Omifreakinggod!!!

[Boomhauer]

Is this real?

http://home.comcast.net/~e.franzen/13002069.wmv

 

[ShawnC]

Not sure but it was filmed for a commercial for some European sports championship.

Give me a second and I will find the commercial and post it on my website.

 

[ShawnC]

Can't find the file on my file server. I think I moved that file to my DVD archives. I will look for it and post it later.

 

[saabcaptain]

Folks technology has come a long way...

That is Microsoft Flight Simulator. No joke.

 

[ShawnC]

Found it:
http://movies.lazyeights.net/landing.mpeg

I am not so sure saabcaptian, it's pretty seamless transition between the real background on the aircraft. I think it's an actual aircraft modified in post production (adding the extra bounces) for the commercial.

 

[Snakum]

I once saw a C650 bounce the nose gear at least four times (possibly more, he was hidden from view at touchdown) at BUY once. Is there something specific that causes this in larger aircraft, or is it just a combination of things?

Minh
(I've bounced the nose gear on a Skyhawk a time or twelve ... but the main gear wasn't on the ground at the time. )

 

[saabcaptain]

Upon looking at more I think now the foreground/aircraft may not be MSFS (FlightSim) but I still don't think it is real, I think digital editing has been done...

 

[Crizz]

I gotta say it looks like real footage... of a model aircraft. I think the tire smoke was added by special effect (digital or otherwise). The tower communication is obviously fake.

 

[Typhoon1244]

The bottom line is that the main gear struts are shaped wrong and the strut well doors are missing. Model or CGI...the airplane's fake. I suspect, however, that the background is real.

 

[Big Duke Six]

Looks good but...

I have to agree - something was probably done in postproduction, like the squirrels causing the car wreck, or it could be a model. An actual airplane would not slam it's nose down that fast, due to inertia, and even if it did you would see big pieces coming off as it did so. Pretty funny though, once you accept the fakeness.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Plus...and this is really nit-picky...the nosewheel tires should only smoke once, since they'd already be up to speed after the first impact. And they shouldn't have smoked quite so much.

Duke's right about the inertia, too. I didn't think that looked quite right.

However, it's very good. We're getting close to the point where photo/video evidence is worthless!

 

[SkyWestCRJPilot]

I don't know. My landing in the Brasilia last night looked a lot like this video. I think I only bounced once though.

 

[Super 80]

Found it:
http://movies.lazyeights.net/landing.mpeg

I am not so sure saabcaptian, it's pretty seamless transition between the real background on the aircraft. I think it's an actual aircraft modified in post production (adding the extra bounces) for the commercial.

Okay, about the tire smoke on the nose gear. Some of the 727's we had were modified with nose gear brakes. They were used on the old St. Thomas runway and that was the only time 40 flaps were used on the 727 by AA. Captains had to get specially qualified to do the run.

So, if they are doing some sort of test, the nose wheel tires could be stopped each time. I noticed the last time after the fourth bounce when it was rolling out, the airplane nose dived and the front tires smoked again. Obviously this aircraft has nose gear brakes.

The "PA" looks like it was thrown in for fun. I noticed there's a little bit of editing between the set-up and the landing, with overdubbing at the end with the "commercial."

I have no idea why anyone would man-handle an airplane in that manner. I saw an airplane that had broken its back by slamming the nose gear down. It crinkled the skin on top about 20 feet back and broke the fuslelage frame.

I can't tell if this is fake, (I don't know about Airbus gear and gear doors, and like I said, I don't know if this wasn't a planned abuse test although I can't imagine someone intentionally trying to break an airplane) but it certainly looks real.

Later in the roll out I noticed the anti-collision lights, and I noticed he didn't deploy his spoilers until after all the attempts to use the nose wheel braking. The background noise sounds credible, as well as the laughing starting at the second bounce and the "Oh man!" I think this is a real airplane.

At any rate, it's a real hoot!

 

[thesource]

Did you know that the boing stratocruiser was landed nose wheel first in most cases?

 

[uscpilot]

here's the crew:
http://www.StupidVideos.com/?VideoID=317
http://www.StupidVideos.com/?VideoID=701
usc

 

[Crizz]

The tires are way out of porportion with the rest of the plane, and you cannot see any control surfaces moving upon touchdown. To get that radical of a pitch change you'd have to go full deflection... assuming you were defying the laws of physics and you were able to get a 200,000 lb airplane bouncing that fast. Real footage of a model airplane.

 

[mudkow60]

The only problem with the Flight Sim theory is -

I have wasted many hours on FS 2002 and 04, and have yet to see a moving truck of flying bird anywhere in the sim world!

 

[KigAir]

The wheel nose bouncing looks strange to me.

 

[B190Captain]

Hell, I thought it was a Jet Blue proving run.

 

[Flightist]

You have to be kidding!

I can't believe any of you guys think this has any remote chance of being real. And the guy on the ground is listening in on the plane's intercom too. Come on!

 

[LearLove]

I don't get it. What don't you guys like about my landings? Cut me some slack, it was a 14 hour duty day and we were in a rush to get to the hotel bar for happy hour.

 

[KATL8R26L]

HAY

Man i tell, ya that is a real kick bounce all the way down the runway,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, even my first landings were not that bad.

They was in there taken care of business, haven a couple of cold ones and sppanking that monkey.

 

[Sunnfun]

This commercial was done for Heineken beer in Support of the dutch Soccer team. Here's the corresponding website:

Heel Holland Helpt

On the right side, click commercials, they've got some other pretty funny ones.

Didn't help much though, their soccer team sucks.

Cheers, Sun'n Fun

 

[ShawnC]

This commercial was done for Heineken beer in Support of the dutch Soccer team. Here's the corresponding website:

Didn't help much though, their soccer team sucks.

I know, I was there for the world cup a couple of years back. It was alot of fun, at least what I remembered of it.

 

[TEXAN AVIATOR]

That brake lockup was a funny touch, LMAO.