[OneVike]

Regardless whether you have seen such a maneuver before, you must admit that it's pretty cool a plane stand in the air as it seems to defy logic.

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I filmed this airplane standing upright, as if to deny both gravity and aeronautical logic. Has anyone ever seen such a stunt before? .....

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[ParityErr]

We do this all the time with R/C planes. It’s called 3D flying. Lots of power and huge control surfaces. Seeing a full size plane do it is very impressive.

[central_va]

As a pilot myself, at such a low altitude, HOW THE HECK DO YOU GET OUT OF THAT attitude? Anyone know?

[Yo-Yo]

I’ve seen Radio Controlled model airplanes do that maneuver all the time. It’s called “3D” flying.

I’ve never seen a full size Yak aerobatic aircraft perform it, howver.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Amazing power to weight ratio for a prop job!

[theymakemesick]

I believe the term is called “hanging on the prop”, it in no way defies “aeronautical logic”.

[Niteflyr]

Of course you all DO know that is a giant scale radio control airplane and not a full size with a human in it????...;o) I have a friend who competes with a 40% of size Sukhoi...he can do this all day...

[Chode]

outstanding...

[Tainan]

Many years ago, in a land far away, I witnessed several times a similar a/c maneuver. A very light plane, French made I think, would actually ‘hover’ on the side of a hill/mountain and allow cargo or a passenger to get out or be loaded in. Quite amazing. Pilot said it was a combination of a/c design, wind currents, gravity, feathering the controls and pure damn luck that allowed it to be done.

[James C. Bennett]

There’s a term for this when an aircraft’s engine is powerful enough to provide the thrust necessary to lift the body of the aircraft without developing aerodynamic lift by way of the wing surfaces.

IIRC, the F-16’s engine is of the same class, with its output enough to get the aircraft vertically into the air sans wing-developed lift, if it could be arranged.

[Gator113]

Loved it.... looks like fun.

[Kirkwood]

This is an RC aircraft. They were flying demo flights in the morning.
http://www.chicoairshow.org/page1001.aspx

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[Gene Eric]

Raptor

[CAluvdubya]

We have the San Diego Air Show at Mirimar starting today. I wonder if this guy will be here?

[Ronald_Magnus]

I thought I’d seen it all. Amazing.

[mad_as_he$$]

Raptors can do it as well a some MiG models.

[tanknetter]

I never would have thought it to be possible that an airplane could be made to do something I thought only helicopters could do

If you think that prop-standing is impressive when done by an acrobatic plane, try to get to an airshow where an F-22A is doing a demo flight.

Part of the routine is usually to hold the aircraft vertically on its exhaust (and sometimes even dance it up and down a little), then execute a 270 degree backflip seeming around it's center axis and then roar off.

There's also the "Pugachev Cobra" maneuver where a jet aircraft executing a high speed pass is pitched up and back 100-110 degrees, seeming to fly backwards for a few moments before the pilot pitches forward and climbs out.