Rex Mac Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Here's an example of staying calm under pressure: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Bl**dy hell! He either had nerves of steel or needed to change his pants when he got out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Good grief ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 It was a model plane and some nifty photoshopping :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 We've had this one before and I think Asp's spot on. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WireWarrior97 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 If that was fake, it wouldn't have been Photoshopped... I can maybe see how it could have been a model plane though. Any proof of anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 It is a real plane but it was a bit of an anticlimax when the right wing reappeared after the landing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugtifino Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 The plane seen at the beginning isn't the same as the one at the end - the colours on the tailfin are different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Are they ? They look the same to me. I did initially think the bit where it is landing sidewards looked a bit iffy, as it juddered like it was dangling on string and had been superimposed or something, but for the life of me I can't see the bit where the right wing suddenly reappears after the landing Eagle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 He's probably has a better view of it where he lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugtifino Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Are they? Yeah, around 00.06 there's a white-ish stripe underneath the orange, around 00.54 there isn't. Found that from watching it on youtube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Flippin' heck Fugs how good are your eyesight and observation skills I finally see what you mean after watching it another 3 times. It could always be the light playing tricks in the way it reflects off the stickers and paint though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugtifino Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 It could always be the light playing tricks in the way it reflects off the stickers and paint though. Yeah, if you really want to believe. I'm going with the geekery consensus* of the youtube comments. *I tend to trust opinion that appears better informed than I am, on the Internet. It's tricky, but I think one can pick one's way through it, if one wants to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Mac Posted November 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 Sorry folks, seems as though I was taken in by this. I did a bit of searching following on from the earlier posts and the general belief is that it is indeed an elaborate hoax using a remote control model. However, one comment from a US pilots forum did amuse me, "Consider the angle of the rudder prior to landing, this angle would slam the aircraft into the ground." Surely, the same laws of physics would apply to an RC model? Hopefully the guy who posted this comment only has a PPL and doesn't fly C.A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 If you think about it, if it was aerodynically possible for an aeroplane to fly with only one wing, why would aircraft designers bother with the extra expense of fitting two? Or am I just not thinking "far enough outside the box" :grin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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