Glider dropped from helicopter - with FPV drone views

Glider dropped from helicopter - with FPV drone views | Antidotum Airshow 2024

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Ай бұрын

8 time British national glider aerobatic champion Guy Westgate is dropped from a helicopter at Antidotum Airshow Leszno 2024.
This display, four years in the making, saw Guy aerotowed into the air in an SZD-59 Acro by a Bo105 helicopter. He then performed the world's first public demonstration on a roll on aerotow behind a helicopter, before the helicopter entered the hover at 1000ft and released him into a solo aerobatic display.
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@7Lance1 Ай бұрын

I think the drone operator deserves a bit of a mention here. Brilliant flying skills all round!

@Lyvtix Ай бұрын

Very true, flying a drone is harder than it seems!

@Drone_Rabbit 14 күн бұрын

@@Lyvtix especially around helicopter and glider... yes, the drone pilot has amazing skills :)

@Truthtellor-vh4ke 18 сағат бұрын

drone = It's not a real hobby it's just getting caught up in all types of high tech gadgets And after a couple of years it's over..... It's just kind of a laughing in the face of boomers and their fixed wing aircraft like a rebellion But they're just hurting themselves Because anything with a motor is boring When it comes to RC

@RCCopterLove Ай бұрын

If I would not have seen this in your video I would have never believed that this is possible! Unbelievable skils displayed by the glider pilot Guy Westgate but as well by the pilot of the BO 105. These multiple rolls in dirty air towed by an helicopter made me speechless. But when I saw the heli hovering and the glider "hanging" in vertical position under the heli I was shocked. These two guys do not only have alien like skills, they have balls of steel! So much could have gone awfully wrong already in the first stage of towing the glider at the takeoff and later.... Great video! Thank you!!

@choppergirl Ай бұрын

Why, none of this is actually particularly remarkable? If you fly aerobatics in RC quadcopters like me, you're in dirty air all the time and hanging upside down, right side up, inside out, you could care less after about 5,000 hours in the sim.

@OregonCrow Ай бұрын

What makes it impossible? its being towed/carried.

@RCCopterLove Ай бұрын

@@OregonCrow You surely know that there is a difference between helicopters and planes?

@mattbellina5485 Ай бұрын

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???!!!!!!!

@lnewton3677 Ай бұрын

Bonkers .. look at the slack and whip in that tow line.. not gonna make old bones

@lawrencemartin1113 Ай бұрын

The most amazing airshow act I have ever seen! Incredible. 😮

@marychamery Ай бұрын

i to w Polsce ❤❤

@petewatts30 Ай бұрын

Wow this might be the most dangerous and coolest thing I've ever seen

@ChevTecGroup Ай бұрын

I just kept imagining the glider pilot going too high and taking the cable into the tail rotor

@christianmeynard4952 Ай бұрын

Yes, expensive and dangerous ! 🙃🥴🤪

@lorenz9314 Ай бұрын

@@ChevTecGroup I doubt it can go any higher than it's original altitude at drop time. That is, if he doesn't deliberately fly into a thermal of course...

@JuergenW. Ай бұрын

Wow! I've never seen such an amazing thing before! Thank You very much... 🙂

@noooby100 Ай бұрын

Glider drop from hovering helicopter first done in New Zealand in 1994. Hughes 500 towing Bruce Drake in an ASW-24.

@lautoka63 Ай бұрын

I remember seeing it.

@allan8490 Ай бұрын

Was at Warbirds over Wanaka, saw this also and got the pic's

@oterosocram25 Ай бұрын

Unbelievable. Yaw opened throughout the video, what an amazing skill for both the glider pilot and the helicopter as well.

@krunalraghavani4500 Ай бұрын

Yesh

@RCnerd74 Ай бұрын

This is usually performed with rc planes. Sick stuff to see it on full scale😍😍😍

@SundayIdajili Ай бұрын

Amazing skills!!! Impressive drone flight, too!

@gerrittenberkdeboer7763 Ай бұрын

Grossartige fliegerische Leistung. Absoluter Respekt.

@user-qn5cd6pl1j Ай бұрын

Удивительная программа! Имею опыт полётов на вертолётах и планерах, но создать такое совмесное шоу, это шедевр!!!

@itellzzz Ай бұрын

Guy pushing the limits further and further. 😊

@paulkrapp Ай бұрын

Nice drone flying!

