In other news.. Canada just sent "The Spirit of Butts Farm" to Ireland. Way to go Canada! We didnt think you were weird enough to begin with.

It wasn't a glider.

Still in all, a pretty achievement.

"The Spirit of Butts Farm"

They said 'butts'

<--- The camera is over here!

A glider with an engine. Which makes it an 'airplane' I believe.

Some statistics
- 654'000 kilometers flown,
- 9'700 hours flown,
- 2'030 successful glider take-offs,
- 2'028 successful glider landings,


Much better

I'll have the shark butt with butt sauce.

Glider != Model Airplane.

Thanks for playing!

Mmmmm...Butts Farm Wine...

Canada to Ireland?

Why?

Out of the muck and into the mire...

SpeciaED - those are from a separate event... one which did in fact involve gliders.

You can guffaw all you like but gliders have the potential to stay airborne as long as the pilot isn't bored. Where I live, people get towed up and then coast along the slope lift in the foothills of the Sierra. A record of 56 hours was posted back in the 50s before they stopped keeping those records. Now they go for distance and speed.

If anyone cares, FAI is the international aviation sporting organization, and also has things like competetive aerobatics under its puview.

I love farkers who don't have a sense of humour. It's so awesome.

Not a glider...
Not Canajen...
Not important!

Hey, a story that I submitted, made it! WOWHOO!

rwellor: "Canada to Ireland& Why?"

Because New-Foundland, Canada and Ireland is the shortest straight route between North America and Europe. Look at a globe not a map.

When you're not shure you gonna even make the distance, you don't cross at the largest section.

this has UAV writen all over it.. i bet this will catch the eye of some military folks...

11 pounds = portable

1600 miles = loitering ablilties

add a camera and you've got your self a pretty nice military survailence plane.

stays up for 38 hours,

global hawk can only do 24.. however that thing is huge.

This is actually very cool, you jeering baboons.

OLD NEWS. This was on MSNBC five days ago.

The Spirit of Butts Farm.

The drone that actually works.

Where's Saddam's duct tape-n-weed eater drone now?

The flight route was to commemorate the first heavier-than-air crossing of the Atlantic in 1919 by Alcock and Brooks in a Vickers Vimy bomber,

The Spirit of Butts Farm took off from the same location in N.F. and landed in the same bog in Ireland.

The whole thing couldn't be more than 2 meters (79 inches) long or wide. It couldn't weigh more than 5 kilograms (11 pounds) when fully fueled.

It didn't have anything left over for cargo/payload, except for a few letters and stamps. It WAS very stealthy, though, since it was mostly balsa and mylar. The only metal would have been the engine and the electronics.

Nice. So this glider has already proven itself to be more airworthy than 95% of Canada's military aircraft.

True story. My brother works on F-18's up in Cold Lake, Alberta. He says that for the most part, the jets are nothing but million dollar paperweights. So sure enough, one day he put some papers under the nose wheel, and wouldn't you know it, the papers didn't fly away. Now that's money well spent.

thought it was the guy who crossed the english channel the other day trying for another record.

Rofl, Quadraton...

Quadraton, maybe they should send one of those F-18s to Scotland; I hear there's a boat that needs a working anchor.