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Bruno Vassel
United States
Приєднався 6 чер 2006
Gliding videos and soaring videos from Bruno Vassel IV (B4) flying ASW27B, ASW20B and Phoebus sailplanes (gliders) mostly over the Utah, Idaho and Wyoming mountains.
Glider Skimming the Salt River Mountain Peaks
Ride along as a high performance glider / sailplane flies just feet above the mountain top rocks while enjoying a fun day out flying. The Salt River Mountains are located on the east side of Afton Wyoming's Star Valley. The glider is a 15 meter (50 foot wingspan) carbon fiber modern glider capable of flying 180 miles per hour and can glide 47 feet forward for every foot dropped. We look for areas of lift where the air is going up faster than the glider is descending so that is how we are able to fly many hundreds of miles and many hours in a day. I hope you enjoy the video! Bruno - B4
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Glider Circling the Grand Teton - Spectacular Views!
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See up close flying around one of the most beautiful mountain peaks in the world - the Tetons in Western Wyoming. This is a high performance glider (no engine) flying around the Grand Teton. Check out how much snow there still was in late June! During this gliding trip we also visited the base of the Tetons on a rain day and the views from down below are almost just as spectacular. It is worth ...
First Time 29+ Years Flying in Mountains I Got Scared
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Sorry I didn't have my video camera running the 2 minutes before this video started but I was flying for my life. I was flying my high performance glider (sailplane) in the Salt River Mountains near Afton, Wyoming when I hit an extreme pocket of descending air that made me fly for my life out through a side canyon. Unfortunately the down air was also in the canyon so I didn't know if I would ma...
Glider Landing Beautiful Afton Wyoming
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Giving you a pilot's view of landing a high performance glider (sailplane) at the picturesque Afton Wyoming airport. Afton is located near the south end of the beautiful Star Valley with the Salt River Range mountains just a mile to the east. It is a beautiful place to visit and for me and 5 other friends was a fun place to fly for a week in June. Please check out other videos from this trip on...
Glider over Lake Powell in Storm
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Lake Powell Utah/Arizona is a beautiful but desolate desert landscape of just water and rocks. I flew my high performance glider / sailplane over the lake from north to south on a pretty stormy day and it made for quite the adventure. Landing at Page was not planned but the thunderstorm forced my friend Dan in his glider and me in mine down in strong winds and rain. The people working at Page w...
Glider Flying Over Amazing Fall Colors - Part 2 of 2
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Flying over the Wasatch mountains east of Manti, Utah over what is commonly called Skyline Drive in a glider just to enjoy the wonderful rich fall colors of the changing leaves. Utah mountains have some of the best displays of color as the leaves change and this year was not a letdown. The glider is an ASW27 15 meter (50 foot) wingspan high performance glider capable of flying many hundreds of ...
Amazing Fall Colors Seen From a Glider - Part 1 of 2
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Flying over the Wasatch mountains near Nephi, Utah in a glider just to enjoy the wonderful rich fall colors of the changing leaves. Utah mountains have some of the best displays of color as the leaves change and this year was not a letdown. The glider is an ASW27 15 meter (50 foot) wingspan high performance glider capable of flying many hundreds of miles in a single flight while flying up to 17...
Top Gun in the Mountains - Gliders Play Up There Too
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Flying through the mountains happens much more than just in the movies. Glider pilots who are crazy/brave enough can play and fly amoung the mountain peaks like what you see in the big screen - just a little bit slower and not hitting 9 . G's. The glider is an ASW27 and the airport I am flying from is Nephi, Utah. This footage was taken just east of Manti, Utah. Thanks as always for watching an...
11 Most Memorable Glider Landings
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You can never be quite sure where you are going to end up landing when you fly a glider. That can be both terrifying and thrilling at the same time. With training, glider pilots learn to manage their energy and altitudes so well that they can land just about anywhere safely. Here are a few landings I have made over the years that turned out pretty interesting. I hope you enjoy! Thanks as always...
Gliding Hundreds of Miles Over Nothingness - Full Flight
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This is 98% of the entire footage of a 750km record glider flight from Nephi, Utah to Alamo, NV and back to Nephi. As you can see, there is not much out there near Alamo! Pretty scary when you are so far away from home without an engine and only your wits and the weather to help get you back home. The glider is an ASW27 and the airport I am landing at is Nephi, Utah. This was my first flight ba...
Glider Defies Gravity - Same Altitude After 10 Minutes?
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Glider Defies Gravity - Same Altitude After 10 Minutes?
Glider Climbing Above Dune's Arrakis? Looks Like it
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Glider Climbing Above Dune's Arrakis? Looks Like it
Beautiful Final Glide with Glider Landing
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Beautiful Final Glide with Glider Landing
2021 18 meter glider nationals - John and Brenda Seaborn
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2021 18 meter glider nationals - John and Brenda Seaborn
Fun to have the U.S. Air Force racing with our glider contest
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Fun to have the U.S. Air Force racing with our glider contest
Is Glider Landing / Crashing Short of Runway???
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Is Glider Landing / Crashing Short of Runway???
Happy Day! 210 Day FAA Suspension Done - I Got My Pilot’s License Back!
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Happy Day! 210 Day FAA Suspension Done - I Got My Pilot’s License Back!
Glider Exploring Fillmore Mountains in Utah
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Glider Exploring Fillmore Mountains in Utah
Glider Explores New Mountain Ridge for First Time - Amazingly Beautiful!
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Glider Explores New Mountain Ridge for First Time - Amazingly Beautiful!