@3MinutesofAviation Ай бұрын

Stunning stuff! May I feature this a part of this in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. All the best to you!

@mythologicalmyth Ай бұрын

So awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@AirJoe Ай бұрын

As a glider pilot I couldn't imagine flying that. Absolute mad lad.

@mileshigh1321 Ай бұрын

Very cool!

@OrenWasser Ай бұрын

That was insanely intense!! So many factors to take in account. You've just invented another tow method

@calebrcook Ай бұрын

Truly phenomenal

@mikevermey Ай бұрын

It may be an optical illusion, but that last loop seemed a bit beyond the safety limits... Maybe another 10 meters of separation between the ground and the end of that loop... wasn't such a good idea in my opinion.

@Cmunic8 Ай бұрын

Good job, you found something to criticize 👍

@fly2724 Ай бұрын

I also worried if that was a lucky moment. Seems below the tree-line but can’t be sure

@stephenjohnbetts1058 Ай бұрын

Amazing

@bobcannell7603 Ай бұрын

I've driven a steam train into Lezno (from Wolzstyn) and out again but never actually walked out of the station! So haven't seen the glider gate guardian for the station!

@ironfistgaming8945 Ай бұрын

wow! that was good!!

@dr00minFPV Ай бұрын

Love the FPV

@airplanemodeon85 Ай бұрын

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@NerijusJurgelaitis Ай бұрын

crazy and wonderfull . I wonder what drone was used to capture this .

@rogeriolopes6297 Ай бұрын

Excellent pilots!

@ModelTrainsTV Ай бұрын

Wow!

@georgemetaxas9227 Ай бұрын

I think the first part of the tow is the most dangerous, where the heli is moving close to the ground at a high tilt angle, so the skid could be caught on anything. Then, staying behind and below a heli may put the glider in a severe turbulent airstream.

@shield-u8f Ай бұрын

See you at 3 million views...

@vdjKryptosRock Ай бұрын

Read “glitter” at first and was gonna rant lol

@theschmonkiboy Ай бұрын

ok, this is crazy

@FunkMasterJunk Ай бұрын

That was un-real! Crazy! What a stunt!

@janulation6115 Ай бұрын

Glider pilot from Germany here and I might be wrong, but as far as my flight training goes that was unnecissarily dangerous: - The roll in during the tow was (A) much too low, (B) flown uncleanly and (C) seems to have put lots of stress on the ropes and the helicopter. - The release in 1000ft was way too low, the loopings were too - In Germany, the minimum height for aerobatics is 1.500ft (for a reason) - The curve into final was very low and steep. Let me know what you think :)

@soleenzo893 Ай бұрын

Glider pilot here too. I must say on one hand yes, many of the maneuvers they did seemed unnecessarily dangerous. However, this is aerobatics, and countries have varying degrees of safety rules for aerobatics. Like for all aerobatics, the safest way to perform them is at high altitude, however, the point is to put on a show, therfore a line has to be drawn somewhere between safety and offering an amazing show.In this case it seems the show quality weighed higher in the balance than pure safety. I think it's okay for highly trained and competent pilots to be allowed to do such risky endeavours in the name of art or performance. Yes there is a reason people doing aerobatics are limited in minimumaltitude, but i think we can cut some slack for pilots who know full well the risks but want to put on an amazing show. It looked awesome and if they die, they Die, it's their decision to do it this way, if they're comfortable with it and won't endager others thats fine.

@FarmerFpv Ай бұрын

The pilot is a national champion. Way above your skills and pay grade. These people are professionals. Amature pilots should never try this. It's not dangerous if you know what you are doing. Just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean it's dangerous. It's also an air show. Not one time was anything out of control. They were both in control and in harmony. This is why he is a professional who has many awards and you are not. If it was easy and no element of danger nobody would watch it or be impressed. That is the point of airshows. They take calculated risks. These are not the run-of-the-mill pilots. They are at the top of their profession. YOu can relax now.

@kaasmeester5903 Ай бұрын

@@soleenzo893 True, there are norms for aerobatics, but they can be lifted in case of air shows. Some years ago we had pilots doing all manner of crazy stuff right over the river downtown, for the Red Bull air races. In such cases, the event organizers, pilots and regulators will do additional risk assessment.

@PAUL-yv2kk Ай бұрын

@FarmerFpv What a pious and condescending tone to legitimate comment of others. Don't be a smar tass, nobody likes a smar tass

@Paul_Harper Ай бұрын

I guess it's lucky that a competent pilot was driving, not you then?

