Glider dropped from helicopter - with FPV drone views | Antidotum Airshow 2024

8 time British national glider aerobatic champion Guy Westgate is dropped from a helicopter at Antidotum Airshow Leszno 2024.
This display, four years in the making, saw Guy aerotowed into the air in an SZD-59 Acro by a Bo105 helicopter. He then performed the world's first public demonstration on a roll on aerotow behind a helicopter, before the helicopter entered the hover at 1000ft and released him into a solo aerobatic display.
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[@7Lance1]

I think the drone operator deserves a bit of a mention here. Brilliant flying skills all round!

[@Lyvtix]

Very true, flying a drone is harder than it seems!

[@Drone_Rabbit]

@@Lyvtix especially around helicopter and glider... yes, the drone pilot has amazing skills :)

[@urnotaman4444]

drone = It's not a real hobby it's just getting caught up in all types of high tech gadgets And after a couple of years it's over..... It's just kind of a laughing in the face of boomers and their fixed wing aircraft like a rebellion But they're just hurting themselves Because anything with a motor is boring When it comes to RC

[@RCCopterLove]

If I would not have seen this in your video I would have never believed that this is possible! Unbelievable skils displayed by the glider pilot Guy Westgate but as well by the pilot of the BO 105. These multiple rolls in dirty air towed by an helicopter made me speechless. But when I saw the heli hovering and the glider "hanging" in vertical position under the heli I was shocked. These two guys do not only have alien like skills, they have balls of steel! So much could have gone awfully wrong already in the first stage of towing the glider at the takeoff and later.... Great video! Thank you!!

[@choppergirl]

Why, none of this is actually particularly remarkable? If you fly aerobatics in RC quadcopters like me, you're in dirty air all the time and hanging upside down, right side up, inside out, you could care less after about 5,000 hours in the sim.

[@OregonCrow]

What makes it impossible? its being towed/carried.

[@RCCopterLove]

@@OregonCrow You surely know that there is a difference between helicopters and planes?

[@mattbellina5485]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???!!!!!!!

[@lnewton3677]

Bonkers .. look at the slack and whip in that tow line.. not gonna make old bones

[@lawrencemartin1113]

The most amazing airshow act I have ever seen! Incredible. 😮

[@marychamery]

i to w Polsce ❤❤

[@petewatts30]

Wow this might be the most dangerous and coolest thing I've ever seen

[@ChevTecGroup]

I just kept imagining the glider pilot going too high and taking the cable into the tail rotor

[@christianmeynard4952]

Yes, expensive and dangerous ! 🙃🥴🤪

[@lorenz9314]

@@ChevTecGroup I doubt it can go any higher than it's original altitude at drop time. That is, if he doesn't deliberately fly into a thermal of course...

[@3MinutesofAviation]

Stunning stuff! May I feature this a part of this in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. All the best to you!

[@noooby100]

Glider drop from hovering helicopter first done in New Zealand in 1994. Hughes 500 towing Bruce Drake in an ASW-24.

[@lautoka63]

I remember seeing it.

[@allan8490]

Was at Warbirds over Wanaka, saw this also and got the pic's

[@morgan1719]

Did not get pilot's point of view. Missed opportunity.

[@mikevermey]

It may be an optical illusion, but that last loop seemed a bit beyond the safety limits... Maybe another 10 meters of separation between the ground and the end of that loop... wasn't such a good idea in my opinion.

[@Cmunic8]

Good job, you found something to criticize 👍

[@fly2724]

I also worried if that was a lucky moment. Seems below the tree-line but can’t be sure

[@RCnerd74]

This is usually performed with rc planes. Sick stuff to see it on full scale😍😍😍

[@janulation6115]

Glider pilot from Germany here and I might be wrong, but as far as my flight training goes that was unnecissarily dangerous: - The roll in during the tow was (A) much too low, (B) flown uncleanly and (C) seems to have put lots of stress on the ropes and the helicopter. - The release in 1000ft was way too low, the loopings were too - In Germany, the minimum height for aerobatics is 1.500ft (for a reason) - The curve into final was very low and steep. Let me know what you think :)

[@soleenzo893]

Glider pilot here too. I must say on one hand yes, many of the maneuvers they did seemed unnecessarily dangerous. However, this is aerobatics, and countries have varying degrees of safety rules for aerobatics. Like for all aerobatics, the safest way to perform them is at high altitude, however, the point is to put on a show, therfore a line has to be drawn somewhere between safety and offering an amazing show.In this case it seems the show quality weighed higher in the balance than pure safety. I think it's okay for highly trained and competent pilots to be allowed to do such risky endeavours in the name of art or performance. Yes there is a reason people doing aerobatics are limited in minimumaltitude, but i think we can cut some slack for pilots who know full well the risks but want to put on an amazing show. It looked awesome and if they die, they Die, it's their decision to do it this way, if they're comfortable with it and won't endager others thats fine.

