Setting the First World Altitude Record in an Electric Paramotor.

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6 ай бұрын

First of all I just want to thank everyone that helped make this possible. For if it wasnt for all the amazing help and people taking the time to make this happen, this would of never been a reality. So thank you.
#paramotor #worldrecord #aviation
If you want to learn to fly a paramotor, check out Daniel West great flying program.
copoweredparagliding.com/

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@WinstonFord 6 ай бұрын

Nice work! Props to the OpenPPG bros and team for developing the SP140!

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

We agree!

@the13thson35 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for making this Nathan. This is great!

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@10661956 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful video! Thanks! In the summer of 2022 I made a bunch of flights from the Harriet Alexander Airport in Salida (elev. 7523') at the south end of the valley. The air is so thin in the summer. On one flight the air density was over 11,000'. It took full power in Sport Mode on my SP140 with my single skin 26M Independence Grasshopper to get off of the ground. Oh yes, all of my flights were before 10AM because of the unpredictable wind conditions after 10AM. The Arkansas River Valley is so beautiful, but you have to be very aware of and familiar with your environment in order to safely fly there. My flights were SO worth it!! Bill

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

That sounds like a very cool flight!

@pablopyro 6 ай бұрын

That is SO awesome!! Congrats on the amazing achievement!!

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

thanks buddy!

@NavidSaleki 6 ай бұрын

well done! Congratulations to you and the Team! Dreams comes true!

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

Thank you sir

@grigoriospapaioannou5461 5 ай бұрын

Great achievement. Brave man 👏👏Thanks for the video. I’m ordering the SP140 for myself. Cheers.

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Good choice!

@ricardo2bo 5 ай бұрын

Such an exciting video! Thanks for sharing! I've enjoyed it more than watching "Mission Imposible"!

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@georgehine5126 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video Nate!! Hope to see you at Devils Tower again!!

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

For sure!!

@candidoalcantara6718 5 ай бұрын

thanks for what you say at the end of the video it realy make me feel like go make my dream come true, I will fly a paramotor soon.

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely friend 💯

@SpikeArrowood 6 ай бұрын

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 You are an "Astronaut" now🎉🎉🎉🎉

@ooglek 5 ай бұрын

5:25 "Climbout was smooth" gets thrashed left and right. 🤣 Nice job on this! Congrats! Let's keep pushing for improved battery density! You definitely are getting thrashed around on your way up. Always nerve-wracking! Battery-powered gloves are totally worth it, even when the air is above freezing!

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

I could absolutely use some heated gloves then 😂😂

@hippylong 3 ай бұрын

Good stuff !

@SirDrifto 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the visit

@vliegbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Very nice

@michaelollom9964 6 ай бұрын

that is phenomenal... would have said not possible before this

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Hopefully we can really push the envelope the next try.

@Para_Ninja 6 ай бұрын

Ah man the turbulence looks rough.. non PPG pilots don't understand how much the Gopros stabilize the footage so if it looks rough in the video then in reality you were bouncing everywhere. We have bought Sabotheat elec gloves for winter flying and if you get a size slightly too large then it adds a bit of dexterity to the finger tips for toggle control. It helps to wear them a lot in normal life to stretch out and add flexibility to the material. Ive also added Hot Hands to the palms of my gloves and arches of my feet if it gets really cold. Anyway great video 👍

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

Oh man those gloves sound wonderful! Thanks for the info!

@pentachronic 2 ай бұрын

Awesome. Would a summer attempt get you higher due to being able to use the thermals ? Just curious. Maybe it gets too thermic in the summer ?

@SirDrifto 2 ай бұрын

We are thinking it sure will and the overall temps won't be near as bad

@woodystarkey2329 4 ай бұрын

Twisted wind woody here lol. No the other woody keeping it real the American way loved it god bless ya yee haaaaa

@lobbyrobby 5 ай бұрын

My son and I did a tandem flight with that Daniel guy. I bet it was that trike as this was in June of 23.

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Daniel is a wonderful guy. Great instructor too

@Superkuh2 5 ай бұрын

21:31 good dog.

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

He’s a happy pup

@sr71afan 5 ай бұрын

Music drowns out your narrative in portions of video, but congrats on your flight and record.

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Music has been removed now. Might be better thanks for watching

@sr71afan 5 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks for that! Didn't mean for you to go to all that trouble! @@SirDrifto

@MrLibertyman777 6 ай бұрын

Outstanding!!

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching!

@DavincisMind 5 ай бұрын

I climbed several times back in times over 12,000 MSL and once I went up to 14,300 MSL. All done from altitude of 430 ish. My experience is I would never try again without electric heated gloves. You should try them :-) Otherwise congratulations to your achievement.

@chrisultrabeatuk 5 ай бұрын

Should of got Chucky to pilot it in shorts

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

What a sight 😂😂

@cloudpandarism2627 6 ай бұрын

hold on... you climbed 15k feet? 😮 or the altitude there is already high and then you flew up to 15k over sea level?

@Ivanskrakow 6 ай бұрын

Leadville is at 10k ? i think

@cloudpandarism2627 6 ай бұрын

@@Ivanskrakow so he climbed 1400ish meters. ok that makes more sense now. thanks alot mate

@Ivanskrakow 6 ай бұрын

Electric gloves?

@SirDrifto 6 ай бұрын

I did have a pair, but they were very bulky and im not used to them, so i used my thinner gloves.

@pentachronic 2 ай бұрын

@@SirDrifto Wrap your hands in mylar space-blanket material ? Or make a pair of inner liners with mylar sandwiched in between ?

@AirChairAviation 5 ай бұрын

Not trying to be a downer, but they launched from an asl altitude of 10,000 feet so not that impressive, if you did it from sea level id be impressed. Hopefully someday they will come that far. Still really cool tho, keep up the innovation

@SirDrifto 5 ай бұрын

Yes, however absolute altitude was our objective. I live at 7000ft msl, our objective was to simply see how it would perform in harsh temps and at high altitude. The X15 theoretically could of been designed to take off from the ground, but instead they dropped it from a wing of a B52 at 40k feet. Similar mentality with this attempt, we knew the battery duration would be very short, so starting at sea level, would of never got any real altitude results. I wanted to see if any power loss through prop efficiency was lost at 15k or greater. With a bigger wing, we are estimating 21K + in the right conditions. Which then, would be an impressive altitude gap. Once again this was just a test.

@pentachronic 2 ай бұрын

@@SirDrifto Is the battery heated ?

@SirDrifto 2 ай бұрын

@@pentachronic unfortunately is not

@adamfacey5555 5 ай бұрын

I own a Tesla and fly rc planes, but what happens if you do in the worst case, have a fire that high up? You WILL perish in the worst possible way…. Either you burn before you fall to death or you burn then fall. Or you wing burns and you drop to deaths.

@TheChrisBreyShow 4 ай бұрын

I was concerned about this too! But… a full spiral should keep the flames behind you in theory ( in my head )

@mountainadventures7346 3 ай бұрын

What if your gasoline paramotor catches fire?🤷‍♂️

@nicholasthon973 3 ай бұрын

Same if you had a gas engine light up.

@swecreations 2 ай бұрын

That's more likely to happen in a gasoline paramotor though.