Hi all 👋🏻
Today I want to share with you all a selection of photographs I took of a few Gliders - aircrafts in Schinveld the Netherlands 🇳🇱 early August 2012
All photos are taken with my (late) #Canon eos 550D with 18 - 135 mm lens.
The location of this small airfield you can find on Google maps here, see the yellow star ⭐️ :
A little bit more information about the glider you find in the following websites:
Eerste Limburgse Zweefvliegclub (only in Dutch)
It is their area where they let the gliders up…
Or
Here in Wikipedia.
It states:
”A glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine. Most gliders do not have an engine, although motor-gliders have small engines for extending their #flight when necessary by sustaining the altitude (normally a sailplane relies on rising air to maintain altitude) with some being powerful enough to take off by self-launch.
There are a wide variety of types differing in the construction of their wings, #aerodynamic efficiency, location of the pilot, controls and intended purpose. Most exploit #meteorological #phenomena to maintain or gain height. Gliders are principally used for the air sports of gliding, hang gliding and paragliding. However some #spacecraft have been designed to descend as gliders and in the past military gliders have been used in warfare. Some simple and familiar types of glider are toys such as paper planes and balsa wood gliders.”
Let’s start and go through my captures of these gliders.
Here we see people getting ready, checking everything is ok.
~The first photo of this post belongs in this spot 😉
A little bit later the left glider (a one person aircraft) is pulled and up it goes.
As you can see more people are watching the gliders take off and come down again this day.
Just before the release… I took this photograph.
The other glider (which is a two person aircraft) is getting ready.
Another one is coming down again. Do notice, some time is passing here 😎
And it landed.
Now the one that was preparing itself is ready, the person is signalling when it’s good to go.
And off it goes…
Bit by bit it is pulled up.
Higher…
And until it is too far for me too capture properly anymore and is released… it flies on the #wind further in the sky.
Beautiful… to be so #free up in the #air. ✈️✈️✈️
And that’s all for today, join me in my next posts for more #adventures, #stories and #photographs 😎👋🏻 Even some #artworks once in a while will come by 🎨
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Have a great day all 😎👋🏻
Grtz Jackie
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