http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tribal-skies-20120203,0,2712225.story

Eighty-three-year-old Dodson was a pioneer when he started hang
gliding almost 40 years ago. He tried paragliding, but on one of his maiden
flights he went into an unexpected spiral dive after launching from 3,500-foot
Kagel Mountain, about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. "If I'd hit the
side of the hill then, I would've been mush," he said.

In his late 60s at the time, he decided to stick with the wing he knew. He
doesn't fly as often as he'd like these days because of back and respiratory
trouble. So he gets his fix accompanying fellow members of what he calls the
"Sylmar Senile Senior Soaring Society" to the top of the mountain in a 1988
Dodge van with 381,000 miles on it.

His last flight was on his birthday in October. "I got pretty winded getting
into the harness, and winded again walking over to the launch," he said,
standing at the edge of the cliff with the San Fernando Valley spread out more
than a thousand feet below and the downtown skyline peeking over ridges to the
south.

"But once I was in the air, and the weight was gone, I could do it," he said. "I
was fine."

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