New paragliding site record at Manilla
http://smashpuppet.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/far-out-man.html
It was all good for another 50km until I found myself under a
large dying cumulus and was joined again by Che where we scratched our asses off
for 20 min and started to get blown off course towards some pretty barren
looking country with very limited road options and a guaranteed long wait for a
retrieve. Fortunately the lift slowly improved and we climbed back up to 2900m
and were able to continue on Westwards into the setting sun for what turned out
to be our final glide for the day. We chatted on the radio celebrating first our
300km flight, then shortly after, breaking Godfrey's 335km site record before
landing on the road 355km from where we began 8hrs 30min earlier.
Jason Turner and Che Golus both flew 363km (optimized) on the 5/2/2015 to break
the long standing Mt Borah paragliding site record.
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1095255
http://OzReport.com/1423574021
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