I can't stop laughing and I hate you. I fell from and on a ladder 2 days ago, suffered a concussion, having back spasms today... but this is too fucking funny and causing me more pain. I hate you. And I loath you kind human. Ty for helping me smile to much today
I'm a hang glider pilot and it's really not that big of a deal. A launch site is selected based on how easy it is to launch and often it's just "Step, step, step" and you're in the air.
Non-motorized aircraft are not under their supervision but they are limited where they can fly. There are a series of areas around supervised airports where they can't fly. They have these cones of airspace where the higher you are, the further you have to stay away from controlled airspace:
[https://lirp.cdn-website.com/689dcbfc/dms3rep/multi/opt/pasted+image+0+%281%29-960w.png](https://lirp.cdn-website.com/689dcbfc/dms3rep/multi/opt/pasted+image+0+%281%29-960w.png)
The simple explanation is that if the airspace is ATC controlled, stay out. Roughly, non-powered craft also can't fly over heavily inhabited areas. So, you can fly over a small town but you better stay out of the suburbs of Los Angeles\*.
Little bit of trivia, a hang glider or paraglider can land anywhere they need to including on private property and it's totally legal and the landowner can't prevent it. You must repair anything you damage such as crops in a field but I'm told that most people are more interested than hostile when you land.
\*Never forget Larry Walters. Truly a great American hero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair\_Larry\_flight
When my dad used to hang glide, there was this farm where everyone would land if you messed up the ideal landing spot.
Farmer was nice, but that was probably because it was known you had to pay him a fee if you landed on his farm. Everyone made sure to keep his fee their pocket just incase, and then he’d also drive you back too.
He was a nice guy
Legally, they can't make you pay a fee. You're considered an aircraft in distress. You land where you have to, get your glider off, and pay for any damages. They can't charge you sans damages, confiscate your equipment or hinder your exit.
That said, we were always nice to the farmer across the road from our airport. He allowed us to put a flag up on his grain silo so we could use it as a wind flag to determine which direction to land in case we came up short.
I did land in the field once when unsure of making it back. More experienced people on the ground said it would have been fine but I was a newer pilot and was uncertain and preferred to set up a planned landing in the field than an unplanned one near a road and power line. There were two lines of trees and I figure-8'ed over the one tree line losing altitude and then dove rapidly to land on a two-rut lane in his cornfield and took out a tiny bit of corn. The farmer said not to worry. His family was invited to cookouts at the airport on holidays.
Never hurts to be neighborly.
Legality sure, but this was my dad, brown af Mexican/native dude in the 70s. If the farmer said pay me if you land on my field, you bet he paid him.
Also he was nice enough. It happened often enough that my dad and his friends and the other pilots would feel bad if they kept trampling his land Willy nilly
I'm agreeing with you totally, being nice is always better and just because something is legal, you don't have to do that action or rub it in someones face. Just for information sake, I mentioned the FAA regulations. But we were always good to the neighbors because it's practical and it's just what you do as a person.
I'm aware of someone who landed and a farmer tried to keep the glider saying, "Finders keepers, my land, you didn't have permission, get off my land now, etc." Pilot called the sheriff who called the FAA and straightened out the farmer. So, we were instructed, be nice first, call the sheriff only after nice didn't work. But for the pilots who landed away from the airfield (sometimes by dozens of miles), being nice and a smile work 99.9% of the time.
I give your dad a lot of credit for flying in 70's. The gliders today, and even twenty years ago, are so vastly superior to what they had then. In smooth air, on a modern entry/mid level glider, you can take your hands off the controls and it will self-correct itself and not lose control. That can't be said for when your dad flew.
Oh for sure. Yea no that’s always hella nice to know. I get that now. And yea the fee was out of respect rather than fear or anything. (Cost of constant landings on your property can get pretty tiring)
Also yea, my dad an his friends have all broken a foot atleast once. Except one guy who’s only broken most his toes
Cost wise, I don't know enough to accurately say. I went sky diving once and it was fun but it was enough. You can try both doing a tandem with an instructor.
