A Tenuous Biking Link, but Cool Anyway

Grip Fast · Post by **Grip Fast** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 12:26 pm

Guy Westgate, who taught Guy Martin to fly a glider, gave a demo at our club on Saturday evening. Glider aerobatics, with on-board fireworks. Brilliant madness!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7XXfLcN9r3U

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 2:47 pm

Went up in a glider once in Germany - was amazing then someone suggested I got taken up in a stunt glider - haven't managed that - yet

ned1 · Post by **ned1** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:01 pm

Cool....
wonder what it looked like for the ground !!

Ned

Grip Fast · Post by **Grip Fast** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:53 pm

dave the german wrote:Went up in a glider once in Germany - was amazing then someone suggested I got taken up in a stunt glider - haven't managed that - yet

Yeh, you should try it at least once. It's a whole different experience - not a gentle float around the sky in an unpowered aircraft, but an exhilarating ride through quite strong positive and negative G forces.

Being unpowered, the pilot has to convert height into enough speed for each manoeuvre, so it makes it a shorter flight than the gentle float round. But there is a lot of fun/excitement packed into a few minutes.

Grip Fast · Post by **Grip Fast** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:57 pm

ned1 wrote:Cool....
wonder what it looked like for the ground !!

Ned

I saw Guy flying during the day and that was pretty exciting to watch, but I missed the fireworks flight in the evening

I imagine it looked brilliant from the ground. It would have looked amazing to anyone walking on the Dunstable Downs on Saturday evening. I wonder what they made of it...