@@merlinthegray It could somehow fold the wings for road traffic. I would say that LANDING on two wheels could present problems, so it should have some unfolding "side-wheels" when in airplane configuration. I crack my head for years with this one, I believe it is doable.
Really? He didn't even lift off when going fast so that wing has terrible lift properties. It only went airborne when its pitch changed upword which means the angle of attack of that wing must have been trimmed really downwards. It would've been a terrible airplane and barely or not be able to fly if you'd added a prop.
Sadly, he doesn't appear to be. Seems like a helicopter accidentally blew him down off his glider while he was filming a commercial: www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-29-vw-424-story.html
He wad being towed by a helicopter and got into the rotor wash. Keep in mind this is in the very beginning of the evolution of the hanglider! Those early gliders with no reflex in the trading edge killed a many pilot back in the 1970's
What Bob Wills did with a hang glider was amazing. --- He taught me to fly in 1972 in Hawaii and I became his first Wills Wing dealer in Hawaii when he started his own business.
I just want to go back to the 70s when Americans were free throw back a cold one, weld a hang glider to a dirt bike, and hit some sick jumps without the man trying to stop them from having a good time.
Me too - he's a lot of fun - and owns the most famous name in Hang gliding. I was at a gathering in Florida celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Wills Wing, was standing on a chow line and asked the fellow next to me his name - He said, " It's on your shirt" I was wearing a Wills Wing shirt. The man's a true pioneer
Bobby Wills and the entire Wills family have been a inspiration to me. The Book "Flying with Eagles" was a amazing read. You should be very proud to be related :)
No you can't, the propeller would amount to over 50 times the weight of the wing. It would be too fuckin heavy. Not to mention the entire framework would need to be made way more sturdier to support an engine and by that point you made something completely different which most people call....wait for it....a plane.
@@flybeep1661 LOL You are wrong. It's already lifting HIM and a motorcycle... the engine is ALREADY THERE. A carbon fiber prop for a paramotor is 4-8 pounds... what kind of propeller do you think we are talking about here? One for a cruise ship? It may not sustain flight but it would get him more range for sure.
@@spinningsquare1325 surprisngly brakes and accelerator works mid air to shift postion of the bike. The centrifugal forces of rotation of the rear tyre changes the rotation mid air.
Hypothetically he’d have almost perfect attitude control to by either speeding or slowing the rear wheel and turning the bars to make a gyroscope from the front wheel
Bobby Wills was your uncle?? Okay, that's just beyond cool. I read the family biography, 'Higher Than Eagles,' written by his mom (and I assume your Great Aunt. One of the most thrilling, inspiring and heartbreaking biographies I've ever read. Hats off to such a great legacy.
I’ve been thinking about flying a dirt bike, and I am so impressed that this has shown up in my feed! My current vision includes coaxial counter rotating 6’ rotors, enclosure, rocket power, and assisted recovery…
The same Bob Wills. I has an SST100B as well. Also got to fly the black Swallowtail used in the film "Sky Riders" with James Coburn. It ended up at a hang gliding school in the UK Peak District where I did some teaching back in 1977.
Thats awesome but i wanna make a suit like a kite which i can use to glide to the floor without a parachute, sorta like a squirrel suit only you fall alot slower and can do it off a small hill rather than a big cliff... main reason is, i want to glide but im fucking terrified of hieghts..
saw something i want now :D... its a glider that you foot launch... but its got an enclosed canopy/ cockpit thing so may want to get saving up for it lol.. however got things land based that i want to build for now. things like a custom built tracked vehicle, for snow... this is because gritting machines dont come up my road and theres often a massive patch of black ice all over the road where i live, so i'd build a tracked vehicle which moves fairly slow but has a lot of torque in it so that i can shift the ice...
Back when people werent so sensitive about protection, if you die you die its your fault. And no media and internet to blame the death on someone and cancel them. Back then things were so much more fun.
I don't know if it was the same guy, but I remember going to a drag race at raceway park NJ as a kid and this thing made a jump over some cars. When he came out, the whole audience laughed.
brilliant to see footage like this avaliable for all to see, being involved with hang-gliders back then I do seem to recall this event, but I have to ask who the blazes did the sound-track for it?
@TruBluHeeler Looks like you're right, I just looked it up, seems he died in a hang glider accident in 1977 and his younger brother also died in hang glider accident 3 years earlier in 1974.
13 years old and UA-cam's algorithm decided to throw this old Great at me.... Nice!
Meetoo. . .
Same...
Verdade kkkkk
Enjoy
YT needs keep us online ever and ever
Video: 13 years old, less than 2 min, potato quality, random recommendations
Me: Perfection!
