This is one INTERESTING landing!
Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:54 am
http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08102703.html
Man- that is one interesting landing. Having seen other airshow performers fly sideways hanging off their prop, I can see what he did, but you gotta see it to believe it!
Robbie
Man- that is one interesting landing. Having seen other airshow performers fly sideways hanging off their prop, I can see what he did, but you gotta see it to believe it!
Robbie
Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:11 pm
I've watched it several times. Is it real??? or computer generated?
Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:46 pm
Fake.
Notice how the aircraft rolls THE WRONG WAY when it sheds a wing.
Doh!
Notice how the aircraft rolls THE WRONG WAY when it sheds a wing.
Doh!
Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:42 pm
It fooled me at first - but fake for sure.
Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:42 pm
Laughable at best. Man, people have twisted their minds with CGI over the years. This is no where even close to being real. Somebody spent alot of time putting the composite images together though (combo of footage and dubbed CGI). I like how they intentionally blurred key transitions to make them easier to pull off.
Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:36 pm
It's part of a "viral" promotional campaign for a German Apparel company.
Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:34 am
It is based on a somewhat real event though. Although it was a scale model radio controlled plane. I've seen a video of a guy with a large scale extra or something pull this off. He lost a wing, hit the throttle, let it hang by the prop and landed it in one piece 
Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:47 am
It really had me -and several of my A&P colleagues- fooled at first. The second time we watched it, we started to suspect it... They really did a good job, and quite believable. I could see one of the really good stunt pilots- one of the guys who hangs it on the prop & flies sideways down the runway- accomplishing it, given the altitude to make the transition, as it appeared to have had...
Robbie
Robbie
Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:01 am
Fouga23 wrote:It is based on a somewhat real event though. Although it was a scale model radio controlled plane. I've seen a video of a guy with a large scale extra or something pull this off. He lost a wing, hit the throttle, let it hang by the prop and landed it in one piece
This is the real one you're talking about.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au2IkYLF ... -full.html
Gary
Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:58 pm
Looks pretty realistic until the landing. Then it's totally obvious it's CGI.
The RC video is much more impressive!
The RC video is much more impressive!