Miller flying his Fledge at LMFP

Miller recently acquired a Fledge from an old friend. He hasn't flown in 15 years and is now getting back into it. Video shot at Lookout Mountain Flight Park Training Hill on July 14, 2008.

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Sports

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• hang
• gliding
• rigid
• wing

[flyhigh013]

Is that an ET?

I love fledges, they're way cool! There's a pilot at Ellenville that has one and flies it from time to time when it's too strong for his floaty Falcon 225.

[fast6fan]

I'm assumming ET means extended tip? No, its a Fledge IIB. It's been in climate controlled storage for 12 years. I bought it to get aclumated back into hang gliding as this is what I used to fly. My goal is an Atos VQ. Hopefully after about 20 hrs airtime I will be ready.

[hallobaaaby]

Sweet little voice :D. For a moment i thought it is "LFMP" which is not far from where i live in Fr. By now he must be experienced flyer :)!

Cheers!

[soar8hours]

I have an old 8mm film of Rex Miller taking off

in a Fledge on wheels with a soarmaster motor unit.

I filmed it in the LZ of Racoon Mountain, TN when I

was staying at Crystal Airsports Motel. I have now

transfered all the old stuff to DVD's.

Tommy Thompson

USHPA #2531 Life Member

[CBSparky9]

1.54 LOL

[mrbirdman57]

rex please help, I have 6 of these want to fly supine, rigging question 717-683-6740

[pfiberoptik]

Thanks for posting this vid!! I watched a guy fly one of these years back and couldn't remember what it was. Been looking on utube, and now I know!

[bjofuruh]

The fins .. or tip rudders... are activated by twist grips on the control bar. They control yaw/roll, while pitch control is by weight shift. The dihedral and sweepback makes it stable AND highly manauverable thanks to the tip rudders.

It is a fantastic wing, especially its successor, the Manta Fledge 3.

[miniphase]

were the fins linked to weight shift for turning? must have been pretty stable with all that dihedral

[flyhigh013]

the performance on an ATOS is pretty amazing... my only gripe is you can't wang them around like a flexy (or a fledge, fledges were great aerobatic gliders).

Do you know that, at least according to my fledge-obsessed friend Harry, of all the fledges that were out there flying around, there wasn't ONE structural failure! The thing is built like a tank!