Japan International Birdman Rally official YouTube channel finally posted an official English video with commentary and subtitles!!

On 17 April 2023, the official YouTube channel of Japan International Birdman Rally posted its first official English video. This video has completely English commentary and English subtitles. It seems that this video may be intended to be familiar to people from other countries. The commentary must be recorded completely new for the English version video. JIBR Official may post other videos in English in the near time and make the channel more foreigner-friendly. So, you should check out the JIBR official channel!

The first JIBR official video with English is the former record setting flight of JIBR glider division in the 2012 competition.
Shoji Ohki (spelled “Oki” in previous posts in this blog) flew over 500 metre by taking off from JIBR platform of 10 metre height.
Average glide ratio of this flight is 50+ by a low-speed glider!!
Wing spar of the home made glider is a wooden box spar which is a conventional aircraft structure. It is difference from many other JIBR gliders which have CFRP tubular spar similar to HPA.
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO0DbEFWtrg

The shown 60 km flight in 33+ degrees C is the current JIBR distance record of human-powered propeller division achieved by Yuta Watanabe, pilot of Team Birdman House Iga, in 2019 competition. The 60 km distance is the maximum distance under JIBR rule as of 2019 competition.
The JIBR record is longer flight distance than 58.66 km the FAI official distance record of closed course with MIT’s Michelob Light Eagle (the prototype of MIT Daedalus, the world record of HPA straight distance) in January 1987.
Unfortunately, JIBR condition does not comply with FAI official rule so that the JIBR record is not certified as an FAI record. The hot day condition of JIBR made long flight with HPA harder than cool condition in both athletic and aerodynamic aspects. Additionally, Yuta Watanabe did not exhaust completely after landing on water so that he should had achieved longer flight if JIBR rule allowed it. Therefore, this JIBR record flight must be worthy of equaling the FAI official record of closed course though it is not certified record by FAI.
An onboard camera of this JIBR record flight was introduced in a previous post in this blog. If you want to know the detail of the JIBR record flight, please refer it (An onboard video of a human-powered flight for distance of 60 km in 2 hour 36 min., was shared by a champion team of Japan International Birdman Rally.).
SOURCE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkICYRL67FU

We finally deliver "JAPAN INTERNATIONAL BIRDMAN RALLY” in English！
It is "Mr. Birdman", who has won the glider division 13 times. "Team Mitakamobara" Shoji Ohki pilot. He is truly a legend of "JAPAN　INTERNATIONAL BIRDMAN RALLY” .
鳥人間が遂に英語版に！
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— 鳥人間コンテスト【ytv公式】 (@ytvBirdman) April 18, 2023

Like & Reference;

• The legend of BIRDMAN RALLY the glider division , “Team Mitakamobara” Shoji Ohki pilot. – YouTube|鳥人間コンテスト【ytv公式】
• He set the record for the longest flight in the history of JAPAN INTERNATIONAL BIRDMAN RALLY.- YouTube|鳥人間コンテスト【ytv公式】

poor English better than Japanese – thank you.