The craziest glider low pass compilation, passages planeur : the best of -by CAF- 

This is stunning, I've watched it a few dozen times and the finest type of flying available to man.

These machines are just so ridiculously elegant! It's amazing how some things fit right into the phrase, 'If it looks right it it will fly right'. B¬)

100% pure awesome. Once, when I was scoring the Hang Gliding champs in Omarama, New Zealand, the week after the world gliding champs, Terry Delore had stayed on, and one afternoon he buzzed the landing area, pulling a loop over our heads, before landing perfectly, and gliding it right into his parking spot off the runway. Incredible. He gave us all a great lecture on Wave the next day.

That noise as it flies past is amazing!

Never thought these birds would look that fat in low-pass! despite being lightweight and slim. very enjoyable! Thank you

loving the monstrous towering cumulus in almost every shot

extremely impressive, i fly, i didnt know you could actually do that with gliders, way more interesting that low passes with jets, thanks!!!

Elegant...pure and simple!

Amazing! I like it! Who needs engines.....;)

It's breathtaking!!!

amazing sounds !

They are crazy! nice video, thanks!

GAWD I luv this video!! I've come back here prolly a dozen times now just to watch it again & again, & just can't go on without saying something about it. I fly R/C Gliders (low intermediate level) and this is just an inspiration to go at it harder! From big wings trailing smoke, thru the big sweeping turns, the 'WOOSH' sounds, to the "Trespassers can be eaten" signage, what's not to like!?! And the music just adds to it. Subscribed > Like'd > Fave'd > All 6'a my nipples are tinglin'!!

@marintoss it's a Nimbus 3 single seater, the terrain is in South Africa at Tswalu which is a Private Game Reserve

The best gliding video! :)

No propeller! They build up speed by diving. And they get height by a plane towing them to start, or a winch. Then they use thermals and wind and stuff to stay up. They have no engine :) But some pros can stay up all day, and cross the country without one :) They have a super efficient glide ratio with little drag. And they also have a fold away wheel to make it more aerodynamic. Only one wheel. After it slows down, the tiny skids at the wingtips also help!

@andy gilchrist these gliders have a single retractable wheel located under the fuselage and they are a glider so they dont have a motor or prop, they rely on winds, thermals/ lift and tow planes

+luv2jive as hotvair rises these plane are so light that the air actually pushes them up this is what makes them so flying far without any engines sometimes they can fly cross country on just one flight because of this hot rising air have you ever seen how eagles spin in the sky this is what they also do you sell flapping the wings

... and i think the music is great, fits the video very well

Makes me want to get into gliding! Seriously, where do I start? Great vid man!

Amazing how people look at something and are blind at the same time. Cool vid' & music .... Thanks

lol that sign about the lions would have had me shitting a brick. cool vid

That's just awesome.

Coolest gliding vid I've ever seen

Awesome!

What is all this about SPINS....?? All I saw was an endless series of low altitude passes. Nice glider though. I prefer a shorter wingspan glider such as a Grob 103 which can do aerobatics although those long slow high banked turns are awesome. . These high aspect ratio gliders just never seem to lose energy....fantastic performance. Thanks for posting

My new favorite airplanes.... its like your own personal ME262

@Zlin0035 No engines, it's just the wind noise. And the trails you see behind some of them is ballast water. The water is used to make the plane heavier, to raise the speed where you get the best lift-to-drag ratio. It's dropped to make the plane lighter before landing.

Sounds like jets flying by!

If the crash dont kill ya, the lions will. What a great place to fly. I love it!

@alexmccaw1 that glider is not a model, it's the JS1 (from south africa) doing some flying test, and there, the pilot (who like doing spins ^^) is doing a spin test, but he is high, he didn't hit the ground ;)

Awesome low passes dudes!

awesome stuff

most gorgeous and noble machines made by man to DATE

awesome movie! :D

That's a glider in a spin - it'll be deliberate and recoverable, it's all good :D

great stuff,,,

Gliders often carry water in bags within the wings to give weight. The 'Smoke' trails you see is the water draining from the wings before they land.

I LOVE! GOOD!!! :)

Well, another way to look at it is that the "fuel" for gliders is the potential energy (altitude multiplied by mass). The heavier they are, the more energy they have at a given altitude. This extra energy may be used to fly faster. Of course with a heavy glider it takes more energy from a tow plane to climb to altitude. And later, heavy glider will extract more energy from a thermal (rising air) while gaining altitude circling in a column of the rising air. But this comes free from the Sun :-)

I'd like to see an update of this video in HD. A "low pass compilation V2" - love it

VERY GOOD

@panther105 Thanks! I should say that aerobatic is also great, for the spins look at 5:20 ;)

Magnifique vidéo ! from: F r a n c e

Twin Micro-Jets under the wings.. look at the smoke trails....

@zzsnake It is more then beautiful :) Love it!

thanks guys, the name of the intro song is "Fat boy slim; right here, right now" and the other are still from fat boy slim; "funk soul brother" and "praise you"

It is not smoke. It is water ballast being jettisoned right before landing. They usually take a lot (hundreds of pounds) of ballast water. This allows for much faster flight.

