This interesting effect is the result of the iPhone’s cheap camera:
The cheap CMOS sensor of an iPhone does not expose the whole thing at once, it scans from left to right. If you take a picture of something that moves very fast (like an airplane prop) you can get some crazy pictures out of it since each column represents a slightly different time.
[Via Woosk]
Zeitgeist in a Petiole 
February 13, 2009 at 5:45 am
Fake. Propeller is never in those positions, even though the image processor would handle the image in segments.
February 13, 2009 at 11:53 am
It is those positions. (if you take one vertical line, it is perfect) Try it yourself.
February 15, 2009 at 3:17 am
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April 5, 2009 at 8:11 pm
It’s not a fake, it’s an artifact of how the camera processes the image. I took some shots from my airplane the other day and get a venitian propeller.
December 31, 2009 at 7:30 pm
This explains the process pretty well:
http://scalarmotion.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/propeller-image-aliasing/
March 6, 2010 at 12:58 am
Doc is right..this effect, while interesting is highly undesirable to me..as it wrecks otherwise nice photos and videos, taking with our iPhone out the front window of the airplane.
September 26, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Fake for sure. The shutter speed on the iPhone isn’t near clear enough to capture this, rolling shutter or not.
February 8, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Not fake, here is a video taken just the other day…
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