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Hang gliding
The hang gliding pages are in groups. There is some overlap and duplication, by necessity. These group links each skip down the page:
Hang gliding chronology
Hang gliding threads
My flying
Hang gliding miscellany
Hang gliding chronology
Dave Meyers heads out from Pine Flats, San Bernadino, California, in a Seagull 3 in 1973 or -4
- Hang gliding 1973 and before
- Hang gliding 1974 part 1
- Hang gliding 1974 part 2
- Hang gliding 1975 part 1
- Hang gliding 1975 part 2
- Hang gliding 1976 part 1
- Hang gliding 1976 part 2
- Hang gliding 1977
- Hang gliding 1978 and 1979 part 1
- Hang gliding 1978 and 1979 part 2
- Hang gliding early 1980s part 1
- Hang gliding early 1980s part 2
- Hang gliding mid 1980s
- Hang gliding late 1980s
- Hang gliding 1990 to 1993
- Hang gliding 1994 and 1995
- Hang gliding 1996 to 2014
- Hang gliding 2015 onward
Hang gliding threads
Most of these links go to menus about a designer or manufacturer. However, some links here go direct to applicable items where there are only one or two.
Bob Rouse flight testing his Dimorph pteron in 1997
- Airwave of the Isle of Wight, England
- Birdman of Wiltshire, England
- Bob England: Hang gliding early 1980s part 1
- Bob Rouse: Art for art’s sake in Hang gliding early 1980s part 2 and Hang gliding 1996 to 2014
- Bob Trampenau: Seedwings in Hang gliding mid 1980s
- Chargus of Buckinghamshire, England
- Donnita Holland (Donnita Hall) in Hang gliding 1975 part 2
- Electra Flyer of Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Fly America: Across the U.S.A. by hang glider in Hang gliding late 1980s
- Flying squad, a short history of the east coast U.S. hang glider manufacturer Sky Sports
- Hiway of Sussex, England, and Abergavenny, Wales
- Jean-Michel Bernasconi and Pacific Windcraft of California: Entrepreneur in Mid-day lightning in Vermont
- Kitty Hawk Kites (school) of the Outer Banks, North Carolina
- La Mouette in Hang gliding mid 1980s
- Man-Flight Systems (Mike Markowski) Eagle III: Appliance of science in Hang gliding 1974 part 2
- Manta Fledgling 2: American revolution in Hang gliding 1978 and 1979 part 2
- Miles Wings Gulp and Gryphon
- Skyhook Sailwings of Lancashire, England
- Solar Wings of Wiltshire, England
- Southdown Sailwings, Vulturelite, and Aerial Arts of Sussex, England
- Sport Kites/Wills Wing of California
- Testing for stability and structural strength
- Tom Peghiny’s Eagle of 1979: Developments 1978-9 in Hang gliding 1978 and 1979 part 1
- Ultralight Products of California and Utah
- Waspair of Surrey, England
My flying
At Ringstead on the coast of Dorset, England, in August 2018
Selected hang gliding photographs — my best shots
- My flying 1974
- My flying 1975
- Simple versus complex (my flying 1975 part 2)
- Three-sixty degree appraisal (my flying 1976)
- My flying late 1970s and early 1980s
- My return to hang gliding, 1989
- My flying, 1990 to 1993
- My flying 1994 and 1995
- My flying 1996 and 1997
- My flying 1998 and 1999
- My flying 2000 to 2003
- My flying 2004 and 2005
- My flying 2006 to 2009
- My flying 2010
- My flying 2011
- My flying 2012
- My flying 2013
- My flying 2014 part 1
- My flying 2014 part 2
- My flying 2015 part 1
- My flying 2015 part 2
- My flying 2015 part 3
- My flying 2016 part 1
- My flying 2016 part 2
- My flying 2016 part 3
- My flying 2017
- My ground-based hang gliding photography 2018 part 1
- My ground-based hang gliding photography 2018 part 2
Hang gliding miscellany
Paresev (paraglider research vehicle) in 1968 (in Space flight and hang gliding)
- A painted history of hang glider design
- ATA girl Ann Welch
- Dangers of hang gliding
- Eagles among men–my review of Higher than Eagles, the Tragedy and Triumph of an American Family by Maralys Wills and Chris Wills, 1992
- Hang gliding equipment
- Hang glider names
- Hang gliding preparation
- Instructions for building and flying a paper Rogallo wing
- Kimmeridge Khmer Rouge
- Mid-day lightning in Vermont
- Notices to airmen–NOTAMs
- Overview of Ringstead
- Paint it black–my review of the 1976 movie Sky Riders
- Paragliding
- Paragliding continued
- Space flight and hang gliding
- Terry Prendergast
External link
Hang gliding movie “Free Flyers” (full movie) on YouTube, filmed mostly at Point of the Mountain, Draper, Utah
