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2013 Hang Glider History       notes
  • Being tested at Torrey Pine Gliderport is the public's freedom to play in public parks with the running of wings held by those who would run with wings.   August, 2013. A 30-day flight suspension was given to a person; it is guessed that wing running was involved, not sure.  The matter may go before the City of San Diego's government bodies.
  • Second Sundays occur for hang gliding at Torrey Pines Gliderport.  Free food and some beverages.
  • Hang gliding history is being displayed in discussion groups, magazines, meetings, flight sites, blogs, emails, news reports, incident reports, ...    The Internet now allows one to get close to much of the contemporary history. Keywords and key phrases under quotation marks lets one find much of the history.
  • The F.A.I. has entrenched in some strong historical errors in their merit system that are hurting hang gliding at several levels: invention attraction, safety effects, and credibility.
  • The World Hang Gliding Association (WHGA) has now a Gold Award in hang glider creativity space.
  • Markowski gave Faust 1728 copies of Birdflight by Otto Lilienthal. Faust paid postage for the cartons. One carton of 72 books did not arrive to Faust; someone in the postal system has the carton; a notice of such loss was filed to the post office.
    • One carton is being given to Torrey Pines Second Sundays hang gliding picnic in care of Bob Kuczewski to do with as he feels best.
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  • Electric assist for launching continues to make inroads to hang gliding.
  • Challenges on carbon-fiber tube integrity bites hang gliding.   Construction of the beams, inspection of the beams, shock history of the beams, ... ?
  • Air-framed kite hang gliders  and unframed canopy hang gliders (paragliders is the common term, though one is not to forget that framed hang gliders have been also historically termed paragliders in some key arenas) are not joining kited kite boarders in the gliding skies under kited wings! A split has been made in world organizations:  WHGA  and WPGA where the World ParaGliding Association will stay focused on non-framed canopy-winged  inhabited kite systems.   The World Hang Gliding Association will stay focused on framed hang gliders.
  • Open public discussions are unfolding at scores of sites   See list.

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