GIN SPRINT EVO After leaving EDEL in 1997,Gin founded his own factory GINGLIDERS and with the success of the Boomerang 1, he has made lots of head turning toward the brand. Hans Bollinger world champion at the time (Ex-ADVANCE ) has left to join GINGLIDERS. Some years back, we could see 9 boomerangs on the top 10 . Over the years, too many futuristic designs have emerged, from some legend designers who are pilots and passionate for the sport and one of those is Gin himself. Unpacking the Sprint Evo, will surely lift your eyebrows. For an EN-B glider, it…
Author: Ziad Bassil
It is really a hard time for me when evaluating a new glider and having a live conscious make the job even harder. I fully understand that in a glider development there is lots of pressure, money to be spent on R&D, worker, expenses, prototypes, tests before certification, the certification and its cost, the construction, the sales & marketing…. All that is with the passion involved to create a new glider better than the old one, with the ingredients to make a safe, but competitive design in today’s hard fight for existence. The company investments are huge, and any flaws…
Pictures@ https://picasaweb.google.com/Ziad.bassil/Mar32011# Laying the glider on the ground looks like having a high AR. The leading edge is without Mylar reinforcements. It has small nylon rods to keep the nose in shape. Lines are very few, and the risers are now better looking and thinner than the Venus 2 ones. The glider is far away from the pilot (longer lines than Venus 2). Launching the glider is a non-event. The trim speed is high for that glider. A little higher than the Peak 2. Brake pressure is medium and the glider beautifully turns toward the core easily. When you are…
SKYWALK POISON 3 S (80-100) Last week I had the privilege to drive the NEW Porsche 911 turbo !! Amazing experience. Speechless in front of perfection. Opening the SKYWALK POISON 3 reminded me of that feeling standing with my eyes opened, starring at the super light aluminum cloth, the jet flaps, a new system on the lower brake lines! The risers with separate lines…All this with a quality that is truly beautiful. It is true that’s my first SKYWALK glider for a test, and maybe I am always a bit sensitive in front of a new glider ,but the impeccable…
Unfolding the glider shows a very neat job. Amazed by this excellent and surely durable construction which is a classic one with A lines attached near the leading edge, and not far as the R-10.3.There is no plastic inserts, only Mylar on the side panels. I was really wondering what would it feel in the air! Here it is…Launching is very easy for a 7.3 ar. Even kiting the glider feels that it has homogeneous movements .In the air the glider moves more than most EN-D I have tested, but much less than the R10.3.The glider feel well tensioned and…
Here are some questions to the designer of SKY-COUNTRY , Alexey Rakov.1- (Dust of the universe) The Evo X 24 is a comp glider. Why did you certify it?(Alexey Rakov) Because we felt, that it’s possible after making our own tests(in Turkey in Oludeniz) and after first competitions. And we found that it is very interesting to try to certify such glider 2- (DOTU)Now it is the first 7.3 aspect ratio with certification, with even one EN-D on frontal accelerated. How did you manage that? (AR)We didn’t make anything special for this, we just wanted to make not very…
The test:Laying the glider on the ground shows an excellent finish never seen before. The risers are very clean . It has the plastic wires on, it but it is not a “copy paste” thing. The plastic wires contain more rubber into them with a bigger diameter. The leading edge tells you immediately that is a NOVA glider .It doesn’t have any Mylar’s reinforcement on the vertical panels.Lines are rather thin, unsheathed in the upper part and sheathed on the lower ones. But you feel when holding them that there is very little on the hand.We all heard the story…
The NIVIUK PEAK 1 was a revelation in 2007,by its climb capacity and its glide at speed was unbeatable at the time.But i didn’t like its handling,and it was slow at trim.It was lacking of character and felt that the glider passed the EN-D tests being too “tied up”…But having flown the ARTIC 2 ,and liked it a lot !!! i knew that the designer OLIVIER NEF is full of surprises…So i waited a long time for the birth of the PEAK 2.Trailing edge RigifoilQuality: It is very fruitful and great that a company listens to the pilots !! The attachment…
As usual unfolding an ADVANCE glider has been for me a revelation.May be because they are more expensive than others 😉 ,but for sure the quality and the neat details are a step above the competition still.Test:OMEGA 8 +Impress 2 harness.Total weight 93 kgLaunching:That ‘s one strong point of the Omega 8.It launches perfectly,showing a very good behavior when kiting the glider.Even in low wind the glider rises perfectly without any strange movements.Turning &Handling :For an aspect of 6.8 the OMEGA 8 has a moderate brake pressure,and a very good turning behavior ,if helped by the pilot in keeping the…
MYTH or REALTY …!! THE TESTTo be direct …If you want a glider that can be the best in all conditions get a comp glider like the R-10 or similar…If you want the best “labeled” glider get the best EN-D glider from a 2 years cycle.I am convinced that most manufacturers are really competitive and have an excellent R&D team. That’s why every year there will be a breach in designing gliders.Everyone will not forget the 1995 Xenon,the 2007 Mentor from NOVA (Papesh), the 2006 Peak from NIVIUK (Nef) ,the first boomerangs from GIN, the 1996 Xmx from AIRWAVE (Goldsmith) and…