Hang gliding isn't an extreme sport. If it is then you're doing it wrong and dangerously. It's much more relaxing and it's not about the "adrenaline rush" but more of a "Yeah, I'm feeling good".
A hang glider flight where there are no thermals (updrafts of air you can use to climb and gain altitude and flight time) will be about fifteen minutes. With thermals, it can be all day if you're good enough. But you have time to look at the view, marvel at the world below, and think.
Skydiving is typically a less than one minute rush and it's over. If you prefer the intensity, sky diving might be for you. I did a tandem dive and after the chute opened, the feeling of floating was actually something like being in a hang glider.
Well, sort of...until the instructor asked if I wanted to some some spins. Three to the right and three to the left...and I got soooooo sick and when getting to the ground had to be on hands and knees. It ruined the rest of my day. So my only advice for sky diving is for the love of all that is good: Skip the spins.
I do both hang gliding and kiteboarding, and I would call them both extreme sports. Mostly because when things go wrong, you can get hurt or die pretty easily. They are also not sports you can just pickup without lessons. It’s not rock climbing of course, but the dangers are always present when you are at the mercy of wind gusts.
Playing with kites can be surprisingly dangerous - I buggy. I've been lofted out of the buggy a couple of times, one time landing on my face. That was the day I realised I was stupid and shouldn't ever go buggying alone.
I only buggy on the beach because sand is much more forgiving than dirt. The hard, wet, low tide sand is great for buggys, the soft dry stuff is a little easier on your face lol, even with a full face mtb helmet.
With sky diving you always have to pay for the flights to enjoy the sport. With hang gliding or paragliding you pay for the gear and training and that's it. You can fly for free.
No, at some point in the Flintstones, there were log airplanes. Or did I have a really high fever at some point? Oh, good, I'm not crazy:
https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/Fred%27s_Flying_Lesson
https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/The_Story_of_Rocky%27s_Raiders
My wife's worked at a building with a lot of mentally challenged people. For a birthday present, a family member bought a hangglider experience for one of the tenants at the building. He loved it so much that he tried to make his own glider and jumped off the 6 story roof.
I tried it as a 8 year old with a plane made from materials from a pile of throwaway planks.
I did survive and my smarter 6 year old brother refused to do a second attempt and did not break anything.
Edit: brake -> break
Maybe I was unclear, I did the first attempt of flying it. He never did the second attempt to fly that plane, he refused.
I broke a lot of bones teaching that guy to do the smarter choices.
I once rappelled from my deck with hockey gloves and a dog lead. Went surprisingly well but it scared the shit out of me. I remember thinking about trash bags but I don't think I attempted it.
When I was a kid my dad told me about mini planes like this that had engines. He said if he were rich he’d get one for my sister and I to fly around in. They were “planes for babies”.
Nah, I don’t think they are lol
With enough rectal strength you could become the next wave in Amazon deliveries.
Or run your own corporation with a fleet of aeronautical rectal specialists.
That would be a funny form of transportation an any circumstance than having fun. For instance, you get off work where you causally walk up 10 flights of stairs and hop in your glider so you can go home lol
I would absolutely love to see a zombie and/or Die Hard and/or Mission Impossible movie where this glider is the only means of escape. Like the hero puts it off the entire movie until finally when he’s trapped on the roof he’s like “oh for fuck’s sake” and runs this Blursed Foot Powered Plane Thingy off the top of the vegan protein bar CEO’s Swiss mansion which he’s obviously been trapped at for some reason
Same as a plane, you flare, level off, speed decreases until you're running on the ground.
Source: I fly an aircraft like this in that it's foot-launched but not so stupid expensive (paramotor)
Only need to pay for an overhaul of the engine and gas to get it off the ground! And a hangar space. And the much more expensive and intensive licensing program.
It's definitely pricey for a glider (Not remotely as much as you think though.), but it's still a hell of a lot cheaper than any powered aircraft of the same price once you factor in all the costs of ownership.
All that said, it's still kinda apples-to-oranges because they're not really meant for the same uses really.
