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Old October 30th 08, 12:25 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
Charles Vincent
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Default Is this real or staged?

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Andy Asberry wrote:
http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08102703.html


According to someone on another forum, "...it's a viral advertising
campaign by a small clothing company called killathrill
(www.killathrill.com)."

If it *were* real...don't you think CNN would be running it 24/7? :-)

Ron Wanttaja



I suspect that the flight footage is real, its just the scale that you
are being deceived by. I think it is a scale model plane and the final
scene of the pilot releasing the canopy is where it has been doctored.
Its a power to weight thing. There was an F15 that is pretty well
documented that flew on a single wing. And there are a number of scale
models that have done it:

Scale model on one wing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au2IkYLF7rc


F15 documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7DfS-9CFI

Charles