Okay boomer
@@prayanjaltomar752 shut up
@@prayanjaltomar752 how's he being a boomer?
i cant belive how ugly the world is in this time, look the video how bad the image look, todays is much more beauty
Agreed
Bob sounds like the original _"Hold my beer.."_ guy.
He was killed by a helicopter while filming a commercial. Chopper downdraft did him in. :(
@@xenubarb That's too bad. Wheelie King Doug Demokos died in an ultralight aircraft as well.
He's legendary in hang gliding as a designer and competition pilot.
Murdock from the A-Team.
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just add a propeller using power from same engine and you can fly for hours
Exactly, people are trying to make the "flying car" but watching this video it seems that the "flying motorcycle" is almost there ! :)
@@merlinthegray It could somehow fold the wings for road traffic. I would say that LANDING on two wheels could present problems, so it should have some unfolding "side-wheels" when in airplane configuration. I crack my head for years with this one, I believe it is doable.
Or... buy an airplane.
Really? He didn't even lift off when going fast so that wing has terrible lift properties. It only went airborne when its pitch changed upword which means the angle of attack of that wing must have been trimmed really downwards. It would've been a terrible airplane and barely or not be able to fly if you'd added a prop.
@@merlinthegray lean and have a cord attached to the bar so when you tune it turns
Imagine you're some old Karen yelling at a biker for doing wheelies in a parking lot and he just picks up and flies away bike and all
Lmao 😂 👍
There's a mistake tho. You never should do what Karen wants. You should wheelie even more
Gotta love the millennial fucktards and their buzzwords
Said the Karen
The question is: Is Bob still amongst the living?
Sadly, he doesn't appear to be. Seems like a helicopter accidentally blew him down off his glider while he was filming a commercial: www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-29-vw-424-story.html
@@johnmartinez7440 thank you. I guess this answers the question.
@@johnmartinez7440 woah, thats a scary way to go
He wad being towed by a helicopter and got into the rotor wash. Keep in mind this is in the very beginning of the evolution of the hanglider! Those early gliders with no reflex in the trading edge killed a many pilot back in the 1970's
@@garychaney5484 true words!
So "Bob's your uncle", that's cool in so many ways!
Have you met his aunt Fanny?
I first heard that phrase watching The worlds fastest Indian.....a movie that is free to watch on youtube right now.
@@sourkraut6248 Great movie
Robert's your dads brother
lol
What Bob Wills did with a hang glider was amazing. --- He taught me to fly in 1972 in Hawaii and I became his first Wills Wing dealer in Hawaii when he started his own business.
Proud you.. thank you pioneers of hang gliding in USA. Lots of fun hours i owe to you.
That's really cool!
I'm pretty sure that's what I used at Lookout. ..229 comes to mind
That is so amazing 👏
That's a really cool memory, thanks for sharing, Michael 😊
no bullshit intro or anything, just cuts to the chase and we can experience history. This is gold
I just want to go back to the 70s when Americans were free throw back a cold one, weld a hang glider to a dirt bike, and hit some sick jumps without the man trying to stop them from having a good time.
Welcome to China , USA is dead
someone tried to fly over the Berlin wall. ..
@@Sidetrackification and he succeed
Why aren’t people doing this more often? Very cool
@Caleb Ziebarth He hasn't done anything with a dirt bike though
@@IanBpa man builds his own planes though which is badass
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@@Odin33356 that’s not the same thing
@@Wolf-xu1fj no but still cool
“Dang it Margret it’s those gosh dang hang glider motorcycles again”
It's me again Margret says Ray Stevens. Look up Ray Stevens and be prepared to laugh uncontrollably.
Me too - he's a lot of fun - and owns the most famous name in Hang gliding. I was at a gathering in Florida celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Wills Wing, was standing on a chow line and asked the fellow next to me his name - He said, " It's on your shirt" I was wearing a Wills Wing shirt. The man's a true pioneer
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Yeh, that was probably Bob's brother Chris Wills - also legendary in the sport.
@@pele2535 😂😂😂😂😂
Bobby Wills and the entire Wills family have been a inspiration to me. The Book "Flying with Eagles" was a amazing read. You should be very proud to be related :)
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Lol
If you put a propeller, you can fly long distance.
No you can't, the propeller would amount to over 50 times the weight of the wing. It would be too fuckin heavy. Not to mention the entire framework would need to be made way more sturdier to support an engine and by that point you made something completely different which most people call....wait for it....a plane.
You sir, are a genius!
@@flybeep1661 dude you really really suck at parties
@@flybeep1661 LOL You are wrong. It's already lifting HIM and a motorcycle... the engine is ALREADY THERE. A carbon fiber prop for a paramotor is 4-8 pounds... what kind of propeller do you think we are talking about here? One for a cruise ship? It may not sustain flight but it would get him more range for sure.
