483 mph glider sounds like a jet.

[HeliMonkey]

never realised this is what slope soaring was all about!

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4OGUYlx_28&feature=youtu.be]Joe Manor Flying His D130 New PB 483mph. at Weldon 4-15-13 - YouTube[/url]

[gazmk2]

That's called dynamic soaring! Pretty sure that's 483km/hr too!! I have a fully moulded fibreglass 4m dg1000 glider that will whistle past at over 150mph and that makes a hell of a noise as it goes past!!

[heathy]

World record is 498 mph!

[HeliMonkey]

From the guys website I got the impression that they were 500mph planes. either way its fast! and the chirp sound that it makes about 1:45 in is so cool. still round and round in circles can only be fun for so long surely?

[heathy]

Yeah. If get bored quickly too.

[Ade_Law]

I have done some dsing even at 150mph its nuts.

unfortunately we don't have the winds or high altitude hills to get the speeds these guys do and the models are highly specialised.

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[HeliMonkey]

Looks like the desert is the place for it, was watching another video of a USAF pilot flying a full size glider using the same techniques not sure I'd want to be doing 500mph+ in a glider though!

So much free energy if only we could harness it for something useful, like free energy....