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Last Flights of 2011: Le Fish Light at Merriam Crater, AZ from Dawson Henderson on Vimeo.

Yak 40″ 3d glider with midair from John Scahill on Vimeo.

Another PSS/acro crossover… this time it’s a 40″ Yak! Looks like a fun, nimble little plane. Very cool! Another cool offering from Dan McCleary of Extreme Gliders. Here’s his contact info again for those interested:

Dan McCleary – Extreme Gliders
Email: d...@Xg-eXtremegliders.com
Phone: (909) 648-4982

Flippin’ Out with Le Fish Light, 08-30-11 Mormon Lake Overlook from Dawson Henderson on Vimeo.

Groundbreaking!!! Some really cool new stuff here from Dawson: knife edge flips, flips with rudder added, and a whole bunch more. Seriously awesome!

Trainingday frenzy from Tobias Jönsson on Vimeo.

More fun flying and beautiful scenery from our friend Tobias in Sweden… love the sun through the clouds, with the plane looping ’round!

Voltij goes HD from Phil Taylor on Vimeo.

Nice smooth Voltij flying from the UK… love that plane so much

Flyin’ Light at Mormon Lake Overlook, 08-21-11 from Dawson Henderson on Vimeo.

Dawson testing his pulley driven, 200 degree movement flying stabilizer in Arizona… awesome

Voltij at Slieve Mish from Chris van Schoor on Vimeo.

Another winner from Chris van Schoor… gotta love those beautiful Irish slopes!

Chris’s Voltij has a four servo wing. He’s had it for a while and, like me, find he likes it more and more with time. They’re truly great planes and a joy to fly. Keep up the great work, Chris… really like those low passes!!

Ellwood Compilation from surfimp on Vimeo.

This is an extended duration compilation of footage of Swiss Peter and myself flying over the last few sessions we’ve had out at Ellwood.

Peter has mostly been flying his all-white 2.1m 635g Big Fish, and I’ve been flying my white-and-black 1.5m 470g Le Fish with Madslide-style stabilizer. Both planes are built with the ultralightweight construction methodology that Peter pioneered, and they allow us to fly in a truly new and unique way.

Conditions varied between 6-12mph over the course of the various days and sessions presented here. This is the sweet spot for this current crop of ultralightweight gliders.

Apologies for the shaky bits of video in the beginning – those were filmed by my 6yr old son who is showing a lot of interest in gliders, especially now that we can make them do flips The rest was filmed via my headcam.

Leviathan from surfimp on Vimeo.

Finally! Flight footage of Swiss Peter’s incredible 2.5m Leviathan. It’s his own design and construction taken to the limit. It’s all made of EPP with Depron for the flight control surfaces, and everything covered in laminating film. What a machine! I got to fly it a bit and it is truly amazing, there is really nothing else like it except for perhaps R/C blimps?

You can read more about the Leviathan here.

Ellwood Duet from surfimp on Vimeo.

Fun single take, uncut video of Peter and I flying a bowl at Ellwood, filmed with my headcam. The wind was a lot better than in most of our videos, about 10-12mph and coming in nicely to this bowl.

We tried to keep the planes in really close, within 5-10ft of the lip, where the compression was working really nicely. It allowed us to get the planes “on step” and really rockin’.

I was flying my 16.5oz 1.5m Le Fish and Peter was flying his 24oz 2m Big Fish. Filmed with a camera mounted to my hat