No wing plane video takes off

You fools!

That video is absolutely real. I know because I am the pilot who flew that plane. Do you realize that I was eating a banana while I was making that landing, which means I landed the plane with one hand.

Once I landed the lane, my crew glued the wing back on with some Elmer's and I was ready to go up again within one hour.

Don't you all wish you were as great as me.

I am the greatest.

I am the greatest!

By Captain America. Posted März 24 2009 at 5:20 PM.

C'mon Everyone, Of course it's true! Didn't you guys see "LOST" on TV? They lost the whole tail of a big airliner, probably fell 30,000 feet, landed on a desert island, and only lost a few people, And probably only lost them because their "extra" budget was
running a little high by then. Kind of like when "Gilligan's Island" was on TV, and people would call the Coast Guard, and inform them of a shipwreck and all these people were lost and needed to be rescued. Oh, well, some people shouldn't be allowed to have children

By Mike Holmes. Posted März 10 2009 at 10:14 PM.

Oh, nice video effects.

By KAPPADOKAS. Posted Februar 3 2009 at 8:00 PM.

That video is of a REMOTE CONTROLL AIRPLANE. He did land it but it was a model plane. someone edited the video. its all over myspace.

By John. Posted Februar 2 2009 at 10:36 PM.

if any pilot thnks this is real, they should lose their license

By jim. Posted Februar 2 2009 at 6:33 PM.

Even if it didnt look fake, which it does, there is the simple fact of physics---

a plane, or any other moving object, would not stop like that plane did with the momentum it have

By heh. Posted Februar 2 2009 at 8:48 AM.

It's very real. Every student pilot learns the Coefficient of Bruce, which is: Thrust times Lift times Drag times Weight. You dial this result in as a radio frequency and the plane literally flies itself.

By The Square Root of Jello. Posted Februar 1 2009 at 10:08 PM.

I immediately thought "model aircraft" when I saw the thing coming into land, and some of the comments support that idea. The sad fact is there are many gullible media bitches who would never stop to think or question what they had just seen; and that goes as much for how it is presented. For example, here's Julie above:

"Oh my god, are you lot blind? IT STATES IT IS FAKE IN THE ARTICLE. For crying out loud."

No it doesn't, Julie. It states that "experts say it’s just computer trickery for an ad." But they don't tell us who these experts are. Why are you so ready to believe that and not the video?

This may not be an issue when dealing with a one-winged aircraft, but what about news "stories"?
One day there may be flawless CGI that is capable of fooling even the "experts".

I believe that these videos are fake and have been produced by some extremely capable people in their field. Their field is deception, and one day they will have the upper hand.

By Jonnie Park. Posted Januar 25 2009 at 6:51 AM.

its a modle plane that lands the the shot is cut to a real plane

By lukie. Posted Januar 24 2009 at 11:18 PM.

Of course it's fake! The graphics are not that great at all - it has a "cartoon-y" type landing.

By Bob. Posted Januar 21 2009 at 3:22 AM.

Hi, Hope you're all well.

By Barry. Posted Januar 18 2009 at 9:52 PM.

I am a pilot. I was taught to fly Aerobatic Aircraft, and when flying a knifedge ,you do not use the wings for lift anyway . The side of the fuselage was presented , against the airflow, to create the lift. This I did many times. A high angle of attack and plenty of power could make this feasible. What do the professional stunt Pilots say

By Michael. Posted Januar 14 2009 at 4:51 PM.

What was the wing attached with duct tape? I don't think I high performance plane like that would just fall apart in the air. The final sequence reminded me of looking at a video game. Hats off to whoever made this its great but I'm not convinced.

By Ryan from Canada. Posted Januar 14 2009 at 4:08 PM.

It is a very exciting fake created to promote the sponsor's product. I used to coordinate a lot of aviation film projects and this combines a model aircraft, showing the wing separation. You see the real aircraft at beginning and end. the end has the aircraft dropped into frame to hit the ground and roll a very short distance. Even if it touched down at 60 knots, is roll out would be much more. We analysed he video frame-by-frame and the truth is obvious when viewed this way.
WHEN VIEWED AS AN ACTION PIECE IT IS REALLY EXCITING!!

By Lynn Garrison. Posted Januar 12 2009 at 9:42 PM.

Some have commented incorrectly that aerobatic planes can have more thrust than weight - that is they can accelerate from a "hover" using the propeller only. I guess they have never watched closely at a real air show. These planes are amazing, but all but very few Jet aircraft have more weight than thrust. The other obvious problem with this theory is, where's the tail rotor to counter the torque from the vertical flight ? The ailerons are outside the prop-wash. ;-) = FAKE = advertisement.

