SHGA Float in El Segundo Annual Holiday Parade 12/11/11

Lynn McLaughlin · Post by **Lynn McLaughlin** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:38 pm

Sylmarians,

We want to participate in the El Segundo Holiday Parade (very close to our Dockweiler flight park) and hope you might have ideas for a float design. Some of you might have been around in the late 80's when Toby and team had a float in a Sylmar parade. We want to revive that community spirit and this is a great opportunity for Hang Gliding to have a presence near our student flight park.

Please let me know if you are interested in helping us. If you have float ideas get them to me by Friday 11/18.

Hope to hear back from some of our super creative Kagelites...

~L

OP · Post by OP » Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:05 pm

Let's have someone truck tow down the parade path:

We could use this oppertuity to reach out to the public alerting them to the dangers of paragliding and ride on a death mobile. So in place of attracting new pilots, scaring of our potential PG rivals?

Or we could have someone hang from a glider and wave

Rome Dodson · Post by **Rome Dodson** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:00 am

i did doo-dah parade. the croud went crazy when the kite was off the ground. if we could rent a wind machine and mount it on the back of a pick up, roped to truck, rope men on each wing it will be safe. rome

OP · Post by OP » Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:29 am

JD · Post by JD » Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:20 pm

OP wrote:http://i.imgur.com/4aODX.jpg

Wow! Cool float concept OP. Can you conjure up one of these and tow it down the avenue?

greblo · Post by **greblo** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:57 pm

The board discussed participating in the parade but found themselves stretched very thin this time of year and felt it best to leave any parade activities to individual volunteers.

I'm not sure if enough people are interested in doing it this year. If not, we'll try again next year.

Rome Dodson · Post by **Rome Dodson** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 9:41 am

i looked into renting mach. with air straightener, it looks good except the 1 million$ insurance. maybe our ushga ins. will apply, i don't know . rome

Lynn McLaughlin · Post by **Lynn McLaughlin** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:07 am

Hey Y'all,

Loving these ideas... especially the truck tow. After further discussion, it looks like we do not have the resources (volunteer labor) to make this happen. I will put a "tickler" in my calendar for next August and hopefully we will have what it takes to make this fun event happen in 2012.

~L

Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

SHGA Float in El Segundo Annual Holiday Parade 12/11/11

SHGA Float in El Segundo Annual Holiday Parade 12/11/11

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PARADE WIND MACHINE