On Sep 6, 8:33 am, Kemp wrote:
In the category of "eccentric gliders", a non-soaring friend told me
that one run of the Japanese Animae cartoon series Eureka7, is about a
character who is or flies a glider (sorry, I've not actually read or
seen the series). Part of the story line is the search for lift.
Turns out someone has built a 1:1 of the cartoon glider:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/n...-size-flying-n...

with a short movie of the build/flight:

http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/w...Sky_movie.html

Just don't fall off!

Kemp

That's cool! I remember that glider from an animae movie called
"Warriors of the Wind" in the mid-eighties. I watched it while in my
hotel room in Tonopah, killing an otherwise boring night. That was,
of course, before I began soaring full scale planes. I built a small
(around 15" wingspan) profile model of it, but had very limited
success with using weight shift for turning, although it worked fine
for pitch.