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Is it fake or.....

I'd say it's a fake mate. If you look at how hard it lands on it's wheels it would have shattered the undercarriage I would have thought. Plus how many planes can fly with a wing missing like that. Not many I'd say

Wardog

My thought aswell, but stranger thing´s have hapend at sea....

It's a fake, it's actually a remote control plane with some really nice editing. The rc pilot really did land it just like the movie though.

Hey, it could be real!

Many times I've made it home on a wing and a prayer.


Falcon

Yeah but Stu we all know that you are a consumate profesional mate and that you have named the wings on your plane "A wing" and "A prayer" LOL

Wardog

Well on a similar theme, anyone see this story today?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 715345.stm

Yeah read it about an hour ago. Must have been bloody nerve racking for the the bloke and the Tucano pilot.

Wardog

The same story happened to a harrier (? not sure) pilot, decades ago when a bird hit his jet and he got blind because of splinters in his face.

So he was blind, and if I remember correctly ,he blew away the canopy, preparing to get out.
But his wingman lead him down to land safe only via coms.

Looks like it was a viral advert for a clothes company.

http://dazchild.blogspot.com/2008/11/on ... -race.html

Here's another good one.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/plane-ditching-surf.shtml

And now for a real one wing landing I would have punched out well before that.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-_EXtBEaBbs

The pilos said, he would have also, if he knew he lost his wing.

I still doubt a bit about this case.

I saw that one on the History Channel. Amazing!

Viral marketing for an aircraft manufacturer?