Fantastic Voyage

[David357]

An eagle's flight from the top of the world's tallest building to his handler below. An eagle was fitted with a camera and released from the top of the 2,715-foot Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai.

The eagle has no idea where the tiny speck of land was that his handler is standing on or what it looked like among all of the other islands and buildings and people. Somehow from that altitude, the eagle actually picks out and recognizes the trainer from all of the other objects, people, etc. You can see him looking, looking, looking for the trainer, completely invisible to a human eye and the camera, then fold his/her wings and then drops like a bullet straight to that trainer... very cool.

What surprised the experts is not only how efficiently the eagle spots his trainer from that altitude, but how smooth its flight is with no camera shake whatsoever, even when it goes into a power dive.

 

[ol' school]

Cool video Dave! Thanks for sharing!

 

[rhino 2]

An eagle's flight from the top of the world's tallest buildingto his handler below. An eagle was fitted with a camera and released from thetop of the 2,715-foot Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai.

The eagle has no idea where the tiny speck of land was that his handleris standing on or what it looked like among all of the other islands andbuildings and people. Somehow from that altitude, the eagle actually picks outand recognizes the trainer from all of the other objects, people, etc. You cansee him looking, looking, looking for the trainer, completely invisible to ahuman eye and the camera, then fold his/her wings and then drops like a bulletstraight to that trainer... very cool.

What surprised the experts is not only how efficiently the eaglespots his trainer from that altitude, but how smooth its flight is with nocamera shake whatsoever, even when it goes into a power dive.

Thats why the Expression Eagle Eye came into being when someone has great eye sight...

 

[Zammy]

Fantastic Dave, thanks for sharing.