I own a relatively high performance sport airplane and fly often. I’ve experienced many other adrenaline activities during my 60 years, but nothing is as exciting, fulfilling and satisfying as hang gliding 17,000 feet over Arizona USA in thermals or landing 76 miles (or more) from where you launched. Thank you for posting this excellent mini-documentary. And we love Zelda for her spirit and attitude.
Do you have an emergency parachute on your hang glider flights? I lived up the street from the Wills Brothers in the 60/70’s, as a 7 year old going to grade school with the youngest brother Kirk .. I was inspired by them to build my own hang glider out of my Indian Guides Teepee .. bamboo and surplus nylon parachute material, by the time I turned 8 I finished it and took flight off the ice plant hill in my back yard .. didn’t go very far and gave up. Fifty seven years latter now I’m thinking about doing it right, any advice? My wife thinks I’m kidding but I’m actually seriously thinking about it. Thanks and congrats on your awesome flights! Chris
@@chrisstrobel3439 Yes when I flew hang gliders, we all carried a backup parachute. But I think you may want to post this question about getting started, at the top of the comments section. I only fly a powered airplane these days. But Wills Wing was my choice of glider back then. And they seem to still be at the top of the pack. It’s so cool to me that you lived close to their shop and went to school with Kirk.
I got my license 2 years back, Covid has been a hindrance. But I live for flying hang-gliders now, I get tense if I haven't flown in the last two weeks, I am 57 years old and This is like being a teenager again. It's LIFE, the experience thousand of generations have dreamed of, I am living... I live in Australia, I have flown with and been attacked by wedge tailed eagles with a wingspan 2.3 m. I have caught thermals up to 6,000 feet. I have had several 3 hour flights, I am a beginner!!! I have seen the ocean from my home town 150km form the coast. I... Live... for... this... Otto Lilienthal Was the first person to really fly, the Wright Brothers missed the point, the engine kills flight. I have my general aviation pilots license, I have flown in balloons, I have studied Aeronautical Engineering... Stuff all that, hang-gliding is flying... You feel the air, you see it in your mind, you get it wrong, it surprises you, You adjust, feel it, fly it stay up for hours... YOU GET SCARED!!! You are a speck of dust in a in a wind storm. Nobody sees you. You are alone using your knowledge, your experience to survive and to fly... The next morning your alarm goes, you go to work, nothing has changed... BUT YOU KNOW, you have lived.
@@dylanjones1834 I got taught by Rohan Holtkamp - Dynamic Flight, in Victoria this involved 28 car tow launches and a great bunch of people. Most Canberra folk go to Tony Barton air sports in Newcastle. I've done a thermal course with him, also a good person. Good Luck, Blue.
I remember reading the Readers Digest article in ‘73. I was 17. My older brother and I bought a new glider called the Chandell in Holland, MI. We must have been some of the first to fly the Lake Michigan dunes. It was the biggest rush I ever had 😅
1972 I saw a hang glider on a man's lawn on my way home from work in San Jose Ca. The next day I met Herman Rice the owner and builder of the standard Bagollo design. I told him I wanted him to make one for me out of sky blue with a large white outline of a seagull. At the time there was a book about "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". My name is Jonathan and that was the reason for the gull on the wing. I took my first lesson on the beach near Santa Cruz a few weeks later. I was directed to just gun off the 30 foot sand cliff and fly straight toward the surf. I decided to see I could bank off the wind just to make a longer flight and landed facing the wind and a soft touchdown. I WAS SMITTEN.
I'm glad to find this on youtube . Thank you for posting it for all to see. I was telling an RC plane hobbyist I met about my hang gliding adventures and I mentioned this movie to him . He watches a lot of flying related videos on youtube. I have the DVD of your movie and was going to loan it to him next week but I decided to see if it was here first. I think you produced a movie that takes a unique perspective on the earliest days of flying and it's subsequent development of the sport of hang gliding which is almost totally overlooked by the average person. Almost everyone I know who is interested in flying at all never considers hang gliding or any other sort of unpowered flight as very relevant or interesting. I hope far more people will see this movie now .
