Stinky Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Imagine loosing one of your favorite parts! I wonder what the power to weight ratio is? The video proves that one should never, ever give up; fly it as far into the accident as possible. (And carry a spare set of shorts.) Carl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cozy1200 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 The video proves that ..... CGI is pretty believable. Quote Drew Chaplin (aka the Foam Whisperer) --- www.Cozy1200.com - I'm a builder now! --- Brace for impact... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spodman Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 It looks like a fake to me, the landing sequence is obviously interfered with, a whole bunch of speed just disappears at one point. I'm a bit confused by the whole background of this. www.killathrill.com/start.action is a dull looking clothing line that 'sponsors' somebody called James Andersson in the Red Bull series, yet he always finishes outside the top 12, or gets disqualified. His results here: www.killathrill.com/start.action I haven't been to a Red Bull race, but I thought there were only the listed pilots participating, it is possible the pilot does not really exist, the whole thing is just one of those very irritating 'viral' advertisements. Which makes Stinky a spammer. Thanks a lot. Did read about a similar instance in real life, British aerobatic pilot had a lower wing attach bolt failure in a Zlin 526a, landing off an inverted circuit. Wing was still attached, but folded up to 45 degrees if he wasn't inverted. http://www.aerobatics.org.uk/repeats/zlin_wing_failure.htm Quote Mark Spedding - SpodmanDarraweit Guim - AustraliaCozy IV #1331 - Chapter 09www.mykitlog.com/Spodmanwww.sites.google.com/site/thespodplane/the-spodplane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Wright Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 when i saw the wing fly off the thought instantly popped into my head "he's dead"... but then a few seconds later it was clear it was fake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cozy1200 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Now I have seen real video of RC pilots landing after losing a wing. It's impressive, but a lot of RC acrobatic airplanes are extremely overpowered. Quote Drew Chaplin (aka the Foam Whisperer) --- www.Cozy1200.com - I'm a builder now! --- Brace for impact... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Kriley Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Now I have seen real video of RC pilots landing after losing a wing. It's impressive, but a lot of RC acrobatic airplanes are extremely overpowered. That was, indeed, an R/C model - and they spliced in a real one at the end. Good entertainment, though! Quote Phil Kriley Cozy #1460 Chapter 13 - nose Right wing done - working on right winglet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfryer Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Very convenient parts of the video get a little blurry. The canopy opening part defiantly has some GCI fakery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMann Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 ... but then a few seconds later it was clear it was fake. Wow! That's good to know. I was going to give this a shot this weekend in the rent-a-spam-can (Archer). Might be a bit underpowered. From what I've read, they are getting 340+HP out of the Lycoming 540 in the Red Bull planes. A little better than .2 hp/lb. Amazing what theycan get away with. Quote T Mann - Loooong-EZ/20B Infinity R/G Chpts 18 Velocity/RG N951TM Mann's Airplane Factory We add rocket's to everything! 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9, 10, 14, 19, 20 Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMann Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 ........ but wait, there's more.... http://www.jamesandersson.com/video01.html Quote T Mann - Loooong-EZ/20B Infinity R/G Chpts 18 Velocity/RG N951TM Mann's Airplane Factory We add rocket's to everything! 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9, 10, 14, 19, 20 Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 now this guy was not so lucky......left main shot:D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsNIhBlyepc Quote Steve M. Parkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmeddz Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 James anderson is not a real red bull pilot. Check the Redbull roster. He's not even on it! They are cleverly inserting him at the end of the roster as 'disqualified' at the James Anderson site. Notice the Killathrill sponsor on the website. It looks like a bio for 80's non-rapper Milli Vanilla ICE. How come he's on the crowd side of the fence in the pictures? Maybe because he's not let in the pilot area??? 475 HP engine on his airplane specs?? Gimmie a break!! The video is a fake. It's an ad campaign by a company called Killathrill. Anybody who looks at the actual landing would realize the physics of that plane hitting the ground at speed would have planted it in the dirt and the pilot would be one hell of a lot shorter if not immediately dead! watch this vid of Wayne handly hitting the ground for a comparison. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1331251820902328022 Anyone notice how super jittery the Killathrill vid gets when the plane gets right on the deck? Notice how short the landing is? Boink! It amazes me how this hoax has taken off in the pilot community!!! This annoys me so I'm venting about it. Jeez! How many of my pilot buddies have sent me this going "Wow, check this out!" This same climate has given us the current crop of politicians currently up for election. Doesn't anybody have any skepticism left???? Ok I'm done. Night shift is getting to me. Gotta go find something to break so I can fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmeddz Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I also saw a new video of bigfoot so I'm I'm convinced he's real now!!! 40 years of re-analysing that one and only film of the bigfoot walking away just wasn't enough to convince me. Iwas just not convinced before!!! More gratuitous exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck voting tommorrow. There's an even chance that your candidate will get elected! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainfart Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 This video and the jamesandersson.com web site were created by a German TV show doing an experiment on the spreading of rumours, viral marketing etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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