787-9 Low altitude aerobatics
 

Check this out:



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ummm.... fake?

What makes you say that? Light load it with gas and strip the interior... Make it a rocket ship. As far as the camera work, Boeing builds some of the most sophisticated UAVs flying. Some air-air work is an easy day.

Excellent video. It never ceases to amaze me the kind of performance modern airliners are capable of when lightly loaded.

Not fake.

Here's a classic demo flight. Some believe that Tex was the inspiration for Maj. Kong in "Dr. Strangelove".
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE

It's a animation. Look closely at the wing flex ect.. You can also see the actual flight demo at Farnborough. Nose attitude is about half this video for about half the time.

It's real. I Watched the flight a couple of weeks ago from the flight line at Grant county airport Moses Lake Wa. Any Big Bend grad will recognize the airport and school in the background. They used a helicopter for the shots from the air. Was very cool to watch. We had no idea what was going on at the time and just thought this was part of a normal test flight.

Boeing does much of thier flight test flights here to Moses Lake. So we see theses guys fly in and out all day as we mix it up in our little single engine B19s.

Those wings flex 26 feet.

Which part of that flight is "aerobatic"?

The take-off attitude just looks too crazy to be real on that first take-off

The empty weight of a 787-8 is about 260,000 lbs and the total thrust from both engines is about 130,000 lbs.

Any maneuvers that are unnecessary for normal flight are aerobatic maneuvers. That first pitch up looks to be more than 30 degrees. Sure he/she didn't do any immelmans or split S's however I'm sure that plane could have pulled it off. (Johnston cleared that up in a 707 years ago:D)

Interesting definition.

To be more precise:

§ 91.303 Aerobatic flight.
No person may operate an aircraft in aerobatic flight—
(a) Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement;
(b) Over an open air assembly of persons;
(c) Within the lateral boundaries of the surface areas of Class B, Class C, Class D, or Class E airspace designated for an airport;
(d) Within 4 nautical miles of the center line of any Federal airway;
(e) Below an altitude of 1,500 feet above the surface; or
(f) When flight visibility is less than 3 statute miles.

For the purposes of this section, aerobatic flight means an intentional maneuver involving an abrupt change in an aircraft's attitude, an abnormal attitude, or abnormal acceleration, not necessary for normal flight.

That's my point, they were not flexing when you would expect it under load.

Watch the actual air show demo. Nose attitude is about half the animation.

What animation are you referring to?

Which is okay if it's in waivered airspace ... like you get when practicing for or performing at an air show.

Also, some of this seems to be from the distortion caused by a telephoto lens ... it makes things appear more compressed, or in this case, possibly more nose high than they actually are.

It's real, sailing. It was filmed at Moses Lake.

It's real. The camera angle from the helicopter for the take off shot makes it look a lot steeper than it actually was. Roughly almost 30 degrees nose up. light fuel weight and no interior. Also to address the 'lack' of wing flex, watch the outboard ailerons up-rig during the 60 degree bank to help keep them 'down'.

If you want to see how some of our guys try to throw the poor ole' KC-10 around on a Reserve weekend, just watch the OP's video. :(

Looks real to me. Unless Boeing is completely lying, they do put credits at the end of the video listing the test pilots and the company who filmed it. And that is Moses lake.