Nobody reads the Aerobatic boards, So I'm asking here.

[Snapshot]

Is there any way this is legal?


Perhaps some sort of airshow/performance exemptions I'm not aware of?

 

[Andy]

It's fake. Just like the AMR DC-10 that landed on the 405 a few years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPAmpVRBBb8

 

[TXDA2000]

It's not fake. It's Jason Newburgh. Part of a new act in development.

The FAA is investigating.

 

[gutshotdraw]

I always loved that 405 movie. Fun bit of low budget film making.

 

[J.Otto]

It's not fake. It's Jason Newburgh. Part of a new act in development.

The FAA is investigating.

yep.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...vestigating-pilot-dangerous-200mph-stunt.html

 

[Green Banana]

It's not the fact it is a low pass that makes me think its fake, its how fast he is shown at pattern altitude on downwind.

 

[Andy]

It's not the fact it is a low pass that makes me think its fake, its how fast he is shown at pattern altitude on downwind.

That's what I also thought. However, I did the math. If he was in an 85 degree bank at 200Kts, his rate of turn would exceed 60 degrees per second. I didn't figure out lower bank angles, but suffice it to say that he could turn 180 degrees in the 5 or so seconds that it appeared to take as long as the aircraft could withstand the required Gs. ... I didn't dig up the formula for Gs; the formula for rate of turn is (1092.95*Tan(bank angle))/ Velocity.

Edit: At 80 degrees' bank angle, the turn rate is approximately 30 degrees per second.

Edit 2: I found the formula from Gs. It's n = 1/cos of bank angle.
For 85 degrees, he'd need to pull 11.47 Gs
For 80 degrees, he'd need to pull 5.76 Gs