Thanks, JD. Glad you enjoy the film. Considering Yeager described hang gliding as the purest form of flight he'd ever tried, that should be enough endorsement for anyone.
@@JCriss 🎯 I bet so, and always loved the idea. I learned to fly in an ultralight. Stall speed was @ 18 kts., I could put that thing down almost anywhere I had @ 150 ft. That's what made it so fun, the safety of it, almost limitless landing areas. I plan to start hanglider lessons asap. Thanks for posting this !
I flew hang gliders and ultralights from 1075 to 1985. It was the most enjoyable hobby I ever had. I was never hurt, and had many, many marvelous experiences. I'd like to hook in, pick up, and step off of a cliff in a hang glider to this day. It never gets out of your blood, once you are hooked.
Excellent movie! This is the most detailed history of hang gliding that I know! Thank you for this great work! And... Now I know when the pilot of hang glider was fined for the first time.)))
I enjoyed hang gliding in Southern California for ten years in late 80s to late 90s. I was a student of Rob and Di MacKenzie and was a part of a wonderful society in the San Bernadino mountains. I remember those "Airhead" illustrations from the Hang gliding magazine very well. I finally flew Owens Valley a few times, best flight was 120 miles long reaching 17,300' altitude and took six to seven hours. In those days a high performance glider was rather stiff in roll and VG and messed with my elbow- and shoulder- joints. The WW Ram Air was a pig, even in loose VG, and I never dared to scratch close with that glider but in tight VG it was a rocket on tracks. My two favorite gliders of the time were my Seedwings Sensor 510B Full Race and my Wills Wing HP-AT158. I could flat turn the Sensor fully pushed out in a thermal and go up up up, the only problem was timing the flare on landing to its yaw tendency. The HP-AT158 was just an all together forgiving and great handling glider. I would gladly resume this activity if it weren't for the fact that I know that the limitations of my local flying place here would bore me after 15 minutes. Now I get my kicks SCUBA diving and introducing people to the aquatic world.
@mofayer No, my Birthday is beginning of July. Do you think we may have flown together? I had a white Seedwings Sensor and a red/white WW HP- AT158 and at the end a WW RAMAIR 154.
Wow, thanks for this! Flew in the 90's and taught by one of the 70's adventurers, him explaining 'turbulence' scaring everyone back then, while we're later laughing after rocketing up mountain faces 1000+ fpm or flying Sierra wave and struggling down from 10K+ only to land in the LZ in the dark lighted by headlights from other pilots. Magic times.
I loved this documentary. A great history of the engineering, bravery, knowledge, trial and error and excitement that brought hang gliding to the point that it was in 2003. The story of the author and Zelda was also familiar as I have been learning to fly off of Lookout Mountain, GA and the hills of Lookout Mountain flight park. I can't wait to try soaring and catching thermals. It's all just so beautiful.
Love it! Had exactly the same feeling during my first thermal flight. As I became relaxed after 40min in a single thermal I realized the altitude and there was only the speedbar in front of me. Nothing else. Amazing!
Nice doc on a beautiful sport. Had the good fortune to do this out at Crestline for some time with my WW167 Sport. Incredible time that will stay with me forever. It truly is the purest form of flight that a human can experience. “Throbba” 1985-1988
Recall me my Delta wing schhool in 82. Owsom video. I can see my life displaing in these immages. My mind lights on my first red white and blue SPIRIT 180 sq foot single surface wing. Feeling of absolute freedom on my first long dynamic flight and then on my 2 hours cliff flight. Thank you dearly. Bless
I saw reports about the regallo wing and me and friends built a bamboo duct tape and plastic wing and flew it off the bluffs at Huntington Beach circa 1973.
Missing from the pioneers is the late Donnell Hewett, a physics professor at UofTexas at Kingsville. Over a period of several years, he devised the Center of Mass towing where the tow harness is attached to both the glider's and pilot's Center of Mass as seen in the scooter tow and aerotow portions of the (most excellent) video. Prior to that, the towline was attached to the control bar (see Moyes and Bennett flying the early gliders).
