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Published 15:33 IST, June 24th 2020

'That's insane': Video of helicopter 'floating' towards land leaves netizens puzzled

A 13-second-clip showing a helicopter landing on the ground with its rotors appearing to be still has taken the internet by storm. Netizens left puzzled.

Reported by: Aanchal Nigam
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A 13-second-clip showing a helicopter landing on the ground with its rotors appearing to be still has taken the internet by storm. The clip which according to the netizens show “dark magic” has already garnered over 220k views with thousands of likes. However, while the internet users have assumed all sorts of ‘magical’ reasons for the helicopter’s rotors not moving and making it look like it is "floating", the actual reason is easily explainable. The illusion takes place when the rate of the camera’s frame recording perfectly matches the speed of the rotation of the blades. Watch:

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Video breaks internet

Thousands of internet users have united to tell the netizen who posted the video to ‘stop spreading lies’ and reveal the ‘real’ reason behind this ‘sorcery’. Another Twitter user posted a different video showing helicopter taking off with ‘still’ rotors. Someone else called it “freaky” and “dark magic” but others just called the video “amazing” and thanked the user for sharing the “perfect illusion”. 

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15:33 IST, June 24th 2020