By Pilot Dave. Posted Januar 12 2009 at 5:35 PM.

I like the people who are saying it's hard to tell if it's CGI.

By godhammer. Posted Januar 12 2009 at 11:03 AM.

That's really horrible CGI, especially the landing sequence, I think my crappy home computer renders better stuff than that.

By Andrew Scott. Posted Januar 12 2009 at 7:21 AM.

Also a pilot. Not impossible but it is difficult to tell whether the video was manipulated. There is footage of an Israeli F-15 landing on one wing, and this pilot does seem to deal with the asymetric twisting thrust by cutting the engine. My guess is these are wings you can bolt on, and he lost the wing on purpose, after practicining the manuever.

By Josh. Posted Januar 12 2009 at 4:03 AM.

I am a pilot and this cannot be done. The plane would have spun to the ground with no ability to control it. Loss of a major control surface is the nightmare situation all pilots hope they never face. Only a rocket propelled parachute would have saved the aircraft and pilot. Its an obvious fake.

By Joe. Posted Januar 12 2009 at 2:23 AM.

Look at the length of the engine compartment of the aircraft that's doing aerobatics and look at the length of the engine compartment of the plane that lost a wing, they are totally different, including the paint scheme.

If you can't see the difference, take a couple of screen shots and compare them side by side.

This is nothing but a viral advertisement for the the clothing company.

By Wayne. Posted Januar 12 2009 at 2:35 AM.

Absolutely aerodynamically impossible. I've been a pilot for 39 years and actually saw an aircraft loose it's wing. People today believe the impossible simply because they WANT to. Just like UFO's and ghosts.

By Dick. Posted Januar 11 2009 at 12:39 PM.

Fake or not, it's magic to watch.

Hopefully, this should encourage more entertaining fakery that is up to this standard.

Bravo.! I enjoyed that.

By Elmo. Posted Januar 11 2009 at 11:49 AM.

The use a remote control model airplane in most of the video. After the RC model airplane lands, there is a jerky edit where they cut to the real airplane. Well done video but the give-away is the too short landing roll.

By Druid_Dude. Posted Januar 11 2009 at 1:27 AM.

A model airplane has done this before. This too is a model airplane with some editing at the end. Enough power is what you need. Model airplanes have commonly have huge power to weight ratios.

By Donovan. Posted Januar 11 2009 at 12:50 AM.

Perhaps it is fake, but for you naysayers out there, consider this:

A stunt plane has a huge power-to-weight-ratio: many of them can literally fly vertically with thrust only, no wing lift.

A good stunt pilot would have already been comfortable with snap-rolls close to the ground. I've seen stunt pilots fly almost the same flightpath as this video near the ground. The only difference was that they they had both wings and they did not snap into a landing.

When you have as much thrust as a stunt plane and the skill of a stunt pilot, this should be possible. As others have commented, we've seen R/C models do this and the they are subject to the same aerodynamics.

By Brett Blatchely. Posted Januar 11 2009 at 12:28 AM.

The fuselage acts as a lifting body, coupled with the lack of a wing, the fuselage angle of attack is increased further. The plane is able to fly quite comfortably. The large size aileron is able to easily rotate the air craft to the correct attitude at the last moment. Even if it is fake, the stunt is possible to be done. As for the F15, the pilot had a good idea of a lack of wing, and the copilot, well an F15 don't have one.

By Andrew. Posted Januar 6 2009 at 8:07 AM.

About the F15 incident: yes it's true, an F15 was able to fly and land with only one wing but the F15 fuselage is so wide that it can make it up for the missing wing (in fact not even the pilot or copilot realized it until they were landed).
I think is fake too but really well done!

By Antonio. Posted Januar 5 2009 at 12:28 PM.

i was involved in making the computer graphics

By jim bob. Posted Dezember 28 2008 at 10:50 AM.

I have seen model aircraft loose a wing and land successfully. Also there is the much documented incident of an F15 eagle landing with one wing missing. Which goes to prove that if enough power is given, even a brick can be made to fly.

By Andrew. Posted Dezember 28 2008 at 3:25 AM.

Can he do it again that was excellent maybe try losing the other wing to make it more interesting

By tone. Posted Dezember 27 2008 at 8:19 AM.

