Are you really a skilled pilot?

[planedriver]

OK folks. To all of you who think that you are skilled as a pilot, take a look at this video!

 

 

 

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08102703.html

 

 

[motzartmerv]

This is the 3rd time in one day that this video has appeared...ill say it again...its a fake......a good fake, but still a fake.....so the skills involved are computer generation..

 

 

[Guest Michael Coates]

Yes, but its so well done !! They just need to fix the landing roll a little and then it would be really excellent !!

 

 

[motzartmerv]

yea thats where it really shows...that, and the fact the plane spins the wrong way..;)...great job though..

 

 

[JG3]

This is really fascinating. Can anyone speculate on how it was done?? R/C Models or whatever?? How did they do that low level knife-edge??

 

 

[Guest deril isaacs]

a video of a large model aircraft landing with one wing panel dont think this is fake .... shows it can be done i guess

 

YouTube - Bill Hempel knife fly

 

 

[Yenn]

If this really happened how come it never made it into the media, nor did it get int Aviation web sites with any info? Foe me to believe it I need to know where, when, who was the pilot and why hasn't it appeared in aviation safety magazines.

 

After looking at it again I see that it appears to be a German video, but there is no registration visible on the plane. As far as I know all of the European states have their registration in large letters on the side of the fuselage.

 

 

[planedriver]

Ah Ian,

 

Surely your not going to spoil a good story.

 

If I told you the pilot learned how to do it in Silver City Airways Bristol 170 out of Manston, would you believe it then?;) Because rumor has it that some good pilots come from that area.

 

Regards

 

Alan

 

 

[Bob1957]

lmaaofl:thumb_up:

 

 

[JG3]

That video is undoubtedly a complete fake...... Have a look at the 500+ comments on this link

 

The clinching evidence has to be that segment of the low level knife edge. The perspective doesn't change at all as the aircraft travels along - to get that view the camera would have to be following along at the same speed as the aircraft. Lots of other clues in there as well, as pointed out by some of the comments from professional computer graphics and video experts. Sure fooled a lot of us tho...... And succeeded in attracting lots of attention for the advertiser - over 1.3 million viewings just on the U-Tube site alone!

But what is one to believe in future??? It's really disillusioning.............

 

JohnG

 

 

[JayKay]

I see it but I don't believe it

 

 

[BigPete]

Then you're smarter than most.......

 

 

[Ben Longden]

Anyway you look at it, its a great effort that has a lot of people talking.... the advertisers dream.... :thumb_up:

 

Ben

 

 

[Guest airsick]

Have a look at the 500+ comments on this link

I just had a look through the comments and noticed this in the related videos links:

 

YouTube - Reno Air Race Exhibition Stunt Plane Landing on Pickup

 

Sort of reminds me of the conveyor belt question. Did we ever get an answer to that?

 

 

[Yenn]

planedriver.

 

I left there at about 2 years old, couldn't even pilot a tricycle then. 70 years later I am still learning.

 

 

[planedriver]

Like all of us that don't get any younger, I quite understand.

 

Take good care of yourself and your Corby Mate.

 

Kind Regards

 

Planey

 

 

[Guest High Plains Drifter]

Wing failure ! Heres a real world incident;

 

Zlin wing Structural Failure Report. By Neil Williams - British Aerobatic Team member 1970 World Aerobatic Championships, practising at Hullavington.

 

Zlin wing Structural Failure Report - Neil Williams

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

I have always used Neil Williams landing in the Zlin as one of three best examples of great flying. The second was the Crusader jet that was catapulted accidently off a carrier at night, in the Medeteranian, with the wings still folded. It flew fine with lots of power, but the pilot couldn't eject because of the wings folded behind him. He landed back at a land base in Scilily, and there is a great photo of the jet taxing in, still with the wings folded.

 

My third example is the high-wing twin-engined british freighter aircraft of the late fifties. A test pilot was conducting a foward GC load test. As they had overdone the load, he was unable to flare even with the yoke held back in his lap. Impact on the grass runway was so solid it shook both engines off the wings, and being now much lighter the aircraft leaped back into the air !. Now the GC is decidedly rearward, and the pilots' now got the yoke on the panel, to maintain control. He made a safe landing shortly after, just beyond the two radial engines laying in the grass.

 

 

[poteroo]

The Neil Williams / Zlin feat is, no question - one of flyings' truly great instinctive reactions.

 

One noted WA pilot used to join the JT circuit, inverted, in a Pitts, only rolling level on finals - something of a tribute to Neil Williams - who did it in an aircraft which was going to go totally out-of-control once it rolled level. ( This was back in the early 70's - when things were much more relaxed in the wild west!).

 

happy days,

 

 

[djpacro]

I saw Neil fly quite a few times in the year that I spent in the UK and regardless of whether it was a display or not, Zlin or Pitts, never saw him fly anything other than a standard circuit. "something of a tribute" - nope, I don't believe that.

 

 

[Student Pilot]

Sort of reminds me of the conveyor belt question. Did we ever get an answer to that?

If a wing doesn't have airflow over it, it can't fly. Simple.