WOW, late october! Excellent, SUCH a pretty wing; total wing envy. Looks a bit breezy with the smoke laying over; surprised you were thermaling. Nice camera work and editing.
@BrilliantDesignOnline thanks! It was the right place right time. Had to wait a while as it was 90° cross from the left for quite some time. Very pleasantly surprised to see how good the thermals were. Cannot wait to get another flight. It's really great to get a nice first flight. Thanks. It is tough to crop out all the crap and keep it short enough it's not boring but long enough it's interesting
Hi Mike, what are the 4 flaps (2 each side) on the top surface of the wing for. Are you able to control them to assist in roll, like an aileron, or do they raise automatically. From all the videos I've watched so far they make no sense?
They are spoilerons. It's how the glider turns. You fly it the same as a flex wing but without weight shift. When you move the control frame (as if you were trying to shift your weight), it actuates the spoilerons. It has flaps as well and the tail moves up and down. I will make a video of that sometime soon to demonstrate.
WOW, late october! Excellent, SUCH a pretty wing; total wing envy. Looks a bit breezy with the smoke laying over; surprised you were thermaling. Nice camera work and editing.
@BrilliantDesignOnline thanks! It was the right place right time. Had to wait a while as it was 90° cross from the left for quite some time. Very pleasantly surprised to see how good the thermals were.
Cannot wait to get another flight. It's really great to get a nice first flight.
Thanks. It is tough to crop out all the crap and keep it short enough it's not boring but long enough it's interesting
wow incredible, congratulations...
@@iqm98 thank you thank you! Can't wait for some good weather and another flight
That's an amazing piece of engineering, glad you finally got to fly it. You maxed out a marginal day, and nailed a no-wind landing, nice!
It is! Thanks. Always great to have a good first flight and a good landing. Weather has not worked since. Very lucky day.
Congrats for the new spaceship.
Thank you! Can't wait for another flight!
Sweet!
It was a good day!
Nice to see you on a blade making circles
Thanks!! Really enjoyed it, especially given it was late Oct!
@MikeBomstad I'm usually in Santa Barbara this time of year, did get a half hour at Tiger a couple of days ago circling in zero and kicking trees tops
@boringsoaring ahhh nice! I'd take that about now.
Rain low Cloud and inversion is all we've had.
May get down to SB later this year....
that sky look bigger in every video ,
You know, some days it seems that way 😊
Congrats!
Is it strong enough to carry the weight of a trike and pilot?
Thanks!
This model is not. they make a VRS 190 designed for trikes.
Check out this channel ruclips.net/video/-D_gnAnH1tg/видео.htmlsi=PAxDeHGHwXMbadeD
@@MikeBomstad
Thanks for the link
I have posted one of his videos on my group Microlight and Ultralight Aircraft (89,000+ members)
@BlueMax333 excellent, I'm on that group lots of good stuff there.
@@MikeBomstad
you are welcome to post; but powered aircraft only
@BlueMax333 yes. I go lurking there occasionally.
Hi Mike, what are the 4 flaps (2 each side) on the top surface of the wing for. Are you able to control them to assist in roll, like an aileron, or do they raise automatically. From all the videos I've watched so far they make no sense?
They are spoilerons. It's how the glider turns. You fly it the same as a flex wing but without weight shift. When you move the control frame (as if you were trying to shift your weight), it actuates the spoilerons.
It has flaps as well and the tail moves up and down. I will make a video of that sometime soon to demonstrate.
@@MikeBomstad Excellent, it makes sense now. thanks heaps Mike.
You are welcome, glad to help. Let me know if you have any other questions.
How much does it cost? I dream about)))
More than a topless, but worth it!
@@MikeBomstad more than a couple of topless gliders ?
Very close!
@@MikeBomstad 15K?
@@BrilliantDesignOnline that's how much a new topless is these days