Superb airmanship!

[Mojocvh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5uLDnUOdI&fea...

&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ1CIByTz24&fea...

& finally,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9UM33EKqY&fea...


Admit it, how many were holding their breath?

[pushthebutton]

Bloody hell.

It reminds me a bit of Sioux City.

Any idea what the problem was? It looked a bit like Dutch Roll.

ETA We don't actually see the landing. The cynic in me...

Edited by pushthebutton on Sunday 1st May 16:11

[TheEnd]

Looked like the airbourne version of Arab drifing.

[Waynester]

What's the story behind this?

Hydraulic failure? Were they performing a Soux City...using engines only??





I reckon Joan Collins would have spilt her Cinzano on board that flight, that's without Leonard Rossiters assistance!

[FourWheelDrift]

Russian Airline pilot flying school. Lesson one, fly a circuit and land.

See all that black smoke in video 2? That was the previous student who failed.

[happygoron]

Unconfirmed reports suggest the aircraft was conducting a maiden flight after long-term storage.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/05/01/35...

[Simpo Two]

Can't these Russians edit video?

Looks like somebody wired his controls back to front. However at the time of landing Comrade Cameraman was waving it at the ground. Most disappointing.

[Magog]

Are we sure this isn't a viral advert for Boeing or Airbus?

Also nice to see that flightglobal can use google translate.

[Beyond Rational]

It took off and later managed to land, what more do you guys want? Fussy or what.

[Chuck328]

Might be a fecked yaw damper having some part in all that. Nice save.

[tontoro]

no way thats real

[kiteless]

Astonishing

[Flintstone]

Something's not right, apart from the (alleged) obvious. The oscillations are continuous and apparently uniform, almost as if the pilot is 'stirring' the controls. In fact the aircraft is behaving exactly as I once saw a Macchi of the Frecchi Tricolore do at a display.





Frecchi Tricolore

[FourWheelDrift]

Ivo Nutarelli was the one who did that (on mobile so live leak doesn't work).

He was the solo performer who got his timing wrong at Ramstein in 1988.

[bob1179]

It would not suprise me if they just topped the fluids up on that 154 and then took it up to see what happens.

Health and safety in Russia isn't what it's like in the West...

[Simpo Two]

Hmm, on reflection I'd put it in the showboating category.

[Eric Mc]

I'd go with the yaw damper circuit going screwy.

[The real Apache]

I would not want to be a passenger on that!

[eccles]

I'm a little cynical about these sort of youtube videos. Not much exhaust smoke from what is normally quite a dirty aircraft.

[Eric Mc]

Did he cgi the personnel who came out to watch as well?

Tu154s CAN be smokey - but not always.