What the title says. 
Discovery is working on another new Mythbusters clone, which they apparently don't even have a final title for yet, and one of the segments they're doing is trying to prove/disprove this (obviously GCI) video of a stunt plane doing a one-winged landing. The manager of the company where I work, Jim Bourke, is a stunt plane flier and manager of a radio controlled plane club and he actually landed a scale airplane missing a wing back in September. Somebody he knew in the stunt flying scene in LA put the Discovery Channel production team in contact with him and they sent a crew and the talent for this show to our company, Knife Edge Software [/shameless plug], all the way up in northern Oregon, to have him appear and try to recreate his flight for their cameras.
The filming at the offices was an invite-only thing; I and two other employees got called in to assist--helping set up and photograph during the filming for the company scrapbook, as well as assisting in moving and setting up the RC planes. So we actually spent all day with the film crew at the offices and on-site at an airport while Jim and the host flew RC aircraft in a computer simulation and in the field to see if a one-winged landing is possible. It was really neat.
The director says the show is expected to premier in May sometime, so I'm planning to be on the lookout for that. I was sort of hoping some of us proletariat could end up on camera, but alas we employees had to stay out of frame.
Still, I'm really jazzed, as I think we did some pretty cool stuff.
{EDIT: Mods, I somehow thought I was posting in misc. Can somebody move this? Thanks.)
Discovery is working on another new Mythbusters clone, which they apparently don't even have a final title for yet, and one of the segments they're doing is trying to prove/disprove this (obviously GCI) video of a stunt plane doing a one-winged landing. The manager of the company where I work, Jim Bourke, is a stunt plane flier and manager of a radio controlled plane club and he actually landed a scale airplane missing a wing back in September. Somebody he knew in the stunt flying scene in LA put the Discovery Channel production team in contact with him and they sent a crew and the talent for this show to our company, Knife Edge Software [/shameless plug], all the way up in northern Oregon, to have him appear and try to recreate his flight for their cameras.
The filming at the offices was an invite-only thing; I and two other employees got called in to assist--helping set up and photograph during the filming for the company scrapbook, as well as assisting in moving and setting up the RC planes. So we actually spent all day with the film crew at the offices and on-site at an airport while Jim and the host flew RC aircraft in a computer simulation and in the field to see if a one-winged landing is possible. It was really neat.
The director says the show is expected to premier in May sometime, so I'm planning to be on the lookout for that. I was sort of hoping some of us proletariat could end up on camera, but alas we employees had to stay out of frame.
Still, I'm really jazzed, as I think we did some pretty cool stuff.{EDIT: Mods, I somehow thought I was posting in misc. Can somebody move this? Thanks.)