Its a fake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By someonw with a brain. Posted Dezember 15 2008 at 4:53 PM.

Clearly fake, full of BS. "..a courting couple were killed as the broken wing landed directly on their soft topped car", Paul, provide some kind of proof to this claim as no wing can just fall off like that without any kind of explosion or fire or electric shock on the plane. It is an urban legend, a viral video, nothing more.
Physically, it is impossible. Visually, it is a SAD attempt, it does not look remotely real, and is clearly BAD CG.

By CptGreedle. Posted Dezember 15 2008 at 3:35 PM.

Very sad - but a courting couple were killed as the broken wing landed directly on their soft topped car. They never saw it coming, the windows were steamed up. It must have been quite a shock.

By Paul. Posted Dezember 14 2008 at 7:37 AM.

I am a pilot and I can state that this is impossible.
The aircraft would not be able to do this.

By Michael. Posted Dezember 14 2008 at 4:38 AM.

Aerodynamicaly impossible.

By Bob. Posted Dezember 10 2008 at 8:24 AM.

Killathrill advertising all over this clip, they made several of these ads I believe, they are a German clothing company.

By julie . Posted Dezember 7 2008 at 2:01 PM.

Oh my god, are you lot blind? IT STATES IT IS FAKE IN THE ARTICLE. For crying out loud.

By chris j. Posted Dezember 7 2008 at 11:51 AM.

It's a fake..If you look at the plane before wing falls off it has a red and white trim painted on the vertical stabilizer.. As the plane lands with one wing the white trim has disappeared. Two different aircraft or animations..

By bho. Posted Dezember 7 2008 at 4:12 AM.

Hi guys,

I have seen this video.This is an excellent video and highly animated.

NYK

http://www.widecircles.com

By NYK007. Posted Dezember 4 2008 at 12:45 PM.

The plane is doing typical "odd attitude" approach and landing, typically seen by these type of high performance light aircraft, pitts specials etc. BUT, with both port and starboard wings attached. In order to keep the plane in the landing attitude shown, some lift would have to be produced by the starboard wing which is missing in this clip.......my verdict......it's been got at by the graphic manipulators.

By Jaycee. Posted Dezember 3 2008 at 7:54 PM.

Did Rick Ashley win?

By Pilot. Posted November 20 2008 at 5:24 AM.

me and my friend pol cant' decide if this is real or not... i think it is but pol is a professional filmmaker and he says there are obvious glaring errors... like when the plane lands it bounces like a plastic model would & also he thinks there is some CGI going on... im not sure.. id like to believe that it really happened.. anyone got any ideas..?

By helen & pol. Posted November 12 2008 at 10:53 AM.

The things that makes me think this is fake are a couple of small features: firstly, the guy shouting "RUUUUN!!!" in an over the top fashion that just doesn't sound like a realistic reaction. Secondly, the video is full of shoddy camerawork yet at the crucial moment of landing the cameraman is able to keep the suddenly decelerating aircraft perfectly centred in the frame. But this is a moment when he'd be most likely to lose centring on the plane due to the sudden change of speed and direction. It all points to the dodgy camerawork in the rest of the video being deliberate.

By Simon. Posted November 10 2008 at 2:51 AM.

you search Google with "plane lands with one wing" you will find a F15 that lands with one wing after a mid air collision.

If you look closely at the sport plane immediately after landing you can clearly see into the wing spar is visible rather than a wing tip. I would like to see the remaining portion as I would guess the gut who shot the video would take more of the plane after it landed. Oh well.

By Ken . Posted November 5 2008 at 2:24 PM.

It is quite possible for this to be true. All is normal until the wing snaps off, the pilot's only chance of survival depends on quickness to go full throttle. This pulls the mass of the craft around the center of gravity, of the "new" aerodynamic", to counter the drag of the existing wing, and the loss of lift of the missing wing. Pilot finds some measure of control, and gets damn lucky to land safely, with a short rolling stop.

By pentalph1. Posted November 5 2008 at 7:57 AM.

Nicely done for CG, but come on. There's no way the plane would be stable, due to the missing wing, torque of the engine, etc. Those planes are awesomely powerful for their weight, but they can't beat physics.

By Richie. Posted November 4 2008 at 3:55 PM.

Fake as the day is long. The bit when the 'plane' lands is so easily detectable as fake. I agree, yawn!!!

By John. Posted November 3 2008 at 2:32 AM.

That is SOOooo obviously CG'd...yawn...

By dave. Posted November 2 2008 at 2:16 PM.