Terry Aspinall

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@cheryl-annwalker6698 5 ай бұрын

Wow! Amazing Greg to think you built that.. you are genius 🤗

@nritonga3874 10 ай бұрын

Amazing❤....

@garycook2500 Жыл бұрын

Remember it well realy moved that evening was on 🔥

@garycook2500 Жыл бұрын

My dad

@richard_wenner 2 жыл бұрын

I purchased kit number 7

@robinbrewis3797 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, the music

@CiguliMori 3 жыл бұрын

bura nere agaaa

@appadlee 3 жыл бұрын

I miss you so much Trevor! Don't know what else there is to say. Siempre en mi corazon!

@MALPAS29 4 жыл бұрын

What a great display of the aircraft.

@BrianJ001 4 жыл бұрын

One of my heroes! She flew to Australia without any Commercial aid but with CFM support. Compass, Maps, stopwatch, no satnav and a lot of sheer guts and grit.

@BrianJ001 4 жыл бұрын

It certainly looked great when airborne but was only for exceptionally gifted pilots not us ordinary mortals!

@choppergirl 5 жыл бұрын

My friend Greg is building a VJ-23 glider... he's got it covered and almost ready to fly... greg.air-war.org Pics: www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/media/albums/gregs-planes.663/ I have a VJ-24w... like David Cook's VJ-24w in the Newark Museum: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volmer_VJ-24W_SunFun#/media/File:Volmer_VJ-24_Sunfun_at_Newark_Air_Museum.jpg choppergirl.ari-war.org

@weflyuniv 5 жыл бұрын

Cool film. The air looked pretty ratty due to the direction. The glider at 2:38 ( and probably the gliders at 7:34 and 8:34) is a Wills Wing Super Swallowtail and as this seems to be Summer this had to have occurred no earlier than in Summer 1976. There are also several wings - 4:21 and 5:00 - that could be the predecessor of the Super Swallowtail which was the Swallowtail which became available in the first quarter of 1975. Malcolm Hawksworth was the UK dealer for Wills at that time so this might have been close to where he operated.

@Macarms 5 жыл бұрын

Holy cow, those look hard to control and unstable. Wow. If it looked like that now, I would never have became a pilot.

@Terryasp 5 жыл бұрын

That was the very early days, when we learnt by others mistakes, although it was great fun.

@penrynbigbird 5 жыл бұрын

The standards, and glorified standards of the early/mid 70s were VERY stable. The wind condition on this day is horrible - they had a serious cross wind from the right and the wind was cranking. It was when designers started shortening the cord width and increasing the nose angle that things (for a couple of years) got very squirrelly.

@weflyuniv 5 жыл бұрын

The two models I described in my other comment, the Wills Swallowtail and Super Swallowtail were both superb gliders. The conditions appear to be exactly as H5-Phil described. The air was very turbulent because of a combination of the wind direction (at least 45 degrees cross) and velocity and the fact that the launch point was set back somewhat from the main line of the cliff face which meant the first part of the flight was nearly in the lee of the part of the cliff to the right. The Swallowtail was the first really excellent handling glider I ever flew. I would have sold many more Swallowtails than the 15 or so that I did sell but it was quickly eclipsed by the Super Swallowtail In the last months of 1975. I sold more SSTs than anyone in the USA. It was the SST that opened the door to regular thermal soaring in late 75 early 76 in Santa Barbara California where I operated my shop and school.

@billpain 5 жыл бұрын

@@penrynbigbird Not sure I agree entirely. I started in 76 flying bog rogs. 1977 aw the advent of the Super Scorpion which transformed the sport over night into a far safe and user friendly activity. Even the Phoenix 8 was a nice glider to fly. The standard rogallo was quite literally lethal.

@penrynbigbird 5 жыл бұрын

@@billpain I'm was not familiar with the SS but back in those early years, at least in the U.S., there were a host of "manufacturers" making gliders. Some of those designs had serious flaws. Those manufactures didn't last. I'm curious what you think makes the standard lethal? I flew a 19' EipperFormance and then a 20'. Both were standards and I loved them. I then went the Cumi 5B. That glider would tip stall and spin if you were not careful.

@terencemorgan1723 6 жыл бұрын

Is it really necessary to have that silly tapping noise at the beginning of the video ?

