A-319 Take Off

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I'd love to have this guy as my pilot, talking about a rush.

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  • ANSWER: It's real, here's why...

    First of all the plane took off on the runway not the taxiway. Perspective is the thing God gave us by putting two eyeballs in our heads. If you know anything about the layout of airports those two lanes tend to run parallel to each other on most all fields. The pilot lifted off, stayed in ground effect for a rather considerable amount of time (for a reason), built up a lot of punch and his/or her big "finale" was pulling the plane up into a brief hard climb. Notice that the hardness of the climb tapers off real quick once all that airspeed bled off. I've done this manuever hundreds of times in GA aircraft and BELEIVE IT OR NOT FOLKS it can be done in airliners too - epecially when they're relatively light on fuel and free of vomit hurling passengers. The latter is the main reason you don't see airliners doing that on a regular basis. Pulling up hard is no biggy... fact is that aircraft is capable of doing a roll too. In fact , just about any aircraft made is capable of doing a nice slow barrel roll maintaining 1G and still be well within safety margins.
    I'm guessing it's not an airshow because there's no evidence of a crowd.
    Anyone who's ever been around radio controlled model aircraft would know that ducted fan "toy airliners" bob around all over the place with the slightest puff of wind when they fly. They don't fly with the precision steadiness and mass that a real airliner like this one demonstrates. I could go one and one why this is real but I have to eat dinner... that's if you believe a guy who's an FAA certified pilot , a radio control airplane hobbyist and a regular airshow affectionado.

    By 20000footobservation 1142481439 Reply Spam [+15] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • PS...

      Not to mention that a plane that big can't accellerate that fast. That was accelleration characteristic of smaller twin engine jets and fighters. And there is no exhaust... All that thrust to get accellerate into a steep climb like that and no exhaust. I work next to LAS and watch planes take off all day. They all have a noticeable dirty brown exhaust trail.

      By Sidus 1155943769 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • i learn so much here....

      didn't know that. i know it's possible, but that's good for the amount of space he or she had. mayb an old fighter pilot having fun.

      By playitagain 1158357658 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Is it a bird? no, it is a model aircraft...

      Any person that can see, can see it is a model aircraft.Look when it passes the row of static aircraft. This model of a Airbus A319 is smaller than the Cessnas, Pipers and the Beach Sundowner. I rest my case. I have tqwo eyes and can see. there are none so blind as those who cannot see.

      By snookums 1150189791 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Then you must be cross-eyed

      The plane took off from the runway much further away then the place other planes were sitting, that's why it looks smaller.

      By vanowm 1151715572 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • ok

      It's a large model aircraft. Lengthy, seemingly intelligent answers as to why it's not a model won't work on me :P

      By Jake76 1143612167 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Okay so here is a short answer /question...

      How come it sounds EXACTLY like a commercial airliner with it's gutteral ahine and high pitched whistles taking off, and not the buzz you would expect to hear from a Model aircraft?

      By Ken from Dublin 1153738152 Reply Spam [-2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • noises

      1. if it was fake, they could dub sound on later
      2. model airliners can be fitted with tiny jet engines (a comparatively simple design) as can be seen on another video on here; a scaled-down replica of a passenger jet. it has jet engines and does not buzz.

      By harvestmouse 1153775560 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • You're wrong...

      ...it is the exacly noise for an A319. ^^

      By Conan Edogawa 1153852937 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Oh come on!!!

      Do you really think they are going to bother their asses dubbing a fake soundtrack..... like so what!!??? It's just a bored pilot pricking around with a passenger airliner, like so what??? NOW GET OVER IT!!!

      By Ken from Dublin 1153790819 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Yo this is a complete Hoax

      The plane is there taking off and shooting up, true, but u should realise that the dramatic accent into the sky is a simple video trick by simply accelarating the video frame rate soon after the accent and finally bringing back the frame rate to normal once the plane had stabilized in the sky.

      By rajaoa 1174844585 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • It's not real, here's why...

      That bobbing you are talking about is present immediately after liftoff. Not to mention the runway it is taking off from is running in front of the little personal planes and cars. It's a scale model. The sound is dubbed. The way it was filmed makes it look fairly realistic but it's still very noticible when you are paying attention. If they wanted to make it look more real they would have slowed playback down about 10%

      By Sidus 1155943489 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • No

      I think you're wrong it just life sized model.

      By cranro 1152362970 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • no

      A life sized model of a A-319 doesn't exist

      By crunchy 1152376718 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • possible

      its possible the 20000 foot observation guy seems to kno wat hes talkin about he right u kno

      By grespo 1145854161 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • lol

      lol...sweet

      By AK420 1145518281 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • hmmm

      I believe you when you say a real plane can do that. But then again, look at the planes in the background, its so obvious those are bigger than the plane thats taking off :)
      come on take a good look its sopooo obvious !

      By dave mech 1143716216 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Mr plane man....

      Would the plane of stalled at that angle?

