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Best "loop gone wrong" video on youtube. Thanks for posting. I've learned so much about looping from watching this.

If it was UPS and you tried to make a claim they'd tell you the product was improperly packaged and they wouldn't cover it. Not sure if FedEx is any different. Never ship anything heavy and fragile threw these guys. A lot of them are good but they have enough clowns in their midst and the compa...

Nice. Could you post the magnification?

Really nice piece of work George! I appreciate you sharing this.

Be nice to add something like this to California Soaring at Disneyland

This thing is just screaming "wardrobe malfunction"... not that theres anythign wrong with that.

Why add the risk to and from having a belayer in the mix? Just set up bomber anchors.

Mental note: climb the ridge route instead.

When pioneering new sites and especially as a new pilot learning to read conditions, I think you'll find this helpful. Try putting up lots of long streamers all around your launch and LZ. Get them up high to minimze the dampening of the wind gradient near the ground. Then use them to determine ...

I'm not sure but I think it was Elmo who was filming.

I'm still laughing!!!

I read 2.92s. That's 137 feet and 64 mph on impact. Dude, I busted my tail bone leaning back a liittle too much on my third jump off a 72 foot cliff. Another friend blew a hole in his lip when leaning too far forward and yet another buddy got an enema while wearing my trunks no less. You are...

Somewhere theres a life guard desperately trying to find the keys he dropped in the sand.

The guys has steel tendons.

I think policing the safety of other pilots is admirable when they are still inexperienced or if they are risking the site or others. But for me, I back off once a person is competent and is responsible enough to only place himself at risk.

I've got to try one of those. Are those plunge entries are ramps?

nice

LOL,flesh eating tree frogs from space.

@jvcmail Chances are it was a stall. In 1983, I was learning on an easy ridge in light lift about 150' feet up, flying prone for the first time. I allowed the gliders nose to get too high and lost air speed. The result was the glider gently turned straight into the wind. When this happens y...

Wow, never seen a stall that violent in a hang glider.

Lost a flying friend years ago this way. Just replaced the side wires so he could fly more safely with his sons tandem. The shop goofed on the nico. Wing folded right after launch. He died, his son was okay. The manual on one of my gliders has me put a 75 lb side load on the side wires to mak...

All I can say is thank God for weak links on the tow line or this guys would be hamburger today. Thanks for the post. I always hang check but a good reminder goes a long way.

There's no motor and I can't see the cable but I'm pretty sure the car speeding away is towing it up. The rotor then autorotates to produce the lift as was mentioned below. Once up, the towline is disconnected and it just autoroates down.

Serious props. I fly and climb alpine and rock too. I think the sometimes hostile safety policing in hang gliding has saved lives but is killing the sport. In rock climbing, free soloing earns high praise. Similarly in Alpine, insane lines like the Wickersham Wall become legendary. These don...

Nice vid. Reminds me of racing along the ridge at Funston years ago. I never dove pilots but I use to love diving on barking dogs. They'd start to get crazy as you first dipped in on therm. Then as they you see them start to have second thoughts as as they realized you were one big mother bir...

That was insane flying. You Funston people sure have that site wired.

I never carried my boards higher than the base of misery hill due to poor sking conditions. Looks like you guys caught the mountain in great shape though. Props for carrying them up Casaval.

I love how all the child psychologists are alarmed by this. They honestly believe walking away to tell an adult while a little shit is punching you in the face will fix things. They should try walking a mile in that kid's shoes. I'm a father of three sons and I'm saying congratulations kid, l...

I think it's an interesting idea to use compressed air as a battery. Wish the "reporter" didn't mention the perpetual motion bit. It makes a laughing stock out of a couple guys doing some creative work. Hopefully he's reporting on celebrity news instead of anything technical now. I didn't cat...