Hang Gliding - Fly Gravity Sports - Hope, BC
Hang Gliding in Hope, BC. Fly Gravity Sports.
Fly Gravity Sports - Hang gliding in Hope BC
Fly Gravity Sports - Hang gliding in Hope BC
Tandem Hang Gliding. Fly Gravity Sports, Hope, BC
Raw video of tandem hang gliding take off with Fly Gravity Sports. It's pretty windy so you may want to mute it. :) This is my first time hang gliding and it was awesome!
Early morning winch tows with Fly Gravity Sports out of Hope, BC
Just a couple of relaxing summer flights on the road from beginner to novice
GREAT DAY AT FLY GRAVITY SPORTS IN NEWMARKET
PILOTS,Meldan,Matt,Victor,DJay.
DINA HANGGLIDING WITH FLY GRAVITY SPORTS
She flies like a bird in a nature so wonderful above Toronto city in Queensville..a Tandem where she reach the altitude of 2500 feet and to put it in perspective it is the height of the CN TOWER and a half..cool ehh??
Hang gliding by winch tow with Fly Gravity Sports
A compilation of a few flights as an alumni student of Fly Gravity Sports, out at Hope, BC in Canada.
Sofia Becomes Youngest Hang Glider @ Fly Gravity Sports
Sofia becomes the youngest hang glider to ever fly at Fly Gravity Sports on her 8th birthday!
FLY GRAVITY SPORTS MEXICO 2014
A SUPER AMAZING WEEK FLYING IN MEXICO WITH FLY GRAVITY SPORTS
OVER 200 GB OF DATA CUT DOWN IN MINUTES.
Sailplane Flight with VSA
Roberta from The Vancouver Soaring Association was kind enough to take me up for my first sailplane flight at the Hope Regional Airpark in Hope, British Columbia. Hope Airpark is also the new home of Fly Gravity Sports - a hang gliding operation new to BC. Enjoy the fantastic views of the Fraser Valley, Hope Mountain and the Cascades in the distance.
Special thanks to Roberta and Frank from VSA for helping Fly Gravity Sports experience the joys of flight from a different perspective.
Hang Glide @ 1800ft Hope BC
Winch tow package from my first ever tandem hang glide done at Hope Air Park in Hope BC. Company is Gravity Sports -
Winch towed us to approx 1800 feet and we caught a couple small updrafts but nothing major.
WENDY in MEXICO HANG GLIDING WITH FLY GRAVITY SPORTS
2 AMAZING WEEKS OF HANG GLIDING ADVENTURE IN MEXICO WITH DAVID LIEWELLYN FROM FLY GRAVITY SPORTS AND AWESOME FRIENDS PILOT FROM ALL THE WORLD.
Bella Coola Heli Sports - Voted the World's Best Heliskiing Operation
Our new video! It's a mishmash of some of the recent film projects we've hosted over the past several years. We hope you get pumped!
Bella Coola Heli Sports, voted as the World's Best Heli Ski Operation at the 2018 & 2017 World Ski Awards, is dedicated to creating the ultimate SMALL GROUP heli-skiing experience. Operating in BC’s rugged Coast Mountains the size and breadth of the Swiss Alps, this is skiing Nirvana in the world’s largest contiguous tenure with 3.25 million exclusive acres. Jet powered helicopters fly small groups of 4 in search of endless powder slopes. Bella Coola Heli Sports offers a variety of programs catering for apprehensive first time heli-skiers to experts who want to ski AK-style terrain. After experiencing quite possibly the most pristine wilderness skiing and snowboarding of their lives, guests return to be pampered at their choice of one of 5 lodges, including Tweedsmuir Park Lodge, rated as one of British Columbia's best luxury lodges” by CNN Travel and a winner of TripAdvisor's Certificate of Excellence and Traveller's Choice Award (Best Small Hotels Canada) and a proud member of The Magnificent 7 Luxury Wilderness Lodges of Canada.
Interested in joining us?
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Can You Skydive From The International Space Station?
While the sight from the International Space Station is a beautiful one, jumping off of it won't be. It will be a deadly journey for any astronaut who jumps off the ISS to reach Earth's surface.
