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Real or Fake?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maCcQUM7QNQ

TC

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I say fake - and patently so. IF the plane hit hard enough to make the cow drop like that, then surely it would've had a significant effect to swing the aircraft somewhat to the left - possibly catastrophically. If not, and it say, just hit the cow with the fabric, then why would the cow dropped? As someone who's grown up going to the family ranch - understand that a cow might weigh more than the entire wing structure of the plane!

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It's real. We've been discussing it in another forum. The hit can be seen on the video and was "minor" but at the velocity it happened at and the "scare" for the cow, the tipping was not as much from impact as from shock.

There are people in the UK (actually most of that forum is people in the UK) and they're looking for more info on it.

Sam richardson hit a cow head on with his See Bee so why not??
BTW-big freaking dent!!

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And you thought bird strikes were bad!! Had a classmate in school total her vintage Barracuda after topping a hill and finding a herd of cattle on the road! My guess on the "Cowstrike" video, is just a graze, otherwise, it would have torn the wing right off! Just after the cow goes out of frame, a pole whizzes by not too far off the wing tip. ???!!! What is wrong with that pilot? or was it an emergency landing?

if you lose your engine etc on takeoff you do not keep flying...you land ASAP straight ahead...it looked to me like he was trying to write a check he couldn't cash and got really lucky.

That brings a new dimension to the phrase "Cow Tipping"

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Did anyone else see the near-miss of the post AFTER clipping the cow?

I'm not sure this is an engine failure, but maybe some low-level flight gone wrong. If I clipped something with the wing, I'd probably land in a pasture six inches under my wheels to look the wing over too.

Tim

Wow, I never saw a cow taking a swim!

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Well, DUH! It was obviously a Sea Cow.

Gary

I still think it looks fake. The tumble just looks wrong to me, as does the fact that it appears to hit the aileron without leaving the amount of damage I would expect.

Ryan

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I don't see any way to fake that. You would have be be really really good at CGI. Really good.

How do you know it wasn't a glancing blow? Look how far to port the cow is from the centerline?

I got hit head on by a drunk driver in my Ranger. Because I saw him coming at the last minute, I swerved to the right as hard as I could and when we hit I went over the top of his hood. His car (a Cutlass) ripped off my driver's front suspension. I was going 30mph. He was going about 45. And through all of that, my air bags didn't trigger because the engergy was dissapated because of the glancing blow. My passenger and I didn't get a scratch, bump, bruise, nothing.

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You can take your L-bird and a video camera out and do a field experiment! Just watch out for the 12 guage flak!

I've watched it through a few times...shadows, resolution and lighting all seem to work together, but then again, compress and mpeg something and it can cover a multitude of sloppy editing

The cow did that because that was the biggest darn fly he had ever seen.

Les

There didn't seem to be a jolt or shudder in the film. The pilot did pull back seemly to avoid the bovine barrier but always seems to look out to the R/H side. The bovine, if impacted by anything based on where it looked to come from would be near the center of the A/C. That means the wheel or prop hangs out the furthest and also would show the least movement to the video. Cows are something I fed a lot, chased on occasion and rode once. Never saw one flip. Might make for a new olympic sport. Flyby Bovine Gymnastics.
Rich

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