This article appears in his book, along with photos of the mark in the ground
where the wing tip cut its furrow, it is a good read, teach yourself aerobatics.
regards
JR
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From: Patrick Barfield
To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 6:31 AM
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Viral marketing, was RE: Awesome landing
You're absolutely right Ross, it's a fake. In true Hollywood tradition it was
(loosely) based on a true story that happened in 1970 (attached) but that was
before the advent of handycams so nobody would have filmed it.
Here is some explanation behind this video and some other interesting "viral
marketing" videos.
http://www.reggiepaulk.com/2008/10/killathrill-generates-huge-buzz-with.html
I heard that the clip was even shown on TV nightly news. It's a good lesson
to apply a healthy dose of scepticism to anything you see on the internet. The
potential is awesome, think back to Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio
broadcast but with modern technology.
Cheers,
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross McLean
Sent: Monday, 17 November 2008 2:59 AM
To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Awesome landing
It's a fake I'm afraid Jim.
The aircraft is a Giles 300, all carbon fibre, Lycoming AEIO-540 souped up to
450hp, pilot is James Andersson a Euro airshow pilot. I have looked at it very
carefully and in my opinion, the whole thing is a very well edited fake. Done
possibly with a combination of a remote control model and real footage with the
wing edited out.
In the video, when the G300 loses the right wing it goes into a spin to the
left, which is aerodynamically impossible. In real life it would immediately
have snapped violently to the right and continued to roll uncontrollably to the
right. I would have expected to see some control pushrod remains hanging off
as well. The dead give away though is just after the wing separates there is
an instant where the shadow of the (now non-existent) wing is cast over the
fuselage.
The other interesting thing is that, the wings on this particular aircraft
are assembled into the airframe in a very similar manner to a glider, the spars
of each wing dovetail together inside the fuselage and are mated with high
tensile steel wing pins. If one wing came off , the other would follow suit in
short order.
Another You-Tube prank but clever editing.
ROSS
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Awesome landing
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