      By Audi man 1142970825 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • mr plane man

      can a plane fart

      By grespo 1145915826 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • no no

      That is why he kept it level and low to the ground for so long he was picking up enough speed or momentum so that he could pull that manuever (sp) off, if he would of pulled up like that right after taking off, that planes engines couldn't have generated enough power to keep it from stalling, so he got a little speed going, and well as you saw, up he went.

      By AK420 1145518393 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • feeding the trolls

      Funny read.. don't feed the trolls

      By bobbutts 1187062043 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • angles

      It's airspeed that matters... not the angle of attack. Any flight instructor will drill into your head “watch that airspeed indicator” The max angle at which an aircraft can climb out is a constantly changing variable.
      Hot days, cold days, humidity density altitude ect… My aircrafts’ climb performance would just about triple in the wintertime vs. summer.

      and for those who model plane conspirators I already posted this enticing little factoid. This video is from Friedrichshafen Airshow, Germany Apr 26th 1997. If you don't believe me why don't you email the guy who actually made the video, instead of hypothesizing about toy airplanes. The videographer was Christian Haupt. His address is posted on http://www. flightlevel350 .com/video _streaming. php?id=959

      By 20000footobservation 1143389560 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • thank you 2000

      Excellent insights and comments, 2000, thank you for your knowledge sharing. Are you married? lol Love the technical talk from someone who knows what they are talking about.

      By pilotgal 1153590961 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • regarding angles

      It's airspeed that matters in climbing out... not the angle of attack. Any flight instructor will drill into your head “watch that airspeed indicator” The max angle at which an aircraft can climb out is a constantly changing variable.
      Hot days, cold days, humidity density altitude ect… My aircrafts’ climb performance would just about triple in the winter time vs. summer.

      and for those who model plane conspirators I already posted this enticing little factoid. This video is from Friedrichshafen Airshow, Germany Apr 26th 1997. If you don't believe me why don't you email the guy who actually made the video, instead of hypothesizing about toy airplanes. The videographer was Christian Haupt. His address is posted on http://www. flightlevel350 .com/video _streaming. php?id=959

      By 20000footobservation 1143389525 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • You are right

      You are absolute right, the link works, but you must cancel the spaces in the adress.
      I know also, that sometimes ago pilots had the directive to stay near the groung as long as possible and then rapidely lift up in different directions. This should prevent terroristic attacs with missiles. Remember the reason...
      stierus

      By stierus 1145832122 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • 1 word for you

      blablablablblblaaablablaaablblaaaa....

      By bragonfly 1155371836 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • dd

      get a life u fukin homo, no need to write paragraphs on this shit

      By sharkyo1234 1148515520 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Homophobe

      Homophobic person! ! ! ! !! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! !! ! !

      By cranro 1152363046 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • It's a real Airbus

      It's real. And the maneuver is called a "Chandelle". No big deal about it. Just a couple of Gs.

      By reidener 1146683518 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • I’m a FAA certified pilot...

    Look let me tell you something. That IS A MODEL AIRPLANE.

    1)No flaps take off and using that short distance for take off! Give me a break! That is not the real Macoy! Airliners that size won’t take off without flaps.


    2)The airplane looks way too small compared to the Cessnas 172 parked in the background…

    No airline pilot would dare to play games in small airport like that.. There are daredevils and there are airline pilots… Two different characters !

    The pitch is to great for an aircraft that size… Is possible but it will require lots of power and being near the limit of angle of attack, you can get an accelerated stall doing that maneuver…. You have to be crazy to do that, with an aircraft that size…

    THAT IS A MODEL PLANE!!!

    By ICARUS08854 1141185550 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • I'm pretty sure you've been in the back ...

      .....you're the guy that has the flight attendant come tell the two of us that you heard a noise "that isn't right." If you were an FAA certified pilot you would see that the flaps are retracting as he's accelerating in ground effect. I've done this same type of a take off in an airliner and it is possible. I'm an airline pilot and a daredevil so you're wrong about the "two different characters" statement. It's called trading airspeed for altitude. If you notice he doesn't keep the nose high attitude for long because his airspeed is bleeding off fast. If this video were fake he would have kept the nose high attitude for a lot longer than he did. It's real, Monday Morning Quarterback.

      By av8r 1144794351 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Bingo

      I am clueless about planes but u are probably right. I have MS Flight Simulator and i cannot perform that maneuver so quickly and if i suddenly shoot up to that angle the plane usually stalls and come crashing back down to earth. and at the end it begins to look more and more like a useless crappy model.

      By Audi man 1142971331 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • If that

      is a model airplane then I am Mother Theresa PERIOD.

      By Aardvark 1141672488 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • well

      then you are really mother theresa! OMG! :D
      Seriously dude, its a model plane, look at the planes in the background, they make the plane look really small wich it is...

      By dave mech 1142470735 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • what?

      background? they are on the foreground! they are closer to the cameraman then the runway the plane was takin off from, thats why it looks smaller.

