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• News on Ascender session

  Sunday 12th July 2009: Juan Salvadori, launches the Ascender over the flats with Guatraché pilots, for a new experimental session: B-stalls and croissants ... so good!     See photo here. best regards, Pere Casellas Laboratori d'envol

• Hang Gliding altitude hot air balloon takeoff  

• (International since 1970s) Seedwings  

• Sport of hang glider designing surprise  

• Would you identify a missing niche activity?  

• July 27-Aug 2 AirVenture2009 Oshkosh9  

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• Paul Gazis's Aviation Page
  Humor, Adventure, Flying, and Life...
   

• Nominate a living-legend lifter, if s(he) is missing from this file 

• Self-propelled hang glider carriage 

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• "All those obsolete hang gliders stored away could be lofted as 10k power wings. A hot glider & a trainer could be chopped in half & crossed into 2 hybrid super-loopers (left & right handed). DaveS.  What is he talking about? See EnergyKiteSystems for harvesting energy from wind for useful purposes. Wish to donate your fully-obsolete hang glider to the energy-kite-systems movement?  

• Fun and inspirational? Note resources.
  And related: M185

• Quinby:  1872 Flying Apparatus  

• Dutch Lift-her by Patrick de Koning lifters

Sir Hiram Maxim
honored in July 2009.
Photographs by Maureen Prentice. Blue Plaque unveiling in UK.
Printed items photographed at the courtesy of the Dartford Borough Council.

Tony Prentice captains microlight called "Maxim." 
"The passenger is Eric Littledike (builder of the Pilcher and Lilienthal replicas).
We were off to do aerial photographs of the monument, erected to Percy Pilcher at Eynsford,
about 10 minutes flying time from the Maxim site."   Tony Prentice
 

Photography by Maureen Prentice

 "We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other."
– Luciano Decrescenzo

Davis Straub

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