Vicki Cain <<email>> writes:
The Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships is on again next year 2009. The tentative dates are as follow:
Dates: Practice Day Friday 2nd January 2009
Competition Dates: Saturday 3rd January – Sunday 11th
9 Days allowing for 1 rest day
This year most pilots flew an average of between 30 – 40... mehr

Armand may be heading for Forbes right now (Friday) as there are a group of pilots who want to fly there this long weekend. (We're staying at the beach so that Belinda can go to the opera in Sydney). We'll be out at Forbes on Thursday night. Contact me if you are planning on going (weather dependent, of course). We will be with Armand at the... mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unt7Pt1fRoE
Thanks to David Glover. mehr

Randy <<email>> writes:
LUMBY AIR RACES
June 13, 14, 15, 2008

For Hang Gliders and Paragliders in conjunction with Lumby Days
This is a fund raising event that helps the L.A.F. to maintain Coopers Launch
Maximum 50 Entrants
$1500.00 in cash prize money has been secured so far for this year. $2000.00 was awarded in 2006 and $5000.00... mehr

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- 10m/s sink, downbursts from Cb's and gust fronts up to 60km/hr as well as landing out in the middle of the desert miles from the nearest dirt track.
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html?scoringId=308
Thanks to Lukas Etz and David Kinlan. mehr

http://peterbowleevans.ca/sympathies.html
Thanks to Fred Wilson mehr

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Thanks to Jamie Shelden mehr

Gestern wurde in New York das Space Ship Two vorgestellt. Mit dem Nachfolger vom X-Price Gewinner will Virgin Galactic Touristen ins All schicken. 200.000 US Dollar kostet der Trip ins All - die ersten Privatastronauten dürfen 2009 auf Ihren Weltraumflug hoffen - mehr als 200 Personen haben bereits eine Einlage von über 20.000 US... mehr

http://ozreport.com/11.225#2
The FAI has validated these records.
Type of record : Straight distance Course/location : Quixada - Duque (Brazil) Performance : 461.6 km Pilot : Frank BROWN (Brazil) Paraglider : Sol Paragliders Tracer Pilot : Marcelo PRIETO (Brazil) Paraglider : Sol Paragliders Tracer Pilot : Rafael MONTEIRO SALADINI (Brazil)... mehr

Heather Mull <<email>> the pre-Worlds meet director writes:
It was always our intention that five wildcards could be allocated once our limit of 115 was reached, bringing the total to 120. This was done because no matter how well we try to publish competition registration dates there always seem to be some "top" pilots who... mehr

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We are sitting here on the deck of the Warren Windsports world headquarters (www.warrenwindsports.com). Yes, that is the Pacific Ocean just behind us. Curt has wireless DSL so indeed that is me working on the Oz Report (check out the reflection on the computer's screen). Curt has made me up a nice... mehr

Will Gadd <<email>> writes:
I really enjoy your post-task commentary. Although I'm unlikely to ever compete in an hang gliding comp, your thoughts are valid for paragliding comps also I think, thanks.
I'd like to give you a few questions to ponder. I'm not giving you grief at all, just hoping the questions inspire some thought, and... mehr

http://www.pgcomps.net/
Leonardo Comp Edition (LeoCE) is a system targeted at paragliding/hang gliding competition organizers and meet directors. It allows to publish a complete competition web site within minutes beginning from the competition registration all the way through the final results.
Manolis Andreadakis <email> writes:
1)... mehr

Wir üben schon einen gefährlichen Sport aus Aber die Schönheitschirurgen von Nip/Tuck kriegen das sicher wieder hin Keine Ahnung ob die Folge schon im deutschen Fernsehen lief !? mehr

Airwave hat sich zur Feier des neu erreichten Weltmeistertitel entschlossen neben einem professionellen Wettbewerbs-Team - auch Erfolge von anderen Piloten zu honorieren und diese im Wettbewerbssport zu unterstützen, und zwar weltweit!

Airwave bietet jedem Paragleiterpiloten männlich oder weiblich - welcher nationaler Meister im Jahr... mehr

After a leisurely breakfast at Warren Windsports world headquarters www.warrenwindsports.com and www.warrenwindsports.com.au (the new site in development) we headed out for Bald Hill on the north side of Stanwell Park for a little coastal soaring. The forecast was for the winds, which were perfect yesterday, to go a little bit north, and... mehr

I've received numerous emails and communications regarding towing and flying this coming long weekend at Forbes with Armand and the next weekend, starting Friday morning also with Armand towing. Looks like pilots from Canberra are interested in both weekends. Grant Heaney is interested in the long weekend also. Attila and perhaps others on the... mehr

http://www.drjack.info/RASP/index.html
Whereas the Dr. Jack's RUC and NAM BLIPMAP soaring forecasts available in the U.S. are obtained by post-processing files output by the "equations of motion" meteorological models run by the U.S. Weather Bureau, RASP BLIPMAPs are obtained from independently running an "equations of motion" model by someone... mehr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring
In his 1978 book Streckensegelflug (lit. "distance sail flight". Cross-Country or Long-Distance Soaring), Helmut Reichmann describes a flight made by Ingo Renner in a Libelle sailplane over Tocumwal in Australia on 24 October 1974. On that day there was no wind at the surface, but above an... mehr

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Here is a cool hat for you on those hot Aussie days.
Thanks to Tony de Groot. mehr