WORLD´S LARGEST GLIDER | Nimeta

[@kaihorstmann2783]

The sky is *not* the limit but the width of the runway 🙃

[@SteFly]

Great one!!

[@louisfkoorts5590]

😁

[@sakitamasa]

I agree. With just a little deviation from centerline, the wing will hit the trees.

[@1marcelfilms]

Just make wings that extend after taking off

[@Johan-ex5yj]

“Now taking off from runways 09L, 09C and 09R, the Nimeta glider…” Unbelievable! 😃

[@DrHumlae]

Rotflmao

[@eugenelayton5231]

Do they allow a person to use multiple runways with this?

[@soliv27]

Reminds me the joke about that dumb pilots from [choose the neighbors country], being told they were about to land on a little bit short runway.. So they make a monstrous break with smoke and dust, very violent.. " - for sure this is an extremely short runway, but sooo wiiide !!"

[@Johan-ex5yj]

@@soliv27 LOL 😄

[@davidtapp3950]

At Waikerie in South Australia you could have runways several hundred metres wide and long.

[@Jet-Pack]

A long time ago I had the opportunity to circle together with an ETA glider. I managed to beat him to the top with my old standard class glider because it's lighter and had a smaller turning radius than him. But then of course he flew away at 200 kph at what seemed to be level flight and I kept falling at just 150 kph. He had double the wing span and also double the glide ratio. That was fun, really impressive glider!

[@Dzordzikk]

Yes and thats all about gliding ration and excellent L/D at high speeds.

[@skylarkman2000]

Amazing bit of kit .

[@skylarkman2000]

Amazing bit of kit .

[@jorissaint-genes8472]

Finally someone making à vidéo about this glider !

[@badrinair]

I stumbled across this channel just few days ago and now I am binge watching all videos. I would love to learn to fly and I think glider is the coolest way to do that.

[@wearemany73]

Imagine having a glider that has a lower wing loading in the air than on the ground…? 🤪 It’s a magnificent sailplane even without a sustainer but having one really puts the cherry on the cake, 🎂 such endless possibilities. ❤️

[@dennisk5818]

This is what I like about long wing sailplanes. They are such a beautiful ship to watch. They always appear graceful in flight. I'm curious about some of the flight characteristics like, L/D, best glide speed, handling when close to the ground landing.Are the wings set up for water ballast? Those dive brakes are massive. Are flaps part of the wing?

[@PureGlide]

Very interesting! That thing is massive

[@Xantec]

wider span than a 737!

[@2wayflighttoheaven]

Wow. So big and so beautiful!

[@huffpappy]

What a beautiful sailplane.

[@lenny108]

This must be quite strongly built so that the wings won't fold up and break off from the fuselage. There are surely enormous powers working when a strong wind is bending the wings.

[@r.p.3192]

Holy cow! It doesn’t get any better than this… Bruno Gantenbrink and Nimeta…. Next level of craziness would be Hanna Reitsch and Sperber Junior…. provided we’d have a time machine 🤙😉✊👍

[@flytelaw1]

Stefan, that glider is just freaking gorgeous! I have a question….I wonder about the twisting along the span when ailerons are deflected…..are they partial or graduated or even since with that span given the chord there would be a massive twisting vector over span??. Cheers👌✈️

[@r.guerreiro140]

Good question I'm also interested :)

[@rohansully584]

Yes...scares me! But I suppose it's been working thus far.

[@Dzordzikk]

Manufacurers today know how to make wings that will flex but not twist ...

[@daytrypper]

Crazy cool! Thanks for posting that video. So envious :)

[@podunkman2709]

Thank u Stefan for this video!

[@Fukenbumen]

A fun fact I remember reading about Eta is that they had to replace metal rods for flaps an ailerons with carbon ones because of the expansion of metal at higher temperatures. With 15 m wingspan one wouldn't really notice but for this ship it became a problem. Can anyone confirm?

[@SteFly]

Also the wing flex could have been a problem with the metal rods? I have also seen carbon rods in the HpH production facility for the TwinShark..

[@yannickbourdeau8541]

Very nice splendid and elegant Great Bird with a span like a jetliner ! 🛩

[@arminmoller9927]

Wahnsinn,wie lang der Segeler am Ende des Videos zum Ausschweben brauchte. Das technisch machbare scheint nun ausgereizt.

[@nixl3518]

Very interesting and thank you for this clip. I would’ve also liked a brief description of the engine type and it’s power as well as a bit more on the braking system that you showed us. :-)

[@mikehaynes5634]

And I was worried the first time I flew my D2C with 18M tips on a 24M wide runway with a road on one side and 2M corn on the other side. Foolish me...

