HA Here are a couple more videos for vintage buffs. For those folk who could not get the sound out of the last ones, there is no sound. They were shot 16mm MOS. This is a technical term from film days and means "Mit out sound". Otto Preminger I think.
The previous videos had video in DV format, compressed using H.264 and audio in AAC format. I don't know what that means, but Quicktime ought to sort it out, or use VLC as others suggest. Anyway..... These are mainly flex wings. And before you'all turn off, it is interesting to compare these with the other two sets of videos, Zulu Romeo and the Vintage stuff. These videos are almost contemporary with Zulu Romeo I think. ZR was 1994? And these are 1976-7. Most of the pilots at Waikerie would have had hundreds or thousands of hours of experience, while few of the HG pilots here would have had more than 50. The level of development and sophistication of the gliders in the HG video is about the same as the ones in the Vintage sailplane video. You can easily compare a standard Rogallo with a Zogling primary, and in this video, the first of the radical "hybrid" gliders were starting to appear. In those days you had to fly in a near gale to stay up which in these penetrationally challenged gliders meant sometimes you went over the back. Some things, like the method of flying two-up are quite strange to people now, but that was the accepted way of doing it then. Many of these people are still flying hang gliders or have moved or are moving to plastic gliders. http://www.4shared.com/file/111540268/570b73d0/Ancient_Hang_Gliding2.html http://www.4shared.com/file/111541226/6c63fcb6/Bird_Man_Rally_Yanchep_2.html Best DMcD _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
