So John, out of curiosity, what year did you and the missus graduate from Hogwarts? Absolute genius hiding the wand inside the transmitter housing I tell you. Design, build, flying, videography, music . . .culminating in almost nine and a half minutes of pure magic for us mere mortals to enjoy. Brilliant, as usual.
OK. Usually when I see John has a new video up, I get something cool to drink and enjoy the show. But today. This flying site got me a little nervous. The giant rock formations, the nearly 45 degree angle of the slope, the goat trail landing strip, the fear of poor John rolling down the hill, off into the sea. Then, the thought of never seeing new videos of his masterful creations would be too much to bare. Then. I just had to remind myself who I was watching fly this amazing aircraft! Well done sir!
As you may well have noticed I’m bingeing on this vids. These hills you fly from are awesome and the birds in the air are extremely extreme. I have to use “pods” OR launch bands to glide. I’m in central NC US. Been enjoying rcing planes and anything remote for 45 years. These gliders SOOO make me want to build. Thank you so much for sharing this footage. I’d love to join you some day on your hills of seemingly never ending airflow. Dreams are all we really have.
Thank you so much for watching. The videos are always good fun to make and if ever you are in the UK you are more than welcome to come fly any of my gliders you like.
Fuselage makes me remember the Strolch, Aero-naut plan 1109/99, that one was designed completely in spruce and plywood for free flight, but the horizontal stabilizer is not in front of the fin and a different wing. People back in the 1920 and 30-ties did not have access to balsa, So they were very skilled in building them. Very brave lads, to let it go up and hope they see it back, luckily somebody designed de-thermalisers before the first reed radios came around. It's going to take a winter or more to build it. I might cheat with some balsa in de tail and wing ribs. Very nice glider you have there again, I like the flat top shallow tail. Unfortunately I don't have decent slope within 200 miles, so it will be electric powered. My lasercutter never existed so it will be the old fashion way to saw ribs and formers. Keep doing your amazing things. I really envy those beautiful slopes.
Quite uplifting music, nimble flying, great scenery and a big smile from John while performing this morning! Add a great cup of coffee in my hands here on the deck and that's precisely the recipe for the start of a great day! Thank you Sir!
So John you managed to stop wild ponies in their tracks and now the local joggers too . Totally spell binding . If i may say you are getting quite good at this gliding lark. another good video.
I am not sure which is most impressive, your beautiful aircraft that seem to just want to fly when you let them go or, your ability to make them fly like birds. The double loops were pretty impressive for a rudder and elevator only, machine as are the ground hugging, low level maneuvers. Thanks for the videos. They are eagerly anticipated.
That music track was very enjoyable! Your flying skills and video work are excellent! I believe the flat-top fuselage with the v-hull boat belly for the cargo hold area was ingenious for many reasons. You make it look so easy!! It has "Pelican" elegance!
Fabulous glider flying. Tell us does the music come first before the glider choreography or does the flight come first and the music come second.? Your choice of music really complements your videos every time. Also, suspect you are a bit of a meteorologist and can choose the days to fly. This day seems more like a morning(?) of thermals on the slope with minor amount of upslope breeze. Wonderful stuff. I suspect local knowledge is the key to picking your day and spot. Well done!
Well, first to say, everything about that post - own-design, flight, camera work, music - was perfect. I've heard it said that the most violent thing that can be done with a glider is loop it. Have you tried pulling that right hand stick into the bottom corners? Will it spin? And recover? I'm off to do some 4-channel power i/c - with an own-design. Only it's second flight so sticks in corners might not happen today - but it will happen!
This design receives my highest praise! Your perfect wing and fuselage combination clearly offered smooth control and the tail feathers gave excellent agility. The turns in both directions demonstated your great skill with the flying conditions offered. Was this video one of the first using your newer camera with video stabilization? The camera work presented your flying skills very well and kept focus near and far.....a big challenge many have never overcome!
really cool, looks a bit like a leprechaun can you make a "traditional" flying wing? i'm building one right now, hotwire xps span: 1150mm root chord: 220mm tip chord: 90mm sweep distance: 300mm 8mm twist and about 85mm dihedral it's 170g at the moment (covered in packing tape and with electronics) which puts the wing loading at 9.54 g/dm² i intended to give it a bird tail, which is why i didn't use an airfoil with reflex, but it seemed to fly alright without any of those, so that's what i'm testing first
What a great location for a beautiful flight. The scenery is wonderful. I noticed you brought the "Southerner" glider along. Did you fly it also? Thank you for your devotion to the ART and also for sharing with us.
Flying that low do you get any "ground-effect" ... is there any difference in the rate of control ? Thank you for these videos, they always lift my spirits what with all the shenanigans elsewhere in live ....... bravo !!
Thank you. It will easily fly for several hours one battery. The servos aren’t working very hard so with a couple of batteries you could fly all day. But I normally only fly for about 20mins before the wife gets bored of filming.
@@SlopeRCGliders its great your wife also enjoys it, my wife enjoys farming i want to get a glider soon and fly it its coming in to summer here in Australia.
