http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o4Itv7oAcw
Here, Madison and Peyton, aged 13 and 11, learn how to foot launch
a hang glider on the northern Oregon coast in view of surfers. mehr

http://www.alpineinfotech.com.au/Weather/Weather_02.htmCheck out the forecast for temperatures over the next three days.The winds in the mountains were high. Mt Hotham at 11 AM 23 knots.After two days of great conditions, a front approaches. mehr

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The day was called due to general pilot fatigue (which may
represent a safety issue).... mehr

26 21.112N,81 51.232W,Paradise Hang Gliding, Bonita Springs, FL,
USA
Scot Trueblood <paradisehanggliding> writes:
While those in the northern latitudes are up to their hind ends in
snow and ice, here in Paradise all we are up to is about 2500' on every tow
behind the boat. The water temperature is still about 72 degrees F, and the... mehr

Pilots arrived early for the Forbes Flatlands which begin on
Sunday the 3rd of January 2010. Lukas Bader, Leroy, and Bobby Bailey flew
Dragonflies in from Rylstone. Lukas said that they had hoped to fly low along
the river course as Bobby had done last year, but it was too rough, too many
gusts. They had all the cameras set up to film the... mehr

We stayed at Scott and Monica Barrett's in North Belmont (near
Newcastle) for three days after Christmas while they were visiting family in
Victoria. We had the opportunity to have dinners with Conrad Loten (and Annucia
and Myra), Billo (and Julia) and Adam Parer (who is now living at his mother's
house in Newcastle). I took the opportunity... mehr

Wendi Herman <<wendi.herman>>,
the meet organizer, has apparently been very successful when it comes to
organizing a competition that lots of pilots want to attend. This year it seems
like there is enough demand that she could have organized two
Corryong Cups and filled
them both up. Cameron Tunbridge tells me that she is a very... mehr

http://www.fasterthanthewind.org/ mehr

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8391000/8391345.stmThanks to David Gloverhttp://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1915/1915 - 0106.htmlThanks to Mick Morris. mehr

Eric Vils <erick> writes:
Xceara 2009 (www.xceara.com.br)
began today in Brazilian Northeast (Quixada city, Ceara)! Six of us flew more
than 200 miles (320 km) in over seven to eight hours from east to west,
flying with a light wind (9 to 28 km/h).
We are waiting for strong winds (40 km/h+). We will be here until the 29th trying
big... mehr

Robin and Nick are changing the web site right now. It's getting
much better. We are just working on the "What is hang gliding?" and "What is
paragliding?" web pages. mehr

I'll be reporting on the USHPA BOD meeting for the next few days
through the weekend. You'll real time find twitter updates aggregated here:
http://ozreport.com/twitter.php, from here:
http://twitter.com/ozreport, maybe here:
http://twitter.com/flytecusa, and here:
http://twitter.com/naughtylawyer.Facebook updates here:... mehr

You might remember my articles about that nasty letter I got from
Tim Herr, the USHPA lawyer, demanding that I pull off the Oz Report web site a
document that he claimed I ripped off the USHPA web site (I did not).  The
articles are found here: http://ozreport.com/13.207#6 (three articles) and here:
http://ozreport.com/13.208#4 (three... mehr

I've already pointed you to the latest proposals from the USHPA
Competition Workgroup for sanctioning and the competition rulebook
here. It's great to see that the Competition Workgroup sees the value of
dividing up the Rulebook, as I have proposed, but unfortunately they
are still headed in the wrong direction (suppressing competition and... mehr

The 3D video reconstruction. Thanks to Krusty and the Scare.

The NY Times book review. mehr

The EC dealt with the request to reimburse me (I'm not the only
one) for their error in stating the dates of the BOD meeting on their web site.
You might remember the original story: http://ozreport.com/13.224#5.
Well, of course, the USHPA wasn't going to come up with the money to pay off
this thorn in their side just to come to another USHPA... mehr

38.847773848549,-104.84527260661,USHPA headquarters, Colorado
Springs, CO, USA
Mike Haley has asked the USHPA BOD a number of questions about the
USHPA Competition Program. I'm going to look at those questions and make a few
comments about them.
You can find the documents
here, if you are a USHPA members (and frankly, who else would care?).... mehr

http://www.cucco2011.org/
Given the rules promulgated on the pre-Worlds site it is not very likely that
all thirteen US pilots (nor all twenty Russian pilots) will be allocated spots
at the 2010 pre-Worlds by the organizers of the 2011 Worlds.
See the rules here: http://ozreport.com/1257526737
Current US WPRS ranking is found
here. This may... mehr

33° 0'50.24"S, 151°42'6.71"E,Airborne factory, Redhead, NSW,
Australia
News
here. mehr

http://paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=25052http://www.flyozone.com/paragliders/en/news/headlines/11621
What this means is that the Baby HPP (BBHPP) is now the highest
performing Open Class wing in existence, with an incredible advantage over the
highest performance Open Class wings in the world, with a glide ratio of 1.7
better than... mehr