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Following is the transcript of the video:
Most skydivers jump off a plane flying 3.8 km above the ground. But imagine jumping off something even higher, like the International Space Station.
Unless you have a supersuit like Tony Stark, it's not gonna end well. But let's pretend Iron Man lends you one.
Ok, ready? 3 … 2 … 1 … Jump! Wait … what?
That's right, you wouldn't fall straight down. In fact, it'll take you at least 2.5 years before you reach the surface. So what's going on?
Height isn't the main reason your fall takes so long. In fact, if you fell like a normal skydiver, it would only take about 2 hours.
But the thing is, you don't fall straight down. You fall into orbit. The reason is speed. You see, the ISS might be called a station, but it's hardly stationary. It's actually moving 12 times faster than a jet fighter.
If you shot anything at that speed on Earth, by the time it was about to hit the ground, it would miss! In the same way, the ISS isn't floating in space, it's falling towards Earth and missing!
And when you jump off the ISS, you're initially moving at that same speed. So you end up in orbit, too — at least for a while.
Now, even though it's so high up, the ISS is pushing through a very thin atmosphere. And that friction slows it down. So the station fires engines to maintain speed and keep from crashing into the Earth.
But sadly your supersuit doesn't come with engines strapped to your feet. This has two consequences:
First, it means you can't maneuver and have to hope that any of those 13,000 chunks of space debris don't impale you. Second, without rockets to maintain your speed, you'll slow down and spiral toward Earth.
But it won't be quick. The Chinese space station Tiangong 1, for example, about 2 years to fall out of orbit. On the ISS, you're higher up, so you'll take roughly 2.5 years. But once you strike the atmosphere, your long wait is over. And it's go time.
As you re-enter, you have one goal: slow down. You're traveling at hypersonic speeds. So, if you deployed a parachute now, it'll shred to pieces.
And that's not the only problem. Falling through the atmosphere at such break-neck speeds generates a lot of pressure on your suit — at least 8Gs of force — that's 8 times the gravity you feel at sea level.
And if you're falling feet first, that'll push the blood away from your brain and toward your feet. So you'll probably pass out unless you're one of those fighter pilots who train to withstand up to 5Gs.
Now, if you don't pass out, you may worry about the freezing temperatures up here. But, it turns out, your suit's more likely to melt than freeze. You know how you can warm your hands by rubbing them together?
Now imagine your supersuit rubbing against air molecules in the atmosphere at least 6 times the speed of sound. You'll heat up to about 1,650 ºC — hot enough to melt iron!
In fact, the heat is so intense, it strips electrons from their atoms forming a pink plasma around you that will ultimately destroy suit.
If that's not enough of a problem, the drag will rip off your limbs. But thankfully, Tony Stark has your back, and somehow, your supersuit holds with you intact.
At 41 km up you've now reached the world record for highest skydive. In 2014, Alan Eustace wore a pressurized space suit as he rode a balloon up to this height. He broke the sound barrier on his way down before deploying his parachute and landed about 15 minutes after the drop.
But you'll be falling much faster than Eustace — about 3 times the speed of sound. So, in reality, you're not going to slow down enough to safely deploy your chute. That's where Iron Man can help us one last time. By 1 km up you've reached the territory of ordinary skydivers who don't need fancy suits to survive.
And at this point, your parachute can do its thing. And it's finally time to land softly.
Whew, what a ride! What sort of daring feat would you want us to try next? Let us know in the comments below. And thanks for watching.
A special thanks to Shawn R Brueshaber at Western Michigan University and Kunio Sayanagi at Hampton University for their help with this video.
Hang gliding in Hope BC
Nice front views.
Gliding Hope
Hand Gliding at 2000 ft in Hope, Tow provided by Fly Gravity Sports
Performing a Loop over Hope BC
You can see the CYHE airfield as the pilot executes a loop in the Vancouver Soaring Association's Grob 103 - C-GVSA.
Flying over Kong HD
Flying tandem over King Kong with fly gravity sports in Hope BC.