Tsunami Hang Glider
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Published 2015-04-07
All Comments (21)
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I was a pole vaulter in the 70s - my vaulter friends and I made hang gliders out of old fiberglass vaulting poles covered with a pretty thick MIL plastic. We used duct tape to attach the plastic to the frame. We used a foam ski belt as a harness. I swear this isn't a joke. We flew at a few ski resorts during the months they were closed down for skiing. We also flew at large sand dunes in Kitty Hawk, NC. We were young and stupid, what can I say . . .
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I like the newer designs, as they appear to have no king pin; much cleaner aerodynamics. When I started hang gliding in '77, there were no double-surface sails and the only battens were to help stiffen the sail, not create an airfoil. Heck, we were just out of the Stone Age of regallo wing gliders w/ 15 degrees of billow and glide ratios in the single digit range. To put that into perspective, the Space Shuttle has a glide ratio of 4.5:1 - which is really poor. I remember how impressed I was with my Cirrrus 5 and its 1 to 2 degrees of billow and an 8:1 glide ratio. There are hang gliders out today that sport 15:1 and 20:1 glide ratios. To think what I was able to do in such a relatively primitive glider - 8 1/2 hr sustained flight, a PB of 12,500ft altitude and enough flight hours to warrant a commercial pilot's rating twice over - makes me wish I could still fly. Be still, my heart. lol
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Awesome! Beautiful view coming around.
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What a beautiful sport! I would never want to come down 😊
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FABULEUX !! Superbes images et photos, le pilote fait des décollages/atterrissages tellement parfaits. Merci pour le partage.
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Loved my Tsunami wing :-) freaking awesome and so easy to live with - great memories
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Best hang glider YouTube I've seen so far.
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The first part all at Devil's Dyke. I flew a lot there on my old Airwave K2 back around the 2000's. Probably my favourite spot to fly in England 👍
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Nice ! That is a real hang gliding - Ideal spot for my Fledge ;-)
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Standing there before you launch. You guys remind me of grasshoppers when you are out of the sleeping bag thingie.
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1:26 Avoiding jellyfish traffic with a better sink rate.
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Very nice. It looks challenging with all that air traffic.
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i believe in the next 20 years we will have hang gliders that have motors where the propeller fits back into the leading edge of the wing or something, and the wing covering material is made of solar panels, and the wing ribs are where the batteries are located :) will make for very long flights. maybe all day on a good sunny day with thermals
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Looks so fun to fly, love it.. yeahhh
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That looks so nice to glide like that.
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Rad glider ! Nice video man !
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this is so beautiful
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Looks like so much fun!!!
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Not the White Cliffs of Dover - this is the Seven Sisters in the County of Sussex on the south coast of England. The fliers are utilising the north scarp of the The South Downs. We also see Belle Tout Lighthouse and Eastbourne . . .
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Makes me brain happy!