As a semi-pro RC chopper stunt pilot, I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

3 G's: If this is real, which I assume it is....that is some seriously good camera work!

It is nice to see a professional cameraman, isn't it, especially with all these videos on the web that look like they're being filmed by a retarded blind monkey with Parkinson's.

I remember seeing people post "fake" when the F-22 was in showcase videos. What a bunch of morans.

Arxane:

...with all these videos on the web that look like they're being filmed by a retarded blind monkey with Parkinson's.


You leave Jonathan Demme alone!

/pops, SFW.

Wow, just wow. They need to mount a camera inside one so you can see what the pilot would see- right before he died from the G forces.

echri: why don't they do stuff like that with normal helicopters? Like the light little R22s. I would pay money to see a guy fly a helicopter upside down (yes, i've seen a helicopter do a loop and do a roll... not as impressive as complete changes in direction"

because the pilot would die.

graewolfe2: Am I the only one that saw the helicopter behind the pilot at 00:43? just hit the pause and you can see only the helicopter is the only thing in focus. FAKE

1) I did that, the heli still looks to be in front of the pilot.
2) It's the only thing in focus because there is a human behind a camera who knows what he's doing and he's tracking the moving thing, keeping the heli in frame, which tends to, you know, blur everything else.

I've watched a dozen of these now online, and it's real unless there's some sort of RC hobbyist conspiracy to fool the intarwebs.

/some of the things that look fishy are just crap video quality/syncing at youtube.

I think people are going to be arguing about this one regardless of the mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our new Honda Cog ad.

(I refer to the climbing tires at 0:28.)

As a professional visual FX supervisor, I'm getting a kick etc. etc.

It's easy to say "it's CG" if you don't know what's involved. But in fact a video like that would require a huge amount of effort to do with visual fx. And it's not even the only such video out there.

It's not a fake. It's a video of a guy doing amazing tricks with an RC helicopter.

This is for all of the UFO DEBUNKERS that say "I saw them lights moving around like no aeroplane can" I magine that thing at night with some LED's.

/ unimpressed

CtrlAltDelete: Those poor, tiny people.

full of win...

this video was not fake, REAL helicopters have DIFFICULTY pulling this shiat off due to design and weight.

I only clicked this thread to see how many idiots would be screaming fake. I've seen demos similar to this in real life several times.

/your mom is fake

graewolfe2: Am I the only one that saw the helicopter behind the pilot at 00:43? just hit the pause and you can see only the helicopter is the only thing in focus. FAKE

Yes, you are. You are also the only moran still screaming 'fake'. Congrats.

I came in to say fake but have been convinced otherwise. I guess liters are good for something!

Send these farkers after the terrorists.

That was incredible flying.

Use those choppah's to kill the insurgents.

Son of Thunder: IT'S A CONSPIRACY! THE RC HOBBYISTS ARE AFTER MY PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!

Hah! Just watched that movie...


Cool ass video!!

FAKE! The helicopter is obviously an AI controlled cyberdyne early model helicopter test flight. The person with the control was put in with CGI because the government does want you to know that skynet has already taken over. You can tell because at the 4:01 mark the helicopter leaves the frame just long enough to kill Sarah conner.

Just wait till you see what we can do once we finish with the K-Max.

Lando Lincoln

Zactly! There's a reason the military is going to UAVs. No human can possibly survive the G-forces modern materials are capable of pushing aircraft to. Yet we have the mental capacity to keep up with them....

4NSpy: Lets see him fly it through a construction site while dropping explosives.

I hated that level. Don't think I ever got through it, actually...

/yes, I suck.

Solzhenisin: But, does it blend?

Yes. Stay a good distance away from it.
Surf some of the RC helicopter forums for stories and pics of victims.

Fun to watch, though.
I think I'd like a chain-link fence between me and it.

Failing_Junk: Why do there have to be 'fake' trolls all over any video that is slightly interesting?

This post is so totally fake. I can tell from some of the characters and from having seen quite a few posts in my time.

It was professionally recorded for promotional purposes, that's why it's not a shaky piece of crap. This was a "routine" that the camera man had seen a few times before on dry runs.

I think the video itself is real (as others noted, there are other similar videos around), but I think the video playback speed was increased.

Ignore the helicopter, and just watch the panning and shake of the camera. Looks unnatural, and similar to a video on 2X+ playback.

