Mike Meier <<email>> writes:
I inadvertently failed to copy the data from 1977 onto the
National Champions spreadsheet I sent you recently:

Year Pilot Location Class Glider

1977 Rob Reed Heavener, Oklahoma Standard Electra Flyer Cirrus
1977 Henry Braddock Heavener, Oklahoma Flexwing/Open Moyes Maxi
1977 Brad White Heavener,... mehr

This from the USHPA Spring BOD meeting (not the latest meeting) minutes:
Strategic Planning Initiatives: Competition sanction evaluation/restructuring—CC discussed some great ideas. An action item for Mike Haley to start new strategic planning work group to restructure the competition program and fly in program.
Coordinate with past... mehr

http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1205-full.html#198739
Thanks to Ted Stratton. mehr

http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/node/1085
Jacques Bott <<email>> sends:
www.xccomp.org is cooperating with CIVL.  http://www.xcontest.org is not, and http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html?scoringId=319 is not.
The CIVL On-line Competition is a server that takes results from other cooperating On-line... mehr

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/11/kitty-hawk-kites-no-longer-welcome-currituck-airport
After 17 years of hang gliding over the Currituck Regional Airport, Kitty Hawk Kites lost its lease Friday.
Citing safety and space concerns, airport manager Wayne Leary sent a letter dated Oct. 8 to Kitty Hawk Kites owner John Harris saying hang gliding and the... mehr

Am Dienstag den 4.11.2008 läuft auf Sat1 “Himmlischer Besuch für Lisa“. In der Liebeskomödie mit Mira Bartuschek und Ralf Bauer gibt es einige Drachenflugaufnahmen mit und von Lukas Bader und Martin Akkermann.

Pressetext SAT1:
Als Lisa Bergmann ihren Mann durch einen Unfall verliert, behält sie nur durch streng... mehr

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13666
Jonny Durand pulled off a great finish and he sure did deserve to win the Canungra Classic after not being able to launch on the first day as he was sick from food poisoning.
Jonny came in first on the last task, starting out at the first start time, with Scott Barrett in second. Attila was in... mehr

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com/
http://hang6.blogspot.com/
http://www.goflyxc.com/goadmin/canoa_open_2008/canoa_open_friday_day_1_scores
Jeff O'Brien second, and Daniel Velez third. mehr

Sometimes if you just wait around, the circle gets completed and you can marvel at the unwitting ways things happen. Things just go round and round.
It was a while back that, with encouragement from Nick Kennedy, I, as the USHPA Competition Committee Chairman, got the USHPA to adopt a Sport Class. This allowed pilots who were not in the top... mehr

As anyone who has read the Oz Report should understand I am in favor of both these formats, open distance and Race to Goal. I love flying open distance at Zapata where you can really fly open distance. You'll also remember that we (the task committee, including yours truly) called and flew the longest task every flown in a competition, 215... mehr

Mike Meier <<email>> writes:
The USHGA did for a time (between 1983 and 1987 if memory serves) implement rules under which the National Champion title was supposed to be determined and awarded based on a pilot's point total over a series of meets. (My memory is that it was best three meets over the one year period between subsequent... mehr

Mike Meier <<email>> writes:
This is a "complete" list of US National Hang Gliding Champions,
as best I can compile it - with one exception - it contains no women champions.
There were not that many years that a women's national champion was named, and I
did not try to compile a list of those.

The list is complete,... mehr

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08102703.html
Thanks to Bill Wood. mehr

oliver gregory <<email>> writes:
My old buddy Miller Stroud's friend Beth did this from Team Challenge footage she took:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rXZIPRodcE

Jim Lamb sent me this link.  Chattanooga is getting even cooler!
http://blogs.naiglobal.com/nai_global/2008/10/index.html mehr

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13666
http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2008/results_page.htm mehr

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Why not go to the place that has the best and safest conditions for a hang gliding competition? Why not go to the place that was chosen for the World Championship? Why is the USHPA BOD so unaware of what is really going on? Do you really think that CIVL would have chosen Lisa Tate to organize the Worlds and have chosen to fly at King Mountain?... mehr

Dustin wants to run the Santa Cruz Flats Race in September in 2009, late September, so he hasn't put in a bid for USHPA sanctioning yet. I'll keep you all informed about progress on that front. mehr

From the USHPA Competition Rulebook
2. 1. Purpose
The role of the CC in sanctioning meets is to ensure that U.S. pilots have fair access to quality meets including competition with foreign competitors, as well as to provide a scheduling tool for pilots to use in their pursuit of NTSS points. That responsibility includes that dates, quality of... mehr

Wenn Mensch und Adler zusammen fliegen. Flug über das Mont-Blanc-Massif.

Das unglaublichste Abenteuer der letzten Jahre einer tierisch menschlichen aber auch sportlich und umweltbedeutende Leistung wurde von Erfolg gekrönt:

Ein Falkner, Jacques-Olivier Travers und Sherkan, sein erwachsener Weisskopf-Seeadler von über zwei Meter... mehr