http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0eYNbVD6qc
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http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/grounded/Content?oid=1643966
As spokesman for the Idaho Hang Gliding Association, it's a sport
close to his heart, but for the past three months, the City of Boise has
prohibited Kangas and other hang gliders from flying at Boise's only gliding
hill.
Shortly after the city used $4.1 million in Foothills Levy... mehr

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/global-heat-is-on-in-2010-so-far/
The National Climatic Data Center has released its summary
of global climate conditions so far this year and finds that the
month of May, as well as the period from January through May, were the warmest
since thorough record keeping began in 1880.
We're happy... mehr

Gary Osoba <<wosoba>>
writes:
We still have room for a few more pilots at this year's WRE. With
the relatively poor weather that has been experienced at the preceding North
American (and European) comps in 2010, it's time for a radical improvement. As
it so happens, the conditions in Zapata are shaping up wonderfully. Last week,... mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLGg7U1I0qA

Steve Wendt uses his version of the Eaglet (no deflexors) when there is some
wind. It doesn't fly, but rather gets hauled and dragged through the air. Drop
the line tension and the Eaglet drops safely to the ground.
Be sure to pause this short video to get a better look at it. It goes by pretty quickly. mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnwc0meV3SI&feature=player_embedded

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/06/origami_hang_gliders_hope_for_human.html
Every once in a while, something gets submitted to us that
resonates, tickles, informs, and/or inspires on a really deep, satisfying level.
This is one of those items. Everything about it. The... mehr

Tim A Fleming <<ecre8>>
writes:
Our Tollhouse flying site is about to be permanently closed. The
U.S. Forest Service is closing the road that gets us to the take-off. We are
starting an email writing campaign to ask the Forest Service to open the road to
take-off again. Please ask anyone who has ever flown there or anyone who... mehr

Schwarzenbacher, Robert <<roberts>>
sends:
http://iwadewoikn.blogspot.com/2010/06/austrian-nationals-2010-schmittn.html
Vicki sends:
http://www.ikarus-pinzgau.com/austrian-championship-hg-2010/ergebnisse-results
Tom Weissenberger wins at the Austrian Nationals
Manfred fourth. Gerolf fifth. Primoz second. Martin third. mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFpJbCnLsvE

Thanks to James Westgate. mehr

BJ Herring <<bj>>
writes:
I posted some thoughts/notes on the Oz Report forum that
might be of interest:
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=86847#86847Gary isn't whistling Dixie either. This place trumps every other flying site
I've been to in soarability. On top of that, the lessons learned and experience
gained there was... mehr

We always have a great time at the East Coast Championship and Adam
and Sunny do a bang up job of putting on a great meet. With the good weather
this year we had five out of seven days of flying. The only fly in the ointment
is that on two of the really good days the task committee blew the task call.
This is a lesson, don't bring your... mehr

http://ozreport.com/data/2010ECC/2010ECCwithrigids.htm
The last day: http://ozreport.com/data/2010ECC/06C_2010ECCwithrigids.htm mehr

The local NWS forecast.

http://ozreport.com/wre.php mehr

http://www.aerosports.net/ECC.html
http://soaringspot.com/2010ecc
http://skyout.blogspot.com/
The forecast was for light north northeast winds so the task committee called
two triangle tasks, one for the Sport Class and one for the Open Class. There
was again a great deal of back and forth on the Open class task with Tom Lanning
not wanting... mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoM4nqql7z8
A tour of the Ridgely airfield and a bit of the DelMarVA peninsula.
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Jeff O'Brien thinks hard about his experiences with the Wills Wing
T2C-154 and compares it with the T2C-144.http://www.willswing.com/blogs/PilotBlogs/tabid/38/EntryId/291/144-vs-154.aspx mehr

http://www.aerosports.net/ECC.htmlhttp://soaringspot.com/2010ecchttp://skyout.blogspot.com/
The NAM and the RUC forecast said that we would have plenty of lift. The GFS
said none. Hmm?
They all agreed that the wind would be strong out of the west (and not the
northwest, like the first two days), about fourteen knots at 2,000' but eighteen... mehr

http://www.vimeo.com/12485817
Jim Rooney goes tandem and shows us how it is killing the sport! from Davis Straub on Vimeo. mehr

We couldn't help but include this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_bGCgp6eXk

Someone was laughing and screaming the whole time. mehr

38 58 10.92 N,75 52 0.00 W,Highland Aerosports, Ridgely,
Maryland, USA
http://www.aerosports.net/ECC.htmlhttp://soaringspot.com/2010ecchttp://skyout.blogspot.com/http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=427596054http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/8.6.2010/17:03The forecast was similar to... mehr