Brian Harris at Chabre2009 <<email>> writes:
We are delighted to inform you that we have now started the first round of re-allocation. We can offer your nation one further place for a pilot to compete in the HG Worlds in Laragne, in June this year. Please be aware that unless the allocation round is completed, with all eligible... mehr

Owen Morse <<email>> sends the text of the placards:
Bamboo Bomber
Designed: 1972 Materials: Bamboo, plastic sheet, rope, duct tape Glide Ratio: 2.5 to 1 Total Produced: 3
The Bamboo Bomber was designed and built by Chris Wills and his friend Chris Price based on a photograph in National Geographic Magazine taken at the May 23rd,... mehr

Owen Morse <<email>> sends:
Printed on vinyl at FASTSIGNS of Irvine http://www.fastsigns.com/US-CA-Irvine-store502.html
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So what did the task to the north northwest yesterday look like:
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=1120265593
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html?scoringId=302
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/25.3.2009/16:31
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-open/ mehr

The press release:
SANTA ANA, Calif. - As part of John Wayne Airport's current Vi Smith Concourse Gallery exhibition, one historic and three modern hang gliders have been installed above the baggage carousels, visible to passengers and visitors in the Thomas F. Riley Terminal.
The exhibit, "Orange County: Birthplace of Modern Hang Gliding" also... mehr

Ollie Gregory <email> writes:
The dry spring has been gifting us with some wonderful flying in the Sequatchie Valley. James Stinnett and I did a fun 100K triangle Sunday. We were getting to 8000'AGL with solid 500fpm climbs and made it back against some stiff winds.
The weather is so nice now. If the dry spring continues, the TTT's Mayhem... mehr

If you are following the Oz Report on Twitter or Facebook you'll receive real time updates. I updated the results of the third task of the Flyer Cup while in the LZ at goal on Thursday evening while Andrew Vanis broke down.
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Egged on by Carl Wallbank we call the longest task ever called in a Florida competition, just 5 km longer than the one from Quest to the Florida Ridge. But this task was to the north given the southeast winds (near Quest) and south winds near Lake City (north of Gainesville).
The winds appeared to be too strong in the morning as the British... mehr

Well, I could concentrate on much less contentious issues, like competition. Why would we think that delegates that meet for two days a year would have the understanding and expertise to actually make useful decisions? Why does it seem that it is always the "meeting geeks" that rule our lives? My only hope is that for the most part... mehr

http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/meetings/plenary/2009
Talk about nut balls? What are these guys smoking?
Scott Torkelsen: Cloud flying? Fernando Amaral: Setting altitude limits in accordance with predicted cloudbase. Issue of absolute measurement of altitude. Dennis Pagen: Difficult to assess if pilots in cloud. Heather Mull: Penalties too... mehr

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Franco Rinaldi <<email>> writes:
I'm producing some custom sized cones for harness tails. They are manufactured in carbon fiber or in carbon-fiberglass mix. They can be fit in the main harnesses and offer nice shape and possibility to store bags or other things that are usually held in the internal bags of harnesses.
The weights are... mehr

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/492
Saul Griffith: Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind. mehr

We sent in the petition to the USHPA Regional Director. 235 people signed the following petition:
* Keep the existing validity system for 2009 and until an improved system, that is approved by the competition community, is developed
* Task the workgroup to engage in an open discussion with the competition community to improve the validity system... mehr

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A few days ago, Sam Kellner, local hang glider pilot in Leakey, Texas, and organizer of the Texas Open Fly-in, wrote to bring me up to date on recent events at the Leakey airfield, the airfield that we use for aerotowing during the Texas Open (which has twice been the US National Fly-In). Sam wrote:
On March 7 we had a PowerChute/Paraplane... mehr

Hang Gliding Facts and FAQs from knumbknuts on Vimeo.
John Wright <<email>> writes:
A compilation of videos with some information about the sport. You are free to use this video as an aid for the teaching of Wuffos about hang gliding. mehr

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/my-life-on-the-court/
The marvel is that focused intensity can be achieved even in the act of failure, even by someone who knows what to do but most of the time can’t quite do it. And it is for that intensity — not its object or its goal — that one plays, for in those moments of surrender... mehr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_(game)
The story focuses on 7 year old Jun who has asthma. Because of his disease, he cannot leave his ward without a doctor's permission and often becomes bored in his room. Jun forgets, "feeling of flying headlong through clouds." Fei (meaning fly in Chinese) is a 6 year old girl who Jun befriends in his... mehr

I wrote about the drought in Florida: http://ozreport.com/13.058#2. There have been numerous droughts here since I first started coming here in the late 1990's. In spite of that drought folks want to suck the water out of the Green Swamp (we stay in the Green Swamp here at Quest).
http://savefloridawater.org/
The water-transmission pipeline in... mehr