Jet Gliders seen in New Mexico!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2024
- Gliders / Sailplanes equipped with Jet engines were born in New Mexico, we have a few interesting ones around this bustling glider community.
Two organizations man the field
www.merlinaviation.net Ask for Whitney the owner!
abqsoaring.org ask for anyone, very convivial club. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Technically, it's a self-launching sailplane. For all the naysayers, there is nothing in the world like soaring. Catch a thermal at 800' AGL and ride it to 14,000 feet, then glide at 120 kts at 40:1 until you find the next one. Or run a ridge in Tennessee and fly 200 ft off the trees for 20 miles. I used to fly a Nimbus (unlimited class) in Florida and once had to dead stick from 5000 ft. 35 miles to my home airport. I got there with 900 ft altitude. Almost nothing in life is more exhilarating than soaring.
Great description
Over here in Germany, where it was invented (by Lilienthal, if one wants, before the Wrights) and where it grew to a grass root sports during the wars on the Wasserkuppe (we simply weren't allowed to build powered aircrafts), we have a huge club scene, which makes it affordable to everyone, even kids. Almost every city has its own gliding club and most of the gliders in the world are still developed and built here, despite high labour expenses.
I loved the sport, but Germans are Germans and they are bureaucrats and nitpickers. Clublife also isn't easy, because there are always one or two oldies in every club, who ruin everybodies' day. This makes the greatest experience of freedom (gliding) to a hell of a prison on the ground, because there is not just the Luftamt but a lot of paperwork and also the club work. Therefor I gave up.
But noone, who does not share the experience of fighting with a thermal and hearing the vario twitter, might understand the magic and fascination. There is no Lycoming and propeller noise and even the raptors have accepted us as their buddies, flying close to us. Over here they show thermals to us and vice versa. They have adapted, because there are so many gliders over here.
To this day I repent having quit.
one of the best if you have the fly bug❤
The rocket plane has a slow climb rate
The biplane is a Marquart Charger.
I had never heard of it.
I've flown into that airport. I bought a 182 in Phoenix. After I dropped off a friend in Albuquerque, I headed east. The weather got bad at Cline's Corner and I started picking up ice. I went back to Moriarty and waited. Later that day, I took another shot but again started picking up ice. Back to Moriarty. The next day the weather was better and I headed out on my way.
Icing is not that common here
smart move
Trainer is Great Lakes 2T? It was only a matter of time for jets to catch up with gliders. Wonder if they leave any fuel in reserve before landing just in case.
Such a glider could cross the entire country.
It would take a week
The jet glider is CarolAnn Garratt.
👍
Brilliant and beautiful.
Thank you! Cheers!
Gliders with aux jets to launch with are nothing new. Uncommon, it's more common to use a piston engine, but not RARE.
Well Bob is was not the first but definitely one of the first
That. Is an Asw 27 which has been flying in the US for years. Those better informed will know that Jonker Sailplanes have jets for many years.
true, this one is interesting inasmuch as the configuration of 2 small jet engines, as opposed to one large one.
Those really well informed and less pedantic know that New Mexico is the 47th US state
it can have a water filled stabilizer tube to even out weight distribution dynamically
So now it's not a glider anymore technically it's a fighter jet🤣
Indeed
Remember the folding propeller and engine nacelle retracting into the body on non-jet powered sailplanes?
that would be a stemme S10 or S12
4:24 oh, a PZL PW5 world class glider..
cool
Flown here many times! Solo tee shirt is on the hanger wall!
Good times obviously
Electric self launch is the future, and it's about time. Even with today's batteries already perfectly working, and it will get better and cheaper very soon.
So these perfect batteries going on fire occasionally is a design feature? That’s very cleaver
I agree.
@@trueairspeed130 me too!!
really😂
The problem with batteries is they are too heavy. You would have to design an entire new sailplane from scratch to keep the batteries at the correct CG. To go faster, sailplanes carry water in bladders in the leading edge of the wings, but dump it before landing.. If you put the batteries in the wings, It would take 4 people to put the wings on, and the landing speeds would be excessive.
Jet powered glider...do you need a multi-engine rating?
Glider is a category with no sub classes, in this particular case I think they just get an LOA
The jets are not "engines" for a glider, they are an optional launch assistance appliance, they could just as well aerotow or auto/winch launch to get into the air...
Climb and glide
100%
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At what altitude and speed does the left wing stop dragging on the ground? 🤪
10-15 knots
why no one does a 1 to 1 power to weight on a glider? it is law limitations or what? its not that dificult to do that, just expensive... 500kg glider, 70kg pilot, 150kg engine, 200kg glider, and 80kg fuel... 20 min of pure fun hhaahaha i dont know the size of a engine to have 5.000kn, but even 2 for 1 in power to weight would be insane in a glider... this glider on the video maybe have 400kg and 50kg of thrust and can go 200kmh
Interesting for sure. To much with the back and forth views. My opinion of course. Thank's for posting.
You bet
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Caproni's concept of the 70's . A Calif jet powered glider with integrated engine.
Shame no sound
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Engine quits its a glider
aren't they all, if the engine quits :)
Please quit using those crappy AI generated pictures for thumbnails.
You have nice content, you don't need those pretend sensations.
Thanks for the feedback
Click bait-ish
Of course