New Glenn Sticks the Landing !

The Blue Origin big rocket was able to land the first stage on a ship on the second flight:

source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/blue-origin-caps-second-heavy-lift-launch-with-first-offshore-landing/

I was looking at a video of the landing, either my internet is chopping up the video or Blue Origin's video was choppy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2NlWjNWvXo

But then Youtube served a link to this video on the side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXUuExL8Cac

Amazing !  A jet powered glider !  With a guy on top !   I wonder if this is what it's like to be a bird (with a lot of self control :).  It doesn't look super safe but it does look like fun.  Sorta like those flying videos that Peter Sripol used to do, mentioned here:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/01/ricky-nelson-died-in-plane-crash-on-new.html

Small aviation is DANGEROUS !  BTW, "be careful" translates to "Ki o tsukete" in Japanese (heard this many times as a kid, it never registered)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm