFONE You’re arguing against your own observations, Army: “The bridge is its own video…including the moving shadows… the sky are is a separate video”
  
  This is not a genuine “time lapse” video! It’s an incongruous assemblage of videos and images…a pastiche, a montage….bits glued together, if you will.
  
  A genuine time lapse would be single, stable vantage point over TIME…You have to have a common point of reference for a time lapse to effectively “lapse time”.
  (You COULD have multiple vantage points, but these would need to have at least have something in common…like the same time frame…to have a basis for comparison.)
  
  Here’s a quick pick at the Free Dictionary just to make it easier: “Time lapse photography: the motion-picture photography of a slow and continuous process, as the sprouting of a seed, especially by exposing one frame at a time at regular intervals.”
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:11am
You should do one of Obama screwing the nation.

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- Beavis.45
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:24am
  You know the old saying. If ******** could fly….
  
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PAUL GULLO
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:33am
Time lapse is cool.

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