[Brad] Weather conditions are a little bit windy today. Oh no it's hung up! hey guys
Hey guys, welcome back to Nighthawk Gliders! I’m Brad. [Bruce] I’m Bruce. [Brad] and this here is
Our special guest, Ben. [Ben] Hi! [Brad] Ben is doing us a solid by
giving us an opportunity to do something we've never done before and that is
launching a Whipit glider from his Fenix 120. It's really cool because
he's got a mechanism... what we call a servo here with the rubber band.
It’s kind of mounted and he's gonna fly this bad boy up pretty good heights we're
gonna try it out he's gonna release it and Bruce... Ready Bruce? [Bruce] Yep! [Brad] okay and Bruce
is going to pilot the Whipit. We’ve never done this before so this could be
this could be fun. It could be failure. Hey that's it! We'll see how it goes.
Weather conditions are a little bit windy today.
Oh it's hung up! It got caught it's hanging down. You can
let it down in the grassy area. That might be a safe bet. [Ben] okay. I’ll try. The aerodynamics are strange right now.
[Brad] so it got hung up when it was released. I think the Whippet probably decided to
lift immediately. [Ben] Yeah it was trying to stretch away. so what we
should try to do... there we go, soft landing!
Nicely done! [Ben] Thank you! [Brad] We could probably mount the thing upside down next time...
And it might lift downwards and we can just loop it back up.
We'll do take two. we decided to mount it forward again upright still but we
change the position of the rubber band now it's at the leading edge of the wing so...
hey good luck Ben! [Ben] Alright, here we go!
Nice!
[Bruce] Alright, now.
[Brad] Hey it works! Nice! Now you got to bring it back Bruce! It’s dropping fast.
Yeah you're probably going against the wind right now.
Ben is still up.
Yay that was awesome nicely done!
Now, here's a lesson... make certain you
check the batteries are connected before you fly it, right? [Ben] and mine's a
little bit loose - now that we mentioned it.
[Brad]. Alright take number three.
There it goes! It sticks to the plane doesn't it? [Ben] Yeah. [Brad] Nice!
That's good height, though! Now we can even go higher.
There you go Bruce... you’re soaring!
It was much better than the first one!
That's good fight. Wow!
Nicely done, guys!
Good landing!