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For the 15th straight year, Big Spring’s sky will be filled with
hang gliders starting on August 6. The 2016 Big Spring Hang Gliding Nationals
will be held August 7-13, with practices open to the public starting the day
before. The event is one of four national championship events in the hang
gliding community.

“This is going to be the 15th year for this event, and it’s part of a series of
national championships, but it’s been called the Big Spring Nationals forever,”
organizer and meet director Belinda Boulter said. “Big Spring is famous for the
consistency of the weather conditions above all else. People just love coming to
fly there. You’ve got the wide open spaces and day after day of sunny weather
with good lift. So really it’s one of the top places in the world. And the
community always supports us.”