Shortest Takoff in National STOL History 

What you have done for stol is incredible!! Amazing job modifying your plane and pilot skill!

The wheels rotated exactly once, nice

The production quality of these vids just keeps improving!

Gotta love a good headwind! Amazing performance and a great video.

Made me smile. You definitely know how to work that plane. Amazing.

Can't beat that for effectiveness.

Great video Steve and Sara! Love this content and the competition you bring to STOL. I get a ton of inspiration from the way you strive to be the best and how you innovate your aircraft, and piloting to continue to be the best. A joy to watch you compete with the others!

Sara - Really nice shooting, and stellar post…tasty supers, too.

Hi Steve and Sara, With a little more headwind you'll be able to stand it on its tail. Great job winning another one. Take care, Be safe.

No matter how many times I watch you fly, it's never less exciting. You rock Steve, so awesome seeing you again and I can't wait til the next one! (Also, next time YOU take the controls in the Cub:)

congratulations Steve! another great video, thanks Sara :-)

Great video, low key, low pressure, familiar, fun.

Great way to wrap up my work day. Great job all around to Team Henry

Thank you everything. Very nice.😊👏

Congrats to you and your team on your wins Steve. You and your team put in tons of work, and it paid off.

A-FREAKING-MAZING !!

❤️🔥😎Henry’s... the real deal, genuine, humble, honored to have met Steve and Sara. ❤️😎👍

Very impressive! Love the flying videos.

Steve, you have the amazing gift of being able to get off the ground in a hurry. Thanks for sharing your STOL experiences with us. It truly is fun to watch you take off and land. Keep the videos coming too.

Well done Steve and Sara!

Wow, go zHenry go. Amazing

Nice work Sara! Great video & made it feel like I was there! Steve is an inspirational pilot 😊👍🏼

Congrats for the record. I enjoyed this video.

WOW if you watch the stick in the cockpit view he has it pushed FORWARD for most of the clip. Insane. This thing nearly takes off by itself.

Steve, you are the Pope of STOL... I wish you will win all the competitions this year! Best of luck!

Awesome Sauce Team Wild West Aircraft!!! Really Great Video Post!!! Yee Haa, Hang On, and prepare too be amazed!!!

Excellent stuff bro

Amazing flying ! Keep it up !!!

Congratulations Steve next time I want see a VTOL you almost there 😄👍

Hello from Minnesota!! Your quality keeps getting better and better!! Keep it up!

Fantastic flying Steve!

Incredible!!!

thats incredible!

FANTASTIC

Awesome video. Can't believe Colin took you flying in the cub and still hasn't taken me lol. Looking forward to seeing you again at MaydaySTOL 22.

Steve, you’re a natural on camera! And congrats on another first place. Those 6’ (helicopter) takeoffs are amazing.👍🏽

Nice 👍 and that wind was nice too 😁

That is absolutely insane.

Dang! Its like a Harrier with a prop lol!

I see you one wheel crew!!! 🔥🔥🔥🤙

That lil bit of wind was just what you needed 😁👍✌👊

THAT IS AMAZING Ive flown in a Harrier and it couldnt beat that!!!

This is so cool.

Wild!

WOW just WOW!

The goat! 🐐

Stunning....🛫🤓

I have been trying to get a developer to Create a Highander like Steve's for Microsoft Flight Simulator for our eSTOL Competitions. We just partnered with National STOL to bring the first ever Competition eSTOL Season to the simulator in the biggest way possible, and hopefully bridge the gap between the flight sim and real-world aviation even more. We hold STOL Competitions Monthly in the same format as National STOL, but with a little less fuel needed, at courses in the sim that are modeled just like the real life ones at the same airports and locations! Anyone and everyone is welcome to spectate or compete with us in sim!

I live in phoenix and have never seen anything about these events. Terrible marketing! I'd definitely be interested in going to see this type of stuff.

It was just an awesome event and it was cool to meet all of you. We are so glad we made the trip out for this competition. Eric the owner at Somerton airport is such a great guy and appreciated him taking care of us while we were there

Wow what a monster💪

... You won TWO competitions in a row..? Awesome!

Sure you don't want a steam catapult to help you with those short deck take-offs? 🤣 Nice competition, Steve! PS: Sara's darn cute!

