Flying my electric powered hang glider.
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2023
- Flying my electric powered hang glider.
flight log :
. Batteries, 6 @ 80v 4ah
. Flight time 10 minutes 52 seconds
. Total distance 4.4 miles
. Max altitude reached 264'
. Fastest rate of climb 590' per minute
. Max Gs reached 2.6 - Sport
Very imaginative, well done. I am 60 now and stopped flying some time ago. But I seriously miss flying my hang glider, an Airwave Magic 4, that I flew for about 10 years in South Africa. Should start flying again 😊
If this electric set up can be replicated on my "diver" I will definitely be flying again!
I am 66 and thinking about taking classes. Love watching the guys doing their stuff. I want to learn.
What an outstanding vantage point! This is quite unique - poetic, almost. ... Now we need a drone docking station, _on_ the hang-glider. ☺
Amazing flight. This is the first time to watch from drone perspective. Great video
Thanks you!
😊thank you for making this!
can you make a video of your whole setup and how its made?
Nice setup. Have you considered making the stabilizer in a shape that it counters the prop torque?
Also love that your drone follows automatically, too bad it costs so much. Probably will be a much affordable tech in the next few years.
Amazing experience, video coverage superb❤
Thank you!
Amazing
I have not flown hang glider for some time now, I did when I was younger though. I think I'd prefer to have the motor & batteries attached directly to the glider frame, so as to not increase the mass inertia of my body in the event of mishap. Looks like a great setup though in terms of climb rate & drone footage. Well done!
Thank you!
Unfortunately there's not a good location for it on the frame. Put it above the wing or on the keel and it pitches down. Put it on the control frame and now you have propellers directly in front of you. You could build a whole frame and put two under the wings, but then you have a bunch more stuff producing drag and the whole thing gets very heavy. Additionally anything that adds to the weight of the glider, instead of the pilot, will reduce control authority. All of this has been tried with limited success, all of them *can* kind of work, but they are very poor solutions to the problem. The two solutions that do work well are putting it on the harness as in this example and the mosquito harness, and the trike approach where you have landing gear on a frame that has a hard connection to the gliders hang point.
Well done!
Thank you!
Bella idea .. in futuro saranno tutti così , molto piu sucuro
Wow that's innovative! I have a DIY electric Paramotor for paragliding which is probably heavier than this, have been considering a similar system to attach to the harness (like "e-help") but haven't got to it yet. Want to just get to thermal altitudes.
That looks like there's a lot of torque! Which motor / prop combination are you using? Cheers!
Looks like some huge batteries. Did you need to register the drone and get a license? Thanks for posting
way cool!!!!!
Thank you!
Excellent project 👏👏👏👏
very cool,,i want one lol where are you flying at?
That some cool sh*t there! I'd give it a try
Thanks!
thats so cool. do you know how much energy you have used for those 4.4 miles?
Thanks, I'm not sure how much I used. I'm using 4 ah batteries now; but if buy the 8 ah I'm guessing flight times of 20 minutes and around 10 miles.
@@israelburesh7382 that would be 3x less energy then a tesla model 3 would need. basicly the same, what a electric motorcycle would need. thats really efficient.
Is that drone set to follow you or was someone flying it ? Great video .
Thank you! Yes it follows a beacon on the glider.
@@israelburesh7382 What drone is that and can you explain the beacon thing? That's so cool.
Thanks! Its a skydio 2 drone. The beacon is about the size of a Roku remote. Just select range and angle to film and it the drone just follows the beacon for hands free filming.
@@israelburesh7382 Does it come with the drone?
@@abundantharmony yes
Esses homens loucos e suas ideias maravilhosas, lindo vídeo
What is the additional weight?
Something went wrong with the sound.
I want to build something similar. I had an Explorer powered harness w/ a radne gasoline engine. Too loud and too much vibration.
The autonomy is about 20 minutes or less?
Which glider? What's the empty weight of the glider without Battery and propeller setup?
Falcon 2 195 weight around 55 #
Also very quiet 🤫
How much do 6 @ 80v 4ah batteries weigh?
33 pounds
Can we use the Brush cutter machine with petrol engine for this purpose
Just have to experiment with it I'm sure you could figure it out. I've built a wooden and polyethylene plastic Hangglider years ago powered by a chainsaw engine.
Solar powered would be too heavy?
I believe so.
How much that motor ???
$2990
No audio ?
I need to figure out audio for my drone, it didn't record any.
@@israelburesh7382 What drone are you using?
Skydio 2 with a beacon
@@israelburesh7382 From what I can gather on the Skydio 2 the onboard camera does not record audio but the app does.
@@OzFPVflyer awesome thanks!
Maravilha, amei, é um MOSKITO O U MOSQUITO show mesmo
queria muito comprar um deste, como fasso?
Thank you! I made it myself its electric and uses 80v 4ah green works batteries.
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There's some dude in Australia that installed the motor&prop half way up the king-post. (batteries on the keel)
could you post the bill of materials ?
I built my rig over couple years. So I don't have a list of materials. I used 6061 t6 from aircraft spruce. A few pieces on Amazon and whatever I had laying at home.
Great science experiment, totally impractical. Two words: energy density.
Haha ha lol 😂
Respect ........from India
Thank you!
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