      By vanowm 1143690546 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • proof

    prove the case .... heres the truth

    search 707 roll on youtube

    By wingboss7 1202018688 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • eurowings...

    low cost german airline, gets you from A-B faster than anyone else. We are not worried about your comfort, only in turning around as fast as possible...
    Enjoy the flight ;-)

    By knowless 1168226325 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • M.F.I

    I swear i have done it with Commandor 114-B
    The V.S.I reached 2700 Feet ber minute

    By Shevchenko777 1168100067 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Pretty sweet I must say.

    However, after seeing the Blue Angels C-130 do a Barrel Role less than 1000ft from the ground, there isn't much that widdens my eyes. But I must say, having never seen a commercial aircraft go vertical, I am impressed. Oh and BTW it is very much real. I really dislike people who comment on some ones intillectual response with absolute dumbfounding, hard headed, ignorance. To lazy to even go research information and remotely attempt to prove his arguement wrong. Model airplane my ass...

    By wargasm 1164520523 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • owch

    If I was in that plane I think I'd poop my heart cuz of the downforce...

    By StefanSu91 1162425625 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Fighter Pilot.

    An ex fighter pilot i reckon they were!!!!

    By fool_proof 1158983590 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Stupid man in stupid war!

    See also Pallywood
    Jihad = WAR

    By johnnywinter 1158422438 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Sorry, guys, but

    ‎2000footobservation is absolutly right. This is an god damn normal A319 commercial jet. You have to think about this: this bird is powered by engines, which are built to power this aircraft AND some 100 people AND a lot of fuel AND a lot of cargo. As ‎2000footobservation said, these aircrafts can do unbelieveable things when they are "empty"! They also can do a 115° bank angle ;)
    brgds,
    Phil

    By Philip82 1157655714 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Not routine but common demo flight

    It's a commercial demonstration of the A319 by Airbus Industrie to potential buyers. Near-empty plane had huge power to weight ratio allowing very steep climbs. You can find the original full length footage of this event on many commercial aviation websites. The jet made many passes and some of the climbs were steeper than the one shown.

    By Guynextfloor 1157344126 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • ok

    the aircrafts there look bigger then the one that is taking off. that is because those planes a closer to the guy that is taking the video. that is one of the tricks that movie makers used to use when they wanted to make someone look bigger then another person in the movie. for example anyone here seen the movie "Elf" in the scene that is playing in a class room they had the "big elf" sit close up to the camera and the "smaller elfs" sit about 10 meters behind him. plus the wings will not just fall of a plane. I say anyone that thinks that the wing would fall of a plane that makes a stund like that Go and watch the tests they do to the prototype. you will be like WTF. I have seen a test of the latest airbus. they have the wing pulled up to 90 deg. and it was still atached to the aircraft.

    By Dreamsaga 1155677602 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It is fu***** dangerous...

    ...but a really good stunt. Imagine you're sitting in it. What a feeling!!

    By Conan Edogawa 1153852631 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • The Truth

    I can put all of this nonsense to rest for you guys. I was on that 319 that is in the video. I was the first officer in right seat and Captain Ron Schultz was P.I.C. We had two flight engineers, one carrier exec. and no passengers, and a mere 15,000 pounds of fuel. It was a rare time when we had the right people on board, no passengers, and felt like having a lttle fun with a perfectly safe manuever. I don't believe that all five of us would have fit in a model airplane....but I bet if you took all of the brains of the people who think that this airliner is a toy, and put them all together, they would all fit in one of the overhead bins. Case Closed....

    By md80 1152530829 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Dam

    He can fly!!!!

    By frostgt 1150576608 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Yeah

    thats how to drive a passanger plane :D

    By query 1150205039 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Modeller Morons.

    You people who say this is a model are morons.
    If you're arguement is based on the airplanes in the FORE ground being too large then all the trees in the background must be fake because they're too small.

    I'm surprised you're not saying it's actually prop driven as you can clearly hear a propeelrd engine at the start of the video.

    By phawqew 1149396383 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • hahah

    ahhh man that clip is hilarious

    By heavybds 1149150570 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It's real people...

    Get over it...

    By DarkShade 1149052088 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • If you lisen carefully the sound of the...

    aaaaa aaaaaaa aahhhhh hhhhhhhh hhhhhhh hhhhh

    By drfox 1148846134 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Come to think of it , ... I saw them d...

    got some pix of them too the first one I saw do it i could not get the camera on it has a ten second warmup.
    darn i missed that one. made me do a double take, at the clime

    By drfox 1148845941 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • They did this when i flew out of OIA in ...

    the air bus that left NJA did not but i was suprise to go over the NP to China.
    Cool
    I saw Santas house and it was for sale, BuyOwner
    toyshop too

    By drfox 1148845532 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • He ran out of runway air. "close c...

    only 10 ft. to go and he would have to apply the airbrakes.
    the stewards made like bowling balls.
    hope none were applying lipstick.
    did they hand out wooden sticks for the passengers to bite.
    there are two birds there that are going to retire after seeing that takeoff.
    put my Uncle with the bad heart on that flight and i'll split the insurance $$$ With/u

