Simon Plint <> writes:

Two of our pilots, Scott Barrett and Adam Parer, from the Newcastle Hang Gliding Club (NHGC) are in the Australian team for the Worlds so I just thought I'd put a little encouragement up on our forum in the form of an animated GIF. You can see it here:

http://williamolive.com/phpbb/ or download the file here: http://www.williamolive.com/splint/uploads/AusInBigSpring_Big.gif  or http://www.williamolive.com/splint/uploads/AusInBigSpring_Small.gif

We have a thing about Trams at NHGC. It stems back to a pilot making a low save whilst being read a passage from a Tram maintenance book.

The pilot was getting low and made it back up and credited the reading for it. It doesn't sound right but maybe he was concentrating too hard on his flying and that's why he got low. The fact that his mind was distracted by something totally out of left field may have actually helped him fly better. At least that's the way I interpret the story.

I think it may have happened at a NSW State Titles and the team was called Team Bodge. I think the members were Alan Daniels, Dustan Hansen, Don Gardner and Alaric Giles (Dr Death). Billo would have been running the comp that year.

We now have a section on our forum called Trams and it seems to have become some sort of repository for silliness. A relief valve if you like.

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