[@FarmerFpv]

The pilot is a national champion. Way above your skills and pay grade. These people are professionals. Amature pilots should never try this. It's not dangerous if you know what you are doing. Just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean it's dangerous. It's also an air show. Not one time was anything out of control. They were both in control and in harmony. This is why he is a professional who has many awards and you are not. If it was easy and no element of danger nobody would watch it or be impressed. That is the point of airshows. They take calculated risks. These are not the run-of-the-mill pilots. They are at the top of their profession. YOu can relax now.

[@kaasmeester5903]

@@soleenzo893 True, there are norms for aerobatics, but they can be lifted in case of air shows. Some years ago we had pilots doing all manner of crazy stuff right over the river downtown, for the Red Bull air races. In such cases, the event organizers, pilots and regulators will do additional risk assessment.

[@PAUL-yv2kk]

​@FarmerFpv What a pious and condescending tone to legitimate comment of others. Don't be a smar tass, nobody likes a smar tass

[@Paul_Harper]

I guess it's lucky that a competent pilot was driving, not you then?

[@JuergenW.]

Wow! I've never seen such an amazing thing before! Thank You very much... 🙂

[@Конст23]

Удивительная программа! Имею опыт полётов на вертолётах и планерах, но создать такое совмесное шоу, это шедевр!!!

[@itellzzz]

Guy pushing the limits further and further. 😊

[@gerrittenberkdeboer7763]

Grossartige fliegerische Leistung. Absoluter Respekt.

[@TamasLaszlo-83]

Awesome video! I have never seen before like this! 🤗As a glider pilot I was fully amazed! I think this heli-towing could be very dangerous if the sailplane climb above the BO-105's tail-level and the rope jamming the tail rotor...

[@shield-u8f]

See you at 3 million views...

[@DumbledoreMcCracken]

Terrifying

[@parker73724]

After a certain point you're just making things dangerous for the sake of making them dangerous 😂

[@oterosocram25]

Unbelievable. Yaw opened throughout the video, what an amazing skill for both the glider pilot and the helicopter as well.

[@krunalraghavani4500]

Yesh

[@stefanastley]

Not a new adventure, but a unique variation on it! 10 years ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJPVnoKpaZ2nhKc

[@kiereluurs1243]

Phew! Recover from a tailslide at 330 metres?!

[@gavsafety]

Теперь можно прицепить планер к Миг29 и показать супер класс на скорости 2МаХ

[@pietroseven8228]

Very common show in 60ties in previous century Mi-4 vs Lf-107 Luňák, nothing special!

[@TheCoolStuffHD]

That's gotta be weird with all of that prop wash.

[@lessainsbury8508]

At 3:37 the announcer say that it is difficult for the pilot to reach the release handle in the vertical position. This makes absolutely no sense at all . No matter which position the glider is in ,the distance between the pilot and the release handle does not change .

[@SwiftAerobatics]

Exactly as we thought before we tried it for the first time! 😮

[@rotor_1976]

Боингом ещё надо попробовать планера таскать...

[@vdjKryptosRock]

Read “glitter” at first and was gonna rant lol

[@AirJoe]

As a glider pilot I couldn't imagine flying that. Absolute mad lad.

[@SundayIdajili]

Amazing skills!!! Impressive drone flight, too!

[@snowcycle7]

Orville and Wilbur would be proud

[@Aw4yed]

the moment is has been dropped 😮

[@OrenWasser]

That was insanely intense!! So many factors to take in account. You've just invented another tow method

[@paulkrapp]

Nice drone flying!

[@bobcannell7603]

I've driven a steam train into Lezno (from Wolzstyn) and out again but never actually walked out of the station! So haven't seen the glider gate guardian for the station!

[@rossnolan7283]

Gliders were aerotow retrieved in Argentina world championship by helicopters .

[@christr339]

Spectacular - not only because performed relatively low above ground.