    By drfox 1148844571 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It's real

    I am a private pilot and ground Crew for air canada. I have seen a 319 pull this manouver. We had unloaded the plane and fueled it, told the pilot he was ready to go because there were no passengers on the way back, he was just ferrying it. He told us to watch the take off cause he was going to have some fun. He lifted off, built up speed then pulled up sharp but controlled and climbed until his speed bled off then leveled it out a bit and kept climbing away. and the GA planes are in FRONT of the airliner not behind it

    By Valantir 1148707422 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • kkk.. thats enough..

    i have no doubt that u know most, alright??? :)

    By ferious 1148532157 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Big deal

    So the pilot's an asshole!!!

    By Dubai eric 1148499822 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • pro

    yya pro

    By who 1147061092 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Erm...

    I'm not sure if its real or not, if its real, holy shit! If its not, good try!

    By DJ Danny 1145979368 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It is Real !!!

    What is wrong with you people are you really that dumb,

    I have been building and flying RC aircraft and helicopters since I was 7 years old, that means I have 35 years of experience in modeling, I graduated from brooks institute of photography and am by profession a Videographer.

    There are several items to consider in this video.

    1. The location of the Airbus, In the first few frames of the video you can see that the camera man is close to the taxi way and not the runway.
    2 Optics the camera man is using a very long lens (telephoto)
    3 mass of aircraft, when the aircraft noses up there is a considerable delay before the plane begins to climb, If this would have been a model the climb would have been instantaneous.


    Keep in mind that a telephoto lens changes the perspective of an image considerably as it compresses the field of view,

    The GA aircraft are in the foreground not the background. The fact that they look so close to and almost the same size as the Airbus, is because the telephoto lens has compressed the image making everything look really close together.

    You can prove this effect to yourself. Take a camera and find a street that is several miles long, with a lot of telephone poles. Take a picture aiming down the line created by the telephone poles. Now Zoom all the way in and take a picture (This only works with true optical zooms not digital zooms (all they do is crop the image)

    By heliman 1145416378 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • its real

      Depending on the power of your zoom the end result well be that the telephone polls all look like they are very close together and that long street (2 or three miles long) now looks like it is only a block long. The lens changed the perspective and brought all the telephone poles together (Compressed the image). This is amateur stuff, most of should have learned this in high school science or photography classes. Many amateur photographers use zoom lenses to crop images; this is not there intended use they are for perspective control.

      Lay persons always seem to think a camera lens sees the same way your eye does. The Airbus was quite a ways behind the GA aircraft. Look at how close the trees in the back ground look. Was the airbus really that close to those trees ?? No modeler that I know of would fly and expensive model that close to tress..

      Then there is the issue of RC aircraft, If that was indeed a Scale model of an Airbus then it is one hell of a nice model, better then any I have ever seen, this would be a scratch built, one of a kind model and the builder would have 1000,s of man hours in its construction. The model would be worth between 10 and 30 thousand dollars.. The owner builder would never risk flying a model like that around a bunch of spectators and trees especially at a full size airport. There is way to much radio interference at airports. Most RC radios intended for aircraft use operate at 72Mhz and are prone to interference from equipment used around full size airports. The only time you will see someone demoing an RC aircraft at a full size Airport is when they can keep the aircraft in very close. The further away the Receiver gets the weaker the transmitters signal becomes and the more chance that the high power radio equipment at the airport will cause interference. I have flown many model Helicopters demos at Air shows and never let the model get more then a 100 to 150 feet away in any direction.

      I think most of the people that beleave this video is fake are nothing but a bunch of children with no perceptive ability, they grew up with video games and have know idea how to know what is real or fake.

      By heliman 1145416738 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It is Real !!!

    What is wrong with you people are you really that dumb,

    I have been building and flying RC aircraft and helicopters since I was 7 years old, that means I have 35 years of experience in modeling, I graduated from brooks institute of photography and am by profession a Videographer.

    There are several items to consider in this video.

    1. The location of the Airbus, In the first few frames of the video you can see that the camera man is close to the taxi way and not the runway.
    2 Optics the camera man is using a very long lens (telephoto)
    3 mass of aircraft, when the aircraft noses up there is a considerable delay before the plane begins to climb, If this would have been a model the climb would have been instantaneous.


    Keep in mind that a telephoto lens changes the perspective of an image considerably as it compresses the field of view,

    The GA aircraft are in the foreground not the background. The fact that they look so close to and almost the same size as the Airbus, is because the telephoto lens has compressed the image making everything look really close together.