[@blackbirdpie217]

I can only imagine turns are very tricky, where you must avoid a tight radius with those ultra long wings. The Wright brothers found this out with their very slow, large span early planes where the wingtip of the inside, or low wing dipped below stall speed, causing a stall/spin. I see this effect is pronounced with such a long span.

[@CMAenergy]

It is not the inside wing that stalls It is the outer wing because of the angle of attack achieved,

[@Jet-Pack]

@@CMAenergy Well actually the angle of attack is similar on both wings but you need aileron to avoid falling into the turn because the inner wing creates less lift. That aileron deflection can reduce the stall angle of attack and so the inner wing can actually stall first and most gliders I flew had this tendency. If you use a slight side slip during the turn, outer wing trailing, then you reduce the amount of aileron deflection and rudder deflection which reduces the overall drag and it has less tendency to fall into the turn and less risk of stalling the inner wing. Stalling the outer wing would basically just bring you wings level during recovery where as stalling the inner wing can cause some serious upset attitude.

[@sergiymarchenko1002]

It's enormous and it's beautiful... breathtaking... speachless...

[@BrianPhillipsRC]

Amazing!

[@nob0dy27_]

was ein geiles gerät aber ich glaube auch die doppelten bremsklappen alleine reichen bei dem ding nicht zur landung 🤣ich kenns nur von der 25 aber diese riesenflieger kriegt man ja eigentlich nie ohne wölbklappen gescheit auf den boden 😅

[@citicolina]

A true bird in the air. Majestic.

[@zk1479]

Awesome and beautiful too. Thanks

[@chrispollard6568]

Beautiful informative video!

[@SteFly]

Thank you 🙏

[@kirkglundal4289]

I enjoy seeing designs pushing the envelope and one could argue the benefits and even the necessity of a flexible wing! However seems a bit much to me, I can see the lower wing in a banked turn flexing more, the upper wing even appears nesrly straight! I bet it rides nice. :)

[@awaisalics1st724]

Passion for the project is amazing

[@johnfitzpatrick2469]

G,day Stefan from Sydney Australia. That's some hot terrain!!! 🌏🇦🇺

[@SteFly]

Thanks John!!

[@SuperReasonable]

We have problems on many airfields with our EB28. 31m must be even more restrictive! Well done Bruno..

[@footsy420]

at the end I was waiting for it to lean on to the wing. I guess one has to keep it very level on the ground especially when its going slow.

[@jimbo4905]

Fantastic!!! Professional documentation !Regards from Paraguay

[@SteFly]

Thank you! 🙏

[@JeromeFortias]

I'm in love ! This glider seems just fantastic :-)

[@Jet-Pack]

Until you have to detach the wings for transport and put everything into a trailer. Then you regret getting a 30m glider.

[@JeromeFortias]

@@Jet-Pack Indeed ... I did think that also.... But as any extrem stuff it could fantastic but un reasonnable and a bad choice.

[@tdenkrew]

Wat a flex wing :)

[@Kneedragon1962]

Namibia, huh? That does look very VERY much like western NSW / Australia, some place around Dubbo. The colours, the look of the vegetation, the red sand ... If you told me that was Broken Hill or Mildura, I wouldn't think to question it. The glider. Crikey! I'd be scared to fly that. I'm too ham-fisted. I'd rip the wings off that in the first day ... 70:1 glide ~ that's just supernatural. The gliders I learned to fly, had a ratio about 16:1 ~ 20:1, on a good day.The joystick I could handle with my right thumb & forefinger. The rudder ~ I think I'd need power steering for that. It has an engine, you could do hydraulic assist .... I'm trying to imagine what the Dutch Roll would be like with 4 ~ 6x the span and mass and inertia I had... My legs are not that strong, they're really not. I know they're not optimal for performance, but I think I'd want differential ailerons on that. I either get Spoilerons, or I get a powered rudder. You want to do what? You want to put 2 or 3 tonnes of water in the wings, and then fly it? What's your Reynolds number? I think it's 9-1-1 in America. It's triple Oh in Australia ... Dunno what it is in Namibia ~

[@randomnickify]

Lool, with that wing flex it's more like the ornitopter than a glider :)

[@soaruk3697]

Thought it now had modded tips? - so not truly an 'Eta wing' ?... Can remember how disappointed Hans Werner was when he could not fly with Janus Centka in the original Eta at Leszno in 2003...., of course he ended up in 2nd place behind a Nimbus 4 flown by Holger Bach.....

