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Colorado Fly Week

Colorado Fly Week 2014|Facebook|Jim Zeiset|Patrick Halfhill|PG|Reggie Jones|triangle

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125 pilots are registered.

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Short Pack

(Big Spring, Texas, USA)

Alejandro Isaza|Wills Wing

Alejandro Isaza «alejandroisaza» writes:

I want to follow on Dieter Meyer post (a friend from Guatemala), with this message to encourage Hang Gliding manufacturers to redesign hang gliders.

I think very much the same as Dieter does and I am also worried, because it is getting more and more difficult to carry a hang glider on airlines.  It is difficult to to carry them on airports and even more for the airlines to accept them.  I have heard many stories about pilots who have not being able to load their gliders on airplanes, to the point that is getting discouraging to travel at all with a hang glider.

I had to leave my hang glider in Rome once as the airline did not take it. I was lucky not to loose it because others pilots traveling the next day were able to load it in a another airline.

The truth is that a packed glider is still to big to be carried as luggage around airports (perhaps the longest luggage you will see in a airport) and the longest to load on a plane.  They raise many eyebrows in airports and airline counters, not to mention the passengers behind you in the line at the counter as you fight !! With attendants to get your glider aboard.

I do want to send a message to hang glider manufacturers urging them to redesign hang gliders so they can be packed to a much shorter size to be able to carry them anywhere even if it takes more time for the pilot to assemble it.

I don't design hang gliders and don't know the difficulties about it, but I think that if the length of a packed glider can be shorten 1 more meter they would be better accepted by airlines.  I see no problem shortening the keel by disassembling the last part of it. Can the crossbars be attached to the leading edges much forward?  So that the wing tips can be made longer and thus when disassembled shorten all ? Can crossbars be made in more sections?  Wings in more sections?  Detachable crossbars?  There has to be a good design to solve this problem.

This is important for our sport !!! And is one of the great things hang gliders have.  The fact they can be carried anywhere to fly at different places around the world.  Otherwise we will be confined to fly only at our local sites and sites close by and not be able to attend to international competitions.

So please hang glider manufacturers (WILLS WING, ICARO, AEROS, MOYES, BAUTEC, AIRBORNE, etc) get into it and design hang gliders so they can be more easily carried and accepted in all airlines.  If you do, you will surely make a good improvement to our sport, get a big applause from us and most important bigger sales.

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Combine video and air speed, climb rate, etc.  values

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2014 Big Spring Nationals

(Big Spring, Texas, USA)

US Nationals 2014

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n7ljl0fhgbtkvnz/AAB4Fe1ancomjpjE30fjKDZda/This is Big Spring 2014!

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Tom's records ratified

(Iquique,+Iquique+Province,+Tarapac%C3%A1+Region,+Chile)

George Stebbins|record|Thomas Weissenberger

Type of record : Out-and-return distance
Course/location : Cerro Ballena - Caleta Paquica - Cerro Ballena (Chile)
Performance : 353 km
Pilot : Thomas Weissenberger (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date :2013-11-03
Previous record : 332.5 km (2007-07-05 - George Stebbins, USA)

Type of record : Free out-and-return distance
Course/location : Punta Blanca - Caleta Paquica - Punta Blanca (Chile)
Performance : 339.9 km
Pilot : Thomas Weissenberger (Austria)
Hang Glider : Litespeed RS 3.5 / Moyes Delta Gliders operated by
Date :2013-10-27
Previous record :  no record set yet

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The RX2

Icaro 2000|video

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http://icaro2000.com/Products/Hanggliders/RX2/RX2.htm

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