    You can prove this effect to yourself. Take a camera and find a street that is several miles long, with a lot of telephone poles. Take a picture aiming down the line created by the telephone poles. Now Zoom all the way in and take a picture (This only works with true optical zooms not digital zooms (all they do is crop the image)

    Depending on the power of your zoom the end result well be that the telephone polls all look like they are very close together and that long street (2 or three miles long) now looks like it is only a block long. The lens changed the perspective and brought all the telephone poles together (Compressed the image). This is amateur stuff, most of should have learned this in high school science or photography classes. Many amateur photographers use zoom lenses to crop images; this is not there intended use they are for perspective control.

    By heliman 1145416274 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Part 2

      Lay persons always seem to think a camera lens sees the same way your eye does. The Airbus was quite a ways behind the GA aircraft. Look at how close the trees in the back ground look. Was the airbus really that close to those trees ?? No modeler that I know of would fly and expensive model that close to tress..

      Then there is the issue of RC aircraft, If that was indeed a Scale model of an Airbus then it is one hell of a nice model, better then any I have ever seen, this would be a scratch built, one of a kind model and the builder would have 1000,s of man hours in its construction. The model would be worth between 10 and 30 thousand dollars.. The owner builder would never risk flying a model like that around a bunch of spectators and trees especially at a full size airport. There is way to much radio interference at airports. Most RC radios intended for aircraft use operate at 72Mhz and are prone to interference from equipment used around full size airports. The only time you will see someone demoing an RC aircraft at a full size Airport is when they can keep the aircraft in very close. The further away the Receiver gets the weaker the transmitters signal becomes and the more chance that the high power radio equipment at the airport will cause interference. I have flown many model Helicopters demos at Air shows and never let the model get more then a 100 to 150 feet away in any direction.

      I think most of the people that beleave this video is fake are nothing but a bunch of children with no perceptive ability, they grew up with video games and have know idea how to know what is real or fake.

      By heliman 1145416670 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Mal omak ya ‎20000footobservation...

    Maho ahthat alkalam alfathee !!!!!

    By Mike a1a200 1145256060 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Model Airplane?

    If you cant tell the difference between a model airplane and a real one, like the one in the clip, then you my friend are a fucking retard, you make down syndrome look like a blessing.

    By Deciever99 1144973924 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Want more proof it's real?

    This video is of the model others have talked about. You can clearly see how differently it reacts because of it's significantly lighter weight. It's also extremely easy to see the scale differences.

    http://www. metacafe.com/ watch/ 45336/ remote_ control_airbus/

    By wdtiger 1144710870 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • its a model! no its real!

    no its a model! no its real! no its a model! no its real! no its a model! no its real! no its a model! no its real!

    ARRRGGGHHHH!!!

    *head explodes*

    By Deaner 1144632327 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • no.. its real...

    just a short field take off.. nothing special....

    By chattermth 1144462617 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It's a model

    So you may not believe me, but this is a model. I've seen the full version of this, and it's a model but a huge one. Probably around 6ft high. In the rest of the video, it flies around and then comes in to land. We see the guy with the remote control, and someone goes over to it, and we get a sense of scale.

    By nickCB 1144006942 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Its not a model

      The GA aircraft are in the foreground not the background. The fact that they look so close to and almost the same size as the Airbus, is because the telephoto lens has compressed the image making everything look really close together.

      f that was indeed a Scale model of an Airbus then it is one hell of a nice model, better then any I have ever seen, this would be a scratch built, one of a kind model and the builder would have 1000,s of man hours in its construction. The model would be worth between 10 and 30 thousand dollars.. The owner builder would never risk flying a model like that around a bunch of spectators and trees especially at a full size airport

      By heliman 1145417136 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • its a model

    you may not believe me, but I've seen the full version of this video, it's a model, but a huge one, probably comes up to a grown man's shoulder's or elbows. Later on in the video it comes into land and you see the guy with the remote control. I'll see if i can find it, but it's definitely a model.

    By nickCB 1143922685 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Small planes are between runway and taxi...

    When the clip first starts you can see the taxi-way in the foreground. Look at how wide it is compared to the strip of the runway, that's because it's closer to the camera. When the first small plane enters the picture at the 16 second mark, you can see the runway BEHIND it, not in front of it. The taxi-way (look at the width again) then comes back into view at the 19 second mark and you can tell that it is clearly in front of the smaller planes. The small planes are between the runway and taxi-way, putting them in the foreground of the picture. I think alot of you people are mistaking the taxi-way as the runway in the shots after the 19 second point. Plane is real.

    By ajweaver1981 1143827714 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Real

    there is an airport in Orange County California (southern California) that has been overly criticized by the neighborhood under its flight path, so now the airport has to use extreme take offs such as this to not upset the community. The pilots will take off at maximum speed, make an extreme upward pitch, and then cut back the engines after leveling off very high over the town. Once they reach the ocean they will then crank the engines back up and be on with cleaning up the puke in the passenger areas.

    By dezertcow 1143660504 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • A319

    The pilot is having fun - the plane is real, and light. No biggie - we've all done that when we've been a little bored.

    By patbarry 1143394470 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Intentional take off

    It was done on purpose. That would explain why someone is videotaping what appears to be a normal take off of a 767. Very cool, ya know the pilot had fun doing that!

