Engineless!!! Two extremes in sailplane design

[Ivan]

From minimalistic modern hang-gliders to extremely complicated vintage wonders.... there is a sailplane for everyone

Complicated Vintage... The Horten Ho-IV, predecessor of the B-2




And a very simple modern hang glider

Altimeter, speedo and a large VSI... what else do you need.


In flight


Takeoff! It will only takeoff on a downward slope, but its really funny to see the guy running to get airborne.

[Daube]

They made an animation to make the guy run while the "plane" rolls down the slope ? That's cool, I have to try that !
Very nice shots by the way. I love the view from the HangGlider.

[patchz]

[color=#000000]The Horton is a lot of fun. But I haven't seen that particular hang glider before. What model is it?
Nice shots btw.

[Ivan]

[quote][color=#000000]The Horton is a lot of fun. But I haven't seen that particular hang glider before. What model is it?
Nice shots btw.

[JakesF14]

The first one looks very unstable to me with the short fuselage. Interesting compilation!