Der Pizzabringdienst Flying Pizza macht auf seiner Website Werbung mit einem Drachenflieger über einer Winterlandschaft “Frieren um zu geniessen”. Ich frag mich wieso Werbe- und Webagenturen immer die hässlichsten und unsportlichsten Einfachsegler für Ihre Werbung nehmen. Es ist egal wo man guckt, ob VW, Porsche... mehr

Wills Wing has donated $1000 to the US National hang gliding team to help offset their expenses at the upcoming Worlds in France. The expenses will be considerable (but then the enjoyment will also be considerable), and the team very much appreciates the help from Wills Wing and others.
Steve Kroop at Flytec is also a big supporter and has paid... mehr

You can find US National team items and help support the team here. You'll find the team members here. You'll find our list of supports and sponsors here. The home page is here.
Please click on one of the URL's above and check it out.
Thanks to Chris Smith at Sonic Media who did the original design. mehr

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The white lines are stitch lines and will be in black thread.
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I've setup the US National team ad on the Oz Report. Click it at any time to go to our web site, here. mehr

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I've been doing a fair bit of research into flying wing design and recently while reviewing a lot of info on model design I got a glimpse of the big picture and how important wing twist is in meeting stability and performance criteria. I may have uncovered some blind spots in current design... mehr

Ian Clark <<email>> writes:
A few of the tandem pilots here in Queenstown are having fun making videos and I thought your readers might be interested in them. Here are the links.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=IwC_GjX0xJY

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Ril_c8XFbEE

The first video has a paraglider d-bagging from a tandem hang glider... mehr

This story of a glider pilot trying to set the world altitude record in Hawaii was picked up by the Oz Report news scraper on the main web page (so you might have read about it there), but Achim Hageman, who lives in Hawaii, adds more material:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090119/NEWS09/901190347/-1/rss02?source=rss_localnews... mehr

Dan Gravage <<email>> writes:
Quite a number of years ago my flying partner launched into an unforeseen dust devil. The resulting yaw and crash put him the the hospital with a broken pelvis. I thought of that incident when I came across this new instrument: http://www.catchthewindinc.com/products/vindicator.
A quote from the web page... mehr

CJ Sturtevant" <<email>> writes:

You may have heard about the flood damage to Tiger Mt. road and LZ. Last year the bridge over 15-Mile Creek was washed out in November, and we were without vehicle access to launch until mid-summer, when DNR was able to repair the bridge. This year, when the big storm was forecast, Bob Hannah... mehr

I had just landed. SeeYou shows my pressure altitude at 1116' and the altitude of the airport at the spot I landed at 1114'. SeeYou shows my GPS altitude from my Flytec 6030 at 1293'.
The flight and task.
Just before I land, maybe two feet off the ground, I am pushed sideways while still facing into the wind:
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Final Results
Curt stayed in the air and Jonny went down on the last day of the Bogong Cup and that was enough for Curt to win the meet by 18 points. This gives Curt a chance at making the Australian National team (and make up for Forbes)... mehr

I was looking at my altitude graph in SeeYou for my flight yesterday. I have set my Flytec 6030 to display GPS altitude (actual real GPS altitude) by pressing and holding the ALT1 button and then pressing the GPS altitude soft button on the right. I love this function. I didn't make any changes or settings to the pressure altitude.
When my GPS... mehr

Over Emu.

Over Mt. Bogong.
Self portrait (Warren Simonsen) using 17mmSLR Camera on 35mm film mehr

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One of the two US Nationals will be held in Big Spring, Texas this year (the other is the King Mountain Nationals in Arco, Idaho). I conveniently see these two events as the Mountain Nationals (open distance) and the Flatland Nationals (Race to Goal).
The... mehr

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Final Results
Ollie says that the Bogong Cup should be moved to March for better conditions. He thinks that the climate has changed the weather patterns.
Very thick clouds this morning are moving along at a fast clip. mehr

raefmackay <<email>> writes:
For those that are keen to put a little competition in their life the Canungra Record Challenge will be kicking off Saturday 24/1/09 and run through till Sunday 26/4/09. Due to the increase of the price of gold (which has doubled in Australia dollar terms over 12 months and tripled since the first CRC), I... mehr

FAI Secretariat <<email>> writes:
The CIVL approved Local Regulations for the 17th FAI World Hang Gliding Championships 2009 in Laragne, France, have now been published on the FAI website at http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/LocalRegulations.
From the regs:
1. 1.1 Each NAC is invited initially to submit a team of up to four pilots (and... mehr

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The flight and task.

What a day! Yesterday it looked like we might not fly, but RASP came through
again saying that there would not be any OD, even though the local weather
service thought that we would have a chance of... mehr

There is a lot of unfocused anger about the high dues due to the HGFA ($390/year). You can see that here.
Insurance is a large HGFA expense. One question that arises is, is the level of third party liability insurance purchased by the HGFA appropriate for the sport and can it be reduced while still providing the needed coverage?
HGFA Members... mehr