Congratulations on this film that is very well documented on the history and background of hang gliding. But most of all, because you very vividly describe de essence of freedom one gets when flying. I also commend your thought on the carabiner, the cables and all what holds the aircraft together. When flying, I thought of myself as superman (to fly by my own means) but also as an ant (taken away on a leaf that is carried by gust of wind). An experience worth to live.
55:39 Telluride Colorado circa 1988. The (well known) pilot's new pod harness had the leg zipper jam closed, not letting him get his feet out. I was there. ☺
I took a tandem flight back in the early 2000s, at a place called Wallaby Ranch in central Florida. Ever since then I have wanted to get my Hang ratings. Unfortunately, there is not a single training facility anywhere near me, and being a professional pilot, my days off are limited.
Fantastic video! I fly Mosquito NRG powered harness with my WW Falcon 195. Some good flights on my CZcams Channel and some not so good ones too. Started on Scooter Tow just like this... This video was VERY WELL DONE!
Regarding age 40:00. I convinced my mom age 59 for a tandem paragliding flight. And she said it was one of the best things to happen in life. And now she is hooked :) My message is - age is just a number, if you want it go and get it. Yeah and try to stay moderately fit
awwww i feel bad for Zelda she was so happy she flew "/ hope she is better now. this is a beautiful and amazingly informative, promotional documentary, or is it a film, youtube video. I had named my brothers cat Zelda When we used to live together and i think it must be very cool to be named after her. thank you crap i forgot your name :)
I had seen this doc back in 2008 and I've been searching for it since seeing it then. I've always dreamed of hang gliding and would love to do it but I'm not sure if our Oklahoma winds allow for gliding. I'll be looking into it for sure 🤠
The triangle control frame existed in hang gliders in first two decades of the 1900s. Any later attempt at patenting such would rehearse something that could not be rightly defended.
Excellent film, very well researched, informative and extremely well presented. Was hoping to find more videos of the same, so wondered did you stop flying or decide to give it up? Either way it was worth scrolling through your other videos if not just to see you play moonlight sonata..both videos really made my day! Excellent
I think every Pilot has Milestones. (I learned in the SF area). First Altitude (>100'), First Gain at Takeoff, First Soar. First work a thermal (successfully). And my all time one: Going for a 5Mi sled ride (first flight after recovering from a busted elbow) and ending 3K ATO, then arriving at the LZ with 7K.
Off Topic but watching “leaving DC” for the 300th time- Planning on doing a screening of this on the side of my parents house in Massachusetts :) would love to talk to you and do a Q and A
Hi Kelly. If you have watched that movie 300 times you deserve some kind of award. Please contact me on FB as I can't figure out how to contact you privately here.
50 cc is an average moped if I’m not mistaken... COOL! That should be less than 3 hp... BTW I’m an instrument rated commercially licensed pilot... Nice!
I don't personally fly but I would recommend some experience with kites and RC gliders / slope soaring. Should give you a much better feel for what to expect from wind and flight.
Not a fan of heights but this this was a fantastic documentary. Still trying to find Leaving DC but it doesn’t to be available anywhere also. Although I’m sure I probably won’t sleep after watching it! Keep up the great work. Since you live in West Virginia. It would be cool to see a docu on mining or moonshine.
Ok. Opening quote. Sucked. What? Many don't care. But I agree, put on a show for those who do. Just don't assume everyone cares. Do it for you, enjoy when someone else enjoys it. Other than that, well, yes. Overproduction aside, this is a great video about flying. It captures it well.
And now .. no Talon can be found at any hg site. They were widely disliked. Fusions still around here and there as they were great thermal gliders. I still fly harriers once in a while. They’re Awsome for floating and thermals
@@Vl7248 found a brand new custom Talon 154 last year in Texas, it's here now, flown it once, plan on wearing it out asap. I won more money in aero contests on the Talon 154 than any other glider. Rescued a like new Fusion 154 about 5 years ago with a hydranet TE option from scrap pile in AZ paid $120 gas money to Ian Brubaker... The Fusion is dog slow and handles like a truck compared to the Talon. Both are confidence inspiring at unnatural attitudes..... compared to the '01 Laminar MRX 13.7.