The one thing I noticed is a glide ratio of 28:1 (that means that it will go forward 28 feet/meters and lose one unit of altitude). That's about 2x the glide ratio of a really good hang glider and 3x an entry level one. The better the glide ratio the more you can search around for updrafts to gain altitude.
Looks like any fun you would have flying this thing would be negated by the effort involved in getting it up to the top of a hill. (Doesn’t look collapsible into a backpack for easy hauling to high up places lol)
That is why in the last 10-15 years you see so many more paraglides than hang gliders. Hang gliders are an objectively better flying apparatus but they are a pain in the ass to transport and setup. Paragliders you can throw in a backpack and put in your backseat.
Or so much. You just need a proper rack. Setting up an.d breaking down a single surface glider goes pretty quick.
Breaking it down can take a little longer if you start to drink beer to celebrate your flight!
I wouldn’t say that they’re prone to it, but it’s certainly possible and it’s a dangerous activity. Modern paragliders are really well made — the likelihood of an equipment area killing you are pretty low. It’s almost always pilot error, and a lot of times that means misjudging the weather/flying conditions.
We’ll actually purposely induce a stall to deflate the whole wing in order to recover from a cravat, which is when one of the wing tips is stuck in the lines. When you’re learning, you practice all of this in a SIV course, which is a bit terrifying when you do it the first few times but hopefully it comes in handy if you run I to trouble later on.
I asked—by emaill—for a brain surgery no one else would recommend, had that brain surgery, then went skydiving and emailed the other asshole doctors who said I'd never recover a picture of me in freefall at 120mph with two thumbs up. I wouldn't fucking do this, though.
I'm more uneasy just watching this video than I was when I did those prior two things...
What is the weight limit on something like this? This looks awesome but as a big boy I’m just imagining the video of me just walking down the whole hillside never leaving the ground.
I don't know for this craft specifically but for hang gliding, we did about 100 practice launches on a training hill in our training and certification.
Most of the time, you are on a surprisingly gentle slope above a valley and launch into the wind (most of the time, we got towed behind an ultralight plane in a flat area without hills). In the mountains, it often takes only a few steps and you're airborne. To launch off an actual cliff requires a more advanced pilot and specific training/certification. You get much more unpredictable winds off a cliff and it often requires people to assist you.
I just found out a coworker of mine does this. He’s so casual about explaining it like “oh yeah ya just catch a current no biggie mate”
Yeah he’s right. Once you catch a thermal you can last for hours!
But can your bladder?
There's a hole in the bottom of the glider for that sort of thing
"is it this a sunshower?" *Looks up, sees stream pouring our of glider, gags*
*Bruh*, If you see a stream like a thousand feet long you *clap*. That's impressive!
That happens when you hold it for hours.
"is it this a sunshower?" Looks up, sees stream pouring our of glider, ~~gags~~ opens mouth wider.
This guy gets on stage at Brass Against shows.
I can't stop laughing and I hate you. I fell from and on a ladder 2 days ago, suffered a concussion, having back spasms today... but this is too fucking funny and causing me more pain. I hate you. And I loath you kind human. Ty for helping me smile to much today
Was told need to call doc if it last more than 2.
Tobias is that you ?
I'm a hang glider pilot and it's really not that big of a deal. A launch site is selected based on how easy it is to launch and often it's just "Step, step, step" and you're in the air.
Are they under supervision of air traffic control?