    By mr Joel 1142816891 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • been there done that

    If you think this is a model then you need to go spend some time in a combat zone. Once you either have been in or have watched comercial aircraft taking off from (more recently baghdad) a airfield that is under threat of a shoulder fired RPG and simular rockets you will know that 99% of the planes out there are capable of doing this. At the moment in baghdad commercial aircraft are taking off at night with no lights on and doing full power to climb to 15,000 feet before they level off to get out of the range of the RPGs. As for the lack of flaps, to build up airspeed vs lift the pilot would not put that flaps down. The purpose of flaps are to create more lift at a slower airspeed. Also look at the landing gear the rightseater is putting it up in order not to reduce airspeed becuase of drag. if you think commercial airlines are incapable of this then search for "747 barrel rolls" on google or b-52 barrel roll.

    By planeguy 1142662579 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • ANSWER: Friedrich shafen Airshow, Apr 2...

    My bad, it was an airshow demo. The videographer was Christian Haupt. Details here:

    http://www. flightlevel350 .com/video _streaming. php?id=959

    and to all you experts that work on airplanes but don't actually fly them... take a lesson!

    By 20000footobservation 1142622034 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Engines

    The engines are not Rolls Royce made for the Airbus A320 Family. You have two choices, International Aero Engines (Which is a partner of Rolls Royce) and CFM (General Electric and SENCMA combination).

    This particualr aircraft has CFM56 engines, dont know what exact model but there not IAE V2500's. Take my word for it, I work on these planes for a living and know them inside out. This is a fake.

    By airbus_employee 1142607826 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • not real and the sound added

    fake

    By KhE 1142607739 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It's real

    The sound of the engines is real. Rolls Royce engines sound like that

    By menioss 1142591912 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Fake, its a model

    I am a AME certified on the Airbus A320 family of aircraft (A320 family uncludes A318, 319, 320, and 321 for you noobs). This is a model indefinitly. Why? Simple put the flight computers on the Airbus A320 family (Thomson CSF Sfena digital Flight Control System) will NOT let you

    *Over speed
    *Over stress
    *Stall

    The aircraft. That my friends, that is overstressing the aircraft./ The flight computers will also not let you make highly evasive and quick snappy manouvers like the such demonstrated. The flight computers CANNOT be disabled or shut off (as there are 5 of them) to pull this. If you do somehow, you wont be able to control the aircraft since its FBW (Fly By Wire, needs a computer to controll it).

    Also, a KEY factor in getting the aircraft off the ground is missing. Flaps and Slats. There are NO slats out which would cause the aircraft (real one) to stall and fal back to the earth. Its also to long to be a A320, more so a A319. The tail is to short to be like the real thing. It ALSO cannot take off in that short of a distance!

    So its a model, why?
    Because:

    *The flight computers will NOT let you pull that kind of manouver
    *Its to long to be a A319
    *Its the same size as those Cessna's, the real A319 is about 15x the size
    *Tail to short
    *No slats
    *and cannot take off in that short of a distance

    Have a nice day.

    By airbus_employee 1142559350 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Dont be so sure

      I work at airport mainly on A320/21/19 and 737s maintenance. Seen many an Airbus take off and land, and I can see nothing out of the ordinary here... Actualy I've seen A320s doing a similar manouver during test flights, not for one time but repeatedly for 5 times... the only difference was that the aircraft took off, went up to an altitude of about 200m and then pulled to the left.
      Now the engines as u pointed out correctly are the CFM 56-5, which are recognisable from the IAE V2500 from the exhaust nozzle and thrust reverser

      By landie 1144851581 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It could be a model

    And it could do some serious mischief in the hands of a prankster. Imagine something like that coming at your car on the highway.
    I think it's a real plane, because such a maneuver is possible with an empty plane.

    By Landrew 1142499969 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It can very easily be a model

    Have you seen how LARGE some model aircraft are?? Check out this MODEL (radio control) A380 with 4 (!!) turbines on it.
    http:// tinyurl.com/ r84av

    (remove spaces for it to loaD)

    By partipilo 1142474618 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • lol

    Its so obviously a Model, look at the planes in the background, they are like 2 times as big as this model plane haha

    By dave mech 1142470530 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • model?

    get a grip!

    By oaMaaM 1142310048 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • model airplane ... w/e

    the beginning already gives you an insight that it is NOT a model plane. take the trees as a reference and check how far the body of the plane is above the runway. if it would be a modelplane the tress would have to be model scenary too.

    and to the flaps: if the plane reaches a ceratin speed it doesnt need flaps for this little altitude gain because the upstream automatically pushes it up. good example: drive a car on a higway at 220mph without any downforce and it WILL fly high up in the air

    By kickr986 1142309300 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • An FAA Pilot huh ???

    It is quite clearly a real video of a real plane. This type of aircraft is more than capable of undertaking such a manouver - indeed I have seen it with my own eyes at numerous airshows as well as the aforementioned Goodwood festival.

