Beautiful video! Thanks! In the summer of 2022 I made a bunch of flights from the Harriet Alexander Airport in Salida (elev. 7523') at the south end of the valley. The air is so thin in the summer. On one flight the air density was over 11,000'. It took full power in Sport Mode on my SP140 with my single skin 26M Independence Grasshopper to get off of the ground. Oh yes, all of my flights were before 10AM because of the unpredictable wind conditions after 10AM. The Arkansas River Valley is so beautiful, but you have to be very aware of and familiar with your environment in order to safely fly there. My flights were SO worth it!! Bill
NIce video and experience, well done ! A suggestion for the next attempt, perhaps get a helmet cam gopro to capture your cockpit / altimeter and a 360 degree cam to give a larger view.
5:25 "Climbout was smooth" gets thrashed left and right. 🤣 Nice job on this! Congrats! Let's keep pushing for improved battery density! You definitely are getting thrashed around on your way up. Always nerve-wracking! Battery-powered gloves are totally worth it, even when the air is above freezing!
Ah man the turbulence looks rough.. non PPG pilots don't understand how much the Gopros stabilize the footage so if it looks rough in the video then in reality you were bouncing everywhere. We have bought Sabotheat elec gloves for winter flying and if you get a size slightly too large then it adds a bit of dexterity to the finger tips for toggle control. It helps to wear them a lot in normal life to stretch out and add flexibility to the material. Ive also added Hot Hands to the palms of my gloves and arches of my feet if it gets really cold. Anyway great video 👍
There are new models on the market with a smaller blade and a very comfy sack seat, fully heated and space for oxygen tank and a emergency parachute, which is inside the sack. Opens automatically in any thinkable emergency situation, incl. a GPRS signal, which make it easy to find and rescue... What´s the weird sound 14:40min.!??!
@@SuperOrbiter I think it will only get better from here. I will be really excited when there is a 2 hour battery with quick charge. That will be a game changer.
I climbed several times back in times over 12,000 MSL and once I went up to 14,300 MSL. All done from altitude of 430 ish. My experience is I would never try again without electric heated gloves. You should try them :-) Otherwise congratulations to your achievement.
Email Wisnierska 35 passed out due to lack of oxygen and flew unconscious for up to an hour covered in ice after reaching an altitude of 9947 metres . That's not to shabby.
I own a Tesla and fly rc planes, but what happens if you do in the worst case, have a fire that high up? You WILL perish in the worst possible way…. Either you burn before you fall to death or you burn then fall. Or you wing burns and you drop to deaths.
Not trying to be a downer, but they launched from an asl altitude of 10,000 feet so not that impressive, if you did it from sea level id be impressed. Hopefully someday they will come that far. Still really cool tho, keep up the innovation
Yes, however absolute altitude was our objective. I live at 7000ft msl, our objective was to simply see how it would perform in harsh temps and at high altitude. The X15 theoretically could of been designed to take off from the ground, but instead they dropped it from a wing of a B52 at 40k feet. Similar mentality with this attempt, we knew the battery duration would be very short, so starting at sea level, would of never got any real altitude results. I wanted to see if any power loss through prop efficiency was lost at 15k or greater. With a bigger wing, we are estimating 21K + in the right conditions. Which then, would be an impressive altitude gap. Once again this was just a test.
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Nice work! Props to the OpenPPG bros and team for developing the SP140!
We agree!
Thanks for making this Nathan. This is great!
Thanks for watching!
That is SO awesome!! Congrats on the amazing achievement!!
thanks buddy!
Great achievement. Brave man 👏👏Thanks for the video. I’m ordering the SP140 for myself. Cheers.
Good choice!
Beautiful video! Thanks!
In the summer of 2022 I made a bunch of flights from the Harriet Alexander Airport in Salida (elev. 7523') at the south end of the valley. The air is so thin in the summer. On one flight the air density was over 11,000'. It took full power in Sport Mode on my SP140 with my single skin 26M Independence Grasshopper to get off of the ground. Oh yes, all of my flights were before 10AM because of the unpredictable wind conditions after 10AM. The Arkansas River Valley is so beautiful, but you have to be very aware of and familiar with your environment in order to safely fly there. My flights were SO worth it!!
Bill
That sounds like a very cool flight!
well done! Congratulations to you and the Team! Dreams comes true!
Thank you sir
NIce video and experience, well done ! A suggestion for the next attempt, perhaps get a helmet cam gopro to capture your cockpit / altimeter and a 360 degree cam to give a larger view.
@@gaetanproductions that's a great suggestion. I will try that next time!
Such an exciting video! Thanks for sharing! I've enjoyed it more than watching "Mission Imposible"!
Thanks for watching!
Awesome video Nate!! Hope to see you at Devils Tower again!!
For sure!!
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 You are an "Astronaut" now🎉🎉🎉🎉
thanks for what you say at the end of the video it realy make me feel like go make my dream come true, I will fly a paramotor soon.
