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Both the wing falling off and the knife edge to landing were an RC. Full scale hard core aerobatic monoplanes like this have one piece full length massive front spars and would not fail so cleanly. Models however often do have detachable outer wing panels. While some full scale aircraft are capable of knife edge flight, the speed required to sustain it is typically faster than the obviously lightweight model was traveling in the video just prior to touchdown. The bounce was exactly how models look when they plop on in a poor landing.
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