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Awesome. Simply awesome. I would LOVE to watch that on a wide screen TV in 3d!
Thanks for posting that. Made my day.
Nate
Nice find, thanks for posting....
The back flips at the 4 min mark were crazy.
Yeah, the flips are insane! and then he just gracefully slides across the top of the building... Pretty incredible!
No, thank you. I believe I'll sit this one out, if you don't mind.
> Yeah, the flips are insane! and then he just gracefully slides across the top of the building... Pretty incredible!
Yeah, they made me nervous!! How did they do that flying like that?? A jet pack or just by the air or?? Looked like FUN!!! 🙂
Angel, alot of what you were seeing is called "Slope Soaring". Slope Soaring is done when there is a wind blowing, UP a hill, and creates LIFT, simply due to the horizontal winds, hitting the hill, causing the wind to be moving UP.
That really looks like fun.
N
> Angel, alot of what you were seeing is called "Slope Soaring". Slope Soaring is done when there is a wind blowing, UP a hill, and creates LIFT, simply due to the horizontal winds, hitting the hill, causing the wind to be moving UP.
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> That really looks like fun.
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> N
But what do they do if the wind blows down??? :-O
Well, Angel, it just never does.... (in most of these kind of areas) It has to do with the prevailing winds, and where the water is, and the change in temperature between land and water. I don't necessarily know why...but I have been on beaches where the wind blows consistently inland, for a certain number of hours a day, such as from sunrise, to sunset etc. Our involvement was with R/C gliders, but the principles are the same.
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