@@mitchellmcaleer2969 interesting. I swapped my 2014 Laminar 13.7 with a fellow that had a 2017 T2C 144 a year ago .. I landed after 10min because I hated the heavy handling, he flew mine for 30min and immediately wanted to buy a Laminar. Wills never really had a competitive topless in the world comps. Not fast enough and hard to handle.
@@Vl7248 you might earn a few atoms of credibility if you weren't hiding behind a single letter profile name. You might not come off like a pussy for whining about handling, when there's little difference between the two gliders in either real life handling, and world competition results. WW gliders, Talons, T2's have been in the top 10 in world championships, every year, and anyone who knows better than shit talking cowards on CZcams comments, understands the pilot makes more of a difference than your perception of performance and handling and your shit talk on this thread.
@@Vl7248 the problem with he Laminar is its anhedral setting is significantly more than the T2, Talon, the factory sprog setting is 10mm below the bottom of the keel, compared to the T2, Talon are above the keel. In low positive, negative AoA, inverted, the Laminar is effectively dihedraled, and will probably stabilize inverted. Not a good look for a hang glider.
The air is the other fluid of earth, spinning and flowing, rising and falling,. Animals and nature have long used this gravity to fly.. and so does Man....
I’m still of the view not enough development has been done to “Flexible Wings”, the Irwin “Wing” canopy hasn’t been evolved, if anything it’s been devolved into Reserve Parachuts for Hang Gliders and Paragliders. Steve Sneider took Rogollo designs one step further to open the door a bit with the Paraplane. The evolution of the “Slider” by a group of pot smoking parachutists in New Zealand moved the whole area forward, it swept across the Western World in literally days.
Can you believe it ...the guy reving up the scooter far to fast to soon is causing all the problems here with a foot launch.....yet he keeps telling her that she is doing it wrong ....ahhh duh ...I have been practicing foot launching for two years now with no tow lines - just sloping hills and I can see clearly that they are rushing that take off far to quickly with to much tow at to much speed before the poor student can even get any stability while running ?????...I suggest the instructor take a close look at his technique ..because I can see it clearly in the first five minutes I was thinking you poor student this will cause a completely dissolutioned view as a beguinner as it will fail a lot...
What the f**k? It costs money to file a patent in Australia? Sure a small administrative fee for 10$ is okay but he couldn't afford it? Talk about blue balling inventors.
I own a relatively high performance sport airplane and fly often. I’ve experienced many other adrenaline activities during my 60 years, but nothing is as exciting, fulfilling and satisfying as hang gliding 17,000 feet over Arizona USA in thermals or landing 76 miles (or more) from where you launched. Thank you for posting this excellent mini-documentary. And we love Zelda for her spirit and attitude.
Do you have an emergency parachute on your hang glider flights? I lived up the street from the Wills Brothers in the 60/70’s, as a 7 year old going to grade school with the youngest brother Kirk .. I was inspired by them to build my own hang glider out of my Indian Guides Teepee .. bamboo and surplus nylon parachute material, by the time I turned 8 I finished it and took flight off the ice plant hill in my back yard .. didn’t go very far and gave up. Fifty seven years latter now I’m thinking about doing it right, any advice? My wife thinks I’m kidding but I’m actually seriously thinking about it. Thanks and congrats on your awesome flights!
Chris
@@chrisstrobel3439 Yes when I flew hang gliders, we all carried a backup parachute. But I think you may want to post this question about getting started, at the top of the comments section. I only fly a powered airplane these days. But Wills Wing was my choice of glider back then. And they seem to still be at the top of the pack.
It’s so cool to me that you lived close to their shop and went to school with Kirk.
I got my license 2 years back, Covid has been a hindrance. But I live for flying hang-gliders now, I get tense if I haven't flown in the last two weeks, I am 57 years old and This is like being a teenager again. It's LIFE, the experience thousand of generations have dreamed of, I am living...
I live in Australia, I have flown with and been attacked by wedge tailed eagles with a wingspan 2.3 m.
I have caught thermals up to 6,000 feet.
I have had several 3 hour flights, I am a beginner!!!
I have seen the ocean from my home town 150km form the coast.
I... Live... for... this...
