Free Flight: Where Aviation Meets Imagination

An Introductory video to all the different aspects of Free Flight modeling.

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[brushbros]

This is a well thought-out video. It tells a story in a linear fashion. It illustrates the gentle genius of this hobby and the people to whom it appeals.

[alangeddes]

I remember my oldest brother and his planes in the 50's and I started in 60's. Happy to see it is still alive.

[maxfliart]

Beautiful film! Congrats to the NFFS and Bob Sowder for his masterful edits. Thanks also to Jonathan Nunez for his film capture of Vance Gilbert's beautiful Farman Goliath, and to Charlie Sauter for his clip of the launch of my Hodek twin in Geneseo, NY.

[simonfunwithtrains]

Free flight is where most of us got started and if you like me, having been aero modelling for 60 years free flight is where you end, a return to the ultimate form of aero modelling.

[billkuhl]

This is perfect! Exactly how I feel about the hobby,

[electricmanist]

Well presented. A good summation of. all aspects of free flight modelling.

[thomaznavajas]

Vendo esse vídeo volto 70 anos qdo acompanhava meu saudoso e talentoso pai q competia com seus lindos aeroplanos em São Paulo....😊

[Flug]

Great job 👍 A wonderful presentation of this beautiful traditional model flying division. I love it 😊👋

[x]

Outstanding video, with a lot of familiar faces!

[daveboatman]

Great job guys! Fantastic presentation! Keep up the good work.

[christophermarvin]

Like the good old days. One is right two is left three is up.😊

[TheKayaker]

I can remember is it as a kid in the 40s my dad build them free fighting the first radio control plane in the area in Otto Illinois in got to go to nationals with him and 48. I think in Detroit with Rodu down in New Mexico and we flew down there control line and some free flight and it’s right at rudder but I get closer to that and one thing I remember that when I wanted to maybe he was building a glider I guess I’ve been on maybe five or six years and I came home and he told me he had a glider ready to fly so we went out to the college airport and now he’s route. Are you weed? He’ll hand launch that glider and almost hit the runway air to college and it must’ve been a little thermal there, and we change the thing across the desert and tell her one hour to say it was never recovered one test flight and lost. glider was many years in hours of building. Thank you for this.

[brjimbo]

Used to fly 1/2A FF, A-1 towline and HLG 50+ years ago. Tried rubber power (Wakefield) and scale also...Tulsa Gluedobbers.

[roscoepatternworks]

In 65 i built a 72" glider called a Talon. Great flight, then destroyed in the garage. Still have the tatone d-t timer. Only used once.

[Montagsflieger]

Perfect video, top channel, keep up your work - best regards from germany, cologne

[AlessandroBottoni]

Great video! Well deserved Like&Subscribe.

[ongkimchoon]

Thank you for the video. Question. Are your models weighing above 250g govern by the FAA rules on UAV?

[MrWaalkman]

There's just something about balsa models.

[peterbedford]

Theres a guy in Cornwall with a YT channel that's made so many gliders that I've lost count

[robohippy]

Well, you didn't include the hand launched models. The old Thermic B was one, and the cheap balsa gliders, a nickel when I was a kid. I have lost many of them into thermals. The thermic B I could launch 100 or so vertical feet from a flat field, which is plenty of room for them to catch a thermal. I spend 10 years as a hang glider pilot. The problem with the models shown here is making sure they come back to you....