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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:07 pm    Post subject: 17,999' too low ? Reply with quote #1   

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #2   
Thanks DaveB, that was a great video. There is part of the video that he trys to explain what it is like and says that it is so hard to articulate what it is truly like.

I had a similar problem trying to explain what it means for me to fly in one of my videos. I thought of the movie Contact when Jodie Foster is taken off into the universe and shown such beautiful things and says....They should have sent a poet.

I think though, until they invent direct brain implants it will be impossible to truly explain to our non flying friends what it is like to soar above the earth in our hang gliders. Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #3   
look at the IAS

at 29k it was 153 kts

60510 feet 131.5 kts and .713 mach

70000 feet 103 kts .707 mach
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #4   
u2 at 70000 is 1 knot above stall and 1 knot bellow overspeed
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #5   
At altitude the U2's stall speed is only 10 kts less than its maximum speed.

I think that video just sold me on a U2 ride. That looked way better than I thought. Thanks for the vid.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #6   

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #7   

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no pressure suit needed in the old mig 25
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #8   
relate2 wrote:
I had a similar problem trying to explain what it means for me to fly in one of my videos. I thought of the movie Contact when Jodie Foster is taken off into the universe and shown such beautiful things and says....They should have sent a poet.

I think though, until they invent direct brain implants it will be impossible to truly explain to our non flying friends what it is like to soar above the earth in our hang gliders. Smile



That's too strange Contact is one of my favorite movies as well.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #9   
Wagner: Don't forget the SR-71 Blackbird although that was before your time


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I especially like the parts about a mature pilot and the #1 requirement is to be married.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote #10   
i think the married portion was probably so that noone would take the plane and land it in russia or something
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #11   
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no pressure suit needed in the old mig 25


Have fun ejecting at altitude and speed not wearing a pressure suit.....
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #12   
PilotGuy wrote:
At altitude the U2's stall speed is only 10 kts less than its maximum speed.

I think that video just sold me on a U2 ride. That looked way better than I thought. Thanks for the vid.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #13   
cool looking up there. and it's only 13 miles away.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote #14   
relate2 wrote:
Thanks DaveB, that was a great video. There is part of the video that he trys to explain what it is like and says that it is so hard to articulate what it is truly like.

I had a similar problem trying to explain what it means for me to fly in one of my videos. I thought of the movie Contact when Jodie Foster is taken off into the universe and shown such beautiful things and says....They should have sent a poet.

I think though, until they invent direct brain implants it will be impossible to truly explain to our non flying friends what it is like to soar above the earth in our hang gliders. Smile


"I would like to think that my best flying can not be so easily defined or understood. If I could ever express or somehow fully convey from within the full impact of my best soaring moments, I fear I would need to give up the chase. The great chasm separating the expression and the experience harbors a swift tributary. This river flows through my core."

....Gary Osoba
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