Thrilling Hand-Launched Glider Flights: Battling to Gain Altitude in tight Circles! Explorer NAN
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The following servos are installed in this model:
Flap: KST X10 mini
Aileron: KST X08 Plus
V-tail: KST X08
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Rc airplanes saved my life I love this addiction ❤
I like it. So cool!
I’m amazed how rc gliders have changed within last 20-30 years😮 Thanks guys!
I was building wood and paper kits back in the 70s as a kid, today's planes are amazing but I still love the old way. this is a beautiful glider though. we had no r back then, sometimes lose your beauty plane.
There is something special about hand launching. It feels like a more pure form of flying
The energy retention just defies logic! Love it.
The strength and what that enables is what amazes me about this. We've all seen light things fly, but to have the strength to maneuver and not flex massively is wild to see.
Best comment I ever heard to this matter. Finding a thermal out of a handstart, the best ting that can happen to any gliderpilot!
Amazing. Just picked up an explorer 5 fitting it out soon.
That was amazing to see. Thanks to that skillful pilot and his model.
My longest RC soaring flight was 1:47h with a 2m wingspan 2kg somewhere in the early 90`s and I am in RC flying since 1980.
Cheers
Marc
28 years ago i built my first glider, a great planes 2 meter spirit. Launched by high start, I'll never forget the day I realized it wasn't coming down because I had encountered a thermal. This video brought back fond memories of that unforgettable day. Thank you.
The gliders of today are incredible. Watching these videos really makes me want to get back into soaring. Thanks!
I got back into it after over 30 years. So much has changed.
WOW...like WOW! This guy can really fly.
My longest thermal flight was 4 3/4 hours. Flown from Crestline, just west of Sky Park, in a hang glider. Max altitude was 11, 600 feet ASL.
I used to hand launch RC planes back in the day. I had a 2 meter balsa glider (Larry Jolly design )that worked pretty well. Nothing like today's gliders. Thinking about getting back into it. Was a member of Pacific Soaring Club in Anaheim. Larry Jolly was a member
Larry Jolly the legend!
what an incredible glider, used to build wood and paper gliders in 70s as kid, no rc then. sometimes come home with no glider
Very nice footage ! It would be nice to make a video to explain how you read the air, and how you keep the glider centered in the thermal.
This!
I love the V-tail, it is always really elegant!
Watching Julian fly and build models is an inspiration. I hope to have some flights like this from a hand launch.
Always a pleasure seeing you fly Julian. 👌
Always jaw dropping performance with the right materials & design and of course....a good pilot👏
That wingspan is just amazing
WOW just wow. Nothing like the balsa wood and dope with no remote that I made as a kid back in the '70s. Beautiful.
Great flying and awareness of conditions, thanks for the narration too.
My recor was 7 hours.
But, it was a real glier)
Nice video.
Thank you.
You must have an iron bladder
The addiction is real and theese Servos would be great for some new Projects
I last built a glider about 50 years back. Things have changed so much. Sure looks like fun!
I fly Rc planes ,and I have never flown a glider, your videos inspired me to get involved, thank you for what you do and for what you will keep doing , looking forward on all your new videos ,and I love the simplicity you explain it with , very educational, God bless❤
Amazing flying skills and top performance glider. Thanks for the video!
Such great flying! We have had such bad weather all winter with rain and strong winds. No chance of fun F3K or F5J.
Beautiful. Thanks for the video.
Amazing pilot skills and a beautiful model. The intuition to "feel" the thermal is outstanding
4 hours, but we all had a go! I had lunch and went for a pee while dad had a go, at some point mum had a go to!
Hello Julian, a wonderful demonstration of the outstanding performance of the pilot and the unbelievably good performance of the NAN Explorer F5J aircraft. Thank you, I look forward to further contributions
Very impressive flying and glider, that was great!
its a beautiful thing! Great reading of that lift! I saw the response indicating where the lift was as well.
Wow. Thats fantastic. Those launches are serious. ~ Russ
Excellent low level work to keep the turns flat and drifting with the thermal.
thats nuts I LOVE THERMALS! I am out here with a pug dlg and have had several flights around 5 minutes! commenting to join the raffle!
Thanks for the great video, you're a real master with that ship.
Impressive flying skills, always a pleasure to watch!
You are correct! Things really have changed 🙌.... you can still build balsa if you want but now we also have this insanity and it's amazing😮
Wow! This would be a real challenge - no engines to get you "out of a hole" as it were!
Wonderful skills being shown here!
Huh? He used his 4s POWERED glider to get out of a hole.
beautiful glider! looks light as a feather.
Clicked because that thumbnail is amazing, commenting because of the raffle: I would love these servos for my f22 I am designing and building from scratch! The thin profile is perfect to fit in the wings. Thanks for the opportunity 😌
Great pilot skills - awesome glider - Thanks for sharing
Impressive flying skills and an impressive model. Great content.
Fantastic! As a RL glider pilot, I was most concerned about a wing-tip stall when turning near the ground, but I guess the stall speed is pretty low?