@Terryasp 5 жыл бұрын

Sorry about that cant remove it, its original/

@SRLowther 7 жыл бұрын

I remember Volmer telling me when David crossed the English Channel. He was quite proud of that accomplishment! I built the one make completely of aluminum and Dacron. It was called the VJ-24 Sun Fun.

@Terryasp 5 жыл бұрын

David also had a VJ-24. I helped him build it.

@cravendale9021 7 жыл бұрын

Where is the image today?

@Terryasp 5 жыл бұрын

No idea

@R1FREESTYLE 7 жыл бұрын

Just read her book Gertie's day out, a good read!

@choppergirl 8 жыл бұрын

G-MBBZ flown / built by David Cook in this video is on display in the Newark Air Museum: www.google.com/search?q=newark+Air+Museum+vj-24w www.newarkairmuseum.org/ Another one is in the Sun N Fun Lakeland Museum. As far as I know, I've found evidence of at least 7 left total, with only one or two possibly flying.

@wishbonejack4749 9 жыл бұрын

1980

@wishbonejack4749 9 жыл бұрын

As it says the late 1970's.

@choppergirl 9 жыл бұрын

If you have any more David Cook VJ-24 videos from the 80's please upload them...! air-war.org

@Terryasp 9 жыл бұрын

Hi Peter. Yes along time ago, where has all the time gone? Still have an Air map you gave me.

@seadog857 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Terry, I remember watching Dave fly the VJ in same location that summer myself! My golly that was over 36 years ago!

@martinlowe5934 10 жыл бұрын

A true aviator and proud to know him as a friend.

@ARMEN420 11 жыл бұрын

Terry this is exactly Streak Shadow ? Very similar to the StarStreak. Great plane.I'm a big fan

@reneapazapacompia739 12 жыл бұрын

how much horsepower have your engine?

@WarblesOnALot 13 жыл бұрын

@Terryasp G'day... What a lovely clip ! Thanks VERY much for posting it..! I've Liked it, Fave'd it, ; added it to my Playlist... After 'V.J.-24w SUNFUN', & before 'Test Flying...'. We seem to be a pair of Pteradactyls... My Sunfun had a 22 Hp JPX, & it had a much worse climbout, but very flatter Glide, than the one in your clip. Again, Thankyou ! Ciao. Chris

@MrUAV100 14 жыл бұрын

I got my PPL back in 2001 but have to say that I went to Old Sarum on the weekend and sat in a Shadow and Streak. This has to be the only single aircraft to get my excitement back since flying just about every type on the market. Awesome machine and one of the few aircraft with a no fatality rate too. Amazing visibility and low cost fun flying too!

@Terryasp 14 жыл бұрын

@SergioDoenetz Interesting slug

@Terryasp 15 жыл бұрын

David was not slope soaring, he took off from behind the ridge located at Thorpeness in Suffolk. The so called ridge consisted of grass covered sand dunes that were only about 15 to 20 feet in height. Watch as David comes into land, he is way above and behind the ridge and there is no wind. If there was he would be landing in the rotor. This is the same machine that David crossed the channel in.

@brybish 16 жыл бұрын

used to fly flexwings in the 80's but used to dream of shadows went up with phil crossman in his streak best flight ever topgun! try hedge hoping round popham fantastic machine. if you read this phil best wishes mate.

@Terryasp 16 жыл бұрын

Not too heavy Neil, But it needed two to assemble it. David would pick it up using the para bars each side of his cock pit, while a helper steadied a wing. After a few steps with the engine flat out it flew its self. David even made the propeller and designed the engine mount. I believe its now in the Old Warden Museum. Terry

@neil9327 16 жыл бұрын

How heavy was that to lift initially at launch? Looked quite heavy. Is it still flying, 29 years on?

@Terryasp 16 жыл бұрын

I have a better one I'll post in the next couple of day Terry

@Terryasp 16 жыл бұрын

The original belongs to David Cook Terry

@Terryasp 17 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%, I befriended Brian during the early British Hang Glider League days. I think the question was thrown in to try and grab a headline news story and using the word idiot will usually mange to grab some peoples attention. I have other material on my web-site about Brian and its all good terryaspinall dot com