100" Balsa glider in light conditions.

[@bjornlofving7238]

These floaters are so relaxing and majestic to watch! Thanks for sharing!

[@paulkrapp]

Your smile at the end says it all! 😊👍 Another great flight.

[@jamesharrison2374]

Great video, miss living in Germany where has hangs to fly from, and a club with a tow plane. Have not flown in close to 20 years after moving to the USA with over head lines, and bobwire fences, and private property everywhere.

[@robsonfire2452]

I flew thermals, but watching your videos , makes me wish I had looked into slope planes as well. Your planes are always a treat to watch and the music you play along with your flights is perfect. Such a pleasure to watch you fly. Thank you.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you! So glad you enjoy the videos.

[@davidbaker8483]

​@John Woodfield RC Gliders can you confirm what model it is John?

[@SlopeRCGliders]

@@davidbaker8483 it’s called a Selestra

[@davidbaker8483]

@@SlopeRCGliders Looks great. Does it have air brakes or just two channel?

[@SlopeRCGliders]

@@davidbaker8483 it’s meant to have air brakes but I’ve just got it set up with two channels

[@astircalix4126]

John this model is awesome! Relaxing music and very good grip on filming too. Thanks again for sharing your video.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you again. It’s a great model to fly.

[@eriklapparent4662]

Looks like a big Amigo,quite fast.Beautiful flight , scenery and adapted music.Congrats and cheers !

[@neiloliver7950]

My late stepfather was a flyer. He would have admired this greatly.

[@michaelwhinnery164]

Wish I had your camera man. .... And your flying sight too... Well done John, I love these posts.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you! I’m very lucky that my wife always comes out and films my flights. She is very good at it.

[@redisgonenowitsgray]

@@SlopeRCGliders Believe it or not if you placed your camera on your head you would get the same results, try it sometime John.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

@@redisgonenowitsgray the 4k camera I use is too heavy to mount on my head and you wouldn’t be able to zoom in and out on the glider as I flew. Footage from head-cams always seems to be of a tiny dot flying in the sky as they use wide angle lenses. And you wouldn’t get the interesting shots with the glider appearing from behind the hill etc.

[@danielburke6536]

Nothing else like it,, therapeutic.

[@ivoryouell5260]

Hi ,I built the same glider from the plan I believe in the 80s 😅 and flew it at the same slope on perranporth cliffs plus in a few competitions, fantastic to see yours fly there . I had a 110 auto wind camera under one wing . I would love to get the plann and build it now with a brushless motor.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

We used to holiday in Cornwall back in the 80’s. My Brother and I put a 110 camera under the wing of a glider and flew it at Lantic Bay. It wasn’t an auto wind camera, so we would have to land it between every shot. Most of the pictures always came out blurry!

[@GatorGlider]

Very nice video with a beautiful glider and flying site. For me it's just flat land thermals. A Sagitta XC or an Aquila XL are my balsa thermal weapons! Wish I had a slope to spend some time on!

[@robsonfire2452]

The Selestra. It is very similar to the 104" Big Bird, I built and flew in the 70's. Again. Your videos are wonderful to watch.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you!

[@Ka8Pilot]

Sehr schönes Video, tolles Modell, gut geflogen! Gut gemacht und vielen Dank!

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you!

[@jimmurfree8737]

Sig has their Riser 100. I thought this was that bird at first, but the tail is different. Been meaning to get that Sig Riser 100. With all the kits companies that have closed, I'm concerned one day Sig will also. I know their kits have almost doubled in price due to balsa cost. Well done there, Sir.

[@Mamen_75]

Love your videos John! Big shoutout to the camera crew also ;) 👍👍👍

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you. My wife is great at filming my flights.

[@Ruscinda1]

You're brave, flying next to a drystone wall. Very nice film, thanks.

[@darkiee69]

Not to mention the steep cliffs and the ocean below...

[@PaulMacklinAmazing]

wow, great light air performance

[@rjung_ch]

Great videography and flying. 👍💪✌️

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you.

[@jimmybritt9537]

Perfect music for this video 👍👍🇺🇸

[@lukasbejsovec4575]

❤️classic ❤️very nice flaying

[@joewoodchuck3824]

It would take a lot of courage for me to actually launch a glider DOWN at a place like that. But I've come to associate John with success.

[@3057luis]

Looks almost 0 wind. Although I have foam gliders, only these balsa planes can have that performance.

[@redisgonenowitsgray]

Foamies can have the same performance by adding ballast weight.

[@gmendes1831]

Very nice!

[@Sp3ktral22]

Dude. everything your team does is perfect, don't change your style.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you!

[@prevotfrancis8933]

Better than yoga to be zen...

[@MrApmech]

This is the only type of RC flight that I miss. Summer day’s on the California coast. Then all of the regulations came in and killed it

[@bagoistvan3182]

👍 AWESOME !!! 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺😁😁😁

[@fireantsarestrange]

Looks like a Spirit 100. I honestly do not know. Balsa sails are always nice and floaty. He's got a very good spot to launch from. I used to have a Paragon that I modded into a 120 and that thing would thermal so well that I would have to put her into a spin to get it down once i got so far up that I started to lose sight of it. Still have photo's of it. Thing was huge.

