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Tuesday we paid too much attention to the winds forecast and thinking that it
would be too strong we didn't launch and head for Venice Beach as we should
have, but the forecast for Wednesday was for light easterly winds and eight of
us were up for a task.
I came up with a bow tie task from Quest Air south to the... mehr

The article
here.
The members of the University of Montana Hang Gliding and
Paragliding Club have launched a fund-raising effort to help secure one of the
premiere launch sites in Montana. Our goal is to raise 25-thousand dollars to
build a road and obtain a land use easement in the Tarkio area.
The article
here.
"A sympathetic and... mehr

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-dworkin/hang-gliding-outer-banks_b_3109227.html
As Andy says, "Hang gliding has a reputation problem that we are
doing our best to change one person at a time." I can attest to that.
My three-hour hang gliding lesson began with a video including safety
information and flying instructions. The mechanics of... mehr

http://youtu.be/nj1yhz5io20

With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly
complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature,
this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions, hover in mid-air and
glide without beating its wings. mehr

http://afsindustrial.com/huck360/performance-engineered
Because the Huck 360 was designed with shallow, low-notch-factor
bolt threads (the grooves aren't rolled as deep as a conventional bolt), the
effective diameter of the fastener itself is widened by as much as 18 percent,
increasing tensile and fatigue strength. According to maker Alcoa... mehr

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http://pwca.org/node/13655
http://www.hipoxia.com.br/pwc2013/
James Bradley <<arcanadana>>
writes:
The strike throughs on the scoring:
If you make end of speed section but land short of goal your time shows but in
strike-through because you lose your time points. If you had some leading points
you might still beat some people who... mehr

Casey <<caseycox.nc>>
sends:
Four nights, four bands, and a lot of flying along with Wills
Wing's 40th anniversary celebration.
http://youtu.be/XOh5fvUvUs8
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http://www.ruppert-composite.ch/en/aktuell/240-archaeopteryx-als-klasse-2-haengegleiter-anerkannt.html
At the February 2013 CIVL plenary meeting the CIVL Hang Gliding
Committee officially categorized the Archaeopteryx as a Class 2 Hang Glider.
Archaeopteryx pilots are now entitled to participate in hang gliding
competitions in Class 2. mehr

http://www.ruppert-composite.ch/en/aktuell/239-groesstes-archaeopteryx-fai-dreieck-343-km.html
Peter Eicher went for a triangular cross country flight after
Christmas off from his home in Australia. The first leg made him not just dream
of a great flight: Difficult thermals, flying low, wind, a low-safe and flying
back for some kilometers... mehr

http://youtu.be/UN8oLGBNXpE
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Ready just in case for any landing issues this coming competition
season: mehr

http://pwca.org/node/13655
http://www.hipoxia.com.br/pwc2013/
James Bradley <<arcanadana>>
writes:
Yesterday started to turn on a little despite the high clouds and
it was just a tease. There was a lot of grumbling in the retrieve vans. The
start was 12k from launch in an effort to keep us from all being in an
ultra-crowded... mehr

We went on my normal ride:
http://app.strava.com/activities/48781343A quarter of the way out we found one of these in the middle of the road (warmer
there?), a gopher tortoise as seen
here.Then around the corner we found this guy:This is a
Florida Red Bellied Turtle. He/she was about a foot long. Like the last one,
I moved him out of the... mehr

http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Grove-Thurgood-Marshall-Groveland/dp/B00B9ZF1NG
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth
century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown
v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in
an explosive and deadly case that... mehr

http://memolition.com/2013/02/24/20-amazing-cloud-formations/Thanks to Dale Abroad. mehr

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Thanks to Belinda. mehr

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