Vintage Free Flight Graupner Kleiner UHU 'Getaway' on slope Nanos UPDATE! RESCUED!

The replica od small UHU by SkiraB had a dream to fly high in the sky. And on 26.12.2019 he took the chance to break free on nice evening air on slope Nanos - Slovenia. The flight took 3,30min .. but he came back. Rescue crew is on the way....
Update .... the little guy is back at home :)
Music: Adria : Letim letim ( instrumental)

[@simonfunwithtrains1572]

This is why free flight gliders are so much fun, you just never know whether you'll ever see it again. Just such a wonderful and amusing episode.

[@TheZaunkonig]

UPDATE! The little guy is back at home :)

[@richardjweeks]

He probably found a female for breading. Look out this spring for UHU fledglings 😀

[@TheZaunkonig]

😂😂😂😂

[@zoltandjapjas4905]

Wonderful! These little birds sometimes just broke free and away they were. As a schoolboy I was in a class about model planes and we took part in the UHU competition. My first one simply flew away much like yours almost did. My teacher then bought me a new one and with that I won a great prize: My very first Graupner 4 channels radio trasmitter set. Great memories. And today I will get a 35 years old brand new, unbuilt kit of the Jedelsky UHU which flew phenomenal.

[@neira.francisco]

The first Graupner model I built was a "Der kleine UHU", back in 1975 🤗 I recall the stabilizer was mounted with a rubber band and an optional fuse to make it descend. Great times! 🤩😪

[@bpioger]

De souvenirs il y avait aussi possibilité de monter une minuterie mécanique. Ça marchait aussi très bien avec un système de mèche lente (et c'était bien moins cher😉). Lorsque le temps était écoulé, le stabilisateur passait à 45° et le planeur partait en descente parachutale.

[@robedmunds7163]

Man i enjoyed that, the joys of free flight, it is something special that you miss with RC. It is like riding a small motorcycle again, you forget the simple pleasures.

[@mikmerl1]

Nice flight and great memories for me. I built a few in the late sixties I was 11-12 years old, No slopes nearby so lots of running to tow it up.

[@stefanhesse6036]

Klasse, das macht unser Hobby zu dem was es ist. Einmalig schön.

[@dkjens0705]

I built one some time in the 70s. It was the best free flight glider I had ever had. When throwing it and it encountered a gust, there was no nose-up tendancy, just a perfect flat gain in altitude. The slight curvature of the otherwise flat elevator provided the perfect amount of lift when air velocity increased.

[@nafets1963]

I build mine in 1978 and on Birthday I got the mechanic Timer as a present!

[@aureliobrighton1871]

I can almost hear the brave boys in the lead chamber ... 'Yes we're doing it ... feel that chaps .. we are cloud high up . and climbing' .. wonderful . Thankyou :)

[@paulbizard3493]

What a flight! :)

[@Modellbaustammtisch]

What a beautiful flight. Can't believe he decided to come back, after he seemed to be gone already 😉👍🏻

[@friedrichmandel2574]

Great video. great flight.Glad that th model returned. I started also with a "little UHU". Even though I had that fuse on the elevator (1 cm meant 1 minute burn until descend), I had my plane to fish out of a river, rescue it from a garden far away ... great fun, great memories.

[@Leos-World]

Wow, that was great! I think my first Graupner was Der Kleine UHU.

[@steamtrac]

Best of all your videos!

[@sidneydawe9937]

Free flight is much more fun than boring R/C. I have a 10 meter telescopic flagpole with a powerul magnet on the end which picks up the steel nose weight when landing in a tree.

[@MrHelidude]

This was my first aeroplane/glider ever. I was 8 or 10 years old when our mother helped me built it ......

[@PeterPan-gy6kq]

mine to...

[@hugohurrell3168]

Yo construí el mío cuando tenía unos 15 años. Hace casi 50 años. Aunque era pesado, volaba muy bien. Todavía lo conservo. Tengo la caja del kit y el plano original. Que lindo recuerdo. Gracias

[@MrHelidude]

Woooooow !

[@Flug0815]

Klasse Video 👍🏻 Ich habe ja früher auch Freiflug gemacht. Bei der Location hätte ich mich nicht getraut. Großen Respekt dafür 😊.

[@bpioger]

mon premier vol libre! merci de me faire revivre ca

[@mikebaginy8731]

What a fabulous flight!! I had a Kleiner Uhu in the late 60s or early 70s, can't remember, but it never flew that well. An enjoyable video!

[@ralffroberg1322]

That was the first plane i buildt, given to me from my mother about 50 years ago.

[@user-ql1xz6ix4j]

Great Flight. You remind me my first start to Air Modelling. Nice work

[@nobbynick657]

Perfect Day

[@ulrichb3937]

...wonderful, simply wonderful !

[@aliasseraf]

Holy crap!!! Thanks for uploading! Amazing video!

[@GiovanniBausC]

In the early 80's I had the successor of this one (basically the same but with ABS fuselage). It had a mechanical timer to tilt the elevator upwards after some minutes to force it to land. But once the release mechanism was blocked and released only partially ... then it circled upwards in the thermals over our small city until it was completely out of sight. Luckily we found some guys who told us that it had landed in a large tree in a garden on a hill at the other side of the town.