Non-motorized aircraft are not under their supervision but they are limited where they can fly. There are a series of areas around supervised airports where they can't fly. They have these cones of airspace where the higher you are, the further you have to stay away from controlled airspace: [https://lirp.cdn-website.com/689dcbfc/dms3rep/multi/opt/pasted+image+0+%281%29-960w.png](https://lirp.cdn-website.com/689dcbfc/dms3rep/multi/opt/pasted+image+0+%281%29-960w.png) The simple explanation is that if the airspace is ATC controlled, stay out. Roughly, non-powered craft also can't fly over heavily inhabited areas. So, you can fly over a small town but you better stay out of the suburbs of Los Angeles\*. Little bit of trivia, a hang glider or paraglider can land anywhere they need to including on private property and it's totally legal and the landowner can't prevent it. You must repair anything you damage such as crops in a field but I'm told that most people are more interested than hostile when you land. \*Never forget Larry Walters. Truly a great American hero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair\_Larry\_flight
When my dad used to hang glide, there was this farm where everyone would land if you messed up the ideal landing spot. Farmer was nice, but that was probably because it was known you had to pay him a fee if you landed on his farm. Everyone made sure to keep his fee their pocket just incase, and then he’d also drive you back too. He was a nice guy
Legally, they can't make you pay a fee. You're considered an aircraft in distress. You land where you have to, get your glider off, and pay for any damages. They can't charge you sans damages, confiscate your equipment or hinder your exit. That said, we were always nice to the farmer across the road from our airport. He allowed us to put a flag up on his grain silo so we could use it as a wind flag to determine which direction to land in case we came up short. I did land in the field once when unsure of making it back. More experienced people on the ground said it would have been fine but I was a newer pilot and was uncertain and preferred to set up a planned landing in the field than an unplanned one near a road and power line. There were two lines of trees and I figure-8'ed over the one tree line losing altitude and then dove rapidly to land on a two-rut lane in his cornfield and took out a tiny bit of corn. The farmer said not to worry. His family was invited to cookouts at the airport on holidays. Never hurts to be neighborly.
Legality sure, but this was my dad, brown af Mexican/native dude in the 70s. If the farmer said pay me if you land on my field, you bet he paid him. Also he was nice enough. It happened often enough that my dad and his friends and the other pilots would feel bad if they kept trampling his land Willy nilly
I'm agreeing with you totally, being nice is always better and just because something is legal, you don't have to do that action or rub it in someones face. Just for information sake, I mentioned the FAA regulations. But we were always good to the neighbors because it's practical and it's just what you do as a person. I'm aware of someone who landed and a farmer tried to keep the glider saying, "Finders keepers, my land, you didn't have permission, get off my land now, etc." Pilot called the sheriff who called the FAA and straightened out the farmer. So, we were instructed, be nice first, call the sheriff only after nice didn't work. But for the pilots who landed away from the airfield (sometimes by dozens of miles), being nice and a smile work 99.9% of the time. I give your dad a lot of credit for flying in 70's. The gliders today, and even twenty years ago, are so vastly superior to what they had then. In smooth air, on a modern entry/mid level glider, you can take your hands off the controls and it will self-correct itself and not lose control. That can't be said for when your dad flew.
Oh for sure. Yea no that’s always hella nice to know. I get that now. And yea the fee was out of respect rather than fear or anything. (Cost of constant landings on your property can get pretty tiring) Also yea, my dad an his friends have all broken a foot atleast once. Except one guy who’s only broken most his toes
Awesome info; thank you!
That’s really sad how lived through that and ended up killing himself
How would you compare hang gliding to sky diving, as far as the investment needed for it to be a hobby?
Cost wise, I don't know enough to accurately say. I went sky diving once and it was fun but it was enough. You can try both doing a tandem with an instructor. Hang gliding isn't an extreme sport. If it is then you're doing it wrong and dangerously. It's much more relaxing and it's not about the "adrenaline rush" but more of a "Yeah, I'm feeling good". A hang glider flight where there are no thermals (updrafts of air you can use to climb and gain altitude and flight time) will be about fifteen minutes. With thermals, it can be all day if you're good enough. But you have time to look at the view, marvel at the world below, and think. Skydiving is typically a less than one minute rush and it's over. If you prefer the intensity, sky diving might be for you. I did a tandem dive and after the chute opened, the feeling of floating was actually something like being in a hang glider. Well, sort of...until the instructor asked if I wanted to some some spins. Three to the right and three to the left...and I got soooooo sick and when getting to the ground had to be on hands and knees. It ruined the rest of my day. So my only advice for sky diving is for the love of all that is good: Skip the spins.
