230-ton Airbus A330 Frozen In Midair

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams

Wow! real slow flight, same as a c152 trainer.......

That is unreal

Those are very skilled pilots. It takes a lot of minute changes in thrust and pitch. I would be nervous if I was the pilot.

Very cool. Does anyone know how slow an A330 can go like that?

Do some backgrounding on fly-by-wire....

Wayne Bookout what do you think, they should have "cut-off" all the normal and alternate law stuff and by extension the A/P too so they can do this, otherwise I don´t think that it is possible.

That is really cool. I wonder if your a passenger on board would you actually feel the plane "stop" in mid-air?

i thought i would never see anything like that until now

The plane never once stopped relative to ground. It may look like it did because it's approaching the videographer. At that point, the only clue to ground speed is the increase in size of the plane. But it's far enough away that the increase in size is small. Note that when it's passing perpendicular to the videographer it no longer appears to be stopped. The plane was likely going at least that fast the whole time.

ITs the same trick you see at airshows... just usually done by an Fa-18 or something....

Im honestly speechless. Something we all knew was possible, just never seen it actually happen o_0

Wow, they finally have an airliner that flys the right speed to let me eat my brown bag mystery meat special, watch a movie Net-Flix released in 2009 and it will let the F/A's in the cabin time to duck objects in slow motion like episodes of "Chips" in the 80's. But yes I had great fun in my 1st 150 I owned and spent close to 10 minutes on final so they could make 9 Bonanza's do 360's so I could finish my coke before landing. (just kidding, it was only 4 Bonanza's doing 360's)...ok go ahead and beat me up, its a holiday!