Looking back

The Wedge Tail Eagle attacks (Serpentine Western Australia, Australia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ejmP6kWoo

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Gyro hang glider

An oldie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO099D_Do2M

Thanks to Andrew

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Rhett's flight park in Massachusetts

Closer to Boston (Tanner - Hiller Airport, New Braintree, Massachusetts)

http://hangglidenewengland.com

Serving Boston, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.  Located in central Massachusetts 10 miles east of Quabbin reservoir.

http://skyout.blogspot.com/

Randy and then Kip left for ~50 mile (80km) and ~40 mile (65km) flights over my home territory.

http://www.facebook.com/HangglideNewEngland

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National Towing title in the Netherlands

First part of the Nationals (Deelen Air Base, Hoenderloo, The Netherlands)

Sander van Schaik <<sander>> writes:

Upcoming on Thursday we will have the towing part of the Dutch Nationals at Deelen airport.  Twenty six hang gliders will compete for the towing title of 2012.  For online updates, these web sites can be visited:

- www.zeilvliegen.nl

- www.sanderdelta.nl

- http://flyingjochen.blogspot.com

- http://hadewych.blogspot.com

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Thermal Map Generator

For your Garmin GPS

http://www.tmgenerator.com/home

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=109448#109448

TMG is new program produced in Poland, used to generate a map of thermals for Garmin GPSes, eg.  Oregon, 62, etc.  The Garmin GPS supports multiple maps at the same time.  The program analyzes IGC files and creates a map as an overlay on a standard map and shows where we can expect lift

Here you can see screenshot of the map:

https://picasaweb.google.com/goskkawa/MapyTermiki?authkey=Gv1sRgCO_SufTtqYPvpAE

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Edited video of the swoop at Quest Air

It's an art form (Quest Air, Groveland, Florida, USA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYlnR5Nc8M

You can also find it here: http://www.facebook.com/WillsWing

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Waking paragliders

Into the trees (Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Fabiano Nahoum <<marusco>> writes:

The paraglider had the worst of it, tumbling into the trees below.  Fortunately the pilot was fine.  I found the video remarkable in that the paraglider was literally knocked out of the sky by what appeared to be just a slight touch by the hang glider.

I have no information at all on the abilities and experience of the pilots involved.  Crowded lift bands can be complicated specially when mixing hang gliders and paragliders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJ9ZHO5pa0

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Wills Wing photos

Fun on their Facebook page (Wills Wing Factory, California, USA)

Françoise Dieuzeide flying the T2C 136 at the 2012 Flytec Race and Rally.  Notice the twelve tuffs on the left wing.

http://www.facebook.com/WillsWing

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