Jorge Andant ORGANIZER writes:

DELTA WINGS Breaks Record FLIGHT OF ECUADOR

With success opened all the sports event "Birdmen 09" which is an international
championship of hang gliders. Over 30 pilots from the United States, Australia,
Canada, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador met in Guayaquil, Saturday and
Sunday 24 and 25 October, for the first part of the agenda. The pilots tuned
their equipment, while demonstrations were made to the public and the press in
specially equipped facilities for the event, in the urbanization LZ 10.5 km up
the road to the coast.

The Minister of Tourism, Verónica Sion, attended the fair to inaugurate the new
Center for Free Flight Guayaquil, comprising the launch at "Bototillo" located
at 305 meters in the hills of Chongón-Colonche and two airstrips in the LZ.

Typical food, music and narration from an announcer who reported on the
development of the event, gave the weekend format, while the pilots gave away
kites to children and the sponsors displayed their products in booths specially
prepared.

On Monday and Tuesday, the pilots had a cross country competition. On Monday,
the flight conditions were not good because it was very cloudy and there were no
thermals.

This was used by several pilots in the United States team, who, led by Jeff
O'Brien and Ricker Goldsborough, visited the mission of Father Frank, with poor
children in the suburbs and made a donation of resources, previously collected
from the community U.S. hang glider pilots, medicine and basic necessities.

On Tuesday 27 October, the pilots were rewarded by nature with ideal conditions
for cross country flight. Taking off at 13:00 from the launch at "Bototillo,"
flying north of the province, separating in search of rising thermals to allow
them to achieve maximum glide distance to clinch the trophy.

Already at 16.30, after the first hours of flight, pilots Dustin Martin
(defending Champion from 2008) and Craig Coomber, Australian team, had already
broken the record for gliding over Ecuador, set by the pilot Ecuadorian National
Champion Raul Guerra, at 40 km. Flying north of the province's population they
approached Pedro Carbo, using a "corridor of clouds" that allowed them to claim
victory and a new flight record. Meanwhile, the logistics team followed them and
ready to pick at their point of landing.

For on Wednesday 28, the "Birdmen 09" will have their reward in the Blue Room of
the Olympic Committee, receiving the trophy three winners of the competition of
"Cross Country" as well as the prize for the new national record flight on
Ecuador consisting of $ 500. After that will they attend the press interviews,
and then go to Canoa, Manabi, where they will race during the holiday of 31, 1
and November 2, giving a show to the public.

On Monday, 2 November the "Hombre Pajaro 09" will end with the grand final
awards, concert and farewell party at the hotel "Wonderland" Canoa, Manabi.