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1 posted on 01/22/2013 8:22:13 PM PST by rocky50
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http://youtu.be/SxHVhxbtrhY


2 posted on 01/22/2013 8:27:01 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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To: rocky50

That was pretty similar to my one attempt to hang glide.


3 posted on 01/22/2013 8:27:36 PM PST by DManA
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Ping


4 posted on 01/22/2013 8:36:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: rocky50

I tried it AFTER I had a pilots license.

For those who have no previous concept of angle of attack, lift vs. drag, and stalls, it’s madness to try to hang glide without some previous instruction in the basics of how a wing works.

This guy doesn’t have a clue, from the very short interval between departure and arrival.


5 posted on 01/22/2013 8:36:56 PM PST by Tigerized ("..and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em!' cried the Toad in ecstasy." (continuing in 2013))
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To: rocky50

From my experience here’s what I could tell from the video. The hill wasn’t tall enough. The slope of the hill was shallower than the glide ratio of his glider.


11 posted on 01/22/2013 10:13:06 PM PST by Boiling point (Socialism; Ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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