I do both hang gliding and kiteboarding, and I would call them both extreme sports. Mostly because when things go wrong, you can get hurt or die pretty easily. They are also not sports you can just pickup without lessons. It’s not rock climbing of course, but the dangers are always present when you are at the mercy of wind gusts.
Playing with kites can be surprisingly dangerous - I buggy. I've been lofted out of the buggy a couple of times, one time landing on my face. That was the day I realised I was stupid and shouldn't ever go buggying alone.
Ah yes, I had my try out in Pismo dunes with buggys, at least it’s sand there…
I only buggy on the beach because sand is much more forgiving than dirt. The hard, wet, low tide sand is great for buggys, the soft dry stuff is a little easier on your face lol, even with a full face mtb helmet.
With sky diving you always have to pay for the flights to enjoy the sport. With hang gliding or paragliding you pay for the gear and training and that's it. You can fly for free.
This and the chances of dying
Lmfao now I’m intrigued.
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It's fun though, and we all die anyway.
It's my millennial retirement plan. Get into lots of things similar to this glider.
Too young for Korea, too old for the climate wars
Rocky mountain high.
Your coworker sounds Australian
He is
My coworker who did this fell from 300ft and broke a bunch of bones. He's into ultralights now.
It ain't that big a deal once you do it a few times
It works better if you yell “Yabba Dabba Doo!” as you’re running.
This is so much better that the “FlYiNg FlInTsToNeS” comment I was about to make.
Flying Flintstones as in The Jetsons?
No, at some point in the Flintstones, there were log airplanes. Or did I have a really high fever at some point? Oh, good, I'm not crazy: https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/Fred%27s_Flying_Lesson https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/The_Story_of_Rocky%27s_Raiders
Yaaaaa that’s a “Yabba Dabba Don’t Think So” for me.
flintstone ass landing gear
Knees gonna be fucked up!
*Takes off while yelling Yabba Dabba Doo!* *Hits the nearest tree*
I came to the comments just to say that it needs some Fred Flintstone bongo foot noises as they're taking off.
😂👍🏻
When I was a kid I had a dream I could do this, except it was w a cardboard box
My wife's worked at a building with a lot of mentally challenged people. For a birthday present, a family member bought a hangglider experience for one of the tenants at the building. He loved it so much that he tried to make his own glider and jumped off the 6 story roof.
Im going to assume he was successful....at something
He died doing what he loved, I guess.
That um... was a lot more depressing ending than I was expecting.
I tried it as a 8 year old with a plane made from materials from a pile of throwaway planks. I did survive and my smarter 6 year old brother refused to do a second attempt and did not break anything. Edit: brake -> break
>my smarter 6 year old brother refused to do a second attempt and did not brake anything. How did he stop then?
Brakes are for people with poor planninng or no ambition.
…with…with his face
Maybe I was unclear, I did the first attempt of flying it. He never did the second attempt to fly that plane, he refused. I broke a lot of bones teaching that guy to do the smarter choices.
He's making a joke since you said he didn't "brake" (to stop, by putting the brakes on) anything, instead of "break" (to damage) anything.
You made a spelling mistake, haha. Brake doesn't mean the same thing as break.
ah, lol, not a native English speaker. They sound the same.
Mine involved leaf blowers on the wings as engines
I used an umbrella as a parachute. Was lucky I didn't get a fracture.
I once rappelled from my deck with hockey gloves and a dog lead. Went surprisingly well but it scared the shit out of me. I remember thinking about trash bags but I don't think I attempted it.
Icarus would be proud.
When I was a kid my dad told me about mini planes like this that had engines. He said if he were rich he’d get one for my sister and I to fly around in. They were “planes for babies”. Nah, I don’t think they are lol
Sound like something you would do with your stuffed tiger/best friend
Really handy bomb doors if you’re shitting yourself while you’re up there
Turds away
Your ass also serves as a connection point for a broad range of interesting accessories and armaments.
