Take a look at Bobby Breeden's fourth consecutive win and reported new world record for combined take-off/landing! 20 foot landing, 24 foot takeoff.
If only we could get trikes to do this without having to use a 30 meter wing
Pistons seized (even 503s die some-time!) the ground was frozen ( 20deg ), and bumpy! my 12 meter wing didn't like slowing down. this happened on 1st january 2011, hell o...
.... if you think you´ve heard and seen it all, well just take a look at the video. Original video and nothing added. If you can fly here, you can fly anywhere!! Clue??? So...
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.