Selected hang gliding photographs part 2


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Selected hang gliding photographs part 2

This page continues from Selected hang gliding photographs part 1.

In chronological order…

Hang glider: Wills Wing 160 U-2
Ground camera: Fuji FinePix

Hang glider and bird in flight in 2014

Steve W following nature’s example at Bell Hill in July 2014

Hang glider: Wills Wing 145 U-2
Harness: Aeros Myth 2
In-flight camera: GoPro Hero 3+ Silver Edition
Ground camera: Fuji FinePix HS 50 EXR

Hang glider in-flight photo

Over north Dorset in May 2015

In-flight hang glider photo

Get me out of here!

I was out in front of the hill at Monk’s Down in June 2015 to gain separation from the crowd of slower paragliders, some of whose shadows are visible here. I caught a thermal low down.

Carpet of green to land on out of a story by Richard Bach

Carpet of green to land on out of a story by Richard Bach, April 2016

Everard at Bell Hill 2016-07-05

Over north Dorset again in July 2016

Hang Gliding & Paragliding magazine cover September-October 2016.

Ringstead on the Dorset ‘Jurassic’ coast in 2016

Hang gliding and Paragliding (formerly Low and Slow, renamed Ground Skimmer, then Hang Gliding) is the world’s foremost hang gliding periodical. It was subsequently renamed USHPA Pilot.

British champion Grant C flying a Wills Wing 145 U-2 at Ringstead in Dorset, England

British champion Grant C. trying out my wing at Ringstead in early August 2016

The photo taken with Grant C trying out my glider also made the cover of Hang gliding and Paragliding.

2017 hang gliding calendar cover photo by Everard Cunion

2017 hang gliding calendar cover photo

I took the 2017 hang gliding calendar cover photo in July 2016. Bell Hill, our primary flying site in north Dorset, is visible on the right in line with the keel tube. The light squiggly line is the track to the top. The light-colored object at the base of the hill is a chalk pit.

Hang gliding at Ringstead

Over the beach at Ringstead in August 2017

Notice the shadow of the camera on the undersurface of the sail here.

Carrying a hang glider to the launch area at Ringstead in Dorset, England

Rob D and Rob S carrying a hang glider to the launch area at Ringstead in late July, 2018

Hang glider in flight

Gary D eking out the lift in a vintage Hiway Superscorpion 2, made in about 1981, at Monk’s Down in October 2018

Cameras: Fuji FinePix HS 50 EXR and Fuji X100F

Hang glider flying at Mere, Wiltshire, UK, in June 2020

Luisa turning immediately after launch at Mere, Wiltshire, in June 2020

Hang glider flying at Mere, Wiltshire, UK, in June 2020

Greg E in a Moyes RX3 at Mere, Wiltshire, in June 2020

Hang gliders flying at Mere, Wiltshire, UK, in June 2020

Louisa again in company of a Ghostbuster rigid wing

Roly the sailmaker launches at Kimmeridge

Roly the sailmaker launches for his first flight in a hang glider for 22 years

I took this photo at Kimmeridge in October 2021 with my Fuji X-100 fixed lens digital camera.

Theo's KitFox wings unfolded by house at Newton Peveril 2019-05-15

Theo and his Kitfox ‘Foxy Lady’

This one is on my page Defying Newton 2; powered ultralight (and similar) operations at Newton Peveril in Dorset, England.