http://pwca.org/node/13655http://www.hipoxia.com.br/pwc2013/Speaking (as we have lately) of Brazil, James Bradley sends:
Dancing around rock monoliths and rain showers in light
conditions, getting help from vulture swarms, before the PWC in Baixo Guandu.
With Brett Hazlett. First task Sunday. The forecast is looking better, i.e.
dryer. mehr

A total of two days:



#
Name
Glider
Total



1
Glauco Pinto
Icaro Laminar Z9
1793


2
Cesar Castro
Aeros Combat
1733


3
Jonny Durand
Moyes LS RX 3.5
1720


4
Marcio Rosadas
Moyes LS RX 3.5
1687


5
André Wolf
Moyes LS RX 3.5
1582


6
Evandro Maurício Muller... mehr

William Olive <<William.Olive>>
sends:
http://www.williamolive.com/dalby/comp results.html



#
Name
Glider
Time
Total



1
Attila Bertok
Moyes Litespeed
01:24:03
990


2
Trent Brown
Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5
01:25:44
949


3
Nick Purcell
Moyes Litespeed RS 4
01:28:05
904


4
Rod... mehr

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Steve Bellerby gets this shot, like the one I got of him. mehr

http://weather.weatherbug.com/weather-news/weather-reports.html?&story=14750

Summer 2013 is going to be a hot one across large stretches of the U.S., says a
team of WeatherBug forecasters releasing their summer outlook April 5.The forecast, released April 5, indicates a distinct threat for above-normal
temperatures across the Mid-South... mehr

A pilot sent:
My Powered Paraglider friends tell me Dell had a later video up
where he "cage walked" his buddy without permission. Dell's hiking boot lace
clip caught the cage mesh and the buddy tossed his chute. The jerk from the
chute opening freed Not-So-Super Dell's boot.
The separation and weight release caused the buddy's wing to... mehr

Paul Voight <<flyhighpaul>>
writes:
I watched your landing video a few times today. Nice footage. I'd
be careful with that momentary "let-go of the control frame altogether" when
raising your hands higher in ground effect.  It'll bite ya some day.
As an additional comment, when Ryan Voight and I do landing clinics. towing the... mehr

William Olive <<William.Olive>>
writes:
The Dalby Big Air 2013 starts this Sunday the 14th. I will be
scoring the comp using FS and I'll upload the results onto a page on my website. mehr

Jonny Durand writes:
Another day of no flying here in Valadares cloudbase is below
launch and it seems tomorrow will be much of the same. It seems the last two
days of the comp might be flyable so until then we wait.
From Jonny. mehr

Early in the morning, Larry looked at the FSL forecast for sites
to the north and decided that it was too unstable.At 2 PM:It was a bit windy down here, but that is what you would expect on a great day.Now at 3:15 PM it looks like rain along the course line far to the north ahead
of the front:At 5:45 PM:It's good that we didn't go. mehr

Sander van Schaik <<sander>>
sends:

Here are three links, one big JPG, one small JPG and the Photoshop
PSD so people can adjust it to their own needs.
http://www.svs-design.nl/images/task-map-Worlds-2013-small.jpg
http://www.svs-design.nl/images/task-map-Worlds-2013.jpg
http://www.svs-design.nl/images/task-map-Worlds-2013.psd mehr

http://royalsociety.org/news/2013/bees-flexible-wings-lift-loads/
New research published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
demonstrates that the secret of bumblebees’ capacity for lifting relatively
heavy loads lies in the flexibility of their wings.A bumblebee with pieces of glitter stiffening its flexible vein joints.... mehr

http://youtu.be/NvswCSSr2HU

Gordon Rigg writes:
An hour to charge, or 20 minutes if you can find industrial 415v 3
phase! So if you have industrial electric, and three £5000 batteries then your
on for aerotowing (for 100 launches per pack, then they are toast). mehr

http://www.designfax.net/cms/dfx/opens/article-view-dfx.php?nid=4&bid=231&et=featurearticle&pn=04
So to help solve the conundrum, NASA worked with a team led by
Northrop Grumman on an Advanced High-Lift Leading-Edge (AHLLE) system for
laminar flow wings, developing and testing two ideas that might do the job and
that could be... mehr

http://www.kulmcrosscountry.at/en_ai
OPEN STYRIAN, UPPER AUSTRIAN AND LOWER AUSTRIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS mehr

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http://www.livetrack24.com/live_show_track.php?trackID=225172&2d=1
I'm live tracking with the LiveTracker24. Today we (Larry Bunner, Greg Dinauer,
and I) took a little flight to the north north west with a goal at Williston,
100 km away from Quest Air. The idea was to do a short flight and then be ready
for tomorrow. As tomorrow looks like a... mehr

Gregg Ludwig <<GreggLudwig>>
writes:
Tracy soloed this morning at Quest Air with the Flying Launch Cart
and her Falcon4 145 under ideal conditions. The flight was uneventful as she did
very well. Good training with Mark and others made it all seem easy.


A personal copy of Greg's wheels from Mark Dowsett:
mehr

Oggy <<oggy>> writes:
One sunny "blue" flying day end of july 2012. Wonderful view over
the launch site of the coming Bulgarian Open Nationals in hang gliding for 2013
and over the flatlands of the Danubian plane with the vast harvested fields. And
with the glimpse of the mighty Balkan mountain chain in the distance. I flew
over... mehr