They can fly 200 miles with no fuel. Here’s how.
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@TomScottGo
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
It's been a while since I've been up in the air.📰 AD: Avoid clickbait and ragebait with 40% off Ground News' Vantage plan: https://ground.news/tom
@holdtightadele8017
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Oh my god, you’re back!
Don’t know where my sub went, but I have once again subbed.
@benjamindavies1188
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
We need to get you in a glider now Tom
@derek7785
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
I think of it like a lava lamp and you’re riding the colored wax up and when it gets to the top and pops it makes a puffy cloud. Ride to the top, pop, find another wax bubble, weeeeee….
@mst4705
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
My stomach was clenching so hard just by watching that spiral descent.
@beppinodefner7420
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
It’s really refreshing seeing someone getting so excited about paragliding 🙂
@Gavin-Leigh
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
I'm with Tom on that footage… Wow.
@OneBenBeyond
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Honestly, just so great watching a video where you were obviously enjoying yourself so much, I couldn't stop myself from smiling along!
@andryushenko98
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
That was fascinating! Thank you for sharing this experience with us!
@Daniel-GT50
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
6:25 why did I burst out laughing l when the dude in the background started running? That has to be the goofiest run ever. 😂
@Porplefish
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
"How is Tom Scott going to put a funky elevator into this one?"
19:10
"ahhh"
@windwardhooligans1140
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
4:29 *small container
@mrKozmoz
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
That looks like so much fun
@BKMessenger
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Amazing
@Valery0p5
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
If only Leonardo could have seen one of these 🥹🥹🥹
@Valery0p5
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
15:53 "Now we are free"
Gladiator starts playing in the background
@elekkr
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Except they go where the wind is taking them not where they want to go
@Taracinablue
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
What a cool little adventure!
@burkemd
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Thank you for this one, Tom. This is an amazing experience that I'll probably never get to experience in my lifetime, but thanks to you, I'm a bit closer to it. ❤
@Avarn_
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
This looked fantastic and I'm absolutely sold on wanting to experience this as someone point in my life.
@philip1382
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Tom: "I hope my joy is coming through the screen here…"
Also Tom: "Ha! Hahaha! Aahahahahaha! Aahahahaha! Haha!"
✔
@monochromedevdle5697
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
🙂
@pyroguyman096
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
RIP my motion sickness. I had to put this one in podcast mode XD
@magreger
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
That was absolutely enthralling! I felt every second of that! Fantastic episode! Maybe one day I'll have the courage to try. Your lift off especially caught me off guard and I can tell it did for you as well. You look like you had a blast. Bravo..
@Veevee.Smollfox
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
i was able to experience the quiteness on helgoland 10 years ago. while below the light house, only hearing the machine spinning the light. thats something really missing in life in these times, everywhere there sound. even in nature, you are never far enough away to not hear traffic
@Korhh
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
12:17 I was wating for him to say "Helmet.. incase you fall"
@Oomzilla
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Oh and another thing. It's a medium, water, land and air. You're experiencing air! Well done!
@Oomzilla
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Tom, you're excitement is exactly what I felt before I became a pilot. Also there are tonnes of visual cues to find thermals. I often fly without Vario, to enjoy the utter freedom of flying, and reading the landscape. Because of this video, I'm going to explore Rutland. Welcome back!
@tiptoemouse
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
I would totally watch a follow up video where tom goes cross country (and returns).
@beethekay
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Hike and fly is also very popular if you have mountains. You have your one backpack with everything and hike ontop of the mountain and fly down or to the next mountain. Really easy, really cheep
@ryantargarean7166
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
My toxic trait is thinking I can do this too
@buzuuu
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Nice summer day with no wind and some sun…. Surprised he got to do 1000 flights in 20 years… in uk that would be 4 days a year maximum…
@Ohmriginal722
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
I'm unclear on what is pulling the winch, is that just another parachute?
@lvncee
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
the overconfidence that I could do this? this genuinely looks so fun
@martink3117
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Having consumed a lot of paragliding content over the years, you really captured the feeling and basics more than most, especially as a passenger. Next time try a mountain launch so you can experience ridge soaring the mountain face to get up to that base height before looking for thermals, its amazing being close to ground while riding a wave of air going up a mountain side. This makes me want to take the glider back out of storage now! Thank you for presenting the magic of it so well Tom, hope you get to take up the hobby as it's a whole other level when you're in control and on your own 🙂
@Beelover-z4d
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Tom: I'm gonna make this noise: "EEEYEAH!"
@rays5163
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
13:00 he said parachute
@Nooticus
May 28, 2026 at 10:39 pm
I genuinely don’t fully understand how these updrafts work?! It seems like magic to me…! I genuinely always thought that paragliders just jumped off cliffs and went gradually down only