Self-Soar Association [S-SA]   awarded sporting prizes for categories of hang glider events at the epoch-setting event in Newport Beach, California. In one of the evening's dinners, some certificates were extended to event winners; there were enough event categories to cover most everyone who arrived with a flying machine. Two systems of award/certifications gave intrepid pilots recognition: system Self-Soar Association  and system Lloyd Licher who was crafting a politically-correct foundation for a sector of the "movement." Lloyd Licher was the spearhead of Soaring Society of America's [SSA] interests in the boom that was unfolding about gliding....  [There was obvert communication concern from the SSA sector to the S-SA sector about names and futures; it was no small matter that SSA gifted to Joe Faust  for $1 agreement through Lloyd Licher of SSA an old printing press that was non-functioning to Joe Faust; Joe got the press going; and such machine was then owned by Joe as he published Low & Slow.[L&S]   [Faust had written a letter to the editor of Soaring Magazine that was published; Richard Miller---former editor of Soaring Magazine, read Joe's letter and then wrote to Joe offering to give new vitality to a moribund newsletter of the mid-60s called "Low, Slow, Out of Control." [LSOC]  Joe took the bite and opportunity on condition that the ongoing effort would be a sole proprietorship of Joe's ownership and that the whole of the six issues of the LSOC would be republished in an issue of L&S, which did occur. It was in an issue of L&S where the Otto party of 1971 was promoted and covered.  The issues of L&S and its following name Hang Glider Weekly  may be available on CD by __________(??)_.   ] ]  Send Info  Permission to republish all of Joe's 216 issues of periodicals was given by Joe to Ken de Russy of Hang Gliding Museum, if Ken so wishes to do so [ Such permission is over the first issue of Ground Skimmer, first issue of Hang Glider, first issues of news for Hang Glider Manufacturers Association that Joe founded, all issues of Low & Slow, all issues of Hang Glider Weekly. Total: 216 issues.] ]

The event was written about in National Geographic by author Russell Hawkes (lived a couple blocks away from the headquarters of the Soaring Society of America, personally knew and interviewed Lloyd Licher, Joe Faust, Richard Miller, Jack Lambie, George Uveges, Taras Kiceniuk and others about the big Otto Lilienthal Birthday Party.  

Art Bean won "Best Craftsmanship for Biplane Hang Glider."   Art used a hand saw to cut 16' spars from larger boards; and he did such with precision care. 

There were Hang Loose biplanes that followed the plans that Jack Lambie had published before the meet.

There were Rogallo wings with various framings.  Joe Faust provided heavy cord for the Taras Kiceniuk team to kite-launch a few flights in their hang glider.

Richard Miller well-flew his feature-filled   non-Rogallo    flying wing that gave image and inspiration for others to explore flying-wing hang glider designing over various pilot-hold strategies   Miller Conduit Condor: Photo by George Uveges will become available here. [ ]

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