[@redisgonenowitsgray]

At that distance it would be about 3/4 of a mile it would look the size of a postage stamp.

[@AndrewBlacker-wr2ve]

Paragon was and still is a great design. Easy to scratch build too.

[@chopperharly]

Breeze Magic

[@mingusbreeze]

Looks like a Olympic 2.

[@danielpucho7369]

MAGNIFIQUE 👍👍👍👍👍👌

[@edwinbenz4671]

I am a glider pilot, but have never flown a model glider. Would you consider posting a split screen , one side showing the glider in flight and the other side the control inputs on your radio. It would be of great help, thanks, Ed Benz

[@Makes-and-Mods]

Hi Edwin, I've flown both, the models are extremely intuitive if you've flown full size, the only difference is the strength of feedback on the stick(s). Only a thumb or thumb and finger are needed on the remote, it feels exactly like you're actually holding the flight stick of the tiny glider. Delicate inputs. I can't recommend it highly enough - an utterly delightful way to spend an hour or two. Joe.

[@redisgonenowitsgray]

I agree with Joe, but also control for elevator and rudder are on the same stick in case you didn't know that, but also nearly all radios are enabled with servo rates that you can cut in half with just the flick of a switch making it even easier to control the plane, also called Dual Rates.

[@edwinbenz4671]

Thanks to both of you, now just deliver that great flying site to me, Hawaii unfortunately does not have any ideal slope soaring sites .

[@cluelessbeekeeping1322]

That sorta looks like an Aquila.

[@HighStartAeronautics]

Beautiful footage and scenery, fitting soundtrack. I can't figure out what model this is, looks familiar but I can't pin point it. Who needs ailerons? :)

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thank you. The model is a Selestra.

[@franzstraumann2373]

@@SlopeRCGliders As always, nice plane, nice flying and beautiful filming! Is it built from the Roy Garner plans from the 80s? I found those online but they are 128“. On that there is a nice description about it in Outerzone, where also the plan can be found.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

@@franzstraumann2373 it’s not actually a model I built myself. I picked it up from a swap meet for just £15 ready to fly. It had a 30 year old BMFA sticker on it.

[@glyndowning3076]

Nice job John. Another o/d or is it a kit build? Nice lines though.

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Thanks Glyn, it’s actually just one I bought from a model swap-meet for £15 all ready to fly.

[@glyndowning3076]

@John Woodfield RC Gliders lucky Devil. I have yet to get to a Swap-Meet. Where I live here in Kent there are none.

[@enriquekramer4590]

As usual, beautiful! Was that a Wasabi on the ground at 1:41?

[@SlopeRCGliders]

It’s just a little foam board glider. There wasn’t really enough wind to fly it that day.

[@enriquekramer4590]

@@SlopeRCGliders Looks very interesting!!!

[@brianmackenzie4143]

Olympic 2...

[@EnglishTurbines]

Milking that marginal lift....very nice...🤔😳😀🇬🇧

[@Tammy-un3ql]

❤😂😊😊

[@cluelessbeekeeping1322]

It just hit me...do any of your gliders have spoilers?

[@SlopeRCGliders]

I don’t have spoilers on any of my gliders, but where I fly you don’t really need them. Behind the slope the ground gently drops away downhill, so if you fly behind the slope face it’s really easy to loose lift.

[@cluelessbeekeeping1322]

@@SlopeRCGliders You build just ~cool stuff. This isn't needed at all, but---retracts are neat! I built one on an Aquila. I used only what I had (I was a kid with ultra limited funds at the time). The wheel was way tiny. It even had a door. I built it simply as a proof of concept rig.... & It worked GREAT! Even with the tiniest of wheels (it was a tailwheel) it worked great! So...that's my landing gear story. Now, I always have the urge to put a gear on everything I have (almost). I love retracts!

[@SlopeRCGliders]

@@cluelessbeekeeping1322 that is so true. When I was growing up, my Dad had a glider with a wheel. (No idea what model it was) For some reason I always found it fascinating and would image landing it and rolling along the grass to a stop.

[@windy488]

Bewty!

[@ToddDunning]

This isn’t an Olympic 2 is it?

[@SlopeRCGliders]

Very similar. It’s a Celestra

[@marc_frank]

@@SlopeRCGliders great looking plane

[@simonhewitt9805]

Nice ! Very similar to the first glider I built as a teenager in about 1980, the Wonderwings Phoenix 100. That style of glider with 100" span is just about perfect in my opinion 👍

[@johngallagher912]

Don't you mean Selestra?

[@redisgonenowitsgray]

It's actually spelled with an S, Selestra, it was designed by Roy Garner in 1982.

[@hydrojet7x70]

Is this a Great Planes Spirit 100?

[@SlopeRCGliders]

It does look very similar but it’s a Selestra.

[@hydrojet7x70]

@@SlopeRCGliders thanks.