Dude, all he wanted was a little thrill, perhaps a record of sorts with his motorcycle and the GLIDER!
Legend has it, Bob has progressed with his endeavours so much, that he is now accidentally in permanent orbit around the earth.
truly a masterpiece and I feel honored being recommended this 14 years later.
If you've ever jumped a dirtbike, you'll know exactly why he didn't put a propeller on it
why?
@@Axmet183 Probably because there would be too much weight shift at the rear, which would inevitably cause the bike to flip.
@@T.R.U.T.H.. and how do you compensate torque with a freakin bike?
@@spinningsquare1325 surprisngly brakes and accelerator works mid air to shift postion of the bike. The centrifugal forces of rotation of the rear tyre changes the rotation mid air.
@@Axmet183 Might get chopped up if things were to go wrong
Hypothetically he’d have almost perfect attitude control to by either speeding or slowing the rear wheel and turning the bars to make a gyroscope from the front wheel
But the front wheel isn't powered so wouldn't it slow down quick and not have enough centrifugal force to act as a gyroscope?
@@Filip_Phreriks why I’m saying hypothetically cos in the real world friction exists
@@Filip_Phreriks brakes are a thing.
@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Yes but once it's stopped you lost the gyro and can't steer anymore is what I meant.
Father of the year award right there at the end!
I like the really awesome fake sound track for engine RPM and tire contact.
hahaha scripted but the sound only
That looks like a lot of fun
TheWaggishAmerican really fun..!!!
I wish I could do it off a cliff, or maybe go to space with it. Wouldn't that be cool?
This is amazing to see Bobby Wills do a motocross HG jump. It's like from books when I was a little kid. Thank you!
I remember this from when I was young, loved it then and love it now. Thanks for the flashback 🙏👍🏻
that looks like so much fun! I want to try that with my wheelchair!
You can do it dude
Have a good day
God bless you
Love you
I remember this guy jumping the motocross track at the Colosseum in the 70s at halftime during the Superbowl of motocross.
Really dude
Great dude
Have a good day
A pilot, a co-pilot, a stewardess, and a passenger. Amazing.
And it acts as a handy parasol, too, to prevent sunburn-related stress...
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Bobby Wills was your uncle?? Okay, that's just beyond cool. I read the family biography, 'Higher Than Eagles,' written by his mom (and I assume your Great Aunt. One of the most thrilling, inspiring and heartbreaking biographies I've ever read. Hats off to such a great legacy.
correct me if I'm wrong... but that sounds like an Elsinore!!
did i think that out loud?🤣
Sometimes.... The recommended video is just what I have been looking for.
2021 needs more hang gliding motocross.
I’ve been thinking about flying a dirt bike, and I am so impressed that this has shown up in my feed!
My current vision includes coaxial counter rotating 6’ rotors, enclosure, rocket power, and assisted recovery…
Thanks youtube for this hidden little gem.
You are right dude
Have a good day
That's so cool. I fly a Wills Wing hang glider!
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youtube recommended this video after 14 years
I love the sixties sounding narration. Similar to what you would hear on surf movies of that era
is nobody going to mention the end with the two guys just hanging off a hang glider by their hands without a harness going down a mountain?
Straight up so hardcore
@@240sxRule absolute mad lads
This is the prototype to the oppressor in GTA V
Back in the day when people who used to do things for no other reason than because they can and for the experience were heroes.
Brilliant
What? People still do that all the time
@@Sweedster I don't recognize you as people , your just objects now .
this video is more high quality than my hearing at class
Me too dude
Have a good day
🤝🤝😊😊👌😎
Awesome. I want to see more of your archives!!
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@@pele2535 lol was thinking the same
I remember Bob Wills. Met him back in the 70s when I was flying a Chandelle standard at Escape Country.
:)
Good times, good times!
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@@pele2535 O hai...I have not run out of caek.
@@xenubarb Thanks God, You are alive .. God bless you
Was this bob wills of wills wings, if so I had one of his gliders WW SST 100B. back in 1976 , grate fun!
The same Bob Wills. I has an SST100B as well. Also got to fly the black Swallowtail used in the film "Sky Riders" with James Coburn. It ended up at a hang gliding school in the UK Peak District where I did some teaching back in 1977.
UA-cam recommend me this video after 13 years have a huge respect 🙏🙏🙏
Bob is awesome lol
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this is genius i love it
After 14 years this might start getting recommended to everyone
Gotta love that nice soft landing. I wonder how much speed it looses in flight.
