Hi-Start Gliders at the 2022 Flying Aces Nats in Geneseo, NY

Free flight gliders is the ambient music of aviation. Theres something very naturally calming about it

Just when I think I couldn’t be more enthralled the Flying Aces stun me again. I love these gliders and all of your videos. Thanks

Amazing, truly a different feeling when you see them floating up there with not even the rubber to power them, just the air.

I watch these flights over and over.

The inherent stability in these aircraft is impressive. They're rock solid and balanced for lift. They seem to surf the air at will. Splendid!

The skeptic in me knows that the Slingsby Prefect's (starting around 4:11) turns to the right are the result of stalls and the right wing dropping first, but I've also flown free flight just enough to have a cautious suspicion about God's attitude toward free flight airplanes. I'm happy you caught this one on film.

Thanks! I got quite a thrill watching this. My Dad flew a Waco CG 4A across the Channel to Normandy June 7, 1944 and survived the crash!

Well these guys really put the 'art' in 'hi start', and no mistake. What a beautiful flying field! This just shows how it's a different world up there in the blue stuff, an invisible and ever changing landscape of bubbles and columns of moving air, all sorts of thermal interactions. Of course there's always a slice of luck required in getting a ff glider off the hook at the apex of climb, and not spilling too much, but I think this random chance element is part of the charm of this branch of aeromodeling. Really lovely display! Huge thanks to all involved. 👌

It's been a while since I visited this channel ... but I feel a smile creeping across my face as it plays. Good to be back here. It's a good place.

Love those free-flight gliders. Thanks for sharing.

The flights are magical....the video pure artistry. Thank you.

From 4:20 to 6:31 ! That was a great flite . Caught a thermal at the right time . I had a rubber powered plane done that and it was lost in it . I watched it keep getting higher and higher until it went out of sight . I never did found the plane . This was in the fall of 1971 . I built the plane from my own drawings .

Thanks, always beautiful! 👍😃

What beautiful aeroplanes, they are flying like birds, how beautiful and unbelievable, as if they have souls ❤

What a flight!! No doubt about it, that's beautiful!! Thanks again.

That's awesome I have never seen a high start scale scratch built gliders that size and free flight you all did an amazing jobs not only on the looks and on the way they flew. Thank you for posting this video It was amazing.💪💪💪💯💯💯💯

You are poets! Thank for your passion and wonderful constructions. When I want relax I buy a Guillow's box and start to tinker. I'm not at your level and my planes fly poorly but they enjoy me so much. I made a video on a Beaver with floaters and it is quite successful. Ciao from Italy, Nanni

My heart has always been with the gliders in both full scale (I own a 1-26E) and in our models. To me something about powerless flight comes close to “magic”…This video totally captures that magic Tom. Thanks so much for creating and posting it.

I love watching your glider. Beautiful flight.

Absolutely beautiful!!! No words!