It takes a crazy, crazy genius of a Latin to land an aeroplane which.... well,

[Joe Chi Minh]

well, just watch this:

http://www.elrellano.com/videos_online/2596/el-mejor-piloto.html

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. crafty but fake...

RC kick ass landing...followed by a little camera trickery...


sP

[amdezurik]

2. LOL gotta love forced perspective

:)

[CRF450]

7. I think that was a bit of CG magic.

Though I have seen a couple video's of RC aerobatic planes losing a wing and the pilot what skilled enough to still land it without major damage! A real plane... cant be done.

[madokie]

18. The other day I watched a video of a plane that was at an air show

doing maneuvers and one of the wings broke off and everyone watching gasped but the pilot brought it right on in, missing one wing and all. If I told you that you would prolly call bullshit on it and that would more than likely make me have to go and find the clip to prove it but I don't really have the time to do all that right now, so. :hi::-)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. viral fake.

Promotional for Killathrill "extreme" clothing line.

Or some damn thing.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Are you sure? What's an RC landing, Prodigal?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. radio controlled...hobby aircraft stuff

i am about 98% sure that this one's a fake. looks pretty good but there are some things about it that are just tell-tale...i had to look a couple of times, but, yeah, it's fake...

sP

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. RC = Radio Controlled.

A tiny airplane with a wingspan no more than about four feet, controlled by a guy with a box that has controls for the throttle and flight controls.

It's been posted and debated here before. It's fake. Notice the way the plane bounces when it lands. Does that look like a 2000lb airplane landing to you?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

11. you wanna see some AWESOME RC???

check out the C-17...

http://gizmodo.com/5064029/c+17-rc-model-airplane-can-probably-carry-a-real-tank

sP

[yodoobo]

8. very fake.

But entertaining!

Because of the aerodynamics involved, no full size aircraft is capable of recovering after losing an entire wing. Its laughably impossible.

At the RC scale though, its somewhat possible to "hang the plane" from the prop because of the scaling issues of weight to power etc. Essentially turn it into a helicopter.

There are plenty of video clues as well, but the physics of the situation is the biggest giveaway.

[foxer]

12. I disagree, that was an aerobatic plane, it would have the power

required to do that. Horsepower generally in the 1000-2000 range, not a 150HP Cessna.

[yodoobo]

13. no way

assuming the aircraft had the power to hang from the prop like a rotary wing aircraft, the fuselage would be counter rotating like crazy under that much torque. This doesn't happen in normal flight because you have the airflow over the wings and tail. In this case, there is no airflow and one of the wings is gone.

Real rotary wing aircraft - helicopters have tail roters for that very reason, and a simple google search can yield dozens of examples of what happens when the tail rotor fails.

In any event, a real recovery like that would be all over aviation news. This is a fake video.

[foxer]

15. Once again I disagree, there was airflow over the wing

The plane was moving. Also, being aerobatic it has full length ailerons to counter act the torque, which you will notice were at full right aileron position on its approach. Actually its the torque of the engine that allows it to level out so quickly, had it been the other wing would have been in deep shit. You claim its not possible in a real plane, but is with RC plane??? Alternate Universe??? Yes I know how rotary wing aircraft operate too.
Didn't claim its not a fake, just that its possible.

[yodoobo]

16. Well then it should be easy to find it documented somewhere

where a pilot has actually accomplished this.

[Joe Chi Minh]

17. On reflection, I think it would have been front-page news all over the world.

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. Thanks to you both. Shame though!

[Dogmudgeon]

10. Wasn't this a Cantinflas movie?

--p!

[Stinky The Clown]

14. the exhaust note doesn't go with the plane or its actions.