    By thefonz 1142263494 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • not a model

    the plane is really a A319 from Eurowings airlines it a division of Lufthansa. It's probably during a demonstration of somekind. The plane is to big to be a model, it's biger than the trees behind, biger than the small planes in the foreground and almost as tall as the res and white antenna in the background

    By gauts 1142215375 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • not a model

    I dont think this is a model. Real a319 wings will take that easily. Empty plane, there is huge amount of power. Will not need flaps for take off. And it takes more speed below. I think this is a true video. This is flight testing. Im a flyer myself as well..

    By tepavat69 1142189086 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It has to be a model

    The body pf a real A319 can not sustain such a drastic rise

    By someone54521 1141823081 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Model plane, really

    I agree it's a model plane. Common sense dictates that that supposed A319 airbus should be a lot bigger than those parked planes across the runway. Working on these aircrafts and watching airshows do not guarantee to give you a good perspective. Stop bragging, man!

    By nobags 1141793576 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • could be a ringer

    watched this now 3 times, and read all the comments. It does look like a model I have to say, the light aircraft are actually further away from the camera and the 'model' plane and runway are closer.

    By 00Badger 1141778079 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • ever seen an aerial display

    Was at goodwood festival of speed last year and they actually had a 700 seater boeing passenger jet doing an aerial display full on banked climbing curves turns with very short radius. just look it up on the net and you wiill see that these planes can handle a lot more than this and the wings would no way snap off just from pulling up like that. So the pilot likes having fun, It was probably a no passenger flight neway. good on im!

    By john_thefruitman 1141777223 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • this is a model airplane

    yeah this is only a model if it is a real it will break the wings.

    By kajubur 1141650380 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • "Experts"

    The funniest thing here are the comments:) When you have no idea what you are talking about just shut up! This is a demonstration, otherwise the Pilots would lose their jobs. And the ones here that say this is a model; You have absolutely no plan of anything.

    By ThoRN 1139511847 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • where is the exhaust smoke from back of ...

    watched several times kind of think there should be a little more black smoke from those big guns if it were real what do u think ? with that strong a yank on the stick to pull that steep of a climb

    By mblmike 1137814068 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • YAWN!!!

    omg boring

    By flaminflier 1137285098 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • A model???

    No. The jet only looks smaller because the aircraft that are parked are closer to the camera.

    By mau'dib 1136249294 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • No. It is a model!

      Look the other aircraft again. Which side of the runway are they on? If an Airbus A319 is the same size of a single prop engine personal aircraft I don't know how they are going to get the 100 or so passengers in it, not to mention the baggage and the galley. There was no movie made of this for airlines except this cheap, handheld camera, which is probably the friend of the model airplanes owner.

      By steamraiser 1136759441 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • I forgot.

      Reference the other A319/A320 model airplane doing a landing. on this website entitled "worst landing ever". Just do a search on this website for that title. Watch this video and you will become a believer in the model aircraft world that exists.

      By steamraiser 1136759786 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Very cool!!

    I'm told that the take-offs and landings are just like this at Baghdad International Airport. I heard it on NPR. The reporter didn't enjoy it, but I think it might be a thrill (except for the fact that you are flying into a war zone.)

    By athena 1136233585 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Touch and go

    I saw this movie years ago. The longer version shows the landing, touch and back in the air. It was the first airbus that was delivered to Eurowings and is here showing what is possible (without pssengers off course).

    By molinari 1136232360 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Not a Model PLANE! This is REAL.

    A Model plane would not have the "pushed" through the air when it rotated upword as this real aircraft did. A model plan would not have been that stable after lift off either. This is REAL. Get a brain.

    By CrazyAce 1135985662 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Expensive.... for a...

    Very nice model!

    By Shalako 1134668662 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Standard soft field technique

    This is a standard technique that is normally used for soft field takeoffs in light planes. The pilot gets the plane off the ground as soon as possible to get the wheels out of whatever soft surface they would normally be in, flies in ground effect to the best climb speed (Vy) and then climbs out from there. Every US pilot must demonstrate this technique in order to pass their FAA check ride. It's really unusual to see it done with a jetliner though - maybe this was for some sort of testing of the plane.

    By cyclin 1134601267 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • impressive!

    No passengers onboard for sure, pilots are not allowed to fly like that,probably that was a demonstration or test flight, the latter being more likely... seen flights like that with A320, they are very impressive! but always under control, it cant bank more than a certain angle, autopilot will not permit it.

    By landie 1134591430 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Autopilot?

      You think this guy has the autopilot engaged at 50 ft. AGL. Think before you speak. The autopilot has no input during this particular phase of flight.

      By av8r 1144795121 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Yes Autopilot!

      Are you familiar with Airbus aircraft my friend? Airbus use fly by wire to operate flight surfaces,ie, computers, as there are no mechanical linkages and cables (apart from the rudder). So A computer must give the signal to every flight surface on the aircraft, and this computer( I called him autopilot, bec thats what it is!) will not let the aircraft perform manouvers out of limits! Neither can it stall, as the engine managment system FADEC permits operation of the flight control systems and engines to be fully integrated.

