One way to positively determine whether this is a model or a full-size is to listen to the sound of the engine, but your video has replaced the sound of the engine with music.
How about re-doing it so we can hear the engine?
Was this pilot a part of the airshow? What was his name? Did you see him land? Did you see the pilot exit the cockpit?
I checked the web site for the 2010 Chico airshow and there wasn't a Yak-55 or Sukhoi-26/Sukhoi 30 listed as a performer.
I also checked their photo gallery. (See: 2010 Chico Airshow Photo Gallery)
You'd think that they would want to get photos of such an amazing feat of flying and yet, there is not a single photo.
A search of Google for any airplanes hovering at the Chico airshow turns up nothing.
Were you the only spectator in attendance when you shot the footage?
In short, I am not wrong. This was a model airplane.
If you still on insisting that this is a full-size, then post the raw, unedited video with the sound of the engine.
That will tell us once and for all whether this is a 40% model or a full-size airplane.
He did a similar maneuver during the show but not as low to the ground. This was the next morning while I was waiting to talk to the driver of the jet car. It was off to the end of the runway a ways off.
I will see is I can hear the engine in the original video. Even at that it was a couple of very short clips off my digital camera. So I had to splice what I had to get it to the length I wanted.
However, as I said I will check it out for the sound of the engine, but it was quite a way away actually. That is why I added the music, to distract away from people talking to the driver of the car.
Exactly....and if full-size aerobatics at airshows has evolved to vertical hovers just above ground level alll us pilot types would read about it on the front page of the monthlies...
PS...one clever way to hide the drone of a big bore two stroke radio control airplane engine is to mask it with music in your video... and why would one want to drown out the strain of a full-size aircraft engine at high manifold pressure settings anyway? :o)
I’m w/you. I’m an R/C Pilot (AMA# 791825) and also know that this is at LEAST a 40% YAK 54, looks like a Carden aircraft, probably has at least a Desert Aircraft DA-50 engine in it. Looks like the pilot has a big ticket JR or Futaba radio as well.
Okay, the poster says it’s a “Real” plane, as someone who has 3D flyers in his Club (WWFC AMA# 449) and has Dean Pappas, who writes articles for Model Aviation magazine, this guy is a joke.
Prove it Buster.........