[@SteFly]

Yes, the wingtips or even the outer wings are modified compared to the Eta. But I don't know the exact details. Perhaps someone has more information about it?

[@Floziii]

The outer wing was modified in 2015 by Streifender, now the plane has 3 different wingtips

[@christiandavid4385]

Wie läuft das mit der Zulassung/certificate of airworthness???

[@SteFly]

Soweit ich weiß ist die Nimeta mittlerweile EASA zugelassen.

[@Flieger124]

@@SteFly die Nimeta wird komplett zugelassen wie ein normaler Motorsegler. Die Zulassung ist aber noch nicht ganz abgeschlossen. Das SLW ist im Vergleich zum N4 20cm höher und das was man oben auf der Seitenflosse sieht ist ein zusätzlicher Massenausgleich gegen das flattern. Der neue Aussenflügel hat eine höhere Streckung> FB höher und der eta typische Tiefensprung wurde entfernt.

[@norbertk.1473]

Das ist ja voll elegant. Der fliegt wie ein Engel

[@thomaswolf3740]

interesting way to retract the wheel (at 0:42) 😆

[@biagiocozza8875]

Beautiful sailplane. Would love to fly it.

[@jhlee1180]

Dont know alot, but that wing looks like its gonna snap lol. Amazing engineering!

[@percycartwright769]

I WONDER WHAT THE GLIDE RATIO IS ??? BEAUTIFUL

[@PixelatedExistence]

Wow........Amazing....I imagine it has very interesting capabilities!

[@roadboat9216]

Absolutely amazing. What is the L/D.

[@R.B_B]

Amazing Glider and video. Do you make the drone footage with the DJI mini 2 zoom?

[@saxpert]

Alter Falter, ich würde schon beim Start einfädeln, spätestens aber bei der Landung. Happy landings.

[@jumpingjacks5558]

Beautiful sail plane. Just asking: What is the point of having such a large wingspan?

[@PaulFurber]

To oversimplify: when a wing produces lift, it also produces some drag called induced drag at the wingtips. Keeping them small and as far away from the wing root as possible makes a glider's wing very efficient by reducing the induced drag.

[@jumpingjacks5558]

@@PaulFurber Thank you very much.

[@stijnvandamme76]

@@PaulFurber but that explains why gliders have thin wings in general, it does not explain why this one one has 31 meter wingspan vs others with 16 or 20 meters wingspan.. Its the only one of its kind, so why did they build this one.. and why doesn't anybody else fly such big wingspans

[@rogeratygc7895]

@@stijnvandamme76 I would suggest: (1) cost, and (2) Where can you land it? There must be a large area free of obstructions. Few airfields and fewer fields would be possible landing places.

[@chrishamilton4999]

Mighty fine landing, too.

[@katsudonisyummy4240]

Dein Akzent ist so stark, dass ich die ersten 5 Sekunden dachte du sprichst deutsch

[@ashleycole6412]

Nice thing it has 1 to 70 gliding ratio and that's so cool specially with own flight motor . By the way? Do you have any idea to visit the gliders factory and make new tour again ??

[@ZWD2011]

You can see by the wings if you are correctly centered in a thermal ;-)

[@sppthomas]

"There is no substitute for span" - amongst others, I think Pat Beatty said that.

[@soaruk3697]

There is these days - wingloading - hence the Schleicher AS 35...........

[@sppthomas]

@@soaruk3697 Pat Beatty was also rumoured to have said that there are only 3 factors affecting performance - wingloading, wingloading and wingloading

[@jamesa5720]

Just beautiful but so was my old faithful 1-26B, ha. This kind of reminds me of the scene in There's Something About Mary when the serial killer has invented the 7-minute abs to outsell the 8-min ab videos. So, who is going to come out with a 32m glider?

[@nestortafah3311]

Very innovative

[@speedycpu]

Any recommendations for gliders for big people? Hoping not only the wingspan is big but cockpit too. I'm 6'5" (196cm) and 285 lbs (130kg). Any gliders that I can safely fit in? Last time I flew was when I was 14, so was smaller at that time. Suggestions?

[@Dzordzikk]

Hi Stefan, can you compare this glider performance with most modern 18meter gliders? How good or how bad are they competetive?

[@tornagawn]

Beautiful!

[@jamex7704]

Man muss sich mal vorstellen - die 737 NG hat weniger Spannweite... 😂😂

[@SteFly]

Aber dafür etwas mehr Abflugmasse 😂

[@jamex7704]

@@SteFly ja guut ham ja auch ein zwei menschen mehr platz😂

[@chrisehmke1651]

Da könnte hinter jedem Flügel eine LS4 stehen.