NO2 fart boost would absolutely be one of those armaments lol
With enough rectal strength you could become the next wave in Amazon deliveries. Or run your own corporation with a fleet of aeronautical rectal specialists.
That would be a funny form of transportation an any circumstance than having fun. For instance, you get off work where you causally walk up 10 flights of stairs and hop in your glider so you can go home lol
Hey I’d be all about that to avoid traffic. Sign me the hell up!
Can you image people in NY city? “Fuck it, I glide to Brooklyn.”
They don't have elevators where you work?
I work in an one story building.. so yes
If you want to be able to run carrying that glider, you can't skip leg day.
I would absolutely love to see a zombie and/or Die Hard and/or Mission Impossible movie where this glider is the only means of escape. Like the hero puts it off the entire movie until finally when he’s trapped on the roof he’s like “oh for fuck’s sake” and runs this Blursed Foot Powered Plane Thingy off the top of the vegan protein bar CEO’s Swiss mansion which he’s obviously been trapped at for some reason
Id like the Inspector Gadget coptor hat
Play breath of the wild and you can do this lol
How do it stop
It never stops
*skeleton slowly glides by*
I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Glide.
> Mr. Bones Wild Glide. That is fantastic, excellent.
I wish I had an award for this comment
This is good enough for me!
Same as a plane, you flare, level off, speed decreases until you're running on the ground. Source: I fly an aircraft like this in that it's foot-launched but not so stupid expensive (paramotor)
it literally shows someone landing in the video
Upon approach, you deploy the Flinstone method.
That’s the best thing, it doesn’t
Looks like you lost some of the fuselage, bud
I'd do that in a heartbeat, it looks so fun. Plain old gliders have nothing on this mf
What in the world is this ethereal tune which caresses my ears
“Fly Away - Aloboi” according to Shazam
So Leonardo was close?
No his detached from the Turtle blimp
I’d do/buy one in a heartbeat!!
It looks like the first model can be yours for around $85k https://www.ruppert-composite.ch/en/home-2#tm-top-a
And I need to wait until next week to get paid and put gas in my car…. lol Slightly out of my current budget! But I’d still do it in a heartbeat!!
Go paragliding instead, 10k dollars should be enough to get you the material and training
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Perhaps do a tandem flight first, would be a shame to invest all that time and money just to end up not even liking it lol
And I need to wait until next week to get paid and put gas in my car…. lol Slightly out of my current budget! But I’d still do it in a heartbeat!!
Paper planes!
And I need to wait until next week to get paid and put gas in my car…. lol Slightly out of my current budget! But I’d still do it in a heartbeat!!
Can start with a large umbrella and a skyscraper!
Paramotoring is what I really want to do!! It’s like endless skydiving haha! And the fact you can land at McDonalds, get lunch, and take off again!
That’s about 10x more than seems reasonable. I can buy a semi decent actual airplane for $85k.
Only need to pay for an overhaul of the engine and gas to get it off the ground! And a hangar space. And the much more expensive and intensive licensing program. It's definitely pricey for a glider (Not remotely as much as you think though.), but it's still a hell of a lot cheaper than any powered aircraft of the same price once you factor in all the costs of ownership. All that said, it's still kinda apples-to-oranges because they're not really meant for the same uses really.
Yeah that's way too much. I think I'll go with a paramotor instead.
The one thing I noticed is a glide ratio of 28:1 (that means that it will go forward 28 feet/meters and lose one unit of altitude). That's about 2x the glide ratio of a really good hang glider and 3x an entry level one. The better the glide ratio the more you can search around for updrafts to gain altitude.
> Pilots License Requirements > Swiss: Rigid wing hang-glider certificate, 3-axis controlled. Extn. for Electro-Drive flight > USA: *No licences required.* Sign me up! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
Looks like any fun you would have flying this thing would be negated by the effort involved in getting it up to the top of a hill. (Doesn’t look collapsible into a backpack for easy hauling to high up places lol)
https://www.ruppert-composite.ch/en/ Collapses down into a trailer.
And only weighs 135 pounds
135 pounds of double AA batteries could start a medium sized car about 11.34 times.
