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Not fake at all.
I was the one flying it and landing it.
If you don't believe me, check out some of my other flying feats.
Not completely implausible, stunt aircraft can have a thrust to weight ratio close to one, even better without one wing, so they can hover or fall to earth slowly. The absence of the helicopter's tail rotor might be an issue.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Handley
In 1998, with sponsorship by Oracle, and seeking an even more impressive airshow aircraft, Wayne set out to create the exceptional Oracle Turbo Raven which was the world’s only aerobatic aircraft with a thrust to weight ratio higher than one (more thrust than weight). Teaming up with Richard Giles of Akrotech, and AgAir Systems, the Oracle Turbo Raven came to life. The composite airframe based on the G-202 design had an empty weight of only 1,600 pounds (725 kg) and was fitted with a 750 horsepower (560 kW) Pratt & Whitney PT6A-25C turboprop that generated 2,800 pounds (12,500 N) of thrust which gave the aircraft a power loading of less than 2.7 lb/hp at ready to fly weights. With this unheard of power loading the Oracle Turbo Raven could fly straight up, hover in mid-air, back up, stop, and then accelerate straight up out of the hover. The aircraft also had enough power that it could recover from flat spins simply by flying out of them with the nose still on the horizon.
You want to see real STOL? Look at this....who needs a helicopter!
An F15 has landed missing a wing after a mid air collicollision before!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision
Yeh love them Harrow!!
They have sacrificial bolts in the tail wheel assembly so as not to hurt the airframe when they rip off the tail wheel on a boulder. 
I've flown a Skyfox and they are a hoot.
Here you go Chook!
I'm in LOVE!!!
Went to the Farnborough Airshow in England and it rained the whole time. Never saw a spitfire, hurricane or a Lancaster. 
They were weathered in at their home airfields. Even the red arrows were grounded in 2012.
They flew the Vulcan like they stole it and that made my day.
My brother has a property right on the end of the strip at Bullsbrook. He loves it.
52 squadron comes to Esperance and trains every now and then so we get the odd PC9 display.