[@Chrisovideos]

Tough to find hangar space I bet...

[@StayHighStayFast]

There is no substitute for span :)

[@Winniethepopo]

more span

[@TheSoaringChannel]

Just for reference - the A320 with sharklet (winglet) is 117' wingspan 😳

[@deanfowlkes]

Oh, if we could only see these two sitting on the same runway. Can you imagine the look on the A320 pilot’s face.

[@eisenschweinchen5354]

Great glider!

[@PaulFurber]

Amazing piece of engineering. What's the glide ratio?

[@DumbledoreMcCracken]

"Yes"

[@ben3989]

1 flight around the world:1

[@TheErilaz]

70:1

[@PaulFurber]

@@TheErilaz Thank you.

[@yeetaero4978]

Amazing glider. Must be a nightmare to trailer and tow :P

[@r.guerreiro140]

Amazing! I just would like to know what's the material used on the wings

[@no_name117]

What is the glide ratio of this glider ???

[@arnokilianski7889]

At the very end, the glider is stopped and balances on one wheel while the pilot gets out. How is this possible?

[@The_Modeling_Underdog]

What a sight to behold.

[@alexanderfoelkel8316]

These guys are the first ones taken down when energy prices start rising...it's filthy

[@SteFly]

We are the last ones - consuming only very little amount of fuel to get into the air 😅

[@RobertAlexanderRM]

This bird is magnificent, awesome, although I’d prefer a smaller, nimbler ship. Never flew in Namibia but don’t particularly like blue days without visual clues. Is it often like this? Is is more thermal or there’s also ridge along the coast? Thanks great video

[@АлексЭколог]

Does it have a record aerodynamic quality, or are there gliders with higher ones? Interesting technical characteristics: weight, speed

[@chrishamilton4999]

are there detailed plans for such a glider?

[@daniochoa2110]

WOW! I would love to own one of those!

[@warrenchinn9015]

The aspect ratio must be 'considerable'. What is the chord of that wing?

[@user-co3qg7dd4k]

Beautiful

[@jeanlebon7378]

I have already seen such glider in a Tex Avery cartoon

[@freesk8]

Wow, gorgeous! :)

[@MuhammadFardhan-k5s]

Hi dude, where i can buy a glider with the engine...? Please answer my question...

[@Aspartame69]

how does this land consistently without tipping and clipping the wings on the ground?

[@bigwaterblue]

Great video!

[@cabanford]

Wow, thats so kool. 31 m is insane! (I fly an Enzo3 paraglider, with a measly 14.5 m wingspan)

[@XC_Tom]

more like 11m if you account the high arc

[@cabanford]

@@XC_Tom flat, obviously! Sometimes gets down to a few meters after a nice collapse on full bar 🥳🥳🥳

[@PyccoloSantos]

I always wondered what kind of material the fuselage is made in this type of glider.

[@Twobarpsi]

What's the L/D ratio?

[@chadmaytrix]

I hope that in my lifetime we will have graphene and other "two dimensional" materials that will make wingspans like this more commonplace. I read once about an alloy of graphene into aluminum which greatly strengthened the aluminum. Someday.....

[@jaysonmendoza-lh3hy]

have a safe fly

[@louisfkoorts5590]

Majestic, is what comes to mind. 👙 🍦 - - - - - - - Namibia, what a treasure... Thank you Stefan.

[@ottoolsen9560]

not the best for aerobatics, but for just surfing around in the sky im sure it is great.

[@darlingtonmachona2010]

Beautiful plane.

[@LDDFPV]

very nice video, who made the drone shots?

[@spencersgroove98]

-cool plane bro -JA, mein wings are Langer!

[@jethrobradley7850]

Would Sir/Madam like a fuselage with their wings?

[@RCRitterFPV]

Gorgeous

[@tsoiken1591]

Beautiful Amazing

[@julesdomes6064]

What about the ETA glider? 30.9 m wing span. Beaten here by 0.1 m?

[@hans5130]

Doe’s the motor and music shut off? The wind and silence is the music

[@manisdogfish]

I'm curious what the average glide time is from a certain height.

[@lightbox617]

You've never seen airbrakes? Look at either iterations of the Thomas Crown Affair , McQueen or Bronsnen

[@chicobicalho5621]

I'd be curious to know how much it cost.

[@largelarry2126]

The wing must be one peace.