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Superman Soars Over Carlsbad! Too Bad He’s Not Flesh and Blood [Video]
YouTube video of RC plane transformed into a near life-sized Superman with cape has gone viral.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman. It's actually two of those three.
Posted on YouTube Dec. 28, a video of an RC plane in the shape of Superman was captured on the cell phone of 27-year-old Kyle Gough, a Cal State Fullerton student who said he was cycling along the North County coast last week.
According to U-T San Diego, "Gough tracked the figure for a few minutes until he found the pilot, later identified as Otto Dieffenbach III."
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The pilot is 82, and is getting more than his 15 minutes of fame.
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Gough and his friend followed the soaring superhero to a stretch of beach where two men were operating its remote control. Superman was brought back to land for a quick battery change and when he took off again, Gough pulled out his cellphone to record the flight.
Initially, he wanted to show his father — “he’s a big Superman fan,” Gough explained — but eventually posted the video online. It’s since garnered more than 300,000 views on YouTube and liveleak.com.
Gough, who works as a security contractor and is a student at Cal State Fullerton, said he stayed at the beach for two hours talking to the man flying the superhero. He said the machine appeared custom-made — its legs moved individually as it flew, and even came with a cape.
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