As I was cropping this they made a second pass much closer, oh well. Interesting in that it was three different aircraft; in fact one looked like an old prop plane.
Here we go:
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My inner plane geek says F86 Sabre, P51 Mustang and F15 Eagle but I’m open to being wrong.
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My wife’s previous work had a silhouette guide by the back door, but I’ve never learned any.
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My dad was really into planes so we visited lots of airshows when I was a kid. Getting photos of planes that don’t look like tiny dots is rare!
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That is called recognizing planes by their jizz.
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Nice callback
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I don’t know what that means.
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F86, P51, and an F35.
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Two out of three ain’t bad 
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For military aircraft, the term is “weft” which stands for Wings, Engines, Fuselage, Tail. Nothing to do with weaving.
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Without meaning to veer too far off-topic, there’s another term in use for videogames, where the silhouette of the character type is identifiable at a “distance”, IIRC it was Team Fortress that first utilised it, but I can’t remember the term.
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Part of an earlier post in this very thread, occasioned by this lovely photo from @anon15383236
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Those eyes…
I saw this truck and thought it meant that there were still enough bookstores around for a niche moving company to serve them:
(Unfortunately that’s not what it means…)
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And don’t lock anyone in the can.
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