ZR was filmed during the 1974 world championships. ----- Original Message ----- From: "DMcD" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:38 AM Subject: [Aus-soaring] More young people in ancient gliders
> 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 > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
