Sailplane Fun

This video is commonly known in the gliding community as UK Smokin. If you want to be impressed as to what gliders can do search on this site for "You'll dream of Sails" it is a Swift performing an unlimited class aerobatic routine.

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The swift (which is an aerobatics glider) can pull up 9/-6. Ouch !!!

simply superb

The water is used as a ballast to increase glide performance at higher speeds. this is better for overland flights. Before you land, you have to dump this ballast and mostly they combine it with a nice low pass.

nice vid and camera positions

Nice video...

the max speed of these gliders is between 250km/h and 280km/h. yes and the stuff that comes out of these planes is water...

Great video. I wonder what is the top speed for these things. Looks very exciting.

Cuummmuuulllllluuuuuuuuuuuuss !!!!!

Nice vid!!! awsome low-level action with those gliders. By the way, what is that stuff coming out of some of those gliders, it looks like water?

I'm a glider pilot myself and I can assure you that glider planes can do all sorts of stuff.
Did you know that a Ask-21 Schleicher can pull up to -3/+7 G's?? Lots of fun dudes :-))

Great video, formation flying and really low flybys, didn't know sailplanes could do stuff like this...