The interview is found
here.

Davis, you are founder of one of the most popular hang gliding
websites on the internet – http://ozreport.com, book writer, US National team member and world record
setter. So how all that started and when you decided to start hang gliding?

For me it started with my father. He had been a fighter bomber pilot in World
War II. He entered the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1941
but by December he had volunteered for the Army Airforce.

He flew 116 ground support missions in Italy during the war and afterwards, as a
National Guard pilot at Gowen field in Boise, Idaho, met my mother. I remember
his large locker filled with electronic/radio equipment. He abandoned my mother
with three children when I was eight going first to California and then to
Panama, where he took up piloting again.

I had seen a hang glider in the seventies at the original REI that was down the
street from our communal house on Capital Hill in Seattle, but as a graduate
student in the Sociology Department at the University of Washington I was not in
a financial position to purchase the glider.

In the late summer of 1984 I was attending a wedding reception when I found out
that a guest was a hang glider pilot. I cornered him for the next two hours. The
next weekend I was taking lessons from Kenny and his brother Rod Brown who owned
Airplay’n in Seattle. The lessons took place in a four sided fifty foot deep
gravel pit near Snohomish, Washington, allowing for practice runs in any of four
orientations. I don’t recall getting more than a couple of feet off the ground,
if at all. I was very motivated.