No need for CSI, just look more closely.

The 172 is not yet quite over the runway. You can see the runway in the right side of the photo, the 172 is about to come over the numbers. The runway is not in the foreground, it's about 200 feet away in the background.

The foreground of the picture is the taxiway/tiedown tarmac where we fly the models from. Not the runway.

By the way, this was completely accidental. I shot the pics of the 172 landing from a distance. Then my wife later shot the pic of my 182 next to me at the flight line. Looking at the pictures later, it was just pure luck that the two were so similar.