Fly into airplane

Can't put it on the Internet if it isn't true.
 
Seems unlikely they could be moving fast enough to catch up to an aircraft like that.
 
Fake, but a pretty good one. What I don't get: If it is reversed, how are the able to stay at/above the plane's altitude after exiting? Plane appears to stay level.
 
Just because it maintains a set attitude doesn't mean that attitude isn't a fairly high rate of descent.
 
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Fake or real,still a good video. Makes for something to analyze and discuss.
 
Look closely at the ground and you can see the plane is flying backwards to catch them. The skydivers are just dropping, this is pure pilot skill backing up and snatching them out of free fall.
 
OK, but... Could it be done? That's always phase 2 on Mythbusters... replicate the result. So let us hypothesize, conjecture, and then argue about both ad nauseum. :D Maybe there's a wing suit pilot on here who can provide some info.

Imagine a plane drops a wings suit pilot -- could he glide down, gaining forward speed, level off, and have sufficiently low relative speed as to actually land on the back deck of a plane like that without ripping his head off or any number of other calamities?

What is the max forward speed of a wing suit flyer? Min speed of the plane? Can the wing suit be made to trade airspeed for altitude long a) at all, and b) long enough to face plant into a cargo net in the back of a plane like that? If it did succeed in trading airspeed for altitude, could it match the speed of the airplane or airplane match the suit, etc?

What would need to be the relative speeds and positions of the two aircraft?

I'll hang up and listen. :D
 
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petrolero said:
OK, but... Could it be done? That's always phase 2 on Mythbusters... replicate the result. So let us hypothesize, conjecture, and then argue about both ad nauseum. :D Maybe there's a wing suit pilot on here who can provide some info.

Imagine a plane drops a wings suit pilot -- could he glide down, gaining forward speed, level off, and have sufficiently low relative speed as to actually land on the back deck of a plane like that without ripping his head off or any number of other calamities?

What is the max forward speed of a wing suit flyer? Min speed of the plane? Can the wing suit be made to trade airspeed for altitude long a) at all, and b) long enough to face plant into a cargo net in the back of a plane like that? If it did succeed in trading airspeed for altitude, could it match the speed of the airplane or airplane match the suit, etc?

What would need to be the relative speeds and positions of the two aircraft?

I'll hang up and listen. :D
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Could it be done? Yes, in a dive, but you better be really good.
 
Henning said:
Look closely at the ground and you can see the plane is flying backwards to catch them. The skydivers are just dropping, this is pure pilot skill backing up and snatching them out of free fall.
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Well wait a minute, does a C123 have reverse thrust capability?
 
Another vote for "not real". Both propellers are turning counterclockwise seen from behind.

-Skip
 
Skip Miller said:
Another vote for "not real". Both propellers are turning counterclockwise seen from behind.

-Skip
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That doesn't prove anything. If the props are turning at a rate slightly less than a multiple of the film rate, it will appear to rotate "backwards."

I shot a video years back, and my prop both rotated correctly, backwards, and stood still in the video.
 
SkyDog58 said:
There have been some plane-to-plane skydives. Here is a video of one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGphGbJool4
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I think I remember that now that I watched it. No wingsuit, though, and the plane was in a dive with a drogue chute.

Would have been easier if they'd used a Cirrus with the CAPS deployed. Second thought, probably not. :D

I want to know if someone could actually level a wingsuit just long enough to do something like what's in the fake vid in the OP. I don't even know if a wingsuit can do 'level' at all for any period of time.
 
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Sac Arrow said:
Given that the airplane has radial piston engines, that isn't surprising.
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Regardless what engine it is or which way it turns, it does not surprise me to see a prop turning either direction,many even changing direction or stopping after the introduction of a shutter into the mix. Images move due to persistence of vision, not actual motion.
 
rwellner98 said:
I might be missing the point, but all I could see when I saw that was how filthy the bottom of the catch-plane was...
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Basic aerodynamics. A 'dirty' airplane has more drag thus allowing the airplane to fly slower so the skydiver can catch it. ;)
 
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