Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

For those who are going to go see the eclipse, SmarterEveryDay on YouTube has a video that might be helpful to plan your observations. https://youtu.be/qc7MfcKF1-s Here is a link to the app they discuss. The app costs $2. It uses you GPS location to compute the main contact times for the eclipse at ...

Nice video Steve. Thanks.

Will any of these work for you?
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If it looks flyable, I'm in.

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Who is that crazy fool?

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I think you're applying it incorrectly.

I don't have the truck, but I could loan you a couple of furniture dollies and some ratcheting tie down straps that might do the trick.

Malury, does your browser block JavaScript? The behavior you describe is what I get if I don't hav it enabled for that site.

Here's a link to the RLF clinic landings from Sunday.
https://app.box.com/s/zsglax25eun85pvvt4uu

I'll leave these on my cloud storage for a couple of weeks. So, download any that you want to keep to your local machine. These are HD resolution and range from about 60 MB to about 170 MB.

Sign me up!

If it's not too late to get in on the flying, I would like to join you.

This one can take some effort to get your head around. But if you carefully work out the forces acting on the cart you can see that it does work. The cart is taking advantage of the speed difference between the ground and the wind. It must be coupled to both media in order to work its magic. It requ...

Would you prefer that I pile it higher or deeper? Well, my thermaldamnamics class was a long time ago..., for two substances to be in equilibrium at a given temperature their chemical potentials will be equal. The chemical potential is basically the change in the Gibbs free energy with the change in...

Go ahead and count me in. There's a slight chance that I could have a schedule conflict, but if that happens I'll just let someone pretend to be me.

I'm still interested, too.

Very nice.

I would include Kagel launch as one of the waypoints.

Also, the units on your scale should be "mile".

Reading more carefully, I see that it was first flown by Sir George's coachman. "...after the short flight Cayley's coachman stated that he had been hired to drive a coach not to fly a glider. " Also, it seems that for his first, smaller version he enlisted the services of a ten year old b...

Designed and first flown by Sir George Cayley around 1853. The replica in the photo was flown in 1973 by Derek Piggott.

http://www.flyingmachines.org/cayl.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cayl ... gott_2.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Piggott

A handful of pictures from the Big Sur trip can be found here. Enjoy.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lc4nwoq7hm9eil8/v_YACfuauo

Hey, Don only gave me that money because the soda machine ate my quarter!