Hi there Adam. I do normally build in a couple of degrees incidence using the ‘that looks about right’ method. I built this fuselage upside down, so the top of the fuselage is flat, and the wing sits on it a 0 degrees. The tail is mounted on a small pylon to give the elevator room to move. I just gave the pylon a very slight wedge shape. Hope that all makes sense.
The Wooddfield Brothers Company in action!Pleasure of the eyes,and pleasure of the ears!(please forgive my English)Cjeers
The plane, the flying and the music - pure grace... as usual! Thanks for the inspiring video!
So John, out of curiosity, what year did you and the missus graduate from Hogwarts? Absolute genius hiding the wand inside the transmitter housing I tell you. Design, build, flying, videography, music . . .culminating in almost nine and a half minutes of pure magic for us mere mortals to enjoy. Brilliant, as usual.
Haha thank you. So glad you enjoyed watching.
Like a sailing yacht!
Oh. Man. !!! Awesome. Loops. !!!&. Catch
OK. Usually when I see John has a new video up, I get something cool to drink and enjoy the show. But today. This flying site got me a little nervous. The giant rock formations, the nearly 45 degree angle of the slope, the goat trail landing strip, the fear of poor John rolling down the hill, off into the sea. Then, the thought of never seeing new videos of his masterful creations would be too much to bare. Then. I just had to remind myself who I was watching fly this amazing aircraft! Well done sir!
Boo-iffle! That classic teardrop fuselage is perfect for graze touch 'n' gos! Loved the music, too. Many thanks.
As you may well have noticed I’m bingeing on this vids. These hills you fly from are awesome and the birds in the air are extremely extreme. I have to use “pods” OR launch bands to glide. I’m in central NC US. Been enjoying rcing planes and anything remote for 45 years. These gliders SOOO make me want to build. Thank you so much for sharing this footage. I’d love to join you some day on your hills of seemingly never ending airflow. Dreams are all we really have.
Thank you so much for watching. The videos are always good fun to make and if ever you are in the UK you are more than welcome to come fly any of my gliders you like.
9:15 - Perfect catch & grin :-)
Great plane, video & music
Love the wing design. Sailplanes and sailboats = Heaven.
Another good one John. Your colour combinations always look spot on. The person who films your vids does a great job.
Brilliant John, thoroughly enjoyable, now I'm going to be humming that tune all day ... thanks 😁
Sloping would have to be one of my most enjoyable aspects of this hobby. Nice design.
W@@W, Yet Another Magnificent, Nimble & Magestic Build! Thanks John
Thank you!
The model and the flying is very good, the filming and the choice of music is absolutely brilliant.
Thank you and your good lady for showing.
Thank you for watching!
Fuselage makes me remember the Strolch, Aero-naut plan 1109/99, that one was designed completely in spruce and plywood for free flight, but the horizontal stabilizer is not in front of the fin and a different wing.
People back in the 1920 and 30-ties did not have access to balsa, So they were very skilled in building them. Very brave lads, to let it go up and hope they see it back, luckily somebody designed de-thermalisers before the first reed radios came around. It's going to take a winter or more to build it. I might cheat with some balsa in de tail and wing ribs.
Very nice glider you have there again, I like the flat top shallow tail. Unfortunately I don't have decent slope within 200 miles, so it will be electric powered. My lasercutter never existed so it will be the old fashion way to saw ribs and formers. Keep doing your amazing things. I really envy those beautiful slopes.
Thank you!
Very cool. Has kind of a Pelican bill profile ? Sweet !
Ils a pleasure to see traditional glider! Nice spot, Nice pilot, Nice vidéo! Thx !
Fantastic job of timing the music and the flight video! way to go editor!
Thank you!
Quite uplifting music, nimble flying, great scenery and a big smile from John while performing this morning! Add a great cup of coffee in my hands here on the deck and that's precisely the recipe for the start of a great day! Thank you Sir!
Thank you!
You chose the right airfoil for this craft. Because it moves along a pretty good clip and still floats up nicely. Great design and build.
The covering is outstanding and that beautiful frame work deserves it .
So graceful, as a long time RC model flyer I'd love to give slope soaring a go but the nearest slope to me is fifty miles away.
Excellent, looks like you got the polyhedral angles perfect.
Wow beautiful 🧠🧠💪💪 John. Peace to the gods . Keep them coming John i love your work.
So John you managed to stop wild ponies in their tracks and now the local joggers too . Totally spell binding .
If i may say you are getting quite good at this gliding lark. another good video.
E' sempre un gran piacere guardare i suoi modelli e come riesce a farli volare.
That looks like you were having so much fun, beautiful model and such a nice place to fly it.
The loops are magnificent.
I am not sure which is most impressive, your beautiful aircraft that seem to just want to fly when you let them go or, your ability to make them fly like birds. The double loops were pretty impressive for a rudder and elevator only, machine as are the ground hugging, low level maneuvers.
Thanks for the videos. They are eagerly anticipated.
That music track was very enjoyable! Your flying skills and video work are excellent! I believe the flat-top fuselage with the v-hull boat belly for the cargo hold area was ingenious for many reasons. You make it look so easy!! It has "Pelican" elegance!
