Jonny Durand's attempt to break Dustin Martin's 475 mile world
record for flex wing open distance is on in Zapata. Jonny is there. Bobby Bailey
is there. Mick Howard with his Dragonfly and trike is there. The Red Bull
filming crew is there.

They apparently don't have the liability insurance issue dealt with completely
yet. But hopefully by Wednesday, when the conditions look good, it'll all the
taken care of.

The Weather Channel filming crew isn't there yet. Maybe they are just going to
rely on the Red Bull crew.

http://www.livescience.com/55117-hang-glider-attempts-record-breaking-flight.html

On or soon after Monday (June 20), Jonny Durand will attempt to
glide from Zapata, in southern Texas, to Lorenzo, in northern Texas, a distance
of about 475 miles (764 kilometers). Aiding him on his journey — on (or around)
the summer solstice, the longest day of the year — are what may be the most
ideal atmospheric conditions for long-distance hang-gliding on Earth.

Zapata is also home to winds "that blow in a pretty straight line for a long
distance," Durand said. "It's why world hang-gliding records have been set here
for the past 15, 16 years."

"[At] most places on Earth, weather systems change every few hundred miles or
so, but by Zapata, the winds are very strong and steady for 500 miles or more in
a straight line," said Gary Osoba, an aerospace engineer and atmospheric
physicist who recently retired from Google. Osoba previously set numerous world
gliding records himself.