Perhaps the craziest thing about today’s world of huge budget internet video is the fact that not just one complete crew of video people is needed to make them but there’s also another complete crew of people needed to make the “making of” video to prove you actually did what you said. From Ken Block to the skies about Dubai, proving the “reality” of a video is a big deal as we live in an era where virtually anything can be created from scratch by talented people with computers. Now, there were talented people with computers here but those were the pilots of the big A380. The guys with the wings on their backs were talented too because they could only fly for 10 minutes at a time! While that topic is briefly addressed it is unclear how many times (if at all) Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet had to land and take off again.
We give Emirates credit for not running away like their hair was on fire when this idea was first presented. It is completely and utterly unthinkable that an American airline would even entertain the thought of participating in something like this and after the company did agree to do it, it seems like they got more and more comfortable the deeper the planning went. Ultimately that comfort led to October 15th when the “mission” was carried out over the skies of Dubai. Working perfectly to plan and following on the developed story board, it seems as though the whole thing went off without so much as a hiccup.
The question that must be asked at this point of course is, “What will Rossy do next?!”
This is how #hellojetman was made.
Let’s just entertain the thought that the video is fake. A combination of CGI and reality. If that was the case, then what would stop the producers from creating a fake “behind the scenes”?
Spinal Tap of the skies. 🙂
Just because “it can’t be done” in America doesn’t mean the other guys can’t do it.