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Did you try Gliding when you were at IIT Kanpur?
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And I really enjoyed those short flights and tried to do as many as I could. I found this video on YouTube. Apparently they now have motorized gliders that don't need that cable image system to kind of launch it the motor and the glider itself kind of launches takes you up. Funny to call it a glider when you have a motor in the plane, but I guess they turn off the motor and then have the plane glide and fly once it has reached the altitude
Anurag Chhabra
@AnuragChhabra · 1:05
May they make you sit in the front and then when it goes, all of IIT can't pull and it was really amazing to kind of look down and see everything. Good memory
Shashank Shekhar
@sshekhar · 1:00
Five minutes or ten minutes or whatever it used to be and carrying the range and putting it into the hooking it to the glider so the Jeep could pull it and whatnot it used to be like if I remember right summer afternoon. So it was pretty hard there, but still nonetheless, it was definitely awesome. I think I was just starting to learn how to land by the time we graduated, taking off was easy anyway. Good fun
I think one advantage of doing it in summer was the thermals, the hot air that would rise up and the gliders could. Soar with that that's I think where the soaring company in gliding and sewing center and I know other used to do like long flights in the glider as well for hours on end if they got the right air conditions. I never did any of the long ones. It was just a short few minutes and back, one loop and back
Rahul Mehrotra
@rmehrotra · 0:23
And let's not forget, I believe in those days it was RS20 for half an hour of gliding session. Where in the world would we get anything in that price range, even with, you know, all the time value of money and and inflation adjusting all of that. It's still freaking cheap, man. You don't get that kind of stuff anywhere
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
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