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A pleasant evening soaring Barton cliffs

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Uploaded by on Jun 25, 2010

After a bit of dilly-dallying four of us had a very nice boat about above the cliffs on the smooth early evening sea breeze, joined by Richard on his hang glider for a spell. A lovely end to a summer's day.

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  • That hang glider makes you look stationary

  • @bigusdikus1000 Yeah! Well I was almost stationary some of the time, 'parked' into the wind and flying only a little above stall speed. Those hang gliders can shift a lot faster than us paragliders.

    If I can ever afford it I'd love to get back into hang gliding (I built and flew a primitive 'Rogallo' one way back in the 70s.)

  • From around 1.45 on you appear almost stationary, are you sure you were not just up a very tall ladder? ;-)

  • @raveydv Nah mate, I was hanging from a helicopter!!! When the wind's a bit off and strong enough you can hover like a kestrel.

    In fact I have hovered within a few feet of kestrels on these cliffs - they don't seem at all bothered by us - beautiful birds.

  • @Reech... yep, it's one of those all year round places when there's a 10-15mph S to SW breeze. When your undercarriage is working again you must give it a go.

    Speedy recovery, mate.

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  • Lovely place. On my list to do!

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