O/T This guy can REALLY fly

How the hell did he do this?

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John

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Aerobatics. So he's likely a top end pilot to start with, very practiced in that particular plane, and with a vast amount of excess power to play with.

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Andy Dingley

That's what you call a snap roll :-)) The one thing you can do with modern high performance aerobatic aircraft is hold the plane on the prop, that's what he appeared to do to slow the decent, bit like a helicopter, then flip it over to land it.

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campingstoveman

--There's been a pile of speculation about this clip and most folks seem to think it's faked; still and all I'm not in that camp.. ;-)

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steamer

There's a lot of inane speculation about the airliner flying over the hotel, then landing off the beach, too. However that's a well-known hijacking, Ethiopian 961

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Andy Dingley

Real / Model-CGI / Real aircraft, switched to real one on the ground:

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There is apparently a link to the TV show in which they show how it was done.

Peter

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