Quick Tour of My Glider's Instruments - in 4K
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Quick Tour of My Glider's Instruments - in 4K
Rain Outside and Water Inside Cockpit - Flying Over Complete Nothingness
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Rain Outside and Water Inside Cockpit - Flying Over Complete Nothingness
Finally Flying Again - First Glider Flight of 2020 in 4K!
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Finally Flying Again - First Glider Flight of 2020 in 4K!
Beautiful Easy Glide to Home - Over Mountains
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Beautiful Easy Glide to Home - Over Mountains
Glider Racing in Strong Mountain Turbulence - Trusting Wings Don't Come Off
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Glider Racing in Strong Mountain Turbulence - Trusting Wings Don't Come Off
Thrilling Cockpit Footage - Two Modern Gliders Racing in the Mountains
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Thrilling Cockpit Footage - Two Modern Gliders Racing in the Mountains
what's the thing on the windshield for?
Hi. Please mount a ballisic chute on it. Amazing flight. My very best regards.
Hey Bruno! A great video as usual! Shame about the camera battery! Some awesome scenery over there! Are you still flying? I've noticed a few aviation YT'ers posting less lately. I hope you're well, and hope to see some more videos from you at some point! A long-time viewer from the UK.
Thanks for the kind words. Yeas I’m still flying just not posting many videos. I lost a lot of enthusiasm when I got smacked down by the FAA w few years back. I wish you the best.
I went from watching War Thunder, to falling asleep, to watching this.. lmao
What was the big deal? That was standard sailplane air show stuff. Many sailplanes, like his, are fully aerobatic as well. He had clearance to perform over the airfield, and he didn’t do the aerobatics over the spectators. Just because sailplanes don’t have engines, many people make assumptions and misunderstand their safety & capabilities. It’s common to do loops, spins, wing overs, etc.
The FAA is highly politicized shop ran by forced DEI leadership with little to no qualifications. Thanks for making a joke out of a once very professional and needed organization. Why are gliders of all things preyed upon but cities can be burned to the ground with no arrest. Like I said. Total joke.
I just stick to Paper Airplanes
Is this rule drilled into every student pilot? If not, it's reasonable that the pilot would never have known.
Like a pervert playing with his dick
You gotta get some "g balls" or a bobble head in the cockpit so the viewers can see the turbulence!
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The impossible turn seems to be a childs play on a glider lol
It's so Amazing to see these Glider Flights ! No Engine but you are just playing with the Wind and Utilizing the Streams to suit the time you would like to spend up there ! Absolutely Amazing!!!☺️🇧🇧 Take Good Care Of Yourself My Brother 👍
Very nice, memorable.
The Helicopter should yield his right of way. The GLIDER has ATC clearance and is engaged in low level flight. The jackass Helicopter has engine power. Why the helicopter doesn’t hold outside is insane. The helicopter pilot should be fined for this incident.
R2D2 was going crazy
as a paraglider pilot I though when you enter the first courve: Now level off and go straight to soar accros the edge, then to a right turn back. Guess my instincts where right? 😉
I wish the FAA was more interested in the drug smuggling that's right in their face but instead with transponders turned off flying into small airports (actually deleted the one I know of because I would rather not suicide myself..) apparently drug smuggling is ok but this is not?
Happened to me too! I flew with Air O'Dell Flight School. I flew a glider in a similar way to you. It was absolutely thrilling seeing what the machine can do. But a was running low on fuel and glided it back to the runway. I was reported to the FAA for this apparent infraction and had my licence suspended for 6 months.
Didn't he need oxygen above 10,000?
Great question and you can see I am wearing an oxygen canula in my nose. Oxygen is cheap and brain cells are very expensive.
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ID be counter sueing the airport that asked you
I had no idea gliders could to aerobatics like this.
This the kind of white I wana be
Did they just removed the like button? xD
Great video. Great flying. I love utah. I love flying utah!
Moral here - you don’t post a video of you breaking FAA rules..
Entertaining performance for sure! What...does the FAA hate FUN?! lol. Glad you didn't permanently lose the license over this.
Masterful! Don't see what they were so upset about. Looked like you know what you're doing up there. Hope it all turned out ok for you.
what engine?
No engine
Winching… Yeah, it’s how I learned, here in UK, in open cockpit gliders too. Quite dramatic at first; even more so if you get a cable break in the steepest part of your climb out. As you’re already sitting back in the cockpit, when the cable breaks your mind screams that your ‘going over the top’; at least at first, ’till you get used to it 🤣Anyway, great fun 😎
Thank you!!
Fuck the FAA
So cool 🏌♂️🌌
Penalty for what?
What would happen to me if I flew a paper airplane at an air show?
Have you now looked into performing at air shows properly you’d be great
This is Biden's America...You gotta get permission to use the Air
“Why not?” A question at the beginning of every poor spontaneous decision…
Bruno, what is the model of your glider?
It is a 2002 ASW 27B.
Reminds me of Nurk’s fpv flight of the year. Once his video got traction, the feds clamped down on him with fines.
Awesome
5:36 sound like one of the Patey brothers on the radio
Boo to the hater who reported the video to the FAA.
I was just thinking about that.
Yea you live and you learn. I don't think the FAA was being overly strict. Air shows used to be pretty dangerous events to attend. Since the rules and regulations inacted by the FAA there's been very few fatal accidents in air shows. I'm glad you got to keep your license! Happy flying!
That's an example of a high speed approach my friend .. Even a helicopter floats it it's got enough speed.... An real example would be 2 approaches at the same speed ... 1 bleeding airspeed off at 3ft the other at 50ft and compare the touchdown point on the runway..
Blud thought he was in an F-16 doing a demo 💀
Welcome to the america, the land of lawyers.