Soaring & Gliding Short Film "Another Day To Race"
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- čas přidán 10. 11. 2018
- www.radiocarbonart.com/ "Another Day To Race" shows you the ground action of a typical day at a national soaring championship racing event. Shot at the SSA Sports Class Regionals and 15 meter National Championships at Mifflin County Airport, Pennsylvania. Filmed & edited by Paul Naton of Radio Carbon Art productions.
The Sports Class allows gliders of all types and performance potential to race around a closed course. Using a performance handicapping system, finish times are corrected to numerically equalize the final scores of the different glider types. The fastest pilots who can outfly their handicap penalty score well. The 15 meter class is scored on flight time/speed around the course only, glider vs. glider.
On a typical race day, the gliders grid up on the runway, wait for the 'sniffer' planes to find adequate lift, then launch towards the start area with tow planes as fast as possible. Gliders climb in thermals and wait for the start gate to open to begin the long cross country course covering up to 300 miles or more in one flight. The object of the competition is to fly around the assigned waypoints as fast as possible using thermal, wave, and mountain lift to provide additional altitude gain. After completing the task turns, the planes head back to the home airport and through an imaginary finish line to get their finish time. Often the lift gets weak late in the day and land-outs at other airports or farmers fields are common.
You had me at the soaring bird - 0:08!
Another wonderful video of this beautiful sport Paul. Your successful efforts at bringing the beauty of flying a Sailplane to the public and even to each of us involved, make you a friend of the soaring community indeed!
That brings back some memories from my days of competing.
Gorgeous!
Another great video Paul and definitely one to add to the list to watch during the cold and miserable days of winter when we can't get to the hills to slope soar.
Nice video, and the best kind of flight. Thanks for show this.
Nice video, brings back great memories from the contest in 2012
Thanks for identifying the year of the contest!
very beautiful sport ! thanks for this video!
Cool video. And I enjoyed the Description, never knew how these things were done.
16.00. “Get off of my cloud” comes to mind.
GG is a Windward Performance DuckHawk 15m made in Oregon, USA. (might be first prototype as crew was working out bugs) Windward no longer makes these, low demand, I think 4 or 5 were built and are still flying. All pre-preg carbon, very light airframe.
Can only repeat what others are saying. Beautiful video and well matched music. I have long felt that modern competition gliders are a thing of absolute beauty. I would be interested in knowing the glide ratio of some of these machines.
The glide ratio of the gliders present range from 40 to 50 .
Was trying to get a ride for some air shots for this video but all the 2 place gliders were 'booked'. You can see soaring legend Karl Striedieck in a few of the shots got to fly some R/C with him on a rain day.
Paul, Awesome video, this is the best (out of the canopy) soaring video I've seen on CZcams!!!
You know your a glider pilot when you recognize everyone in the video by their contest numbers. Go team KS.
Also, GG and pilot Chip Garner won this 15m Nationals!
You mean came 2nd to Jerzy but was US Champion? ;)
Tom
Nice vid !
Low passes apparently not allowed in this competition ? Pity !
infinity upvotes.
The young need more exposure to what Soaring is all about. It's amazing. Music almost sounds like Tangerine Dream. (?)
I recently found out it's not as expensive to start as I thought it would be. I'll be doing my first flights next season for sure.
@@sinki19841984 Excellent. You will learn more about Weather, Aerodynamics, Meteorology, Stick & Rudder flying, Decision making, and a bunch about yourself in Soaring. I have both single engine and glider ratings so you can trust me on this. It's a absolutely marvelous sport.
Too bad you didn't show us footage from above.
Beautiful video! Cringeworthy landing at 17:23
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Which glider is GG?
Duck Hawk
Hi! What's the little grey ball on the towing lines for? We don't use that at our club... ??
Enid Durt it protects the rope where it is wrapped around the tow ring from abrasion. The ball drags on the ground, instead of the rope where it goes around the ring.
more or less a take off compilation than a short film.. misleading title