(shakes head) What would possess someone to come up with this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1265891/Hold-think-youre-going-S...
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March 18, 2011 7:50 p.m. Lesley SuperDork
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March 18, 2011 9:57 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork
Lesley wrote:
(shakes head) What would possess someone to come up with this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1265891/Hold-think-youre-going-S...
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March 18, 2011 10:06 p.m. EastCoastMojo SuperDork
Red bull. It gives you wings but pack a 'chute just in case.
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March 18, 2011 10:12 p.m. SVreX SuperDork
Hmmm... Lesley, I think you are the first woman to ever ask me that.
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March 18, 2011 11:21 p.m. Schmidlap HalfDork
Why were they giving the skydiver all the credit? It seems to me that it was the glider pilots who made it all possible. The guy hung from one wing until another wing smacked him in the ass, then he stood on a wing until a tail came down to meet him.
It was bad ass though.
Bob
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March 18, 2011 11:45 p.m. oldsaw SuperDork
Well, yes, I do. But mine are more important to me than his are to him.
I'll happily take a ride-along with either of those pilots and come back giddy.
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March 19, 2011 7:15 a.m. Kendall_Jones Reader
Best comment:
I'd be more impressed if I didn't know they did this same sh*t in the 1920's on biplanes without the parachute.
- Patrick, san francisco, ca, 15/4/2010 01:42
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March 19, 2011 9:50 a.m. T.J. SuperDork
I didn't know gliders could fly upside down.
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March 19, 2011 10:55 a.m. mattmacklind SuperDork
Der rot Stier Gemeinschaft fur die gewinn?
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March 19, 2011 3:15 p.m. 914Driver SuperDork
What's the point? Bigguns would be doing it without a chute.
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March 19, 2011 3:27 p.m. CarKid1989 Dork
What is even the point of a glider?
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March 19, 2011 6:15 p.m. PHeller Dork
I've always like gliders better than engined airplanes. Nothing to go wrong. Unless you hit something...in mid flight...
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March 19, 2011 10:56 p.m. aircooled SuperDork
CarKid1989 wrote:
What is even the point of a glider?
It's like a regular plane with the added complication of having to find your own propulsion (lift).
It the challenge man.
It's kind of like someone asking why someone would drive a Miata when a Corolla will get you to work just as easy. (not really, but I think you get the idea)
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March 20, 2011 12:21 a.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
CarKid1989 wrote:
What is even the point of a glider?
Starting small before you move up to more powerful stuff. Ya wanna start track days with a F430, or a Miata? You have to know a lot about what makes a plane actually fly in the first place (and a ton of stuff about how weird the Earth's atmosphere actually is) to keep a plane without a motor off the ground for more than the couple of minutes it takes to crash.
Gotta admit, I don't fly for real..but even I learned that much from trying R/C airplane models. I still want to learn how to fly model sailplanes one day. It's like sailing instead of running a powerboat..you really have to pay attention to the wind, the waves, and the currents (my old Sunfish had to be finessed through stuff that my dad's Boston Whaler could just power through).
A lot of my aviation & WW2 enthusiast pals also tell me that the reason German fighter pilots were better at the beginning of the war than the end of it is because they'd started as glider pilots.
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March 20, 2011 3:12 p.m. Appleseed SuperDork
Bah! They've been doing this for years (without chutes.)