Great video, but they came back too early, the soaring weather is still good, they should still be on course! Just kidding. Keep posting more like this.

Great video! Please edit with the stabilizing feature offer here on youtube.

At 4:18 What glider is that ? Love the wingspan!!! Music is fantastic just like whole video! Great job guys! Doing this is my dream! :) I hope one day I'll fly with you. By the way where is this ? The terrain is awesome for flybys and low passes!

im starting my glider scholarship, do you think the instructor will let me do this? cus this is my idea of pure, heaven, u guys r awsome...

Nice ;) I would like to do this in Bavaria ;D

I have never flown a glider with water ballast.... the old Slingsby Dart 17 didn't have that facility! Hard to explain to non aviators that my longest flights have been without an engine... even harder to explain that a commercial airliner, engines at flight idle setting, glides better than a lot of purpose built wooden gliders! Just a bit faster though.... Good luck trying to explain total energy... next step, Bernoulli....

Might go something like this I suspect ,"Safari Base , Lima Sierra is inbound on final glide approaching the field from the ranges west of the field, currently dumping ballast. Estimate the field in 1 minute and LOW"

magic.

And that trail you see is water. Gliders take off with water to weight it down. So when the plane tows them, they have more momentum. Think throwing rock vs a paper ball. Same thing! The glider goes faster, and when they need to gain altitude for either emergency, or need to simply do a pass and pull up, it makes it hard with that weight and no engine, so they dump some water and pull up! If they didn't have any at all, it would be hard to build momentum, and they would slow down like paper ball

Funny - I liked the music and for the most part the sound of the sailplanes passing by was there also. I loved doing low passes in the full size when I was flying. :)

Haven't you seen what I've written? At the beginning of the video, there is a link to the same video without the music... Be careful before criticizing

Wariaty ;)

Not smoke, water carried in tanks in the wings, improves the into-wind performance. You can't land with the water in the tanks, so it's emptied out just before landing.

@bbestoloch He did those spins Voluntarily, Indeed the glider was in a special configuration, (I don't remember which one; if he had water ballast or not, or tail ballast or not... he did lot of spins during one month for the certification) but I was there filming his spins to analyse them on the ground, to solved it he probably put negative flaps, rudder opposite to the spin and stick forward, The pilot said that he didn't struggle to solved it

is that at bloemfontein where the soaring safaris are

@bbestoloch The pilot is fine, he did some spins test for the certification of the glider, the JS1; the best 18 meters ;)

Hey, did you get your local grass cutting permit prior to those passes? Great stuff.

Damn. The old chemtrail conspiracy.

This is water. For long cross country flights or for competitions they tank water ballast to fly faster, before landing they dump it.

How do they do so many low passes...? Or was it edited? Duh! Either way really cool and I would love to get into gliding...

2:13 is so cool

stunning

filmed at bitterwasser lodge, right?

Nice compilation. The music is a bit much though. Way too loud at the end.

What did the lion in the beginning have to do with this? Great soaring vid, nevertheless.

How do these takeoff and land , I didn't see any wheels? Also is their a propeller at the back ? They go pretty fast

5:19 AHHHHH

@lbchuma The hard thing is to arrive at the right spot with the right altitude and the right speed.

that not seems to be some ordinary tail spin.. more like a deep stall stuff how he solved on it?

this is safe

Do you have little jet engines on the gliders to self launch/power?

maybe small turbines??? i like a lot that video , i only want know if have some propusion!?

I've got the same video "glider low pass compilation, without music -CAF-" without the music, it's ashamed that everybody find the version with the music, and not the other one

No I filmed that at Tswalu and Blomfontein, in South Africa ;)

haha 2:40 "thats embarrassing"

hey, that sky is still full of Q, what's going on?

hell, where does all that lift come from?! I struggle with an engine!

No a brand new like gliders like those would cost somewhere around 100,000 and when you share it..... That's different it varya

i think a ultra modern R/C turbine the size of a shoebox would keep that thing in the air for a very long time. since running out of altitude is a drag.. id wanna stay in the air all day inna way kool plane like that

@xXJOHNBOYJPXx Yes exactly, but also at Tswalu

If you don't like the music, I did a footage without it: "glider low pass compilation, without music -CAF-" or check out my channel

i thinking ...have some popusion!!!?

They sound like theyve got jet turbines :)

These kind of gliding videos are an absolute disgrace! We should all be enjoying this kind of flying!

Sounds like they have Jet Engines???

@floppycheese96 no it takes more skill than you'd think plus training gliders aren't the best performance wise so you'd have a very hard time. When you are more experienced and fly higher end gliders you'll be able to do this

5:08 Ummm, what was the deal there? Ran out of energy on final glide?

@mikestratte have no ideia... but it locked like though.... if ya find an answer please share lol

whats the first song called get back to me asap please

Did I see a full-blown flat spin at 5:19 to 5:23? Did that pilot live to cheat death another day?

How mani thet planer thet complitations?

@MrTumnus8896 it maybe looks like a model at 5:20, but honestly...it's not a model