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i’m astonished something as bad as that can come apart so quickly. i’d be thinking about throwing it in the bin and getting a new one looking at that nightmare

Brings back memories!

Great invention ,cant see the device clearly ,because of video man or girl😂

thank you very much I don't know your name I looked for you on instagram to have this conversation because I was very curious about your landings because I always had a lot of difficulty with landing the falcon 3 but I believe that it is because I am very low even on the speed bar my chest gets very close and at the time of the flare i can't raise my hand and the wing falls i talked to this person about my landings and he said that the wing is great for landing when i saw his videos i was impressed

I have a falcon 3195 and my landings are not good I think I'm too low on the bar how many inches are you above the speed bar?

Can I fish there?

Just goes to show you genius can be simple.

I have seen WAAAAAAY TOOOO many front rowing techniques and they are expensive and most want to sell you a boat also. Yours is by far the simplest, cheapest and way too easy to have been engineered. My hat is off to you for the most greatest, ingenious design Ever.

At least you didn't whack...👍

I’ve been looking for my refrigerator door. Give it back!

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You almost had a tree branch where you spleen should be.

I'm late to the party here, but those who say this is not cumbersome or that it's not inefficient have never rowed for real and are ignoring basic ergonomics of the body. Having one's arms splayed out so far, just to reduce the natural lack of mechanical advantage of pulling too close to the fulcrum is not remotely efficient. What you want is for your hands to be close together so you can pull straight back with the tension in your arms equaling the force applied to the handles, but with the force still applied at an appropriate distance from the fulcrum (any engineer (I saw some comments from engineers) SHOULD understand vectors well enough to recognize what's wrong with the geometry of the rower's arms here). Anyway, I learned to row at the age of about 12, and in recent years have rowed hundreds of miles each summer in canoe-shaped boats and never found the traditional method to be problematic in any way. And when you get into situations were special finesse and control strokes are needed, nothing beats a traditional setup (not talking about sliding-seat rigs here). There's a reason that even with today's extreme technology and even on the most advance rowing craft ever invented, the traditional method still rules. It's great to be a tinkerer, but the rules of physics will catch up with you if you get it wrong, which is the case here. Keep tinkering and you'll eventually settle on using the standard setup.

Are you going to do any hang gliding this year?

prob a great hands on lesson

who do i need to contact to fly there?

Good design!

Man, someone has a a great mind! I, too, am an engineer and you have every right to be proud of this device. Well done! A little refinement and this could be a very efficient design.

Awesome!

Nice flight!

wow this is soooooo cool man! I'm so interested in doing this! I go to high rock a lot and have never seen this done. thanks for sharing

The reason your boards split is due to no Mast Step

Just watched this with a student who's reading about the forces involved in flight and gliding. Nice camera angle and the perfect landing let me talk about how to slow down out of a glide. WOOT!

wow!

i really interested your harness it is nice , would to see some close up photos.

Text book landing... two thumbs up!

Nice flights. Looking smooth.

Growing up at the base of that mountain, I always loved watching hang gliders fly around then land in the fields in front of my house. Great video!h

Nice sweet flight. Some nice video shots as well! Thanks!

The mains are 1 inch wide webbing rated for hundreds of pounds more than you're likely to ever stress them, even at a couple Gs.

curious, i look at how your held up by a tiny cord. how much weight can that thing hold?!

nice one...

Sweet! When I last soared a ridge near Cooperstown, a ground observer took video of a hawk following behind a ways, then catching up...I didn't see it during flight, only later in video.

Beautiful landing. Hopefully, I will be able to do the same using the same DBF approach you did. Thank you for sharing.

Very nice landing

Nice! I used to live close to the Pulpit, before my hang gliding days. I am looking forward to flying there when I am back in Pa this year.

Nice...and "easy."

"Yahoo?" More like ya-HURL!

Jesse, nice flight...congratualtions

I'd very much like to see a version that works with a sliding seat. Is it possible you'd try making such a thing? Maybe the version you have now would already suffice -- I don't know. If you monitor these comments, jyoder111, please respond.

I wonder if you could just get a couple of really big fans and angle them under and in front of the glider and just glide forever...

Nice flight! Great scenery!

Man that was close..I bet you will be setting up your approach inside the tree line..from now on..

so easy so perfect : )

yeah, common wisdom seems to rate the grapevine over the bottleneck for the reasons you noted. However, the bottleneck is more comfortable for me as I tend to lean through the control frame so my shoulders are in front of the tubes, launch with a very low AoA, and hold the glider down so that my hang strap isn't loaded until just before lift off.

You may want to review your launch technique. You change your hands from the 'grapevine' grip to the 'bottle' grip as you take your first step. Please note that when you are in the grapevine grip your shoulders and upper arms are in a great position for leverage control to propel the glider forward. But as soon as you changed grips, your upper body is no longer in contact with the control bar and control is greatly reduced. Leverage control for as many steps as possible is good for your health!

This is absolutely not cumbersome and impractical. I am an engineer, have studied many forward row designs [row-Rite, EZ row, Gig Harbor, Forwardrower] this is an "elegant" design - simple and effective. I would like to see a sliding seat incorporated [as those designs all seem to have more power / speed] which may require poles with handholds extended from the oars, but this design will still be simpler than most out there. I would also like to see it adapted to a rowing shell. Very good stuff.

@jyoder111 aahh, nice answer, i used to land on my control bar when i had my falcon, midway with the falcon i just found that i liked the control i have coming down with the control bar, now with the sport i dont ever come down with the Dtubes, more control and pitch authority till the last seconds is what i feel is better for my kind of flying

@HangingwithJoe Base tube till final, generally, but it's nice to be confident in the option of flying and turning the glider from the down tubes.

so what do you think? do you like landing on the downtubes or on the control bar?