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Beautiful RC Glider video

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  • #2
    Fobia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,958 ✭✭✭Fobia


    coolwings wrote:
    Take a look. It is a big download, but worth it ....

    http://www.dwhs.tnc.edu.tw/~andycheng/wmv/200502.wmv

    It reminds me what got me hooked on soaring.

    Afraid that link links to an undecipherable page of text, I tried a "save target as" but it reads as a text document, and I'm forbidden access on http://www.dwhs.tnc.edu.tw/~andycheng/wmv/ .....

    Any ideas?


  • #3
    coolwings
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭coolwings


    It worked for me just now, hmmmm
    There is a title in chinese characters shown at the start of the clip, could that be what you are getting? If this is the case, it may be loading ok, and the video follows after the title page.

    http://myweb.ncku.edu.tw/~n2893166/wmv/kenting_dragon_cliff.wmv

    http://www.dwhs.tnc.edu.tw/~andycheng/wmv/200502.wmv

    Doesn't work with firefox/mozilla - funny text. OK with Iexplorer. Try again ... it is breathtaking. :D


  • #4
    Fobia
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    coolwings wrote:

    Doesn't work with firefox/mozilla - funny text. OK with Iexplorer. Try again ... it is breathtaking. :D

    Had to boot into windows to watch (no iexplorer in openbsd....), but it was worth it :)


  • #5
    SLIM19198
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭SLIM19198


    Watching that made me feel like I was in the wizard of oz :O

    Can that be done in Ireland?

    and not just up around dublin!


  • #6
    coolwings
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭coolwings


    SLIM19198 wrote:
    Watching that made me feel like I was in the wizard of oz :O
    Can that be done in Ireland? and not just up around dublin!
    Anywhere you have a slope and a breeze coming towards it.
    Any coastal ridge with a seabreeze, or mountain/hill will do. The wind does the rest, and Ireland is a very windy country. :eek:
    Folks are slope soaring up and down the country.

    The breeze has to go up the slope to get over the hill/mountain. And from the model's point of view, it is like the up excalator in a shopping mall.
    Kids run down it but stay at the same height, unless they run down fast.
    When they stop they are carried up with no effort.

    The air is going up with the model in it. Fly up - U go up. Fly flat - U go up.
    Fly down - U go flat, but faster. Fly hard down - U go fast and down.

    Last Sunday I had 2 flights. First was 65 minutes, second was 35-40.
    That would have taken 8-10 flights from the club to get a similar duration in the air.


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