Archive for April 2009
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Bat flight
Some cool videos of bats in slow motion;
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/03/19/how-to-be-a-bat-life-in-motion/
Soaring flight has some advantages over engines, nice save.
Should have rolled off the road and into a service station, that would have been the ultimate landing.
Moyes harness safety notice
Most of you have probably seen this safety notice from Moyes before, but it’s time to check your harness and rescue before the season anyway.
Extreme sheep LED art? WFT?
Now for something completely different, creative and amazing.
Samsung Extreme Sheep LED Artby sertanarig
Bassano last day
It turned out to be a sunny and nice day, but the wind was NE and a bit strong for good flying conditions. It would be turbulent leeside, and not very safe for competition flying.
Manfred won the competition, Gerolf second and Robert third. Great result for the Austrians, and a solid comeback for Manfred.
Monday is [...]
Bassano day 3 and 4
Good weather and good conditions, still a little low cloudbase at times, but good thermals and nice
Yesterday we had some major drama – First Nils Fauske had a midair with a paraglider on the ridge between the takeoff and the observatory. Nils was established in a thermal with a few other hanggliders, the paraglider basically [...]
Bassano 2009, day 1 and 2
Three weeks ago I hurt my shoulder, by throwing a snowball of all things, I stretched some muscles and a got an infection in a tendon. I’ve been on some drugs that have helped me get movement back and the pain is mostly gone now. I only did a few short flights on the training [...]
