FAI Office <<email>> sends:
Sub-class:  Class 2 Course/location: Big Spring, TX (USA) Pilot: Robin HAMILTON (UK) Hang Glider: Aeriane Swift Light Date: August 9th, 2008 Type of record: Speed over a triangular course of 300 km Performance: 49.52 km/h Previous record:  no record set yet
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John Q Olson <<email>> sends:
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Mike Meier <<email>> writes:
Due to popular demand, Wills Wing is now offering a no extra cost option of a round speedbar basetube (see photo of hardware) on any Litestream control bar application (Sport 2, U2, Litestream equipped T2, or Falcon 3 accessory Litestream control bar kit). This option is to address the requests of pilots... mehr

Wills Wing Inc. <<email>> sends:

All of us at Wills Wing wish you and your families a Safe, Healthy, and Happy Holiday Season!
The Wills Wing Crew, 2008:
Front Row, l-r: Gary Smith, Bill Blaty, Ken Howells, Wolfi Siess, Carlos Mendosa 2nd Row, l-r: Tom Blaty, Linda Meier, Steven Pearson, Eva Hanska, Narcisa Hartsch .Standing, l-r:... mehr

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/us/19bikes.html
Mountain bikers, now barred from most backcountry areas in national parks, could have thousands of miles of trails opened up to them under a rule change proposed Thursday by the Interior Department.
The proposal raised tensions between hikers and bikers, who face off against one another on dirt... mehr

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On this day in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made some of the first sustained flights. The first flight was a approximately 120 feet lasting about 12 seconds.
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Mike Meier <<email>> writes:
When I was asked two weeks ago for my opinion on the current USHPA Competition restructuring project, I mentioned that I hadn't really followed the situation in any detail. I'd glanced through some of your comments on the Oz Report, and I'd seen the graph purporting to show the steep decline in... mehr

http://lucasridley.blogspot.com
Lucas donated $200 to the Oz Report. mehr

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Bob Grant <<email>> writes:
I just put together a movie for Youtube and it is from the First World Open Hang Gliding Championships which I did enter and it was in California at Escape Country, which is close to San Diego.
The Youtube movie is at - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSkIUgetzaw

It shows how we flew comps with standard... mehr

Bob Grant <<email>> writes:
In the movie above I have some footage of Hall Brock, who was Pete Brock's nine year old son at the time. Hall was flying a standard at Robinson Ranch (Escape Country).
http://www.up-europe.com/index.php?id=170
Hang-gliding nuts know this guy as the design and business genius behind Ultralight Products... mehr

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b3e_1220738805
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It is very rare to have a USHPA Regional Director to be turned out by the voter/pilots in his region. Most of the time these guys run unopposed. But Bob Kuczewski, the president of Torrey Hawks, a hang glider advocacy group located near San Diego, ran on a platform criticizing David Jebb, the incumbent and concessioner at Torrey Pines.
Bob had... mehr

Leroy sends:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1JrT8bKQB0A
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Curt Warren at Warren Windsports <<email>> sends:
http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/stanwell-tops-hang-gliding-video.html
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Andreas Ernst Becker at Flugschule Drachenfliegenlernen <<email>> has sent me weather data for one of the proposed sites for the Worlds. The actual site is to be determined by the CIVL Plenary in February. He writes:
During the search of another location for my hang gliding school I did a precise meteorological analysis and... mehr

William Olive <<email>> writes:
Do you think that maybe somebody left that tap turned on?
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KCRW (http://subscribe.kcrw.com/subscribe.php), the model of a green community oriented NPR radio station, is giving away a 2009 VW Jetta TDI Clean Diesel car -- the 2009 Green Car of the Year!
I believe that we drove one of these at the pre-Worlds in France this year. Nice car.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/automotive_news/4235586.html... mehr

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Im Auftrag vom Flightblogger habe ich gestern über 500 Fliegermagazine von Schlechtflieger Andy Kohn ersteigert. Gerade fand die Übergabe auf dem Thermikparkplatz statt - der Lesestoff sollte Detlev in den nächsten Monaten nicht ausgehen. mehr