[@georgemetaxas9227]

I think the first part of the tow is the most dangerous, where the heli is moving close to the ground at a high tilt angle, so the skid could be caught on anything. Then, staying behind and below a heli may put the glider in a severe turbulent airstream.

[@BMJAUDI]

He was wearing a parachute😂

[@ModelTrainsTV]

Wow!

[@iamfrommars2000]

BO 105 one of the most agile Helicopter ever built

[@NerijusJurgelaitis]

crazy and wonderfull . I wonder what drone was used to capture this .

[@OregonCrow]

k

[@theschmonkiboy]

ok, this is crazy

[@n1352-m1i]

will the glider end up in the rotor blade, seriously ? ...

[@peppi0304]

This feels so illegal

[@selidelis]

Sehr mutig - geradezu tollkühn - besonders in der "Altitude".

[@SevenRavens007]

Why is the glider not flipped by rotor wash?

[@pawelsawicki_lm]

I sow this kind of thing first time in 1986 on airshow Świdnik

[@dr00minFPV]

Love the FPV

[@foxtrottone]

whhhhhhhhhooooooo.... 🙂

[@HakanSjo]

Why….?

[@FunkMasterJunk]

That was un-real! Crazy! What a stunt!

[@tapandutta115]

He should do Soaring .

[@madmushroom8639]

Msfs 2024 looks awesome ;P

[@airplanemodeon85]

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gabelifferth5411]

I wonder how close a freestyle quad can fly over the top of a full scale helicopter before it gets sucked into the main rotor. Mis-calculating that can be deadly.

[@donnakano3697]

Really made me miss sailplanes.

[@calebrcook]

Truly phenomenal

[@rogeriolopes6297]

Excellent pilots!

[@mythologicalmyth]

So awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ironfistgaming8945]

wow! that was good!!

[@tydra74]

that landing...

[@SevenRavens007]

Why?

[@Vico649]

Nice spin recovery by glider pilot.😅

[@oldtimer2192]

It was an intentional roll after gaining appropriate airspeed!

[@monostripezebras]

This soo cool.. and soo impractical

[@rickporayko880]

Funny how so many of the coolest things in life are also some of the most impractical things as well…

[@mileshigh1321]

Very cool!

[@stephenjohnbetts1058]

Amazing

[@chriswilliams8607]

Lots and lots of close to ground risk, unnecessary and stupid.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

How boring

[@steffanjansenvanvuuren3257]

Unnecessary risk...

[@FarmerFpv]

I can do this no problem. "Hold my beer!"

[@kiereluurs1243]

🥱 Why don't you bring your beer along?

[@Captndarty]

Cool but I’m not impressed. Sure it takes balls but if you can get past that it’s technically not very hard to do.

[@mgreenl24550]

It’s pronounced “bee ohh one ohh five,” not Bow 105. Just saying. Like its cousin, the BK117. Pronounced “Bee-Kay one one seven.”

[@kiereluurs1243]

BO-105. Just brief. Or Bölkow-105, if you like. Do you even know how to pronounce that?

[@440centerline]

It wasn't dropped it was towed. gliders are aerotowed all the time

[@woodn3d33]

Well... how would you call then what's going on at minute 4:00?

[@AcroAirwolf]

Cool, I´ve many flights in the SZD-59, but was never towed ba a Bo-105. Beginning with a tailslide after releasing the cable would be funny. 🙂

[@kiereluurs1243]

Yeah, 'funny'. 'Cool'.

[@AcroAirwolf]

@@kiereluurs1243 It hangs about 10° inverted below the Bo-105 and immediatly rotates. There is no risk that it falls a few 100 m as when you pull up exactly vertical without beeing towed by a helicopter.

[@SpartacusMaximusEsq]

Who the fuck thought of this lol😅

[@kiereluurs1243]

No fucking involved, as far as I know.

[@DNModels]

Surreal. But way too dangerous.

[@Reallynotmuselk]

Method of towing a glider via a helicopter has been used by SZB (Szybowcowe Zakłady Dośiadczalne )on daily basis back in the days in Poland even in the place where the event took place as many gliders were made every day and it allowed for quick "deployment" of the glider at a desirable hight for base testing although not used anymore due to well safety regulations and stuff they were able to pull the stunt off thanks to long months of paper work their equipment days of training and skills ofcourse

[@AcroAirwolf]

Why?

[@Sailor426]

An accident waiting to happen and it’s normally at an air show .