[@salvadorcortesmartin3598]

Bonito vuelo ,yo soñaba que mi avion se fuera volando, aún si lo perdía en vuelo,me ha hecho sentir como un niño. Felicidades desde España

[@slobodanperisic4240]

Ne mogu da verujem!!! Borise, ti si mađioničar i rodio si se za stvaranje čuda u letenju modela :)

[@michaelwhinnery164]

That must be something of a. Free flight record. Nice job

[@thomasfischer1017]

🙏😉Magic...Graupner UHU🌠🌠🌠

[@Schleppseilwinde]

...And somebody told us, slopeflying is very difficult! Beautiful Landscape, lovely glider! Best regards

[@KRISSPCRITTER]

GLORIOUS~!

[@pdel303]

I grew up with free flight but then when i could afford r/c i could never understand why someone wouldn't want to put a radio in a plane - lol! Anyway, great flight!

[@normg2242]

This is incredible...!!!

[@richardjweeks]

Freedom ! Call of the wild

[@RCSoaringDiaries]

Thanks for uploading again with English translation - hope rescue is successful.

[@TheZaunkonig]

Today will be the day :)

[@ioannisbatas1614]

Superb !!!

[@kmet2000]

Tole je res epski fail flight best return :-) Veliko sreče pri reševanju! Upam, da bo video - part 2 :-)

[@deanoseadog]

GOLD!

[@wolfgang7513]

Der Wahnsinn !!! Wer hat als Modellflieger noch keinen UHU gebaut ? Dann aber los ! Wie man sieht macht er der RC -Liga ordentlich Konkurrenz.Beste Grüße !

[@reinhardlehmann8161]

Modell - SPORT- eben ! Geländelauf, Hindernislauf, Baumklettern....

[@lr21643]

That was beautiful, but it's the kind of flight DT's were invented for.

[@StankoPerko]

Proof of good design.

[@tomscameras]

I had the same as a kid and we launched it with some rubber band. It ended up in a tree like that. Amazing memories !!

[@NeilStainton]

What an amazing flight. Almost unbelievable that it was not radio controlled. How did it stay upwind for so long? Very glad that you’ve got it back. Don’t fly it again. It will go to the moon.

[@JoachimMink]

Was für ein Abenteuer... Ein guter Grund als nächstes eine RC-Anlage einzubauen...

[@TheZaunkonig]

Mit RC wurde kein halber Spass sein 🙂

[@alfredobarrios4356]

Jajaja no vajava mas muy bueno felizidades😃👍

[@powerblock6318]

Da es bei uns in der Nähe keine Hänge gab haben wir den Kleinen UHU nach einigen Versuchen mit der Zeitschaltuhr zur Auslösung der Thermikbremse eingesetzt. Trotzdem ist so mancher Flieger ebenfalls in den Bäumen gelandet.

[@ashwayn]

Run run after it RUN

[@samuelcruz9258]

Wow. No fue en una competencia. Si lo fuera,..sería 1mer lugar. (First place)

[@savxssfan]

Great Video, made me laugh :)

[@andalusienrolfito3382]

👍👍👍

[@thorsten9690]

Seen today :)

[@andipower8163]

What a flight!

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

awesome !

[@robambrose4199]

It must have taken longer to train the little mouse pilot, than to build the glider?

[@GurpreetSingh-eu7mr]

Well built this plane next time this gentleman should fly this with rc

[@christianpietsch2400]

klasse 😂

[@ashwayn]

Ha ha gut no flying high into the blue yonder

[@keithdouglass3618]

🐨🌏 it flew over to Australia mate . Keith Australia

[@chrisgear]

Deswegen gab es ja eine Zeitschaltuhr dafür 😂

[@billmoxon9506]

The plane finally came down but the annoying music soundtrack to this video is still playing endlessly into infinite!!

[@EleanorPeterson]

🐣... 🐤 ... 🦅 ... 😁

[@fowrunnah]

Mister pastor was a bit of a bully.

[@denniswinter6060]

Looool😅😅😅😅

[@RCFlyingDoc]

deswegen gab es bei Graupner Freiflugmodellen die sogenannte "Thermikbremse" d.h., einen Glimmdocht am Höhenruder der den Halteummi am Ende der Ruders nach Abbrennen durchklimmt sodaß das Ruder hochklappt.

[@TheZaunkonig]

Aber das wurde das halben Spass verderben :)

[@RCFlyingDoc]

@@TheZaunkonig naja Spaß macht es zwar den Zuschauern, dem Besitzer des Modells wohl eher nicht.

[@TheZaunkonig]

@@RCFlyingDoc ...Ah nee. Er hat fleißig mitgelacht von Freude 🙂

[@RCFlyingDoc]

@@TheZaunkonig Dann ist ja alles gut

[@balsaflieger2322]

TOLL, TOLL Ich hatte auch mal einen 1970 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKucm6WNfdGXasU