What the hell? (Not the wardrobe malfunction thumbnailed, you old perv. Click to see!)Can that have been real, & if so can the pilots still be employed? Or not in jail?
1.) While the aircraft could probably perform the maneuver, if you were going to try it on final approach your speed would be too low and you would certainly crash. If you were going to try it at low altitude, you would be flying much faster and cleaned up and you would pitch up at the beginning of the maneuver.
2.)To perform an aileron roll and remain lined up with the runway on final is vanishingly unlikely - you can land the aircraft, or you can do aerobatics, but you can't do both. Fighter pilots would do 'victory rolls' over the runway, but not on approach - they would do them at high speed and higher altitude and then drop into the pattern to land.
3.)If they crashed the airplane insurance wouldn't pay, because it's not certified for aerobatics, and the fines and lawsuits would be too much even for Branson...
Editor No Brighter Than A YouTube Commenter: A comment suggested a movie the maneuver was stolen from, so yeah, but it sho' nuff looked real to a sucker like me. Helps that it was relatively low-def, too.
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The Great Gazoogal seems to think it's fake.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how that could be real. Way to low an altitude to even try among other things wrong.
Uh, too, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly fake, for three reasons.
ReplyDelete1.) While the aircraft could probably perform the maneuver, if you were going to try it on final approach your speed would be too low and you would certainly crash. If you were going to try it at low altitude, you would be flying much faster and cleaned up and you would pitch up at the beginning of the maneuver.
2.)To perform an aileron roll and remain lined up with the runway on final is vanishingly unlikely - you can land the aircraft, or you can do aerobatics, but you can't do both. Fighter pilots would do 'victory rolls' over the runway, but not on approach - they would do them at high speed and higher altitude and then drop into the pattern to land.
3.)If they crashed the airplane insurance wouldn't pay, because it's not certified for aerobatics, and the fines and lawsuits would be too much even for Branson...
Editor No Brighter Than A YouTube Commenter:
ReplyDeleteA comment suggested a movie the maneuver was stolen from, so yeah, but it sho' nuff looked real to a sucker like me. Helps that it was relatively low-def, too.
No. 2, also.
GIVE ME THE WARDROBE MALFUNCTION, DAMMIT!!!
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Malfunctioning Editor:
ReplyDeleteY'know, I watched most of the compilation but I didn't see the wardrobe malfunction.
14 mins. is a loooong time to pay attention to anything though.