Otto Lilienthal Was the first person to really fly, the Wright Brothers missed the point, the engine kills flight. I have my general aviation pilots license, I have flown in balloons, I have studied Aeronautical Engineering...
Stuff all that, hang-gliding is flying...
You feel the air, you see it in your mind, you get it wrong, it surprises you, You adjust, feel it, fly it stay up for hours... YOU GET SCARED!!! You are a speck of dust in a in a wind storm. Nobody sees you. You are alone using your knowledge, your experience to survive and to fly...
The next morning your alarm goes, you go to work, nothing has changed...
BUT YOU KNOW,
you have lived.
Very well said. It's just an amazing experience.
nice, as new paragliding pilot I feel your joy
Thank you. that is exactly what I needed to hear. I am an Aussie too and cannot wait to get my licence. :)
Yes
@@dylanjones1834 I got taught by Rohan Holtkamp - Dynamic Flight, in Victoria this involved 28 car tow launches and a great bunch of people.
Most Canberra folk go to Tony Barton air sports in Newcastle. I've done a thermal course with him, also a good person. Good Luck, Blue.
I remember reading the Readers Digest article in ‘73. I was 17. My older brother and I bought a new glider called the Chandell in Holland, MI. We must have been some of the first to fly the Lake Michigan dunes. It was the biggest rush I ever had 😅
1972 I saw a hang glider on a man's lawn on my way home from work in San Jose Ca. The next day I met Herman Rice the owner and builder of the standard Bagollo design. I told him I wanted him to make one for me out of sky blue with a large white outline of a seagull. At the time there was a book about "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". My name is Jonathan and that was the reason for the gull on the wing. I took my first lesson on the beach near Santa Cruz a few weeks later. I was directed to just gun off the 30 foot sand cliff and fly straight toward the surf. I decided to see I could bank off the wind just to make a longer flight and landed facing the wind and a soft touchdown. I WAS SMITTEN.
I'm glad to find this on youtube . Thank you for posting it for all to see. I was telling an RC plane hobbyist I met about my hang gliding adventures and I mentioned this movie to him . He watches a lot of flying related videos on youtube. I have the DVD of your movie and was going to loan it to him next week but I decided to see if it was here first. I think you produced a movie that takes a unique perspective on the earliest days of flying and it's subsequent development of the sport of hang gliding which is almost totally overlooked by the average person. Almost everyone I know who is interested in flying at all never considers hang gliding or any other sort of unpowered flight as very relevant or interesting. I hope far more people will see this movie now .
Thanks, JD. Glad you enjoy the film. Considering Yeager described hang gliding as the purest form of flight he'd ever tried, that should be enough endorsement for anyone.
@@JCriss he never had the chance to try a squirrel suit.
I'm a pilot, and tho I've never piloted a hang glider, I really hope to in the future.
@@JCriss 🎯 I bet so, and always loved the idea. I learned to fly in an ultralight. Stall speed was @ 18 kts., I could put that thing down almost anywhere I had @ 150 ft. That's what made it so fun, the safety of it, almost limitless landing areas. I plan to start hanglider lessons asap. Thanks for posting this !
@@treylem3 c'mon down!
I flew hang gliders and ultralights from 1075 to 1985. It was the most enjoyable hobby I ever had. I was never hurt, and had many, many marvelous experiences. I'd like to hook in, pick up, and step off of a cliff in a hang glider to this day. It never gets out of your blood, once you are hooked.
Excellent movie! This is the most detailed history of hang gliding that I know! Thank you for this great work! And... Now I know when the pilot of hang glider was fined for the first time.)))
I enjoyed hang gliding in Southern California for ten years in late 80s to late 90s. I was a student of Rob and Di MacKenzie and was a part of a wonderful society in the San Bernadino mountains. I remember those "Airhead" illustrations from the Hang gliding magazine very well. I finally flew Owens Valley a few times, best flight was 120 miles long reaching 17,300' altitude and took six to seven hours. In those days a high performance glider was rather stiff in roll and VG and messed with my elbow- and shoulder- joints. The WW Ram Air was a pig, even in loose VG, and I never dared to scratch close with that glider but in tight VG it was a rocket on tracks. My two favorite gliders of the time were my Seedwings Sensor 510B Full Race and my Wills Wing HP-AT158. I could flat turn the Sensor fully pushed out in a thermal and go up up up, the only problem was timing the flare on landing to its yaw tendency. The HP-AT158 was just an all together forgiving and great handling glider. I would gladly resume this activity if it weren't for the fact that I know that the limitations of my local flying place here would bore me after 15 minutes. Now I get my kicks SCUBA diving and introducing people to the aquatic world.
