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Highlights of the WAG 2015 - Stunning footage of what these guys are doing with high performance trikes- Here is the VIMEO link Beautiful 2+ hour flight from Calvada Meadows Airport NV to Furnace Creek Airport and back with Leo Fitzgerald. 20+ mph winds picked up just as we were coming in for landing at sunset! Revo Trike Flight from Peter Del Vecho on Vimeo.
- Now this looks to be a very simple system. The pilot is still working on the development. Probably not a huge amount of thrust or extended time at high power but maybe a nice way to get up to supplement some natural ridge lift or thermal lift. Pretty cool.
- I linked this video because it demonstrates nicely a wingtip stall, in a high rate turn, low level on finals. Don't get caught out like this. Very unforgiving. It is approaches like this...
Flying a Trike over Mt Everest and some Parahawking-- Angelo D'Arrigo
On May 14, 2007, For the first time ever, a man has flown over Everest on a hang-gli...in tension as Angelo D'Arrigo approaches the moment of truth. He will encounter winds of over 200 kilometres an hou...- Jan Bohm prepared his trike with new (in that time) Rotax 912 with turbo for years. But in Himalaya the engine had broken. Then they flew other trike with R582. Sorry it is an old document in Czech language without subtitles. But the views are worth it.
- Ole posted the link to this video on trikepilot.com. Amazing trike flight over Orizaba. High quality 1080p video. The beginning is a little strange, but after Orizaba appears at 50 seconds it's truly amazing. This pilot is not reluctant to fly very close to the terrain.
- Zion National Park is one of the most famous national park in Utah. Rick and I took off from Hurricane Airport early in the morning. We flew between 8,500 and 9,500 feet high due to some turbulence in the lower altitude. Enjoy spectacular view of 270 million years old landscape from the sky.
VIDEO: Flightglobal expert analyses Bagram 747 crash sequence
The fatal departure of a National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400F from Bagram a...after take-off, but with an extremely high nose-up attitude. Within a...the airfield boundary. This entails a high nose attitude that is maintai...ot adequately secured in the hold, the high...Hang Gliding World Record Distance flight - 760 KMs (> 470 miles)
A flight that breaks a World Record of 760kms. A story of two men setting history in...that in our back yard (middle of no where Zapata, Texas) conditions set up with winds moving air nearly straight no...