On Jan 12, 2:51*pm, John Carlyle wrote:
Very good read about Dustin Martin beating Jonny Durand during a 475 mile hang gliding world distance record, with Gary Osoba providing the day's forecast.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sp...y-the-silent-r...

-John, Q3

Two more comments on this thread. 1) I am often amazed how one story
gets hijacked into something else. The thread went from celebrating a
good article about hang gliding in a non-flying publication to a
discussion of how to fly past sunset. 2) more importantly - For those
who just read the article on the web and didn't get to see it in
actual print - you REALLY missed the impressiveness of this article!
A friend of mine who reads the New York Times sent me a the section of
the paper with the article... the Sports Section. The story occupies
the majority of 5 full pages, including the front page. Page 1 has a
full half page color aerial photo, which really gets your attention.
The center section page has a full 2 -page wide color aerial photo
that fills the top 1/2 of the pages. There are 9 color photos in this
spread and 10 well-done drawings that show much about the flight and
how hang gliders work, including a full 2-page wide barograph trace of
both pilots' flights. Plus, the whole story is VERY well done and
VERY complimentary about the sport of hang gliding.

The sport of soaring would do well if we could convince this author to
do a story on Dick Butler, his Concordia, and the World Meet in
Uvalde.

Bob
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