Fake, so fake! The airplane would spin with the good wing on the outside, not on the inside of the spin. Remember the helicopter leaves from the Swisher Tree?

When the wing broke off, it flew off to the right. It wouldn’t do that in real life, the plane was going up, the wing would follow the flight path of the plane.

When the airplane lands, the bounce is so unnatural.
More important, when it landed it would have leaned into the wing when it stopped because there would be more weight on that side. (If not tip over completely).

Last, when you look at the shadows, there’s a shadow on the ground (CG) but there is no shadow on the aircrafts’ stab/elevator.

Someone sure went to a lot of trouble to make this video. It’s good entertainment, but that’s all.

- the wing break looks totally clean. In a real wing break event, it would not just separate at the root spar but disintegrate. This is more a “wing loss” event, which seems very very odd.

- Those wings are built to withstand +/-10g. The wing separated down, so the negative acceleration would have been amazingly high, even if a structural failure had been present, it would still hold more negative g than a torque figure (lomcovac?) would create and the pilot could withstand. Those torque figures are flown using the torque from the engine, therefore, they’re usually flown at rather low speeds.

- just before landing, in that “wing high” attitude, there’s no rudder deflection to be seen. If you’re flying with vertical wings, you have to produce lift by using the fuselage, which means you have to have a high angle of attack, which, because you are 90° off your normal attitude, means that you have to use full or almost full rudder “away from the ground”. Can’t be seen here.

now, having that said, I have seen a case where a very similar thing happened to a model airplane and the pilot saved it. It’s entirely possible by physics, this just doesn’t look very convincing.

pj

Fake, fake, fake.

Why wouldn’t the pilot bail when his wing fell off? That should have been the first signal to anyone who thought this was real. Second, the craptastic CGI editing should have told you.

Those little planes have a staggering amount of lift because of powerful engines and small weight….

I wasn’t there so…

Some really freak things have been known to happen.

If not a fake I doubt if he’d want to try that again.

You guys have fun.

For god’s sake, can’t you make a video camera that doesn’t randomly go out of focus at exactly the most critical times when unusual things are being shot?

We shoot hundreds of tapes without ever having the camera blur out, but when the Yeti steps from the Flying Saucer with his arms around Ambrose Bierce, all of the sudden the camera goes kerfluie and we get that critical match-up moment where we could have seen truth or fake, now obscured forever by your shoddy autofocus system designs.

Stop it.