This guy knows how to fly!
 

:o:o:o
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=fSbssO2DR7A

EDIT: This video has been cited as being part of a viral advertising campaign. Not bad as it certainly got a buzz going. But what is the product? For me the advertising didn't work because I was so into watching what was going on that I was completely unaware of the logo on the plane and what it stood for.

Cool vid, speculation it is a fake.

There are some odd bits in it.....

Still cool though.

CGI is clearly visible.
and the touchdown effect is laughable

HunterICX

Touchdown was a little bit rough, wasn't it!? :know:

I would have to call this one fake based on my experience with CGI

But it's pretty decently done (Even if the landing sequence is horrible), have to give 'em credit for that

LOL it got a run on tonights news over here so if it is a fake then there might be some red faces at the TV station that showed it.

Looks like an R/C plane. I guess the CGi stuff is mixed in where the blurring occurs.

Would tend to agree

I'm late as usual, but it's an obvius fake, done with an RC-plane. Someone posted similar vids, where the pilot quite skillfully lands his RC-plane after the wing breaks off, over at Ubizoo.

even with full aileron input on a plane like that the aircraft defies physics.

its clearly CGI in spots... and not even that good of CGI for that matter.

a friend of mine e mailed me this a few days ago... i laughed and laughed.

people will try to pass off anything as "real" and "true" on the internet

That's no RC plane. CGI all the way. The lighting gives it away easily, it just doesnt look real. Another thing to give it away as CGI is the landing, dont you think it would bounce more on the second touchdown? It just "locks" to the ground.

also notice that he lands in the grass... and no dirt is blown up as he coasts to a stop... furthermore not one blade of grass sways in the wind, which is obviously blowing in the video.

nor does the grass react by swaying in the propwash

I'd say the beginning is almost definitely an RC-plane, and the switch to CGI is done later on. Around 00:40 is my bet.

Aha looks like it might be just about any combination of a real plane, an RC-plane and CGI. Here's some background: http://www.reggiepaulk.com/2008/10/k...buzz-with.html

Probably the most important thing over looked is the fact that the wing shears at a point of least stress, at the top if its climb.

Furthermore the shear point is too 'clean' and would not have broken outside the fuselage as seen in the video. They have a continuous spar and can handle many many times the G's forced on them. If a wing did shear it would probably remained clumsily attached by cables and such. Ive watched in amazement several times as one of them 'snatched' a cone, yawed a good 30 degrees only to straighten out and fly around almost sidweays with a huge chunk of cloth hanging off one wing.

Furthermore these aircraft are probably one of the most pampered on the face of the earth. These guys get 'new' aircraft almost monthly and they are torn down, inspected, and re-assembled on nearly a weekly if not daily basis. If there was a major structural malfunction it was well hidden.

Those red bull air racers are frakkin nuts and astonishingly good pilots if anyone could pull it off it would be one of them... But the simple fact is an aircraft with half its airfoil ripped off would spin out of control untill it tied the lowest altitude record.

Then there is this http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-_EXtB...eature=related
But that aircraft has huge stabilizing surfaces which saved his ass.