Out of curiosity, where you born late September, early November?
@mofayer No, my Birthday is beginning of July. Do you think we may have flown together? I had a white Seedwings Sensor and a red/white WW HP- AT158 and at the end a WW RAMAIR 154.
I flew for 5 years. Great history and personal story. Thanks. So many memories. I took lessons in Ellenville NY in 93.
Wow, thanks for this! Flew in the 90's and taught by one of the 70's adventurers, him explaining 'turbulence' scaring everyone back then, while we're later laughing after rocketing up mountain faces 1000+ fpm or flying Sierra wave and struggling down from 10K+ only to land in the LZ in the dark lighted by headlights from other pilots. Magic times.
I loved this documentary. A great history of the engineering, bravery, knowledge, trial and error and excitement that brought hang gliding to the point that it was in 2003. The story of the author and Zelda was also familiar as I have been learning to fly off of Lookout Mountain, GA and the hills of Lookout Mountain flight park. I can't wait to try soaring and catching thermals. It's all just so beautiful.
I'm a fixed wing sport pilot of about 20years. I enjoyed watching this. Some good lessons there
Love it! Had exactly the same feeling during my first thermal flight. As I became relaxed after 40min in a single thermal I realized the altitude and there was only the speedbar in front of me. Nothing else. Amazing!
In 40 years in all sorts of aviation at 33:04 is given, the best demonstration on dihedral and roll stability I have ever heard or seen.
Thanks-- it's a testament to Steve Wendt's teaching skills.
Nice doc on a beautiful sport. Had the good fortune to do this out at Crestline for some time with my WW167 Sport. Incredible time that will stay with me forever. It truly is the purest form of flight that a human can experience.
“Throbba” 1985-1988
WOOHOO!!!!!
Great quote at the beginning!!
Thousands of hours of free flight here!!!
Endless Gratitude!!
great film. very informative and visceral flight shots. Thank you
I want to fly too!
Recall me my Delta wing schhool in 82. Owsom video. I can see my life displaing in these immages. My mind lights on my first red white and blue SPIRIT 180 sq foot single surface wing. Feeling of absolute freedom on my first long dynamic flight and then on my 2 hours cliff flight. Thank you dearly. Bless
Thank you for making this video available to all. Takes me back, especially the reference to flying using plastic seats!
I saw reports about the regallo wing and me and friends built a bamboo duct tape and plastic wing and flew it off the bluffs at Huntington Beach circa 1973.
Loved to watch this. Great video.
R.I.P. Steve Wendt. Thanks for all the memories, I couldn't have asked for a better instructor.
Missing from the pioneers is the late Donnell Hewett, a physics professor at UofTexas at Kingsville. Over a period of several years, he devised the Center of Mass towing where the tow harness is attached to both the glider's and pilot's Center of Mass as seen in the scooter tow and aerotow portions of the (most excellent) video. Prior to that, the towline was attached to the control bar (see Moyes and Bennett flying the early gliders).
Thanks for sharing this wonderful documentary. I think I have found my next hobby!
Congratulations on this film that is very well documented on the history and background of hang gliding. But most of all, because you very vividly describe de essence of freedom one gets when flying. I also commend your thought on the carabiner, the cables and all what holds the aircraft together. When flying, I thought of myself as superman (to fly by my own means) but also as an ant (taken away on a leaf that is carried by gust of wind). An experience worth to live.
55:39 Telluride Colorado circa 1988. The (well known) pilot's new pod harness had the leg zipper jam closed, not letting him get his feet out. I was there. ☺
I took a tandem flight back in the early 2000s, at a place called Wallaby Ranch in central Florida. Ever since then I have wanted to get my Hang ratings. Unfortunately, there is not a single training facility anywhere near me, and being a professional pilot, my days off are limited.
