l'autre manière de voler: sécurité, sobriété énergétique, zéro CO2 avec le Dispositif d'Envol Electrique
From Oct/26th till Nov/4 we had a successful training session, except from the 27th till the 30th of October due to the strong north wind (Mistral). We were operating from sun rise till sunset. Doug, Markus and Christoph completed the bungees…
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Saint Hilaire south take off area is appropriate for ultralight glider bungee launch. Jac proved it: this test was done in order to make demos during the Coupe Icare. Unfortunatelly during that event, there was not enough space left to…
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This year ADPUL’s board decided to make demo flights at the Coupe Icare: Michel with his Swiftlight-E, Pascal taking off aero-towed, and Jac who should have launch by bungee from the south take off area; unfortunately there was not enough space…
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Jean-Baptiste, made his first solo flight at 9am, and on the photo at 3pm after his second flight, which lasted 2:35, during which he reached an altitude of 3400m, and flew all around the high Buech valley 🙂 He just made the initial bungee training course…
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The new bungee launch system from ADPUL is outperforming the former one, thanks to the 15m long 12mm diameter bungees which can be extended up to 220% without damage: With 10 bungees extended at 200% giving an initial launch force of…
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We were present at the Fête de l’Air, thanks to Pascal, Sébastien, Claire, Andreas and Peter. We had 2 Swiftlights, 1 Archaeopteryx and one Sparrowhawk on static display. Unfortunately we couldn’t make aero-towing and bungee launch demos. Anyway the people’s…
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Next week is the world championship organized by ADPUL in Aspres sur Buëch, in the french southern Alps. From monday the 24th training flights, Wednesday the 26th at 10am opening ceremony, The 27th practice task, The 28th arrival of the class 5…
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Not only in Australia, see Marlies & Peter Eicher’s flights, and in Switzerland, see Roger Ruppert’s flights, but also in Austria, Italy and Slovenia: Here are Franz Pacheiner’s great flights (start and end time are GMT, you have to add 2 hours; click on…
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