Fake.
Looks funny to me.
This, on the other hand, really did happen:
Israeli F-15 flies with one wing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE
Nov 7/8
Kennedy Space Center Air Show
Cape Canaveral, FL
He will be in Florida this weekend. Why don’t you go down there and ask him.
I’d say it’s real... if it was faked, it is so well done that it would have to have been done by a Hollywood film studio. The engines on those race plane have a phenominal thrust to weight ratio, so the maneuver by the pilot is “do-able”. Effectivly, he used the thrust to break his fall, much like a helicopter.
BAIL OUT LITTLE PLASTIC PILOT!!! BAIL OUT!!!
It was fake the last six times it was posted on FR, so I’m pretty sure it’s still fake.
You see the plane in a downward spiral that is basically uncontrolled, the camera loses it, and then a mere 3 seconds later the plane is flying almost level, 4 seconds later it's flying nose up in a controlled fashion.
Stunt planes do have a lot of thrust from their engines and can fly up and basically hover for a bit before falling back to earth. Stopping his downward fall with basically no lift from wings and then change that to a sideways motion by propeller thrust alone would take at least several times as much thrust as it would take to literally hover using the propeller.
Now the plane does appear to be pointed nearly strait up a bit before he gets to the ground, so at least the thrust is in the right direction to slow him at that point, but what force causes him to start moving sideways near the ground? His relatively small tail rudder just forces his momentum sideways and turns the plane horizontal to the ground?
The laws of physics don't work that way.
While the creators obviously put some effort into this it is very obviously fake.
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