Excelent, thanks so much for making and sharing this film!!
Fantastic video! I fly Mosquito NRG powered harness with my WW Falcon 195. Some good flights on my CZcams Channel and some not so good ones too. Started on Scooter Tow just like this... This video was VERY WELL DONE!
Zeldas perseverance was impressive. She FLEW! She DID IT! I hope it all worked out well for her. She had the dream!
Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for sharing. Best hang gliding documentary.
Regarding age 40:00. I convinced my mom age 59 for a tandem paragliding flight. And she said it was one of the best things to happen in life. And now she is hooked :) My message is - age is just a number, if you want it go and get it. Yeah and try to stay moderately fit
Beautiful video ! thanks to every one for do it
Thanks..
Why do so few people remember Bill Moyes who almost single handed created Hang Gliders
awwww i feel bad for Zelda she was so happy she flew "/ hope she is better now. this is a beautiful and amazingly informative, promotional documentary, or is it a film, youtube video. I had named my brothers cat Zelda When we used to live together and i think it must be very cool to be named after her. thank you crap i forgot your name :)
This deserves a Pulitzer Prize .
Your film techniques remind me of Van Neistadt, awesome work regardless
👍many thanks for sharing this video🙏
Excellent Footage Criss
Really well done!
Amazing vid man!!
Wonderfulll video ☀☀☀☀
I had seen this doc back in 2008 and I've been searching for it since seeing it then.
I've always dreamed of hang gliding and would love to do it but I'm not sure if our Oklahoma winds allow for gliding. I'll be looking into it for sure 🤠
They hang glide in Talahina. I fly powered paragliders in the OKC area.
Excellent video! Thanks to Zelda too :-)
Sailplane are cool too, Would recomend trying it.
The triangle control frame existed in hang gliders in first two decades of the 1900s. Any later attempt at patenting such would rehearse something that could not be rightly defended.
Great HG documentary! thanks :)
Excellent film, very well researched, informative and extremely well presented.
Was hoping to find more videos of the same, so wondered did you stop flying or decide to give it up?
Either way it was worth scrolling through your other videos if not just to see you play moonlight sonata..both videos really made my day!
Excellent
Thanks!
Amazing video!!
I will forever revere Rogelio for the invention of the “Ram Air” canopy
I think every Pilot has Milestones. (I learned in the SF area). First Altitude (>100'), First Gain at Takeoff, First Soar. First work a thermal (successfully). And my all time one: Going for a 5Mi sled ride (first flight after recovering from a busted elbow) and ending 3K ATO, then arriving at the LZ with 7K.
One of the best vids on you tube I've ever seen.
Love your work.
I'll share it 👍👌😉
Thank you.
Thank you for uploading your movie. Maybe deserves HD version ? Andres from Santiago, Chile.
I love to fly any way possible, landing with wheels skis, floats, feet.....
Brilliant
Off Topic but watching “leaving DC” for the 300th time- Planning on doing a screening of this on the side of my parents house in Massachusetts :) would love to talk to you and do a Q and A
Hi Kelly. If you have watched that movie 300 times you deserve some kind of award. Please contact me on FB as I can't figure out how to contact you privately here.
Great
nice
50 cc is an average moped if I’m not mistaken... COOL! That should be less than 3 hp... BTW I’m an instrument rated commercially licensed pilot... Nice!
I asked for an introductory hang gliding lesson for my 16th birthday gift from my parents. One of the decisions... :D
I don't personally fly but I would recommend some experience with kites and RC gliders / slope soaring. Should give you a much better feel for what to expect from wind and flight.
@@prndownload Even sailing, wind surfing, etc can be good experience to take into hang gliding.
I flew Ultralight for 11 years, there were times I felt sorry for the guys without engines but also times when I was jelous.
Not a fan of heights but this this was a fantastic documentary. Still trying to find Leaving DC but it doesn’t to be available anywhere also. Although I’m sure I probably won’t sleep after watching it! Keep up the great work. Since you live in West Virginia. It would be cool to see a docu on mining or moonshine.
