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- Sat Feb 09, 2019 8:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Website migration
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4014
Re: Website migration
Google shows: Sylmar Hang Gliding Association :: View topic - Not exactly an ... shga.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=9962&sid... Jun 28, 2010 - Sylmar Hang Gliding Association Forum Index -> Flight Discussion ... Thanks to fellow Houston area pilot Zack Castille for the editing. ====== But in ...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:45 am
- Forum: For Sale
- Topic: Alpha 210 for sale
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2556
Alpha 210 for sale
EDIT, October 21, 2018: WING SOLD TODAY. =========================== Off market. The Alpha 210: SOLD! Off the market now. :o =========================================== Onwards! Upwards! :!: :!: :idea: :idea: =============================== Wills Wing: Alpha 210 was new to Frank Colver, USHGA #7, sa...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Otto rating
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1837
Otto rating
International Otto What is an Otto rating ? Self-Soar Association adopted a membership system where members were called Otto members. This all was to honor and share the spirit of Otto Lilienthal, considered by many as the father of hang gliding. An Otto rating wraps a hang glider pilot who honors b...
- Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Year 1888 Sylmar Flight Park roots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1846
I think Larry has it! The prize of honor probably will be yours! Anyone contest his answer? Today Joe Greblo told me some history that the parcel may not have been Los Angeles before the SHGA accepted the land parcel, but that Los Angeles grew in a land annexation process during the development of a...
- Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Year 1888 Sylmar Flight Park roots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1846
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Year 1888 Sylmar Flight Park roots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1846
- Thu Sep 06, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Year 1888 Sylmar Flight Park roots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1846
Year 1888 Sylmar Flight Park roots
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/colle ... l4/id/2158
The Maclay Rancho Ex-Mission of San Fernando, Cal
Year 1888
The Maclay Rancho Ex-Mission of San Fernando, Cal
Year 1888
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 6:31 am
- Forum: Politics of flying
- Topic: Seniors arriving to SHGA Flight Park via vehicle types
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7852
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:08 am
- Forum: Politics of flying
- Topic: Seniors arriving to SHGA Flight Park via vehicle types
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7852
Scenario : SHGA does not invite JoePilot to land on the private property SHGA 4.33 acres. And SHGA charges JoePilot nothing for a recreational-use landing on the said 4.33 acres. Indeed, SHGA notifies that such use by JoePilot is not permitted by the choice of the owner SHGA. Then JoePilot should n...
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 9:01 am
- Forum: Politics of flying
- Topic: Seniors arriving to SHGA Flight Park via vehicle types
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7852
The reason that we are not inviting non-USHPA flyers to drop in on SHGA property comes down to one thing -liability insurance. Although it is not a common occurrence, houses have been struck by hang gliders in the past and there is always the potential to injure a spectator. Our club is at risk of ...
- Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:30 am
- Forum: Politics of flying
- Topic: Seniors arriving to SHGA Flight Park via vehicle types
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7852
Seniors arriving to SHGA Flight Park via vehicle types
There are many seniors who would like to join the park and club and play a substantial role in volunteer work for the club. But a deep redtape item challenges: the having to join a third party private corporation to land a hang glider on the club's 4.33 acres. ' Is the club searching for ways to hav...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dockweiler Records: Joe Faust makes 60 flights
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8156
126 Andy Beem and 201 Josh Laufer
Data with counts, times, commentary on the new world record at Dockweiler HERE Congratulations to Andy and Josh Together: more than 327 takeoffs, 327 flights, 327 landings, 327 carrybacks upslope. Many spectators saw some of the over 1,308 interesting HG actions at Dockweiler in one day. The WHGA re...
- Sun Aug 12, 2018 10:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: USHPA RRG
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2828
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Sad News
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6390
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Sad News of OP's passing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7050
Orian Price
See you soon, OP. ============================================= Some notes: ======================================= OP okprice Orian Price HE SIGNED WITH THIS SPELLING. Orion Price Horatio Alger OP used the spelling: horatio allger with the two ls Hang glider famous dad: Chris Price, early-modern pi...
- Sun May 08, 2016 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Novel Concept for Launching Hang Gliders
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1298
Novel Concept for Launching Hang Gliders
Novel Concept for Launching Hang Gliders
This is in concept stage needing staged model testing and simulation.
This is in concept stage needing staged model testing and simulation.
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Sunday, May 22, 2016: Celebration... Be there: Dockweiler
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1198
Sunday, May 22, 2016: Celebration... Be there: Dockweiler
FYI: A majority of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Dockweiler Gliding Society has voted for Sunday, May 22nd. to have a gathering of hang glider pilots and other enthusiasts, old and new, in celebration of the 168th birthday of Otto Lilienthal and the 45th anniversary of the beginning of th...
- Mon Jan 25, 2016 10:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: January 24, 2016: Dockweiler Day
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1393
Let me know by PM or direct email
if you are a friend to the Dockweiler site.
See the listing effort, so far:
http://www.worldhangglidingassociation.org/FDGS/index.html
if you are a friend to the Dockweiler site.
See the listing effort, so far:
http://www.worldhangglidingassociation.org/FDGS/index.html
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 11:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: January 24, 2016: Dockweiler Day
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1393
January 24, 2016: Dockweiler Day
Horizon, spotty interesting clouds, slow-to-serve wind direction, mild finally to 7 mph ... and good company: talk, fly, talk, fly, eat, fly more ... stories, challenges, politics of HG, exploring slightly crossing wind, making new Friends of Dockweiler Gliding Society: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 6:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Poll question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4704
Jim, I know of no way to alter the counts in the Poll Question. That you posted the typo is on record; such can be noted in any summary. Thanks for voting. My wording was probably confusing : ) Thanks for making the correction publicly. Best to you and yours, Joe PS Arbiter would need moderator priv...