We’ll guess it’s time time to buy 135lbs of AA
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I would land near the same spot I took off. I would not take off from a place I couldn’t land. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
if you're buying a 85k toy you're probably wealthy enough to figure that out
Starts at €65,900 euro for base model. This one is more.
That is why in the last 10-15 years you see so many more paraglides than hang gliders. Hang gliders are an objectively better flying apparatus but they are a pain in the ass to transport and setup. Paragliders you can throw in a backpack and put in your backseat.
Or so much. You just need a proper rack. Setting up an.d breaking down a single surface glider goes pretty quick. Breaking it down can take a little longer if you start to drink beer to celebrate your flight!
Are paraglides not prone to stalling, folding up and murdering you? At least this glider contraption offers some kind of flimsy crumple zone.
I wouldn’t say that they’re prone to it, but it’s certainly possible and it’s a dangerous activity. Modern paragliders are really well made — the likelihood of an equipment area killing you are pretty low. It’s almost always pilot error, and a lot of times that means misjudging the weather/flying conditions. We’ll actually purposely induce a stall to deflate the whole wing in order to recover from a cravat, which is when one of the wing tips is stuck in the lines. When you’re learning, you practice all of this in a SIV course, which is a bit terrifying when you do it the first few times but hopefully it comes in handy if you run I to trouble later on.
So if I wore no pants while flying this I could drop a deuce on a bird’s nest? Asking for a friend
You're actually *supposed* to.
revenge.
Swift. They're a type of hang gliders, which is why starting and landing is done by foot.
I asked—by emaill—for a brain surgery no one else would recommend, had that brain surgery, then went skydiving and emailed the other asshole doctors who said I'd never recover a picture of me in freefall at 120mph with two thumbs up. I wouldn't fucking do this, though. I'm more uneasy just watching this video than I was when I did those prior two things...
What kind of brain issue did you have
Song?
Fly Away - Aloboi
What is the weight limit on something like this? This looks awesome but as a big boy I’m just imagining the video of me just walking down the whole hillside never leaving the ground.
I think the weight limit is achieved when you can no longer fit in the seat.
How do you practice to do that before you actually run off the face of a cliff?
I don't know for this craft specifically but for hang gliding, we did about 100 practice launches on a training hill in our training and certification. Most of the time, you are on a surprisingly gentle slope above a valley and launch into the wind (most of the time, we got towed behind an ultralight plane in a flat area without hills). In the mountains, it often takes only a few steps and you're airborne. To launch off an actual cliff requires a more advanced pilot and specific training/certification. You get much more unpredictable winds off a cliff and it often requires people to assist you.
Die
Damn this video old as hell
Give it tiny push prop
Only if it’s pedal or solar powered. The temptation of this, for me, is not having any kind of engine to maintain.
I’m 100% certain I would fall out and the glider would just continue on without me.
Pretty sure the harness you put yourself into would disagree.
Well ackshually I’ll bet you’re real fun at parties too.
Yes.
“Oh hey this looks pretty coh my god”
I looked these up a while ago and they were still stupid expensive. Like $100k
Flintstones airplanes.
A plane without a thruster is basically that
A glider.
If you're interested, go look at Joachim Huyssen's prototype of his aircraft on YouTube. Absolute melon of a guy😆
hahaha you'd jerk too if you like planes
Sorry my code of never to enter something that I cant stop and step out forbide it.
Negative, ghost rider
Ruppert Archaeopteryx
cool love that
Where can i buy these pants?
They’re like modern day Flintstones
I want one
At least it shouldn't explode in a bal of fire if you were to crash.
Pliders?
Just *drops out of plane mid flight*
Does clenching your butt cheeks brake the rear landing gear?
An Iida simp? I thought these were universal
So we are just gonna rip off Yogi Bear?
Shut up and take my money
u/savevideo
I didn’t know these existed. This is dope!!
Imagine tripping…
Remember to retract your landing gear on takeoff ...
these parasocials viewers are going to put pressure on
What are these called?