JoeKo23

I found this video. Plane goes into a snaproll and one of it's wings comes off, then some how the pilot manages to land it? I saw a one wing landing of a jet, but that's because a jet is a lot different than an aerobatic airplane. What do you guys think?

http://www.howcast.com/videos/241926...-Pilot-or-Luck

firstplaceaviator

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Nope! http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/excl..._199303-1.html

http://www.jamesandersson.com/interview.html

Cool video none the less [8D]
Doug

ChuckW

If you pay close attention to the intact plane and the plane on the ground with one wing you'll see that a stripe disappears. This clearly indicates that it is a different airplane on the ground, most likely an RC plane. either TLC or Discovery (don't remember which) had a program where this video was featured in one segment. They clearly demonstrated it was fake but they also showed a guy up in Oregon who rigged an RC Yak to eject one wing and he flew it in a knife-edge and landed it fairly successfully. In fact, there's been several RC planes landed with one wing from what I understand. Full scale though.... not likely. They don't have the power to weight ratio and I hear knife-edge flight is pretty physically demanding.

jetmech05

Plus in full scale the ailerons are wired together with cables....lost wing would be lost ailerons

firstplaceaviator

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Actually, the Giles uses push pull tubes, not cables.

yel914

I couldn't help but notice that when the plane is in knife edge so close to the ground that the rudder is neutral. But as stated-cool video.