http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/events/2015-tasmania-drifter-tour
Tasmania is a raw flying frontier with many, but rarely explored,
hang gliding sites and even more possibilities. We'll be hitting Tasmania during
one of the best times in regards to weather and winds, as well as it will be
outside of the crazy holiday (January) period.... mehr

Ryan Voight <<airthug84>>
writes:
https://beta.empeopled.com/p/27793
I was examining the numbers of ratings issued and matching those
numbers up with members that are letting their ratings expire and I wanted to
specifically focus on where (at what hang level) we are losing hang gliding
pilots and again open that specific issue... mehr

http://www.sltrib.com/news/1755898-155/schanze-misdemeanor-court-bird-dell-former
Dell Schanze, 45, of American Fork, was charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Utah with violating the Airborne Hunting Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. He allegedly used a motorized paraglider to chase and harass a barn owl in February or March of... mehr

http://www.austrialpin.at/Produkte/news/Ruckruf---DELTA-Karabiner.aspx

Precautionary expansion of the Recall Recall of all delta karabiners FD00AIn the course of routine tests anomalies in strength of the major axis was
observed at several pieces. Caused by inhomogeneous raw material, minimal stress
cracks can occur at the bending. These... mehr

Yves <<yves>>
writes:
We are still flying in European autumn and took the new GoPro Hero
4 to new heights. Maybe our pilot community is interested in how 4K would be
looking like on their home screen before jumping to the next store grabbing
blindly a new camera.
http://youtu.be/U22bd06KUtk

But beware, there might be a lot of... mehr

Ryan Voight <<airthug84>>
writes:
I’d like to get a brainstorming discussion going about what could
be done to revive hang gliding. The current numbers are very, very depressing.
https://beta.empeopled.com/p/27718
I’ve been working with Empeopled.com, a forum that is designed to encourage
discussion and dialogue. They... mehr

I asked the USHPA Competition Committee to institute sport class
ranking like open class ranking. They agreed to do it at the BOD meeting. mehr

Agust Gudmundsson <<ag>>
writes:
Conical End of Speed SectionThe late paragliding European championship was the first Category 1 event where
the Conical End of Speed Section (CESS) was tested. The least that can be said
is that it was not a success: imprecision of instruments, fairness issue,
debatable flight strategy and more.... mehr

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2014/
http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/2014/10/day-4-70km-around-2-tp.html
We went to Beechmont launch today, but it turned out to be a very
stable day with quite a strong northerly which made the eastern site quite tough
to fly. I was not the only one who experienced very strong turbulence in several... mehr

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Jonathan Dietch <<nmerider>>
writes:
On Monday I replaced all seven (7) internal pulleys (the sweep
wire pulley counts as two). Several of these pulleys were found to be pretty
well worn upon inspection. I don't suggest anyone recycle their sweep wire by
cutting off the double pulley and attaching a new one via heavy duty shackle... mehr

http://ozreport.com/18.116#0 mehr

http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2014/



#
Name
Nat
Glider
Time
Total



1
Jon Durand Jnr
AUS
Moyes RX
02:08:25
470


2
Corinna Schwiegershausen
GER
Moyes Litespeed 3.5s
02:24:59
457


3
Steve Blenkinsop
AUS
Moyes Litespeed RS3.5
02:19:47
446


4
Adam Stevens... mehr

Yesterday after nine hours flying I was feeling as sharp as this
picture. Just set a my new personal best at 450km, across two states, landed two
minutes before sunset and broke down in the dark.http://www.xcbrasil.com.br/flight/115498 mehr

https://www.facebook.com/CanungraClassic2013http://www.chgc.asn.au/hg/cclassic.htmlThanks to Nick Purcellhttp://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/2014/10/canungra-classic-starts-today.html mehr

Ollie Gregory <<olliettt1955>>
writes:
Paul Voight just notified me that Ellenville New York has the
national fly in scheduled for Labor Day weekend. Since the Dinosaur meet and the
national fly in meet conflict, I think we should move team challenge one week
earlier. We will make it August 16th through the 22nd. mehr

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html

ROSWELL, N.M. — A well-known computer scientist parachuted from a
balloon near the top of the stratosphere on Friday, falling faster than the
speed of sound and breaking the world altitude record set just two years... mehr

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http://vimeo.com/106365480
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http://youtu.be/1heBUY_D0tA
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