@monostripezebras Ай бұрын

This soo cool.. and soo impractical

@rickporayko880 Ай бұрын

Funny how so many of the coolest things in life are also some of the most impractical things as well…

@donnakano3697 Ай бұрын

Really made me miss sailplanes.

@iamfrommars2000 Ай бұрын

BO 105 one of the most agile Helicopter ever built

@snowcycle7 Ай бұрын

Orville and Wilbur would be proud

@TheCoolStuffHD Ай бұрын

That's gotta be weird with all of that prop wash.

@pawelsawicki_lm Ай бұрын

I sow this kind of thing first time in 1986 on airshow Świdnik

@kiereluurs1243 Ай бұрын

Phew! Recover from a tailslide at 330 metres?!

@Aw4yed 29 күн бұрын

the moment is has been dropped 😮

@christr339 Ай бұрын

Spectacular - not only because performed relatively low above ground.

@madmushroom8639 Ай бұрын

Msfs 2024 looks awesome ;P

@selidelis Ай бұрын

Sehr mutig - geradezu tollkühn - besonders in der "Altitude".

@BMJAUDI 28 күн бұрын

He was wearing a parachute😂

@tydra74 Ай бұрын

that landing...

@stefanastley Ай бұрын

Not a new adventure, but a unique variation on it! 10 years ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mMiioLKkmZ7Yfnk.html

@tapandutta115 Ай бұрын

He should do Soaring .

@SevenRavens007 Ай бұрын

Why is the glider not flipped by rotor wash?

@rossnolan7283 Ай бұрын

Gliders were aerotow retrieved in Argentina world championship by helicopters .

@rotor_1976 Ай бұрын

Боингом ещё надо попробовать планера таскать...

@SevenRavens007 Ай бұрын

Why?

@HakanSjo Ай бұрын

Why….?

@DumbledoreMcCracken Ай бұрын

Terrifying

@gavsafety Ай бұрын

Теперь можно прицепить планер к Миг29 и показать супер класс на скорости 2МаХ

@Vico649 Ай бұрын

Nice spin recovery by glider pilot.😅

@oldtimer2192 Ай бұрын

It was an intentional roll after gaining appropriate airspeed!

@morgan1719 Ай бұрын

Did not get pilot's point of view. Missed opportunity.

@user-oj4xh8cg2l Ай бұрын

will the glider end up in the rotor blade, seriously ? ...

@FarmerFpv Ай бұрын

I can do this no problem. "Hold my beer!"

@kiereluurs1243 Ай бұрын

🥱 Why don't you bring your beer along?

@peppi0304 Ай бұрын

This feels so illegal

@foxtrottone Ай бұрын

whhhhhhhhhooooooo.... 🙂

@AcroAirwolf Ай бұрын

Cool, I´ve many flights in the SZD-59, but was never towed ba a Bo-105. Beginning with a tailslide after releasing the cable would be funny. 🙂

@kiereluurs1243 Ай бұрын

Yeah, 'funny'. 'Cool'.

@AcroAirwolf Ай бұрын

@@kiereluurs1243 It hangs about 10° inverted below the Bo-105 and immediatly rotates. There is no risk that it falls a few 100 m as when you pull up exactly vertical without beeing towed by a helicopter.

@gabelifferth5411 Ай бұрын

I wonder how close a freestyle quad can fly over the top of a full scale helicopter before it gets sucked into the main rotor. Mis-calculating that can be deadly.

@parker73724 22 күн бұрын

After a certain point you're just making things dangerous for the sake of making them dangerous 😂

@OregonCrow Ай бұрын

@pietroseven8228 Ай бұрын

Very common show in 60ties in previous century Mi-4 vs Lf-107 Luňák, nothing special!

@steffanjansenvanvuuren3257 Ай бұрын

Unnecessary risk...

@DNModels Ай бұрын

Surreal. But way too dangerous.

@Reallynotmuselk Ай бұрын

Method of towing a glider via a helicopter has been used by SZB (Szybowcowe Zakłady Dośiadczalne )on daily basis back in the days in Poland even in the place where the event took place as many gliders were made every day and it allowed for quick "deployment" of the glider at a desirable hight for base testing although not used anymore due to well safety regulations and stuff they were able to pull the stunt off thanks to long months of paper work their equipment days of training and skills ofcourse

@AcroAirwolf Ай бұрын

Why?