Thank you! I enjoy flying this one.
Just lovely John. Look forward to the next one. :-)
Just pure Fantasmagorical John and Good lady, thanks again for sharing your skills with us all, best regards from Alan in South Yorkshire 👍👍😊😊❤
Brillant! All perfect. Music, scenery, lovely model...
Who are the persons, wich gives thumbs down? And why?
Great video and glider only spoilt by the damn mid-roll adverts - I hate them
very graceful
Hallo super Video dreimal Daumen hoch diese Harmonie mit Hobby und Natur ist toll mach weiter so
Simply amazing!
Very enjoyable. Thanks
Fabulous glider flying. Tell us does the music come first before the glider choreography or does the flight come first and the music come second.? Your choice of music really complements your videos every time. Also, suspect you are a bit of a meteorologist and can choose the days to fly. This day seems more like a morning(?) of thermals on the slope with minor amount of upslope breeze. Wonderful stuff. I suspect local knowledge is the key to picking your day and spot. Well done!
Thank you! I go flying first then add the music afterwards. I normally have enough video footage so that I can edit it to fit the music.
Another great video and glider to the collection 👌👍👍👍👍
Brilliant therapy! excellent
Well, first to say, everything about that post - own-design, flight, camera work, music - was perfect. I've heard it said that the most violent thing that can be done with a glider is loop it. Have you tried pulling that right hand stick into the bottom corners? Will it spin? And recover? I'm off to do some 4-channel power i/c - with an own-design. Only it's second flight so sticks in corners might not happen today - but it will happen!
Thanks, it’s amazing what you can get away with flying this glider. The wing loading is pretty light so you can loop it etc without over stressing it.
This design receives my highest praise! Your perfect wing and fuselage combination clearly offered smooth control and the tail feathers gave excellent agility. The turns in both directions demonstated your great skill with the flying conditions offered. Was this video one of the first using your newer camera with video stabilization? The camera work presented your flying skills very well and kept focus near and far.....a big challenge many have never overcome!
Thank you so much again. It was filmed indeed filmed on the new camera.
Beautiful day, perfect conditions...
Yes indeed!
Arrr... that be sea shanty if I'm not mistaken!
really cool, looks a bit like a leprechaun
can you make a "traditional" flying wing? i'm building one right now, hotwire xps
span: 1150mm
root chord: 220mm
tip chord: 90mm
sweep distance: 300mm
8mm twist and about 85mm dihedral
it's 170g at the moment (covered in packing tape and with electronics) which puts the wing loading at 9.54 g/dm²
i intended to give it a bird tail, which is why i didn't use an airfoil with reflex, but it seemed to fly alright without any of those, so that's what i'm testing first
What a great location for a beautiful flight.
The scenery is wonderful.
I noticed you brought the "Southerner" glider along.
Did you fly it also?
Thank you for your devotion to the ART and also for sharing with us.
Hi there, it was a great spot to fly! I’ll upload some video of the Southerner flying there soon...
Une bone famille de braves est présente....aujourd'hui .
Un ingénieur par excès-lance
ever beautiful this videos
Did they have these in the baroque era?
Flying that low do you get any "ground-effect" ... is there any difference in the rate of control ?
Thank you for these videos, they always lift my spirits what with all the shenanigans elsewhere in live ....... bravo !!
Hi there, yes it feels like it's getting some ground effect flying that low.
An epic.
Thanks again.
Multicopter shooting ?
Fantastic video how much flying time do you get on one charge
Thank you. It will easily fly for several hours one battery. The servos aren’t working very hard so with a couple of batteries you could fly all day. But I normally only fly for about 20mins before the wife gets bored of filming.
@@SlopeRCGliders its great your wife also enjoys it, my wife enjoys farming i want to get a glider soon and fly it its coming in to summer here in Australia.
Beautiful glider. What airfoil did you use?
compliments to cameraman
Im lucky that my wife always comes out and films my flights.
@@SlopeRCGliders Give her a big kiss from us!! She deserves it. Tony
I would like to know what the music is and who is it performed by.
It’s called Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell
What is that beautiful music you've used ?
It's called Baroque Coffee House.
What incidence settings do you go for ? 0 degrees for both wing and tail?
Hi there Adam. I do normally build in a couple of degrees incidence using the ‘that looks about right’ method.
I built this fuselage upside down, so the top of the fuselage is flat, and the wing sits on it a 0 degrees. The tail is mounted on a small pylon to give the elevator room to move. I just gave the pylon a very slight wedge shape. Hope that all makes sense.
@@SlopeRCGliders Got you. I tend to find you need at least 3-4 "that will do's" per build ...
Where can we buy this type of plane .
Greetings from Europ.👍
Hi there Julien, unfortunately you can’t really buy a kit of this model as it was just a one-off build. So glad you liked it though.
Its Weight n wingspan plz??
1.2 kg 128”
Out of curiosity, what song is this in your video?
I can’t remember off the top of my head. I’ll try and look it up.
@@SlopeRCGliders do not worry, I found it in one of your old answer. Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell
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