The Big Hoax: Aircraft Loses Wing, Lands Safely (is not the best pilot ever)

What's wrong with this picture? Plenty.

Read more, here:
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/exclusivevids/ExclusiveVideo_BigHoax_OneWingL...

... and if anyone's still unsure, drop us a line and we'll explain what a spar is and what it looks like inside a wing.


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[leviterande]

big hoax? a rat can see this is animated

[TheLancer1993]

And plus what PLANE can land in that short of a distance with such speed, and only bounce once?

[fubleduck]

If the wonwingwonder is a model & is really in the air, how do you explain the aerodynamic contradictions? Oddly, I've cut wings off little gliders that spiralled into the remaining wing. How can a stalled wing have less lift than a nonexisting one? Why is it so antiresponsive? Even if it is a model, it could be real(unexplained) aerodynamics.

[SUP3Rtoastr]

@Nameunavailabletoday All well and good but unless you can give me the physics on how a plane's paint job changes between flight and landing then i'm going to have to say it's fake.

[FlightHawkB1]

Its fake because when the right wing is not there the left wing is the only one supporting/ giving lift which would cause it to spin uncontrolably and you would have no aleiron control what so ever ITS FAKE

[dalotel]

Some chess teacher from Arizona sent me this link from another video saying it was real. This is what is wrong with schools, the teachers are idiots, so the students walk out just as screwed up. They'll believe anything.

[maganreggie6]

LOL!!!

ITS CLEAERLY ANIMATED!!!!

Camera's shaking makes it looks like its real.....

[eurythorpe]

Nice animation!

[daguy1234]

No plane can bounce like that.

[rolfago]

You have to be a 100% fool to think this is real. if you have eye balls you should know its fake.

[ivorykid27455]

Search for "Making-Of the Killa Thrill 'One Wing Landing' Viral Video"

[Nameunavailabletoday]

This manuever (minus landing) is part of a standard airshow stunt performance. This stunt is a balance of prop thrust and prop-wash induced lift over the rudder. Is the landing in this vid real? The physics are entirely possible. I have a lot of questions (why wing failure at low-load? Aeleron linkage destruction from lost wing? etc.) but cannot say "fake" w/out knowing a lot more.