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Wills Wing on The Discovery Channel - June 11, 2008Wills Wing is going to be featured on The Discovery Channel's 'Factory Made' program with a segment showing how a Wills Wing T2C hang glider is made. Factory Made - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 8:30 pm The Discovery Channel The video segment will show CAD design tools, the automated sail cutter in action, sewing, sawing, drilling - all the steps that go into making a hang glider. A highlight should be the stop-motion sequence of the final assembly of a glider from all of the component parts. The camera crew set up a camera in the shop and left it running while Peter Swanson did the final assembly. ------------------------------------------------- The segment was planned to be eleven minutes, but what was shown was barely 5 minutes. Still, it was a good piece and showed much of what goes into making a hang glider. There were only a couple of glaring inaccuracies in the narration, but they were more things that would make a pilot cringe rather than mislead the general public. They did say that the glider was test flown over the San Bernardino Mountains (where most WW gliders are test flown) but the test flight footage was shot at Elsinore - it was February, after all. Mitch McAleer did a great job buzzing launch and doing some aero with the T2C. Other flight footage seemed to mostly be from Point of the Mountain, Utah. Wills Wing is supposed to get a digital copy of the segment and when they do it will be available on their website. The links in the replies below will work for now. Forums > General & Newbie Questions News > Gliders & Gear Been There, Saw ThatI watched the episode last night. It was too brief to suit me, but then Discovery probably based the airtime on a popularity poll. It did make me want to go visit the facility, though. The shots inside the shop made me drool a bit. Good tooling is always worth the effort, and is reflected in the product. If they were located in the desert, I would already have applied. The carbon basetubes interest me, because composites are the future. They weren't shown, though. Joel torrentHere's a torrent of the file for those that missed http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gebhardt/HowItsMade-WillsWing.zip.torrent If that's a bridge too far, email me for a link to the file on my ftp server. I was looking forward to the granular aspects of building a glider and was bummed at its broader approach, but then I thought about it and it is a great piece for the general public. The way they referred to it as an aircraft & detailed the care with which its built may bring some fence-sitters into our fold. |
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