In fact, on aerobatic gliders, similar G forces available and manoeuvres are much more rapid, just because of winglift

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actually soaring planes are pretty much unlockable for fox 2 and perhaps because of thier slow speed even really tough targets for fox 3 or fox 1 type of missiles. (Latter because todays radars are optimized to lock onto fast moving metallic objects

@@Messerjockel wow so if you fit a 30mm on a glider will it be able to fight a fighter jet

@@Yealo shooting it would put you in reverse xD

Same goes for *[insert hobby here],* camp/beer/sausage/campfire/smalltalk/book/club stuff... ...But flying beats them all. :-)

You don't need a glider to leave your wife and have a sausage party, it's 2021, gays are openly welcome. Just Google "Twinkies night-club" should be one in your area, Wednesdays are half off drinks.

@@zadraking bro you got the whole squad laughin😐😐😐

Energy management. Trading altitude for speed.. :)

Fighter jets?

@@thatguykaini Not even fighter jets, for me personally anyway.

Metal Machine Shop they are engineered better than any other airplane you will ever see!

Those sailplanes can take a higher G loading than a typical civilian airplane. Trust me.

Nimbus4

O_O

GET DOWN!

He’s not landing!

Yes, all about speed. And about the sailplane you're using. If you try to do that with an old one made of wood and "paper" (i don't know the exact worn in english), you won't regain much altitude than with a morden sailplane.

@@Defyuse666 the word is “fabric” :)

The unpowered version of a zoom climb, I suppose.

"they're" doing, and "their" gliders.

Jim Foreman what causes this, I would have thought it would have been the other way round?

All wings, fixed or rotating as in a helicopter or propeller, are made with a twist from the root to the tip, reducing the angle of attack toward the tip. It's called "wash out". Not only is this for better efficiency over a wide range of speeds but it causes separation of the airflow to begin at the fuselage and move toward the tip as the angle of attack increases or airspeed slows. As the nose is lowered to increase the speed, the angle of attack reduces to the point where there is a negative angle of attack at very high speeds creating negative lift at the tips, causing them to actually bend downward. It also involves Reynolds numbers and tip loss but it's the quick and dirty explanation above. Run the video again and you can see the downward flex in the wings toward the tips.

Naturally they will flex upward when one pulls up and applies more G force load on the wings. In flexing upward moves the center of lift toward the fuselage where the wings are stronger.

yeah, they're stressing the airframe too much with those high speeds.

Far more people die in car crashes every year, but it doesn't stop people from driving.

Its an common procedure thats how you cross the finish line during races and championships

Lack of energy management on that one - he was definitely not going very fast - he barely made it to the field.

Dan Yocum yes, plus the fact that he flew about 1.5 m height above a road that civilians literally just walked by

Robert B id the adult and child has stopped to look left at incoming aircraftthey could easily have been hit -great footage but massively dangerous in that case . The pilot must’ve checked for cables and fencing etc before flying those loops ?

YES! with solar panels!

The future is now, gliders with electric engines are now being produced. This is great for us because the current combustion ones are extremely unreliable, while the electric ones should be very reliable because of how simple they are. Only downside a the moment may be the range they have, but that will improve overtime. I’m gonna be shocked if by 2030 combustion engines on gliders will still be in production.

Give SpaceX a call

The extra weight is often wanted

@@theblobfish9614 Really? Why?

@@robertzeurunkl8401 you even see it in this video, in some of the videos they are draining water from the wings. They put the water in there to ballast up the plane, because the plane has a higher base speed when it gets heavier, but it also sinks faster. So when good thermal upwinds are expected they will ballast their planes so they can finish their tasks faster, because they can compensate for the higher sink ratio

@@robertzeurunkl8401 basically: heavier plane flies faster, which is wanted sometimes

Ну понял я , пассажир сходил на толчек и так несколько раз подряд.:)

Сравнение всегда сложно, дельтапланеризм был моим видом спорта, меньше техники и еще ближе к природе.

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Naw, nothing illegal about it!

Whaaaaaa???.? Their mainly for competitions

@@colt.45rc76 Competion. Yes. But I don't think you were watching competion finishes.

@@pilot3016 yeah some of them were but a lot were not. What do you fly?

@@colt.45rc76 Had a H-301 Libelle. Serial #10. May be looking for another ship soon but not in a soaring envirioment right now. (Ca./ Oregon border). Flew Minden Nevada, Truckee, Calistoga.

(INSERT TAIL NUMBER HERE) on final for a windsock inspection

nimbus 4. It has a wingspan of 26.5m

@@leanderf.4335 Totally amazing! Would be a dream to fly in one of those.

