most often the lift will be best at the edges of the canyons rather than straight up the middle of the ridge, the wind is blowing less in the canyons and is where the heat is building up and where the best thermals originate, more exploring would be recommended,
Looks like so much fun. Do you have any information that you can share? I would love to do a tandem flight there. I got my hang 1 but will not be able to fly on my own due to a severe back problem.
I'm not sure who is still doing tandems in the area. If you have serious back problems, you may not be able to go even as a passenger, as you still need to be able to do a strong run on launch and come down on your feet for landing. (Though some tandems belly-land.) USHPA's insurance has all but destroyed the tandem scene, I'm afraid.
I know you probably just set up this video and lucked out with that ambient lighting you were talking about, but this looks great! What camera did you shoot this on? Also, that's a funny story about the doctor almost forgetting to check you. I can imagine that was frustrating, but it's better to know then to learn six months into training, or even in the air
I timed the shoot to coincide with the best possible lighting. Fog around here is a nearly every-day thing. I waited until mid-afternoon so the sun was on the opposite side of the house and all the illumination was coming in reflected off the fog. It gave me the minimum of glare, a maximum of illumination and - since the fog layer here is rarely more than 100-200 feet thick - no significant impact on the color of the lighting. The camera's a cheap old USB webcam, but given that we're looking at color here, it shouldn't really matter. The dyes that are used as filters over the sensor elements on cameras has changed little in a decade. I'd even argue that this camera is a better choice than a modern GoPro, since a modern camera does a LOT of color processing - especially with regard to boosting saturation. Ever notice how snappy and sharp colors are on a GoPro? The fact that they produce an image that's more colorful than real life is the old Kodachrome marketing advantage.
Neither. The remote port on this camera supplies a voltage on one line and waits to see the circuit close to the other two lines. You can do that any way you like. I've done it with switches, relays, transistors, touching exposed wire ends. I've even used a photo resistor in the line and pointed a laser at it. When the laser beam is broken, the circuit is completed and the camera shoots a photo.
Thanks for your answer, I need to look more into this, never used the remote port directly so I am not sure where to check for that voltage, are you using a Canon 5D?
@@hernanllano9711 I think it was a 5D. This vid's about 10 years old. If you want to build one of these yourself, you'll want to buy a remote just to get the connector and the wire connected to it. Cut it off as close to the remote mechanism as possible, then take apart the mechanism and see how it works. Most likely, it's just a couple metal plates that get squished together as you push the buttons. That'll give you your answer on how to rig the electronics to take the place of the remote.
Imagine it. Eight billion years from now the Earth will have long been burned to a crisp, the Sun will be a fading white dwarf, and our galaxy will slowly be dying. But some lonely, upstart species starts to explore their home system, and finds a tiny derelict passing thru with a strange golden circle on its side. After centuries or millennia, the markings on the cover are finally deciphered, the record played and the images decoded. And humanity, strange and incomprehensible, is resurrected from the void and lives once again. But these upstarts, realizing that these strange beings must have vanished a LONG time ago, decide to turn their back on the stars, since they never found any other sign of anyone else to talk to. The record is switch off, and then humanity dies again, for the final time. Silence.
no life will ever see it.....the voyagers are moving far to fast to be able to stop without complete destruction, we have been space ready for 50+ years and only now are we considering land/mining a large asteroid- a small asteroid would not be considered suffeicient versus the cost.
Was first to fly Cerro Gordon in 1975. Hang 4 #212. Was flying with Jerry Katz day set record 80+ miles. Broke 16,400ft and many 30 mile flight on Cumulus 10.
Those cumulus clouds along the ridge going North looked quite good. Was it not good enough for a "speed run" to the North (and then back, possibly) ? Or did you not have a retrieve driver ? Thanks for sharing !
Where is Gunther Launch, must be north of Walts Launch. I flew Owens summer of '95 in m WW HP-AT158, always from Walts Point. Second flight I brought O2 and flew more conservatively, gaining more altitude when possible. I flew Walts Point to top of Tinnamaha Peak, crossed to scratching in front of Black Mountain with the antennaes. I some times encountered 1,500fpm up and saw mountains get smaller and smaller below me until reaching my max alt of 17,300 feet. I flew over Janie's ranch, bopping along at cloudbase while dropping verga and landed in Mina in Nevada. 6-7 hours in the air, about 120 miles distance and 17,300 foot max alt, and unforgetable experience. Not even all the beers my buddy Tuttle and I drank on the way back to China Naval Base erased this memory. I remember very well getting tossed around under my glider in Owens, much worse on other flights there but what a magical place to fly.
