Only energy source is the wind and the sun.
Glider plane pilot Bo Lorentzen races along the ridge of Mt. Palomar. His only energy source is the wind and the sun: Wow - it's looooow:
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5. FistOfHell commented 14 years ago
The concept of the plane is exciting, not like the video.
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6. PortugaL26 commented 14 years ago
What an adrenaline rush!
he was so close to the ground
he was so close to the ground
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7. Gringo_el_Diablo commented 14 years ago
The song is Alan Jackson - Chattahoochee since I know so many of you were dying to know
WTF was that at 2:32 ???
WTF was that at 2:32 ???
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8. googleiscool commented 14 years ago
I remember this mission from flight simulator X and isn't the plane suppose to beeb
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9. laughingscorpion commented 14 years ago
This would be amazing on a giant imax screen.
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10. Thanny commented 14 years ago
It's a glider. It has no power source. Solar heating will cause updrafts that give it a bit of lift. Headwinds will provide lift as well, but drain forward momentum.
The bulk of the energy, however, was provided in advance by the engine of the tow plane that pulled him off the ground and up the mountain, in the process stored as gravitational potential energy, which was then expended by the glider as it made its way back down the mountain.
The bulk of the energy, however, was provided in advance by the engine of the tow plane that pulled him off the ground and up the mountain, in the process stored as gravitational potential energy, which was then expended by the glider as it made its way back down the mountain.
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11. Usdevildoggmc commented 14 years ago
Well I know that there are solar powered planes (solar panels) I know of one that can actually stay in flight as long as the sun is alive... So can obviously do a round trip around the earth without landing =)
And as for 2:32 ??? That was interesting it looked like a small version of Stone henge or something lol..
Imagine exhausted from biking up one of those trails and all the sudden getting knocked out by this thing
And as for 2:32 ??? That was interesting it looked like a small version of Stone henge or something lol..
Imagine exhausted from biking up one of those trails and all the sudden getting knocked out by this thing
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12. makeartnotwar commented 14 years ago
Now that's Music ^^ ....
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14. kaleemsaudia commented 14 years ago
what he will do in a night time ?
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18. AryanKnight commented 14 years ago
-one Ace glider-pilot coming as close as 5-10ft from disaster, tandem passsenger-seat totally wet, --knows just how to critically ride the thermal-updrafts akin to a skilled Surfer, but here riding the crest of a huge phantom-wave; --beautiful thing to behold, they're both so in total concentration of mind with nature... ~Robair in SinDiego where 10,000ft mtPalomar 400"-Observatory resides...
+15 1. DarkiKun commented 14 years ago