@@robertzeurunkl8401 yeah, for me too

With those wings It could probably lift off by standing at a strong headwind 😂

If you pedal hard enough on the rudder that'll keep it up.

@ LOL, when I was a kid I had a pulse rudder RC I built. It basically did just that, just constantly "peddling" the rudder full stop side to side, at maybe 3 Hz or so. When you input a rudder control it would "peddle" a shorter stroke to the opposite side, turning the plane. I never calculated it, but I expect even THAT amount of peddling did pretty much nothing to keep it airborne, probably even caused a goodly amount of induced drag, if I had to guess, and actually hurt the glide ratio. If I'd been thinking at the time, I could have done some glide tests with the rudder pegged center, and with it operating to see. Didn't though. Maybe better that way. ;-)

This is the "EP", a Schempp Hirth Nimbus 4 and ratio is roughly 60:1, top speed 290km/h. The Nimbus 4DM has an engine with roundabout 50HP, to maintain level with about 130 km/h I think. Regards from Germany

why are you upset? wtf

Mmmmmm....I love the smell of chemtrails in the morning! 🖖

Guys, this is watter balast in the wings... To make gliders heavier in longer cross-flying tours...

klemen .flo nah. It’s propellant for the jet powered gliders. You can hear the jet at full noise as it passes over. 🙀

@@DB-thats-me That sound is the wind Jesus.. Where the f**k do you have your brains??? Jet powered gliders havve jet fuel inside the cockpit... In the wings you have ONLY watter balast... Sorry but you clearly do not know ANYTHING about gliders!!!

thats the skill of editing

you can stabilize and track footage in a multitude of editing softwares

Dream Diction Why?

Maybe copyright?

Peter Brinck Good question

Because it's annoying, it ruins the sound of the video

Yes I would rather hear the sound of the glider cutting through the wind that some cheesy song.

I agree with the sentiment, though perhaps not the final description. While the big aviation world has been mandated into the world of safety management systems (SMS) - which includes gliding in the UK and Australia - the gliding world seems to regard itself as some sort of special outlier.

fingerhorn4 alright Debby Downer..

Non c’è il motore

That's right. The variometer provides audio too. Therefore you can concentrate on the other vital instruments (mainly speed, altimeter and turn and slip indicator).

Похоже у него тяга есть не от термиков, а от реактивных движков. Шум в кабине не соответствует. Летал я на планере в 70-х. И снаружи звук маленьких реактивчиков. Что-то тут не чисто...

@Eric Hamilton Suggest you look up the 500ft rule if you don't hold a gliding license... its there to protect members of the public like the 2 walking along the pavement....

@@paulroberts7482 I agree his approach was way too low but in this case he wasn't in violation of the 500ft rule because it doesn't apply if you're taking off or landing. (14CFR 91.119)

Flaps

Blue= airbreaks

your mom

180 KMH is max there

@@germanstorms2785 Ah, great- thanks.

@@kenwilliams3208 np

@@germanstorms2785 Many gliders have Vne (never exceed) up to 280 or 300km/h, they could be going that fast.

@@otsokivivuori7726 oh sorry for the missinfo your right here.

That´s just the sound of the airflow. It sounds like a jet though.

Air brakes

Flap setting most likely. Sailplane flaps can go negative for high speed flight.

Its probably the little lever 🤫

It looks like the flaps, he probably has them in the negative for the pass then switches them back. It could be airbrakes though.

Its the throttle

There is a noise when going fast

The maneuvering speed is between 180 and 270 km/h the top speed is usually around 280

aviation for live maneuvering speed 180? Lmao

LS6. Vne = 270kmh, 150kn. Ventus 3 = 280kmh and even a Ka-6 (1960’s wood and fabric) has a Vne of 200kmh!

In a word, unlikely. Things like airspeed from diving, ground effert, thermals, wind over terrain, etc can help recover lost height, but it's hard to reach the altitude of your initial launch. Not an experienced glider pilot either though. It's also relatively easy to keep a glider in the air as long as the weather cooperates.

Yes, they just need to find a thermal or some nice ridge lift.

FSX737Pilot X or use the speed they got from a dive

@@eamesaerospace2805 I fly a hang glider..... its officially a brick now in comparison..... OMG? How in the%$#@ can these things fly like that????

With a nice thermal it should be no problem. Regarding EMU EMPIRE, that's inaccurate. You can regain some altitude but altitude is always lost in a dive followed by a climb. You will need ridge lift, wave lift, or thermal lift to get you to the "same" altitude.

Yes it is.

You should at least give credit if not permission.