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'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

Mike 137 Silver badge

Alternatively

"Use a better camera, and now you need to worry about zoom, depth of field, and so on, and are unlikely to capture useful footage without significant manual intervention."

During WW2 reconnaissance fighters were fitted with forward facing wing tip cameras with 20" (500 mm) fixed focus lenses. Diving at the target at 300 mph they produced remarkably clear pictures. It can be done - see the relevant plates in "Most Secret War" (R. V. Jones 1972).

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