Absolutely friend 💯
5:25 "Climbout was smooth" gets thrashed left and right. 🤣 Nice job on this! Congrats! Let's keep pushing for improved battery density! You definitely are getting thrashed around on your way up. Always nerve-wracking! Battery-powered gloves are totally worth it, even when the air is above freezing!
I could absolutely use some heated gloves then 😂😂
that is phenomenal... would have said not possible before this
Thank you! Hopefully we can really push the envelope the next try.
Ah man the turbulence looks rough.. non PPG pilots don't understand how much the Gopros stabilize the footage so if it looks rough in the video then in reality you were bouncing everywhere. We have bought Sabotheat elec gloves for winter flying and if you get a size slightly too large then it adds a bit of dexterity to the finger tips for toggle control. It helps to wear them a lot in normal life to stretch out and add flexibility to the material. Ive also added Hot Hands to the palms of my gloves and arches of my feet if it gets really cold. Anyway great video 👍
Oh man those gloves sound wonderful! Thanks for the info!
another nice video THANKS
Thanks for watching
Awesome. Would a summer attempt get you higher due to being able to use the thermals ? Just curious. Maybe it gets too thermic in the summer ?
We are thinking it sure will and the overall temps won't be near as bad
There are new models on the market with a smaller blade and a very comfy sack seat, fully heated and space for oxygen tank and a emergency parachute, which is inside the sack. Opens automatically in any thinkable emergency situation, incl. a GPRS signal, which make it easy to find and rescue... What´s the weird sound 14:40min.!??!
@@SuperOrbiter I think it will only get better from here. I will be really excited when there is a 2 hour battery with quick charge. That will be a game changer.
21:31 good dog.
He’s a happy pup
Very nice
Twisted wind woody here lol. No the other woody keeping it real the American way loved it god bless ya yee haaaaa
Electrically heated gloves will change your cold weather flying life
Great point!
My son and I did a tandem flight with that Daniel guy. I bet it was that trike as this was in June of 23.
Daniel is a wonderful guy. Great instructor too
Good stuff !
Thanks for the visit
I climbed several times back in times over 12,000 MSL and once I went up to 14,300 MSL. All done from altitude of 430 ish. My experience is I would never try again without electric heated gloves. You should try them :-) Otherwise congratulations to your achievement.
Email Wisnierska 35 passed out due to lack of oxygen and flew unconscious for up to an hour covered in ice after reaching an altitude of 9947 metres . That's not to shabby.
Ewa Wisnierska is her name .
Stupid phone.
I’ve heard about that crazy story, can’t believe she survived.
Outstanding!!
thanks for watching!
Solar fabric wings 🪽 to cross oceans, can't wait 😅
Now that would be cool!
Music drowns out your narrative in portions of video, but congrats on your flight and record.
Music has been removed now. Might be better thanks for watching
Wow, thanks for that! Didn't mean for you to go to all that trouble! @@SirDrifto
Should of got Chucky to pilot it in shorts
What a sight 😂😂
You don't need much to achieve great things.
hold on... you climbed 15k feet? 😮
or the altitude there is already high and then you flew up to 15k over sea level?
Leadville is at 10k ? i think
@@Ivanskrakow so he climbed 1400ish meters. ok that makes more sense now. thanks alot mate
Electric gloves?
I did have a pair, but they were very bulky and im not used to them, so i used my thinner gloves.
@@SirDrifto Wrap your hands in mylar space-blanket material ? Or make a pair of inner liners with mylar sandwiched in between ?
I own a Tesla and fly rc planes, but what happens if you do in the worst case, have a fire that high up? You WILL perish in the worst possible way…. Either you burn before you fall to death or you burn then fall. Or you wing burns and you drop to deaths.
I was concerned about this too! But… a full spiral should keep the flames behind you in theory ( in my head )
What if your gasoline paramotor catches fire?🤷♂️
Same if you had a gas engine light up.
That's more likely to happen in a gasoline paramotor though.
Hopefully the solid state batteries will eliminate the concern this year or so.
Not trying to be a downer, but they launched from an asl altitude of 10,000 feet so not that impressive, if you did it from sea level id be impressed. Hopefully someday they will come that far. Still really cool tho, keep up the innovation
Yes, however absolute altitude was our objective. I live at 7000ft msl, our objective was to simply see how it would perform in harsh temps and at high altitude. The X15 theoretically could of been designed to take off from the ground, but instead they dropped it from a wing of a B52 at 40k feet. Similar mentality with this attempt, we knew the battery duration would be very short, so starting at sea level, would of never got any real altitude results. I wanted to see if any power loss through prop efficiency was lost at 15k or greater. With a bigger wing, we are estimating 21K + in the right conditions. Which then, would be an impressive altitude gap. Once again this was just a test.
@@SirDrifto Is the battery heated ?
@@GodzillaGoesGaga unfortunately is not
don't need the music.
batteries paramotor like cars waste of money ! Nice job!!👋👋👍