Newcastle Hang Gliding Club

Ricky Evans just sent me this video of a take off and landing at Manilla. On the day we were both in Stings and caught a screamer of a thermal right out in front and flew west for about 60km together. Rick's family followed him and took the video as Rick followed me into the same paddock.

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Great flight for Johnny and Flocky from Gold Coast to Byron Bay read his blog here
An amazing day out flying.

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Just in from the OZ Report: 2009 Airborne Gulgong Classic -

You can find the Soaring Spot Results here:
http://soaringspot.com/gulgong_2009/results/

Flying with birds -

The 3D video reconstruction. Thanks to Krusty and the Scare.

Jonny's latest blog about the Morning Glory

First Morning Glory. - Well after arriving last night to late to set up the Dragonfly we thought we would wake up anyway to see if there was a Glory..

From the OzReport: The Airborne Rev - Scott Barrett, the designer, and Cameron Tunbridge are flying actual prototype

The video in Jonny's latest blog is amazing. He got to 15,000ft (3:37 into the clip). Read the blog and check out the rest of Jonny's videos of the Spanish Nationals here . . .

Well today was supposed to be the day of the comp so they set a 167kms task with 3 turnpoints.I launched first and climbed out with Pedro and Blay to 2200m. more . . .

134km triangle for the last day and by most accounts it was far from easy . . .

Day 6 and we have our 3rd task. Dalby - Chinchilla(77km) - Condamine(128). 14 pilots made goal on a reasonably hard day . . .