Just bought a second hand f5j but this will be very useful tuition so thanks!
Ist das die Explorer 3 ... 4m Version ? Sind die alle nicht lieferbar ? Finde beim Hersteller nichts, nur Servos ?
Great video! I have this plane, and I've only ever sloped it, but now I'm going to try and hand launch it off the flat. No backup motor though!
do you have a link for where to buy this model in the states? Looks like a lot of variation to the "explorer" line.
INCREDIBLE! What a skill!
amazing flying...genius flier
Beutiful!!! I wish I can do that. I would love to see the radio inputs to better understand how to keep on the thermal. Great flight.
Wow. Nice plane and flying
Beautiful glider and great flying!
Fantastic!! looks like an epic machine.
I have an Exporer BF, been waiting years for me to fit it out. I also fly Paragliders off tow in the flats. Duration hours. Min sink on a PG 1ms. Min sink of F5J I'm guessing 1/10 of that? Climb out from low, really satisfying on a PG too.
great video. thank you!
Wie immer, ein sehr gelungener Beitrag👏👍
Great model and flying.
Beautiful
Amazing flying skills and an impressive aircraft!
Amazing glider and pilot 👍👍👍
My first 2 channel build (balsa) was a Sig Riser 2m. Still have it after 25 years. Flew it for close to 2 hours once in very good thermal conditions. Brought it down to land as my neck was getting quite uncomfortable.
Nice flying :)
Nice gliding!!! 😊
Excellent flying skills
Finding thermals with a 1,5m dlg is one thing... But a 4m hlg? Looks surreal hahaha.
Greetings from Germany :)
Beautiful!
i own a xplorer version 1 which is flying great. i love to take it to the field !
What indicates that you are "falling out" of the thermal?
Awesome👍👍👍
amazing flying !
That Explorer is still the king of F5J!
I tried a discus RC glider. Alot of the time when there were no thermals around it was like playing frisbee with yourself.
What an amazing plane!
I like the ones that you grab by the end of the wing and launch it like a discus. but this plane seems a little too big to do that :D great flying!
totally beautiful flying
yeah well, but those old models with balsa-wood and foil - are they so much worse or heavier?
Great flights and comnentary!!
Very impressive! What's the weight of this model?
Super cooler Flug Julian
just amazing !
Nice! My longest thermal flights with both DLGs and gliders have been in the 1 hour range, and only ended due to battery concerns and boredom.I cheat and get help from my bird friends though!😜👍
Cool. Thermaling straight out of the hand. Can‘t compete with that. Just ridge/mountain flying with much heavier FS (Flying Special) gliders.
Enjoyed that!
its interesting that person so much used to fly as you get sick in the glider, makes me feel less bad about when i do :D
I got a beat up (literally in pieces) balsa 2 channel glider for free, ripped out the 30 year old electronics, rebuilt the broken parts, and upon putting modern electronics in it, it decreased the weight so much the main wing mount had to be moved about 1 foot back on the fuselage. This meant other bits on the design had to change, had to add strength to some places, change the rudder since it had less leverage, but after months of fixing things as they broke, I've managed to come out of it with a stellar glider. I've managed several 10 minute plus flights using a 150ft high start bungee, with my best time being roughly 11 minutes 48 seconds, starting the timer after the bungee dropped off the plane. I've yet to experience a modern composite glider like this one, but to anyone wishing they could get their hands on a better glider, go build one yourself with like 30$ worth of balsa, glue, and wing covering, 60$ worth of electronics, launch it with some medical tubing with a 150ft string attached to it, and just have fun, a 300mah 2s goes for over 5 hours while running two cheap 9 gram servos, and while frustrating at times, there's truly nothing like it.
Great Video Julian
Those Kst servos are awesome
AMAZING !
Awesome !
Don't fully remember (it was ~25 years ago), at least half an hour, I think longer. Had my Mirage 2M fully specked out. Now it seems with the new RPAS regulations in Canada this plane would be considered too heavy without significant paperwork, and you're not allowed to fly that high. I am hoping to build a small DLG to fly at the farm, so some servos would help out.
Send that man straight to the Major Leagues!
Great plane, but the piloting ability is unbelievable!
Super modell ,sehr gut haben will, wo kaufen ? Preis ?
Yeah, impressive!
Amazing video! I'm in!
My longest thermal flight wasn't with a glider. Believe it or not it was with a Goldberg Eagle 2 with an Astro-Flight geared 25 running on 14 sub C ni-cads. I thermalled for almost 20 minutes with the motor off, and each time I tried to enter a landing pattern to come down, the plane was sucked back up. I had to go far out in the landing pattern and fly 5 feet off the deck to land.
I built an RC glider in 1978 in Scotland. Hand start off a small hill. Longest flight was 45 minutes. Scotland always has wind.
well, ridge lift is not thermal lift
@@daviddavids2884 Did I say it was? My bad.
Bucket list model!