yarno s arms. it s all animation. the team tries out the wings. now we are ready to go to our first test flight. we thought it would be very strange and disturbing that yarno from the very first test, it already works. so we thought we ll make a first test flight, which would not succeed. for the final video, floris and his team make sure that yarno succeeds in his goal of flying like a bird. to accomplish this, they combine authentic footage with computer animation. we went through the park, and i was actually wearing the wings, but i wasn t able to run with it or walk with it. it was just completely a film prop. the actual scene where he s running and going through the air, that s filmed in an empty field and completely done on the computer. floris creates a 3-d animation of yarno and his wings. if you look closely, you see
because the government doesn t want these wings to be reality, otherwise, people are going to fly from mexico to the united states. one thing is for sure, the human bird wings project touched and inspired millions of viewers. it s a universal story. it is actually a beautiful fairy tail. it s very simple. people were very thankful to this project. they started dreaming again and said well, one day i will fly. coming up is this couple throwing caution to the wind on their wedding day? the camera angle turns from the bride and groom to a giant tornado in the background. hey, reverend, let s get this thing going, right? yes, i do, yep, let s go. we re married. when caught on camera viral videos: is that possible continues. when heartburn hits
attention, so we really needed to be patient and to have a kind of confidence that the story was interesting enough. the team adds credibility to the story by interviewing an actual professor of u neuromechanics who isn t in on the ruse. if you have assistive wings that have force transduction from the wings onto the engines, then it s no problem at all. even though the wings wouldn t actually work, floris hires david minting to make them look as plausible as possible. we pretended to make real wings as if we were actually wanting to fly. here s where he puts them all the time, these are kites with i m not using anymore, but they are very useful for the wind surface. this is some old wind surf gear. to manipulate the fake wings, the team creates fake mechanics using a nintendo wii controller and a smartphone. you would think the mechanics are reacting on the movement of
preying on fears, it s preying on hopes. people want to believe this stuff. how can i get these wings? i want these wings. i want to be able to fly myself. people started to e-mail us, wanting to buy the wings and to see if they could get the designs. yarno started to get on the news and abc news, nbc, bbc, and everyone started blogging about it. our goal was not to create a hoax, but to tell a story that people would like and follow even though it s not true. there were some people really, really hoping this to be true and they were very disappointed afterward. floris sings like a canary to the press, admitting the video is a fake. we thought it was not fair to give interviews as if it was true. but some just won t accept the truth and they let the conspiracy theories fly. i remember a couple of e-mails of people saying, could you please admit that the government paid you to say it s a hoax
you see this man who s got these big wings on, and this guy is running, running, running. the man is actually able to flap his arms and lift off and actually fly. this is crazy. this is everything i wanted to do in my life. he s coming in for the landing. whoo! and there is much celebration. but is it real or is it fake? i don t know. the mechanics of it seems sort of funky. you would probably flap your arm for about five times, and the air friction would be so much you would just pass out. the human bird wing is not a fake. i think you can glide jumping in the wind. probably was fun to do. probably wicked scary to do. this is what sells me, the fact that he is so emotional, like, he did it, he really did