Great video and flight ! Wish me and Doug knew how good it was down there. We had to settle for just butter smooth air at 16-1700. Doug got slammed landing right into rotor as well but ended up on his feet okay. I took the recommended approach for north days by several very long time Funston pilots. Was very straight forward and uneventful. I was 700 feet at golf course. Pulled in and went over the bush near LZ at 10-15 feet over and landed right on other side of it in the sand. Glider stayed pointed perfect straight the whole time. Other than big wind gradient it was easy landing. Had to do huge flare. Similar to waddell on the gradient but without getting tossed around which was nice. Just an FYI 👍
Love your videos! All the data (wind speed, glider speed, altitude, compass direction, date, time, time in the air, even G-force) is just so cool. And that's besides the sharp pictures and text commentary. Thanks!
You seem to be beating yourself up over not flying longer. You said it yourself - two paragliders launched 30 minutes ago and sank out and nothing's changed. Also we can see the thick cloud deck shutting down the ground heating. No surprise the thermals are sparse and weak. I think you did as well as can be expected in this kind of crappy day. Excellent landing too.
6:59 The image on the right is the old terminal at Toronto Pearson airport. It has since been demolished and the new terminal has been built. What is interesting is that from the EXACT SAME spot in the photo, 45 years later, a daily A380 service to Dubai operates, which is also the only A380 that arrives in Toronto.
It's a Garmin camera (the Virb Elite) and the Virb Edit software does the overlay. It's all terribly out of date, so I'm trying to build a replacement that isn't dependent upon the camera. If you know someone who knows their way around Eagle CAD, I could use a hand.
I spent some time there and found it be be mainly a thermal site rather than a ridge soaring site. But can definitely see how it is possibly good for both especially over horseshoe if I remember correctly
Nice ride - fun to watch your stats as you were flying along. First time I flew the Owens was in a Wills Wing Omega single surface. My Colver vario was pegged in thermals at 1000' up and the air was butter smooth. Landed at the end of the range at Janie's whorehouse. Came home told my buddies of the magic air and we came back the next year in our shiny new UP Comets. We got our asses handed to us. Really ratty thermals and trash air - thought for sure I'd be coming down under the chute. Good times to remember from the comfort of my recliner :)
Must have been in the 80s, happy to hear you survived the infant years of hang gliding. I learned on a WW Duck 180, then got a Seedwings Sensor B Full Race (wonderful with one or two quirks), then a WW HP-AT158 (all around great glider), a WW Ram Air 154 (an absolute pig except for wanting to go straight and fast) and after 10 years I left the sport.
For anyone wondering, the song is Evilution by Stuck Mojo this game defined my musical tastes as a kid, I used to play this game solely for its soundtrack
This (assuming it’s speed reimans constant) [witch it’s not it’s slowing down] if it were to go to the closest habitable planet (assuming it’s inhabited) and it wouldn’t move do to the universe and star stuff will take 2.89 million years to put into context That’s equivalent to 150,000 generations 3 million years ago Australopithecus was walking the earth which means future humans will look upon us as we do the Australopithecus and to them Australopithecus will look like proconsuls look to us We homo Saipan’s will have gone extinct fully for at least 10s of thousands of years at that point (if we don’t do it to ourselves evolution will certainly end us) This monument will probably never be seen by aliens and if they do we will have not existed for millions of years up to that point Unfortunately the action is futile and in vain
If it translates into pictures, wouldn't it have been good to eliminate the middle difficult, potentially disastrously insurmountable obstacle, and... send a photo album?
To do so would have required a lot more space and weight, and would not have been as hardy over time. Since we were already sending the record with the music and voice, this added no extra anything.
What exactly is this format they used? I know something like this was used on cassette tapes back then using noise yet this just sounds like someone having fun with a synthesizer.
In the late 70s and early 80s, you'd store data on cassette tapes using sound in very much the same way that a modem used to send data across a phone line. The complexity of those mechanisms would have been too great to explain in a non-verbal way to anyone who got their hands on the Golden Record, so they had to come up with a custom solution. If you want to know about the format, read the article linked in the video description. It tears the entire thing down step-by-step.