Reminds me of Good Ole' Days' of RC formula fun flying. 10 touch and goes in the shortest time with turns, shortest time from takeoff for 3 loops, and 3 rolls and touchdown. I like to see that in 1:1 scale.

Greetings Steve Henry, Congratulations, your plane is wonderful. Please help the little RC Pilots, provide us with the front, side and top views of the SuperStol so that we can experience the pleasure of piloting your beautiful machine. Good landings.

Yes!!!….. more bloopers Sara! 😂

Best Light weight Aircraft ever I have seen, wish you All the best. If I may have an opportunity to join in your team for profession and improvements, I will be happy.

A little bit of headwind goes a long way!!

Big Head Winds Really Make it look Easy LOL 😆

Saw you guys at Copperstate, it was insane!

nice

Holy smokes brother, what's next for you and yee haw VTOL???🤣😂

The ground wind speed is faster than the stall of the plane. Would like to see what it is in still wind conditions. It would still be incredible and fun to see.

That aircraft must have the stall characteristics of a tow glider!

Steve, are you ever going to do another video flying your “Dead Stick” take off? I know it would be difficult to find a mountain close enough to a town to get a crowd but to me that was very thrilling. It’s been a few years ago but you flew me from Nampa (our hanger) to behind Emmet . My first time waterskiing.

Great. Last time I was on the hill with my paraglider I took off vertically. And then landed vertically. If the wind speed is close to your lift speed, of course you can get off quickly.

That's shorter than some of my foam rc STOL planes. I like that giant prop too

What a stud!

Thanks to a solid breeze. Awesome Steve! Took away your nose drag fin? And is the prop wash really moving your flap panels at 6:50?

The head wind obviously has alot to do with it taking off so quickly but that motor sounds incredible very high rpm's. Nice skills.

Steve will always be the STOLMASTER WTG

This must beat the Frank Knapp and even the Dan Reynolds world record!!!

Rất tinh tế và nghệ thuật, điều khiển rất điêu luyện, cảm ơn video chia sẻ hay lắm chúc bạn sức khỏe.

Interesting, I really wonder who generates more 'lift' in this case, the wing or the engine? lol. A quick glance at national stol website, it seems like 'experimental' aircrafts are also allowed. So is it possible to use some exotic designs like channel wing, which in theory can even do VTOL?

If you haven’t wathed this Rock Star ride this Airplane off a mountain without power; your failing yourself! Love Your work Cowboy! Well Your Daughter’s Video work and your flying and building. Ok So it’s your work too, ha!

Looks like "Trevor Jacob " 5th person from the left to right #5. Just an observation. Great flying in those conditions.

By the way to make this possible it looks like you all had 40kts wind. Also I noticed Mike patey on another video he did something interesting but wasn't designed on his bush plane, he lowered his front shocks and tried to rebound or let the front struts to spring up the plane. So if his able to build such a device that will give the plane 50% lift off capability

New subscriber here🤙👍

What was the headwind?

Wow, wow🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️👏👏 I could never imagine a propeller plane taking off so fast. Good to know when my mother in law is after me😥😂

Great job 👏, Side note 📝 The green stripe really lets fans see the performance 🎭 PROSIT

Great pilot and great plane but I have to ask what was the winds speed?

Hey how do I find more airplane and stop events in Arizona?

Wow

Steve, git you a stiff wind, and take off backwards. 🤣🤣🤣

I would like to checkout the take off performance in its POH

So at how many knots will that yellow work of art stay airborne at say 50ft alt

Looks like a strong headwind . Is that factored in ? My house can take off faster if there's enough wind

3:06 Fi 156 Original, rebuild or licenced Aircraft ?

Can you tell us something about the headwind? Seems to be quite strong?

Another 5 knots of headwind and you could take off going backwards.

Soon Steve will have to start taking off in reverse in order to beat his own records

F35: Billions of dollars for research and developing vertical take off. This guy with old plane : hold my beer

DONT FORGET SARA THE VIDEO MASTER

Who needs tilt-rotors when you can have a bush plane and a headwind?

Какой пробег при взлёте в штиль?

How many knots of headwind do you need for such a short takeoff?

If anyone hasn't seen it, find his video of his dirt 6 foot take off watch it, his highlander drags itself off the dirt while he's on the brakes.

That thing wants to be in the air. Looks like a bunny hop.

What was the recorded head wind for that measurement ...????