http://www.moyes.com.au/litespeed-offer/Apparently in the video, which is not playing on my slow internet connection
here at the RV Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJQ4SB5v7YU mehr

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/07/29/a-rare-mountain-tornado-touches-down-near-mt-evans/
It doesn’t happen very often, but Colorado had a rare mountain
tornado touchdown near Mount Evans. Saturday afternoon at 2:51 pm. Thunderstorms
strengthening over the mountains west of Denver were strong enough to produce a
weak, short-lived... mehr

http://www.xcsoar.org/discover/2012/06/30/SkyLines_Live_Tracking.html
One major feature of XCSoar 6.4 will be SkyLines Live Tracking. I
would like to introduce you to it.SkyLines implements a very light-weight tracking protocol that transmits only 48
bytes for each fix, opposed to hundreds of bytes for other protocols. It works
better when... mehr

http://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/vlmc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=167https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2532930/task1_TC.htmlFirst day:



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PRIMOZ GRICAR
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02:12:42
969... mehr

Vicki Cain <<moyes>>
writes:
Kraig Coomber from Moyes USA, and flying a Moyes RX3.5 won the
2012 Big Spring Championships.

His consistent flying enabled him to take the title with a comfortable 277 point
lead.
Kraig’s writes: At 83 kilos I've been really happy with my RX3.5. I was planning
on getting an RX4 at first but now... mehr

Mark Dowsett <<mark>>
sends:
This is how we motivate our students to stay on tow for the entire
low-and-slow scooter-tow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFX8JzwGp7k
mehr

Always seems to be about 95 degrees when we are in Big Spring.
While the forecast is for 107 in Oklahoma City all next week, in will be under
100 degrees most days next week in Big Spring.The National weather service says:
An area of high pressure will bring extreme heat to parts of the
south-central U.S. as the work week begins. Temperatures... mehr

The folks at Wills Wing write:
Price Increases
Effective August 1st, prices on all glider models will increase by $100. The new
price will apply to all orders not received before August 1st.
The price of the Covert harness has been increased, effective July 13th, to
$2550, as noted on the Covert product page on the web site. All Covert... mehr

http://soaringspot.com/2012bsc/http://tinyurl.com/bigspringspotBig Spring blows up.The models (RAP and NAM) were contradicting each other, one showing that we
would be completely covered with clouds and the other showed areas of lift. The
forecast for winds were also not in agreement. The local winds were 15 mph at 9
AM, but the forecasts... mehr

35.960431,-75.633144,Jockey Ridge State Park, OB, North Carolina,
USA

http://outerbanksvoice.com/2012/07/18/pedestrian-killed-on-u-s-158-in-kdh/Diana writes:
Hi, first I want to thank all of you that have expressed their
sorrow and concern for us, John’s family and friends. However, I would like to
take exception with a couple of... mehr

The article
here.
Forbes Shire Council will give extra assistance to the organisers
of January’s world hang gliding titles, to be staged at Forbes airport.The hosts of the event, Sydney Hang Gliding Club, recently sought a donation of
$20,000 from council to stage the titles over two weeks in early 2013.At last week’s July meeting,... mehr

http://soaringspot.com/2012bsc/http://tinyurl.com/bigspringspotPictures:https://picasaweb.google.com/HGChicago/USNationalsDay1
https://picasaweb.google.com/HGChicago/USNationalsDay2
https://picasaweb.google.com/HGChicago/USNationalsDay3The winds were stronger this morning than yesterday but it looked like there
might be a chance that they would... mehr

http://www.livetrack24.com/users/davisstraub/2dNumber of points: 1415 , Tracking interval: 4 secs
Packets sent: 408 , Packets Lost: 124 (30. 39 %)Compare with this:
http://tinyurl.com/davisspotBoth SPOT and LiveTracker lose data. But the LiveTracker puts up so much more
data that it tracks a lot more. mehr

http://www.airventure.org/news/2012/120724_wasp-wing-ultralight.html
You can take a trip back to the early days of ultralights down on
the farm this week as several early-day ultralights have returned, and one of
the most unique is a Wasp Wing powered hang glider with a modified Rogallo wing.This Wasp Wing is owned and flown by Keith Sharon,... mehr

Manolis Andreadakis <<info>>
writes:
Your latest live track (if you are currently live this will be
link to your current Livetrack)
http://www.livetrack24.com/users/davisstraub/3d
Same in 2d
http://www.livetrack24.com/users/davisstraub/2d
Opens up Google Earth with your current livetracking (or the latest if you are
not live)... mehr

Jonny Durand writes:
Another great day here in Big Spring getting over 11,000ft and
climbs up to 1,000 fpm. A 130km dogleg was set with a 70 kms cross-tailwind last
leg. Zac Majors won the day ahead of Bob Filipchuk and I was in 3rd in just
under two hrs.
I had a hard landing today after not coming out of my downwind turn with enough... mehr

Charles Baughman <<big-bird>>
writes:
I have been observing and photographing a young female Golden
Eagle and her parents in the Deschutes River Canyon. I took these from a tree
blind with a telephoto lens. She was late leaving the nest and I thought she
might die due to the heat or starvation.
mehr

The article
here.
When Gerry Uchytil and a friend heard about a hang-gliding club
starting up in southern California in the early '70s, they sent for a kit and
built a glider. Uchytil has been flying ever since, through the sport's heyday
in the '70s and '80s, when there were about 200 hang gliders in the Twin Cities,
and Uchytil was part of... mehr

The NY Times article
here.
Cyclists have long had a rocky coexistence with motorists and
pedestrians, who often criticize bike riders for a confrontational attitude, and
for blowing through stop signs or otherwise exempting themselves from the rules
of the road. Now small cameras — the cycling equivalent of the black box on an
airplane... mehr