Results for "Hang Glide"

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  • Nano TO

    ...150-250-275ish ft/min down 350 in some spots. Glide Ratio quite nice at about 10:1 in very thick still 15F air. Measured in glide down from 2000 feet. Speeds 2...0-65 ish using old reinforced 1991 Performance hang glider wing (UP TRX). Flew Par...

  • Wing

    ...ding either...drops like a rock. Comparison of this wing to Falcon Hang glider with bar stuffed is not valid. They are completely different! Falcon Will glide, this thing sinks at glide in...

  • Tanana River

    ...ding either...drops like a rock. Comparison of this wing to Falcon Hang glider with bar stuffed is not valid. They are completely different! Falcon Will glide, this thing sinks at glide in...

  • Rear of sail

    ...ding either...drops like a rock. Comparison of this wing to Falcon Hang glider with bar stuffed is not valid. They are completely different! Falcon Will glide, this thing sinks at glide in...

  • View Down trailing Edge

    ...ding either...drops like a rock. Comparison of this wing to Falcon Hang glider with bar stuffed is not valid. They are completely different! Falcon Will glide, this thing sinks at glide in...

  • Blair Lakes

    ...ding either...drops like a rock. Comparison of this wing to Falcon Hang glider with bar stuffed is not valid. They are completely different! Falcon Will glide, this thing sinks at glide an...

  • Glide Approach

    This flight is still taking place as I was posting the photo's.

  • Over the clouds at 5K-- Looking toward Santa Maria

    Had time to verify the best settings for optimum/maximum glide ratio.  I flew over the beach, but high.  Nice and calm and surprisingly warm.  I'll share that in the AC Owners Group.

  • Runway Centerline / Displaced Threshold

    The green is the threshold.  We were simulated power out here-- damn good glide-- I had to slip it to get in.  Neat watching the white moving light flash the way home.  

  • XC had to do the Beaked one's bidding

    ...triking-- noisy, complex.   Not sexy, swift, natural like a hang glider.  I'd met Ole afte...online stories years before and deciding to join him on a couple pure hang gliding trips to Colima and Va...