Very real, also seen these live, doing this and more... like deliberate full-contact combat! Definition of a helicopter: a thousand parts all desperately trying to get away from each other. Learning to fly like that takes a lot of simulator work and every "real"
crash costs from $60 on up to hundreds to repair while learning those spastic-looking did-somebody-leave-the transmitter-off moves. 'Taint natchurel-lookin'. Taking up competition heli aerobatics is God's way of telling you you have more money than you know what to do with:-)

Arxane: I think people are going to be arguing about this one regardless of the mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our new Honda Cog ad.

(I refer to the climbing tires at 0:28.)


you could get that to work, if you managed to put something very heavy in the top-right of the tire without it falling, it does look unnatural if you cant see the weights tho

The pilot is Alan Szabo Jr. he's well known in the RC Helicopter 'arena' for his great piloting skills. He is a sponsored pilot so his sponsors fly him around the world, and pay him to fly model helicopters. There's quite a few videos of him flying.

Model helicopters have been around for many years. They started out extremely basic but over ~30 years they have evolved greatly from stamped aluminum frames and fixed pitch, etc. The models used today are generally very well engineered from advanced materials and use blades and frames made from composite materials such as carbon fiber, or carbon fiber/fiberglass mixed. Though some of cheaper plastic models with wood blades fly pretty damn good as well. Main rotor blade pitches vary from around -10 to +10 degrees allowing for large amounts of lift in both directions.

These are not cheap toys when they are all 'tricked out' and even the kit you see for $400 still needs the power source(batteries) which can run hundreds of dollars per pack for a heli that size, as well as the drive system, reciever, advanced gyros, etc. It adds up quickly. Sometimes the cost of the kit ends up being a minor part of the investment.

That particular helicopter is made by his current sponsor and is an electric model running on Lithium-Polymer batteries which can produce large amounts of current on demand to brushless motor drive systems with incredible amounts of torque and power with main rotor RPMs around 1500-3000RPM depending on the power source(electric motor, turbine, etc) and size of the helicopter.

There are also turbine helicopters that use small turbine engines, nitro-methonal (like the funny cars) and gasoline powered versions. A large nitro-methonal engine(.90 cubic inch engine) weighs about 21 ounces and throws out 3.3hp at 15,000RPM which is then gear reduced to the main and tail rotor systems providing incredible amounts of twist.

The hobby encompasses a broad range of people from 'just for fun' types, to mechanics, designers, engineers and other technical fields and a broad range of disciplines from 3D(this video), FAI, Scale, Ariel Photography, UAV Research and sport. Investment ranges from a few hundred bucks to 10's of thousands of dollars, or 100's of thousands for a commercial product like Yamaha's RMAX helicopters used for UAV research and RC crop dusting. There's a lot of competition in the market and several companies are doing very well and probably making shedloads of cash in the process.

If you look around you'll probably find his Myspace/Facebook or whatever page, he's in that age range and probably a requirement of some contract somewhere :P

topdeck: Jamrock: jennyz: Fake.

Seconded.

If only there were dozens of other RC helicopter videos showing similar moves to refute your claim of fake.

Oh wait.

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/five minutes searching

Perhaps your time would be better spent searching for a sense of humor.

not fake, I sell ones that can do most of those stunts (probably all if you're skilled enough), I've got beginner ones that you can flip & fly upside down in a heartbeat.
/look up the honeybee cp2 or cp3 both are relatively cheap and can do a lot of neat stunts, I sell the cp2's for 124.45cad

CtrlAltDelete: Those poor, tiny people.

I just regurgitated half a sandwich. Thank you...I think

Catch you later!

Perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the scale model pilot.

"That's impossible!"

//name the movie

Fake.

Perhaps you did not see the pixels?

British: "That's impossible!"

//name the movie

I already referenced that movie! And in a much more subtle fashion too.

/wins.

Does Stringfellow Hawke look impressed to you?

/I thought it was awesome, but you know, String's a dick from all that boozin'

British: "That's impossible!"

//name the movie

ok, not fake, but how does it fly upside down?


as for the 'fake'ers, know how long it would take to fake that long clip, frame by frame, natural looking color, perfect shadows, and I'm not talking just about the shadow on the ground, and for what? Let's say one person was going to devote 100 hours of work to something like that, why?

//I've also seen the videos of indoor rc plane flying competition.

jeez louise and sid chareez, you wanna believe sheoples are so pathetic.........

is your attention span so farked by drugs that you can't see the obvious clipping throughout that video?

I'm not saying that those moves aren't possible, but anyone who can't see through the amateurish cut'n'paste job throughout the whole thing is just smoking to0000000 much BC weed.