      By landie 1144850983 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • That is why Boeing rules!!!

      Only the French would be dumb enough to allow the airplane to override a perfectly safe maneuver. I remember a particular video showing an A-320 flying right into a large grove of trees because the computer thought it knew better than the pilot when he applied full thrust.

      By av8r 1144904826 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Tell me you're joking now!!

      Boeing rules? Boeing are going through the worst time ever ! Anyway that doesnt matter much to me, as an aircraft support staff working on both Boeing and Airbus I can say that I prefer working on Airbus ... much simpler mechanics more complicated avionics ( which do most of the work for you! )
      The accident u mentioned is the Air France A320 crash during an airshow in Habsheim ... nothing to do with the aircraft overriding a perfectly safe manouver bec the aircraft thought it knew better than the pilot!!
      That accident was due to a malfunction in the FADEC, an OEM was issued and all engines modified ... anyway that accident was all hush hush, with the CVR and DFDR being altered to cover up the accident ! Airbus didnt like all that bad publicity ! But that accident was one which happened at the beginning of the A320. I can assure u that the A320 is among the safest aircraft flying today .... Boeing are following ... what should have been done long ago

      By landie 1144930820 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Goodness

    I didn't think large passenger planes can maneuver with such agility!! Scary

    By Georgie 1134568132 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • 707

      You've probably never seen the clip of a 707 doing a slow roll during a demo flight. He made a high speed pass at low altitude, then pulled up into climb and did a slow roll, or semi barrel roll staying positive all the time.

      By Rocketeer 1141642364 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • LOL

    That was just wrong!!!! Love it!

    By MsMelly 1134345502 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • And

    so?

    By socrfan 1134968283 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Fooled!

    The A319 is the smaller version of that particular family of airbus aircraft but this is definitely a model plane that is being remotely controlled at some small town airport.A real A319 would dwarf those other aircraft that are parked.

    By steamraiser 1134921717 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • hehe model?!!

      Not a model at all... I work on these aircraft and I can tell u that the sound from that engine is not a sound of a ducted fan engine!
      Its the typical sound of the CFM56-5, the aircraft is fully capable of flying like that.
      And by the way... of course the other aircraft look larger... they were located a long distance ahead!!! perspective!

      By landie 1135604183 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Not a model?

      You are funny. You must be a friend the guy that sent this in. Maybe he dubbed the sound of an actual A319 and put it on this file! Where are the other airliners? Why is an RV parked right there next to this runway? Why are the small private prop planes the same size or bigger then this Airbus? Watch other videos of Airbus model airplanes on here and you will see the deception.

      By steamraiser 1135608233 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Real or Model?

      I agree with steamraiser. The "airliner" is taking off closer to the camera than the planes on the other side of the runway. The RV is as large as the "airliner". This is clearly not a large plane but a smaller model. Those gloating on their depth perception need to examine more carefully before making idiots of themselves.

      By axon_parker 1141712030 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • YOU All NOOBS !!!

      Dont talk about aviation if you have no idea what it is all about !! that is an A 319 , and the smallest of the airbus is the 318. That is at an airshow and if you havnt noticed the GA aircrafts are parked !! doh !! ever seen an aprone near a rmy ?? ! NO !! and about the GA aircrafts the size of the 319, ( ever heard of perspective?? this near you look larger then ferther objects ?? i wounder) . Well if you dont believe this Well i might say youv never been to an airshow !

      By uridan 1141775526 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Change of View

      I hate to admit defeat, but on closer inspection, there are two lanes in this video. One is the runway, and the other appears to be a taxiway or just a road. I thought the airliner looked too detailed to be a model at first glance, but the video recording bobs after the first few seconds into the sky, creating the illusion that the airliner is flying between the cameraman and the smaller prop planes instead of behind it. That was what confused me. Oh, and I should hope I know something about aviation. I fix fighter jets for the USAF for a living. Only been to three air shows, but I see jets take off and land every day.

      By axon_parker 1141889908 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Is this a new version of F-16?

    Poor passangers.
    I hope they made it.

    By PinkFloyd 1134294587 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Gotta love aviation

      The plane was most likely unladen with any passengers or cargo. Commercial pilots have to fly within certain limits when carrying passengers, but when they are not, they can really let these birds fly in ways you would rarely see. The flight envelope of these aircrafts are so much greater. I once saw a Concord at an airshow in Europe banking 90 degrees in a turn and capped off it's performance with a totally verticle climb out of view. It was seriously impressive. I would later find out that there were three pilots onboard taking turns to have fun.

      By Veraxial 1134579188 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • There were no passengers

      this is impossible and would be even more impossible with passengers

      By Audi man 1142971436 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • poor passengers???

      they are strapped in aint they ?

      By geeman 1134604738 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
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