Thanks!
Ok. Opening quote. Sucked. What? Many don't care. But I agree, put on a show for those who do. Just don't assume everyone cares. Do it for you, enjoy when someone else enjoys it.
Other than that, well, yes. Overproduction aside, this is a great video about flying. It captures it well.
👏 Brilliant but think I'll stick with my Paragliding. 😆
that's a magazine cover I've got that issue somewhere hang gliding magazine before the paragliding crap
Correct -- from "Hang Gliding" magazine around 1988. I think the pilot's name was Eric Raymond.
@34:== looks like the orange bottom early 2000 Talon 154 Proto I flew at Aspen aero meet...
And now .. no Talon can be found at any hg site. They were widely disliked. Fusions still around here and there as they were great thermal gliders.
I still fly harriers once in a while. They’re Awsome for floating and thermals
@@Vl7248 found a brand new custom Talon 154 last year in Texas, it's here now, flown it once, plan on wearing it out asap. I won more money in aero contests on the Talon 154 than any other glider. Rescued a like new Fusion 154 about 5 years ago with a hydranet TE option from scrap pile in AZ paid $120 gas money to Ian Brubaker... The Fusion is dog slow and handles like a truck compared to the Talon. Both are confidence inspiring at unnatural attitudes..... compared to the '01 Laminar MRX 13.7.
@@mitchellmcaleer2969 interesting. I swapped my 2014 Laminar 13.7 with a fellow that had a 2017 T2C 144 a year ago .. I landed after 10min because I hated the heavy handling, he flew mine for 30min and immediately wanted to buy a Laminar. Wills never really had a competitive topless in the world comps. Not fast enough and hard to handle.
@@Vl7248 you might earn a few atoms of credibility if you weren't hiding behind a single letter profile name. You might not come off like a pussy for whining about handling, when there's little difference between the two gliders in either real life handling, and world competition results. WW gliders, Talons, T2's have been in the top 10 in world championships, every year, and anyone who knows better than shit talking cowards on CZcams comments, understands the pilot makes more of a difference than your perception of performance and handling and your shit talk on this thread.
@@Vl7248 the problem with he Laminar is its anhedral setting is significantly more than the T2, Talon, the factory sprog setting is 10mm below the bottom of the keel, compared to the T2, Talon are above the keel. In low positive, negative AoA, inverted, the Laminar is effectively dihedraled, and will probably stabilize inverted. Not a good look for a hang glider.
Great doc! Did Zelda come back after all?
They do think you're a bigger bird. Birds of prey would attack my radio controlled airplanes all the time thinking they're birds.
I wanna know about this "magic sleeping powder"...
The air is the other fluid of earth, spinning and flowing, rising and falling,. Animals and nature have long used this gravity to fly.. and so does Man....
And the splatiest splat...
I’m still of the view not enough development has been done to “Flexible Wings”, the Irwin “Wing” canopy hasn’t been evolved, if anything it’s been devolved into Reserve Parachuts for Hang Gliders and Paragliders. Steve Sneider took Rogollo designs one step further to open the door a bit with the Paraplane. The evolution of the “Slider” by a group of pot smoking parachutists in New Zealand moved the whole area forward, it swept across the Western World in literally days.
The first it was abbas ibn farnass muslim ❤❤❤❤❤
Thermal Ascension....
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Can you believe it ...the guy reving up the scooter far to fast to soon is causing all the problems here with a foot launch.....yet he keeps telling her that she is doing it wrong ....ahhh duh ...I have been practicing foot launching for two years now with no tow lines - just sloping hills and I can see clearly that they are rushing that take off far to quickly with to much tow at to much speed before the poor student can even get any stability while running ?????...I suggest the instructor take a close look at his technique ..because I can see it clearly in the first five minutes I was thinking you poor student this will cause a completely dissolutioned view as a beguinner as it will fail a lot...
What the f**k? It costs money to file a patent in Australia? Sure a small administrative fee for 10$ is okay but he couldn't afford it? Talk about blue balling inventors.
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One more pseudo history documentary.
I did skydiving,this is nice to see 🪂