EB28 UK's largest Glider Landing after 10 Hour Flight

[UserName7910]

amazing !

[keegan773]

There are no longer 'Record' duration flights because of the dangers involved in flying when overtired.

[cinammot]

BEAUTIFUL..................

[xlqex]

Ooh, you can see the wings droop as they are unloaded

[michschm2]

a little bit to fast

[mugizz]

Perfect landing!!!!!!

[mathilde83]

Is the plane already Ok? the front of it was stolen.

[tomprid3]

it will be flying in 2009

[FireIwithoutIwire]

Ive seen it on our Championship too :)

[Jangle2007]

Gorgeous aircraft. I dream of piloting that....someday.

I'm curious though: it seems European glider pilots are taught to land gliders on both the main the tail wheel simultaneously. In the US, I've always been taught to land on the main gear first, bleed speed, then settle onto the tail.

I can think of arguments in support of both techniques, although I would think that landing in anything but dead-calm conditions would be safer planting the main wheel, alone, first.

Other thoughts?

[tomprid3]

If you land on only the main wheel first then there may be a tendancy to bounce back into the air which could lead to a heavy landing damaging the glider. If done with main wheel and tail wheel (or skid in some gliders) then the aircraft is alot less likely to go back into the air

you also need slightly less space to stop if both are on the ground, helpful for landing out when stopping quickly is important

[Jangle2007]

Thanks tomprid3. Interesting thoughts, and I agree that the extra energy from main-only landing would increase risk of a bounce.

But sometimes, say when flying at Sugarbush (VT) on wave days (which on most wave days means cross-wind landings), we sometimes have rotor touching down on the runway, which on short-final, can be an awfully rough (and puckerish) ride...where for survival you certainly want an extra 10 knots AS to get safely onto the ground.

[truxibk]

the extra airspeed in rough / wet approach is important. you can still flare the plane to the last bit to land with lowest possible speed and no risk to bounce up again. on most planes lowest speed will result in quite high alpha, so your tailwheel *will* settle down.. it's not about the wheels, it's about low speed..

[MrTumnus8896]

Sometimes we'll end up touching down tail first in attempt to fully flare the landing. But if you completely flare the landing and land on the main wheel, i wouldn't have thought the planes got enough energy to balloon?

[MLeyden91]

10 HOUR FLIGHT !

WHAT!

[hrc1966]

That is a long time and the pilot have prepared for it bringing food, water and some device (a plastic bag) to pee in. The world record is 3008km set in Argentina with an average speed of roughly 200km/h.

[MrTumnus8896]

Might have even been more than 200km/h! Anyone know the task time?

[hadesbearer]

I've flown this aircraft and its incredible. and great fun! The ASH 25 part is because its the same fuse pratically. Where is this airfield?

[tomprid3]

dave, its an eta fuselage with modified ASH25 wings (rolls eyes), since when did an ASH fuse look like that? lol

[lukeb1989]

I've flown that glider twice! It's a fantastic aircraft!

[Pik20b]

Probably don't even have to bother to turn to thermal; just pull back on the stick and keep heading straight... ;-) Beautiful machine & nice landing!

[dssd9TA]

Incredible!!!

[dssd9TA]

Incredible!!!

[dssd9TA]

Incredible!!!

[maxxschiedeck]

ASH25 EB28 made in Germany^^

[hoody2050]

ASH25?

[x1xray]

Is that an ETA? Beautiful machine, about 65:1 glide. Long glides and big thermal turns. I don't think I would want to land those wings in a narrow farmers field. I'm sure an airfield is "always" within range of this ship.

[TIMMAXJETT]

A wonderful aircraft. Thanks for the video. After 10 hours, I bet the pilot could not wait for a wee. I guess they make their own 'arrangements'. Was this some kind of a record in the UK?

[yrogia]

Your welcome. The 2 pilots apparently did have some 'arrangements' to dispose of bodily fluids, didn't ask them for the details though! I am unsure on whether a record was set, it was just fine weather that helped keep them up for so long.

[pete2778]

@TIMMAXJETT, a lot of competition sailplanes have a 'p*ss tube' that is routed into the wheel well (or somewhere else that has a negative pressure) and it is simply dumped overboard. I heard a funny story about a glider pilot who decided to install his own p*ss tube and neglected to put the outlet into a negative pressure area, the tube was mostly full before it decided to spit it contents back into his lap, much to the amusement of his clubmates.

[gliderpilotluke]

@pete2778 Lmao

[Rickenbacker69]

My god that's a beautiful airplane. Nice landing too :).