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
Riding the Crest – Axis 60 from Paige Anderson on Vimeo.
Paige’s latest video… some beautiful flying with his Axis 60. His comment:
“This video is actually to test the difference between two types of elevator set ups…the hinged (more standard) elevator and the full elevator (mad elevator). The hinged elevator is red and the full throw elevator is yellow.”
Also, I’m pleased to announce that Paige has become a contributor here at SlopeAerobatics. Check out his first post here: The Changing Face of Slope Aerobatics in America.
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General.
Part I – The French Invade The Slopes
In recent months slope aerobatics has witnessed a resurgence of interest not seen since servos went from the size of a small shot glass to something not much larger than your thumbnail.
On days when the wind was questionable, many of us kept one eye on the wind markers outside and the other eye on YouTube videos from France that demonstrated a new and strange approach to slope aerobatics called VTPR. Roughly translated, it means “aerobatics close to the ground.” But it was more than this. VTPR also demonstrated a style that emphasized an almost ballet-like approach to slope soaring that stood in direct contrast to the more hyperactive style commonly associated with the American aerobatic pilot. Where the French were dancing to the waltz, the Americans preferred rock ‘n roll.
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Slope Aerobatics with Le Fish “Light” from Dawson Henderson on Vimeo.
Dawson is really pushing the limits now… using a new pulley setup he came up with, he was able to get greater than 90* travel in one direction and found that he really liked the result. He’s going to modify his setup to use a larger drive wheel on the servo so that he can have more than 180* of total elevator rotation.
Here’s the original RCGroups post debuting Dawson’s pulley setup and his description of how it works, along with some photos:
“I used the 1.5 to 1.0 ratio to get the 120° to 180° movement on the elevator. I used the large servo horn/wheel as the “core” of my servo pulley. It measured 15/16″ in diameter… so I made the stab pulley 5/8″. That seem to work fine… I ended up with 180° of throw on the stab.
However next time I might go a bit larger on the servo pulley so I could be sure I got at least 90° each way and maybe a bit more. I was really enjoying the 100° throw on my UP elevator (only 80° on down); before I balanced them out to 90-90.”
Mad Elevator Using Pulleys from Dawson Henderson on Vimeo.
6 min of progress from Tobias Jönsson on Vimeo.
More Multifun flying from Sweden courtesy our friend Tobias. What a beautiful slope!
Floops, Loops and Dupes – Axis 60 from Paige Anderson on Vimeo.
Big congrats to Paige Anderson of Future Slope Designs for being the second American to document multiflips! He’s flying his new Axis 60 prototype here in some beautiful lift near Crestline, California… look at those smooth multiflips! So cool!
Minivec over Little Mountain from John Scahill on Vimeo.
John “Big Gas” Scahill somehow managed to talk his lovely wife into filming his Minivec on a recent outing to Little Mountain. She was a real trooper and did a very nice job of catching some smooth flying by John. Big thanks to her for the effort, because there’s not a whole lot of Minivec footage out there yet!
Multifun at Caher Conree from Chris van Schoor on Vimeo.
My good friend Chris van Schoor of Ireland has been flying the Telink Multifun for a while now and has begun using a keyfob camera to capture some footage. Here’s his first video effort, where he’s gotten some very nice VTPR flying in with the lovely Irish landscape in the background. It came out great! Music is Ríl a Dó by the band Kila.
