BradB Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZZ84uJy48c Enjoy Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Ummmmm........................this person is my hero...........wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyMotion Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 wow that's quite amazing!! Best recovery ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 it is no miracle it is utter BS - what it is though, it is cleaver video editing - it is impossible for an aircraft to fly with only one wing. You have one wing developing lift on one side without another wing on the other side to counteract that lift. So if that did happen the aircraft would roll to the side without a wing and no amount of aileron would be able to counteract that. http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlexFlier Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 +1. Some say it was an RC model, although you'd think the same laws of physics would apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Part of it was a model - if you go to the snopes link it shows the making of the video. And yes the same laws of physics would apply to a model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 it is no miracle it is utter BS - what it is though, it is cleaver video editing - it is impossible for an aircraft to fly with only one wing. You have one wing developing lift on one side without another wing on the other side to counteract that lift. So if that did happen the aircraft would roll to the side without a wing and no amount of aileron would be able to counteract that. http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp It's not impossible... just almost impossible with today's technology. With sufficient power to weight, as is common in RC planes, the prop can literally pull an aircraft up, as was demonstrated by the RC model in this clip. Secondly, most championship aerobatic aircraft have fairly symmetrical wing profiles, so the normal tendency of a wing loss to result in violent uncontrollable rolling would not be an issue. Give technology another 20-30 years and I suspect that aerobatic planes will start to demonstrate maneouvres only seen in RC planes today, and with it will come the ability to possibly emulate what we have seen in this video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Dont forget too, you have to counteract the torque reaction of the engine with that one wing...... But then again dreams are free! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grover149 Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 How many times is this fake video going to be played? It's a radio control model with audio edit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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