Is this video possible? Is this a put-on by a pilot/plane of
extraordinary means?

To recap the video: Stunt pilot loses a wing during an air show.
Aircraft keeps flying for 30 seconds, sometimes upside down. Just as
plane is about to crash, plane becomes level and pilot lands on main
gear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i21pDT3jips

NadCixelsyd wrote
> Is this video possible?

Not a chance.....:)

Note that after touchdown, the camera lens is perpendicular to the
track of the a/c and remains that way until the a/c is nearly stopped.
To be flying on fuselage lift alone, the a/c must be traveling at a
fairly high rate of speed and therefore, the camera at the same speed.
The camera did not "pan" during the touchdown sequence.

Bob Moore

The video is a fake.

NadCixelsyd schrieb:
> Is this video possible? Is this a put-on by a pilot/plane of
> extraordinary means?
>
> To recap the video: Stunt pilot loses a wing during an air show.
> Aircraft keeps flying for 30 seconds, sometimes upside down. Just as
> plane is about to crash, plane becomes level and pilot lands on main
> gear.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i21pDT3jips

Hi!
In a german usenet group (de.rec.luftfahrt) we had a longer thread about
that video. It is a marketing campaign for the brand painted on the
airplane (I didn't write the brand name by intention!).

Just have a look here:
http://www.jamesandersson.com
or
google for the brand

greets from germany,
Christian

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On 2008-11-06 13:52:50 -0800, NadCixelsyd > said:

> Is this video possible? Is this a put-on by a pilot/plane of
> extraordinary means?
>
> To recap the video: Stunt pilot loses a wing during an air show.
> Aircraft keeps flying for 30 seconds, sometimes upside down. Just as
> plane is about to crash, plane becomes level and pilot lands on main
> gear.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i21pDT3jips

Probably a fake:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp

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