Guest Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 (edited) Bear Grylls (Left) Giles Cardozo 'Gilo' (right) Giles Cardozo (Parajet MD) and the person who is responsible for building this awesome Paramotor , and Mission Everest Pilot will be LOGGED IN TO THIS SITE to answer your questions, for half an hour after the show The show starts on C4 at 21:00 hours on Easter Monday and ends at 22:00 hrs, so Give gilo 5 to log in and ask away. Please remember that we only have a short time so please try to keep it short and sweet so that he can answer as many questions as possible. If you are interested in the Wankel Rotary Engine please go to the Parajet homepage www.parajet.com and join the 'Everest Rotary mailing list' where you will be kept up to date with the latest Rotary Paramotor news from Giles We can of course start gassing now A notice to our visitors, you will have to register with this site to be able to post a message. It only takes a moment and is 100% free. Giles explains, "As altitude increases, so air pressure drops. At 15,000ft there is two thirds of sea level pressure and at 29,037ft at the summit of Everest there is only one third of sea level air pressure. An engine combines oxygen in the air and fuel to create the explosive charge that drives the engine. At sea level the oxygen content is approximately 20%, at 30,000ft the oxygen content percentage remains the same but due to the lower air pressure is equivalent to 6.5 %. Such a low volume of oxygen is insufficient for a standard internal combustion engine. Take a normal 2-stroke or 4-stroke paramotor engine to this altitude and it will simply stop running. In fact it will stop running at around 24,000ft as it simply can’t produce enough power to even push the piston up and down any more. Theoretically, with a third of the oxygen at 30,000ft an engine should produce a third of the power, however, the mechanical inefficiencies of the engine remain the same as at sea level and therefore draw a large percentage of the total power produced. This result is an engine that produces about 8 times less power and in most cases…especially for light weight aero engines…they just stop running." SW Edited May 3, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Great start The end of Mission Everest is not until 22:30 That's 100% my mistake.... sorry It is 100% still a go though Giles will be here shortly after the show SW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weesplat Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 good so far adverts just now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Way better than the US version.!! SW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheman Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Adverts suck, how heavy is 125 LB's in KG ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donegalwing Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 57 kg! Mental stuff !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheman Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 57 kg!Mental stuff !!! so that makes 168LB's even more mental ! WOW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Amazing, just finshed watching and l am tingling. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norman Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Something else again, magnificent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magmig Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 those guys have GOT BALLS OF STEEL!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_b Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Its great to see what the british can do if we have to Well done Gilo Whats next???? Pete b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheman Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Gilo you must be a bit gutted that your motor packed in, but does the overall mission accomplishment make up for that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 All the best to both off you, this also gives me confidence in a well made machine "The Parajet Paramotor". What is your next venture Gilo? Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Gilo is on the way and will be logged in soon Please do ask away if you have any questiuons about the mission and or the motor! Our edit was WAY WAY WAY better the USA version SW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonphotographic Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Fantastic achievement. Rivetting television. Well done to all concerned. Gilo, I wanna talk to you about an ariel photography rig when you got a mo? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norman Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Why oh why were the comms so crappy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
learner_driver Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hi Gilo, I was speaking to a friend who I am trying to pursuade to fly and he said do you need a funny name to begin flying. Well spotted I thought!! Gilo and Bear Anyway many congratulations a fabulous challenge. Well done for winning it. Questions if I may I am interested to know which wing you flew and if they were modded in any way. Also I am wondering as the air must be so thin up there what were the groundspeeds into wind and downwind many thanks Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magmig Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 looks like the wind was very kind to you the day you managed the flight- what was the wind speed at altitude, was it as cold as you thought it was going to be, did you suffer from altitude sickness. brilliant TV, well done both of you and everyone else involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weesplat Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Amazing achievment. Pity the instuments packed up that could have given Bear the altitude record. Next time eh! Though a bit confused that I didnt see you with a wheelbarrow at the christmas do so you could transport those ridiculasly big balls you have about. congrats Col..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hi Gilo, from Bear's camera angle it looked as if he was way above the summit of Everest. So whatever the height on paper, he did it, he did it. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonphotographic Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Well, doing the maths, and looking at the pictures, I reckon Bear made it approximately 3K/ft over the summit. The telephoto effect makes it look closer, but knowing the lenses etc the crew were probably using (I've worked with them before) I reckon it's pretty much there. Gilo, next time you do it, take a transponder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostysaregreat Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Congratulations on building a brilliant Paramotor! Another successful British invention. The program was very exciting. When you did the wind tunnel test, did you have the GPS and Satnav with you? Did you experience any failures then? Was it just the cold that caused equipment failure on the day or the altitude? Cheers, Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slim Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Why oh why were the comms so crappy? It is a problem I'm hoping to give you guys a solution to before the Tip to Tip. We've got some throat mikes to try. The real problem with Tip to Tip will be air to ground comms as you get up into the border areas and then the Highlands when the ground crews won't have line of sight and mobile phones will be largely useless. No challenge there then Stuart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giles_cardozo Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hello Everyone, Thanks so much for all your support and really kind comments, it was so exciting to see the UK edit of the film for the first time, I think they did a great job of telling the story!! If you have any questions just fire away! Thanks again, cheers, Gilo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l.g.friday Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Truly inspirational. How did you get into this? Were you an engineer or flier first? Where do you go from here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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