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One Giant Leap to Nowhere
WELL, let’s see now ... That was a small step for Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind and a real knee in the groin for NASA.
The American space program, the greatest, grandest, most Promethean — O.K. if I add “godlike”? — quest in... mehr

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At the USHPA BOD last fall, it was decided if Lisa could work it out with her sponsors that she and David Glover (King Mountain and Big Spring) could share the US Nationals. That is there would be a co-nationals.
Lisa wrote to David on Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:16 AM (with a CC: to Mike Haley):
Hi David,
After lengthy discussion, I wanted to let you... mehr

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SEATTLE -- The paraglider who crashed into tall trees on Tiger Mountain earlier this week said he thought he was going to die as he dangled high in the treetops.
"The air can play tricks on you and I was a little bit low in a position I should not have been in," said Gene Beaver.
Strong,... mehr

From the Oz Report News scraper:
Chelan Butte crash was in paraglider The Wenatchee World Online David P. Koehn, a 41-year-old Oneonta, NY, man who crashed off Chelan Butte Wednesday was in a paraglider. A brief on Page A3 Thursday included the wrong… Condition satisfactory after Chelan Butte crash9 hours ago New York man injured in hang... mehr

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It's Sunday night, and I'm waiting to hear from him. Gary Osoba flew the 100 km FAI triangle in his Woodstock that I set up and exceeded the World Record by 1 km/h, but didn't record the flight.
Val Paget flew the 100 km FAI triangle in her PW5, and maybe exceeded the women's record. We'll see. mehr

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Evgeniya wrote on Friday:
Corinna made the goal but crashed there: it was not a good landing field,... mehr

BJ Herring set a new rigid wing (Class 5 and Class 2) world record for the 25 km FAI triangle at 54.63 km/h. This surpasses my record at 50.4 km/h set at Wallaby Ranch in 2001 and the flex wing record of 50.81 km/h set by Tomas Suchanek in Australia in 2000.
On his third attempt he completed the task in 27:34 minutes. He made six turns and every... mehr

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The forecast for Monday: It looks like a record is possible on Monday.
With light winds on Saturday and maybe Sunday, we'll be doing tasks locally. On Saturday, we did the 25 km... mehr

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Quick and not so dirty editing. Jonny captures some of the excitement of competition. He shows that... mehr

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Pete Lehmann (current world record holder), Eric Thorsen, BJ Herring (current world record holder), Davis Straub (current multiple world record holder), David Glover (past world record holder), Gary Osoba (current multiple... mehr

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From Erich at Flytec in Switzerland writes:
We are actually testing and measuring a series of rechargeable batteries. We recommend so called precharged, or Ready to use NiMH batteries. These are batteries with a capacity of around 2100mAh and they have very little self discharging. This is a new technology.
We don't recommend NiMH batteries with... mehr

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Paul Tjaden <Tjadenhors> writes:
We are organizing a tandem / instructor clinic to be held at Quest Air in Florida August 17th thru August 20th. Tandem administrator extraordinaire, Paul Voight will be instructing. Only very qualified pilots will be considered. If you are interested, please contact me. mehr

Gary Osoba <wosoba> writes:
I witnessed two rare hawks (they appear to be red-shouldered) fighting over a baby grackle that one of them had snatched from a nest. They landed on top of a telephone transformer, locked talons, then fell to the earth right in front of me. It appears that they were electrocuted.... mehr

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Jamie is flying so the news will be slower today.
Jonny moves into first place coming in fourth... mehr

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Results # Name Nat Glider Total 1 Blay jr Olmos Quesada ESP Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 3498 2 Jon Durand Jnr AUS Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5... mehr

Yahoo news article
Based on its investigation — including weather reports, interviews with other pilots who flew in area that day and an examination of the wreckage — the board concluded the Bellanca was probably unable even at full power to climb out of what were likely downdrafts of at least 400 feet per minute. The report estimates... mehr