Thats awesome but i wanna make a suit like a kite which i can use to glide to the floor without a parachute, sorta like a squirrel suit only you fall alot slower and can do it off a small hill rather than a big cliff... main reason is, i want to glide but im fucking terrified of hieghts..
Scared of heights -Dont worry thats just a small technical hitch, up up and away
saw something i want now :D... its a glider that you foot launch... but its got an enclosed canopy/ cockpit thing so may want to get saving up for it lol.. however got things land based that i want to build for now. things like a custom built tracked vehicle, for snow... this is because gritting machines dont come up my road and theres often a massive patch of black ice all over the road where i live, so i'd build a tracked vehicle which moves fairly slow but has a lot of torque in it so that i can shift the ice...
Back when people werent so sensitive about protection, if you die you die its your fault. And no media and internet to blame the death on someone and cancel them. Back then things were so much more fun.
Someone's been eating memeber berries
@l 1:27
Man I miss the days when dirt bikes sounded like dirt bikes. They sounded great! Two strokes forever!
What do they sound like now? Are they 4 strokes?
Phrases you don’t hear, “Bob has never been hurt!”
Wow!! That is great!!
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YESSSS: time travel!!!
Yes
Yes
I am here
Yup
This is awesome! In the beginning of the video they said he got a lightweight bike, then towards the end the narrator says the bike weighs 300 pounds!
at least your uncle had a lifting body on his bike. grand fun i have just subscribed because of this vid .:)
redbull back in the day!
Who is waching 2019
Not me, 2021 ;)
UA-cam recommend me this awesome video after 13 years....
I absolutely love that 2 stroke music
Me too dude
Have a good day
Who's from 2020?
Sorry. 2021!
Tiba tiba muncul di beranda like
Thank you algorithm for another enjoyable retro video. My first viewing!
Legend says Bob is still trying that one again.
They say Bob died decades ago.
X: lo recomendamos¿?
UA-cam: aún no.
...
13 años después...
UA-cam: creo que lo recomendaré :v
bob, stop yanking around and com eat your dinner......
Anyone know if Bob is still alive?
this is a short segment from the film PLAYGROUND IN THE SKY (1976)
by Carl Boenish BASE Jumping Founder & Skydive photographer (RIP Carl!)
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01:24 and some coward USA pilots now are afraid of carrying 3 persons on a 4 person safe to do it airplane. Chumps..
Hush
@@Studentofgosset Dont be a coward.
Bob is now dead.
I don't know if it was the same guy, but I remember going to a drag race at raceway park NJ as a kid and this thing made a jump over some cars. When he came out, the whole audience laughed.
So what if you were able to engage a prop at the rear to keep you aloft? Pretty compact... I'd ride it to work.
Traffic ahead, it’s ok we can jump it. You the man Bobby !!!
*13 years ago, I was not aware that even UA-cam does exist*
Bob sounds like a pretty cool dude
brilliant to see footage like this avaliable for all to see, being involved with hang-gliders back then I do seem to recall this event, but I have to ask who the blazes did the sound-track for it?
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Good old Bob , brilliant work.
A little late to the party here!! That Bobby is NUTS!! Always going for more...
Awesome! I have an old Wills paragliding wing... just ground handling with it now but bet it'll still fly, hopefully we'll soon see. :)
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Thank you very much for this video.
It immerses me in my childhood dreams.
Life is short, have fun.
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Why is the one guy all happy jumping up and down? WTF did he think would happen?
That two stroke sounds crispen!
The last part is beautiful. Unfortunatelly now we live in a crazy world.
If he's still alive he needs to go for it and break his old record.
@TruBluHeeler Looks like you're right, I just looked it up, seems he died in a hang glider accident in 1977 and his younger brother also died in hang glider accident 3 years earlier in 1974.
Bob tried for one last time. Now he is in space.
What the hell youtube, I’ve been wanting to see shit like this for 13 years and you had it the whole time?!
Bobby Wills must be invited as James Bond 007 Stunt Man !
There was a guy who used to jump 2 semi's end to end with a bike like this at Orange County International Raceway back in the 70s. Was this him?
Every kid should have an uncle like that!
where did u buy the glider part
@start00hh5 he did my dad said he flew over a thousand feet. I wish they had some video of that!!
Bob and his passengers are crazy as hell
Is this one of the On an sunday films
I wonder if he’d gained more distance if his wheels were spinning the opposite direction due to the Magnus effects?
What did you do today?
I remember a guy, many years ago...think his name was Bob Correll, used the same setup. He used to jump over school buses, end to end,
Bob wanted to try that one again.
Good job bob.
i bet no one would ever think to hijack bob's airline!
Wow real life Mario Kart seems legit