Nice, Tim, and I see you upgraded from your Geo in Jamaica to an Alpina! We flew there in 2018, but didn’t make it over the ridge to Citrusdal. 👍🏼
@danielcarlson800 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful Stearman!!!!!
@tinlizzie37 Жыл бұрын
The Stearman is a fine airplane. It is a tad heavy on the controls, when doing maneuvers, but the plane is heavy and the elevators are like barn doors. and you have to horse the controls. We bought our first Stearman in 1865 and flew her for seven years, it was my first tail dragger I ever flew. When the opportunity came it allowed us to get into a low hour engine and newly covered Stearman, very cheaply. We sold the first and got into the rebuilt one. At that time, I hung out at the airport all the time, inly a lucky guy !and got to fly many different aircraft. I bought mt own Bonanza 35, in 1966 and a little later, bought into a Republic Sea-Bee, which I got out of three years later, to go into the "Metal Fabrication Business. I flew the Stearman mostly, and kept it and the Bonanza until the early 80's, when I sold both planes and wound up married ! I know now, I should have kept the airplanes ! I learned aerobatics, and put on little shows all the time ! I'm 85 almost 86, and still dream of the wonderful times I had during the almost twenty year flying career, I was certainly a lucky guy !
@ripmanridin7092 Жыл бұрын
South Africa ...........for the win!
@annaleecarstens4907 Жыл бұрын
Looks delightful( a k a Jack)👍
@ripmanridin7092 Жыл бұрын
What an awesome place to fly!
@pkskyter Жыл бұрын
Awesome dude, just surprised the instructor let you use the GoPro on your helmet though. That's number 1 snag risk 🙂
@hilocbp Жыл бұрын
Perfect start up and landing A great song for the video would be Volare by Dean Martin
@hilocbp Жыл бұрын
Wow that is a Hot airplane I would LOVE to fly that for sure
@ripmanridin7092 Жыл бұрын
Sunset flight!
@johngordon48852 жыл бұрын
it's not a fighter it's a trainer
@WuTangChillaBee2 жыл бұрын
Cant believe they let you do SIV with a gopro on your head. Thats retarded!
@CHINAxiaobei2 жыл бұрын
哇 ,这款很老了,南昌CJ6新款改进了很多,舒适性提高,加装空调等。
@TheStrodude2 жыл бұрын
谁需要空调?只需稍微打开顶篷即可飞行。
@CHINAxiaobei2 жыл бұрын
@@TheStrodude 那就不是飞机了,飞天了
@ripmanridin70922 жыл бұрын
Good times!
@nadavegosi52132 жыл бұрын
I'm going up with him in the stearman tomorrow!
@gihanjay2 жыл бұрын
Tim, what an amazing aircraft. I would have loved to be there to see this beauty.
@riverrose30892 жыл бұрын
Awsome work dude , you gave it a real honest workout. Kudos
@sarjudave2 жыл бұрын
Very good video
@ripmanridin70922 жыл бұрын
Wow 2016!
@pgfreeflyer32522 жыл бұрын
This is where I caught the bug! The magic of freeflight!!!
@ripmanridin70922 жыл бұрын
Sick flight!
@thomasmistretta33092 жыл бұрын
😁
@ripmanridin70922 жыл бұрын
Wow..........looked like an awesome time!
@ripmanridin70922 жыл бұрын
Awesome.........
@benparadude20283 жыл бұрын
Nice....hope to get some more good flying in this week.
@ripmanridin70923 жыл бұрын
Yeah........................buddy!
@benparadude20283 жыл бұрын
Got my experience of this place today, what a great place to fly.
@radiantalphaindigo13 жыл бұрын
That was a fun day, great video Tim!!
@madsloper3 жыл бұрын
Nice flying and I like the ability to look around with the 360.
@ripmanridin70923 жыл бұрын
Dude..........what a beautiful place to fly! How you liking that glider?
@pgfreeflyer32523 жыл бұрын
I think I found my sweet spot in the Alpina 4. I am climbing easily and gliding efficiently. Options open up when the performance is there. The glider is more "active" than my B wing which then requires closer attention and small timely responses. As a faster wing, it does like to shoot forward a bit faster than my Geo 5 and sometimes asymmetrically when caused by the edge of a thermal. I have already seen the issues of soft tips and a horseshoe launch if you don't set up correctly or get ahead of yourself with timing the control inputs with weight shift application. All are dealt with by respecting the causes. I LOVE the Active Control Risers (ACRs). Carving turns without brakes is really nice. Very responsive handling which leads to much more fun on the maneuvers. Overall.....loving it!
@gihanjay3 жыл бұрын
That looks so beautiful Tim. Glad you are enjoying the time.
@ripmanridin70923 жыл бұрын
Sweet glider!
@unixixsisoro72143 жыл бұрын
很好 👍。我 喜欢中国 - im german, learning mandarin and fly paraglider for over 15 years...i visit Shanghai twice times, see also Peking, Hongkong, Macao, and many times Dalian. Im very impressed, so next milestone is to migrate to china. 我的 太太 是 中国人...she comes from Dalian. So perhaps see you up in the sky - the world is a village 😂 happy landings 🙂
@sunnyboy8662 жыл бұрын
Hello, I live in Germany but will visit Shanghai and Beijing soon. Can you recommend where is it best to learn paragliding there?
@pgfreeflyer32522 жыл бұрын
@@sunnyboy866 Mt YonAnShan near the town of Qianshanwu which is south of Hangzhou is a world class paragliding site. Lots of training going on there!
@sunnyboy8662 жыл бұрын
@@pgfreeflyer3252 Thanks for the tip :)
@ripmanridin70923 жыл бұрын
Yeah buddy!............getting some flights in!
@ripmanridin70923 жыл бұрын
Beautiful place to fly!
@evandeschuyteneer54293 жыл бұрын
nice footage! i don't know how long your brake lines are but you look like braking a lot lots of the time. also, isn't better to take your brake handles in "dragon" style? more precise steering
@Yourbosskid3 жыл бұрын
Great vid man. Very educational
@monkeyonstrings34173 жыл бұрын
I see myself sitting on launch! Great place!
@TonyaMistretta4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
@vicariousaviator97424 жыл бұрын
Lucky you're still alive
@ripmanridin70924 жыл бұрын
That Geo is rock solid!.........loved the boat landing!! And keep those feet under the harness!!! Great video
@themilkmister4 жыл бұрын
HOLY CRAP! THAT LOOKS AWESOME
@ripmanridin70924 жыл бұрын
Nice flight....... Thats a lot of different camera views! I must have rubbed off on ya!!🤣
@YankeeinSC15 жыл бұрын
Having coffee in the kitchen this morning with fellow hurricane refugee Mr. Ripa. He feel exonerate @8:27. Cool video!
@gihanjay5 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful video. Wow. Wish I could do that. Good luck in Paragliding.