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Old January 12th 13, 10:51 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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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...pagewanted=all

-John, Q3
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Old January 13th 13, 01:25 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Saturday, January 12, 2013 4:51:46 PM UTC-5, 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...pagewanted=all



-John, Q3


Great story and a great writer. Why aren't we attracting sponsors like these guys? Good for them.

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Old January 13th 13, 04:02 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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I tried to get red bull to sponsor me in 2007 for the region 7 contest but they told me that they didn't do local sponsors his of pilots. Guess I should've tried to fly in a nationals!
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Old January 13th 13, 05:02 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Sponsors? Because we don't try...
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Old January 13th 13, 05:55 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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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


It was a rainy day in Durango, CO, where I was, and I happened to be
reading the RAS when a note was posted that Dustin and Johnny were on
the epic flight and could be watched on SPOT. I immediately clicked
on and was spellbound for the rest of the aftgernoon. Thankfully, no
lightning, so I could leave the computer on. It was a very exciting
afternoon for me, watching their progress, and Dustin's final glide
that was absolutely parallel to the wind (I was flipping back and
forth from the SPOT page to the wind page http://hint.fm/wind/ to
see how they were progressing). 25 years earlier, to the day, Hans
and I had a similar day, landing in Cortez, CO for 218 miles on our
Wills Wings from Mt. Elden in Flagstaff, AZ. Watching another Arizona
Hang Gliding Association (now also includes paragliding) pilot set the
world record was the highlight of my summer. It couldn't have
happened to a nicer guy / more incredible pilot. Atta boy, Dustin!
And, a VERY nice article for a non-gliding publication. Well done.
And, it brought back a lot of fond memories for me.
Bob
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Old January 13th 13, 02:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Is Dustin's flight recorder trace for his world record flight available on the web? I checked on OLC-PHG under Best Flight, but Dustin's 475 mile flight is not there. Strange, because his 335 k flight on May 12, 2012 is listed.

-John, Q3
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Old January 13th 13, 04:59 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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As an ex hang-glider pilot, I also thought that the story was well researched and nicely written, without the usual inaccuracies.

One interesting note - the article says that pilots had to land before half-an-hour after sunset for the record to be valid. Is this true and, if so, why do they get half-an-hour longer than glider pilots?

Mike

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Old January 13th 13, 05:26 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Jan 13, 8:59*am, Mike the Strike wrote:
As an ex hang-glider pilot, I also thought that the story was well researched and nicely written, without the usual inaccuracies.

One interesting note - the article says that pilots had to land before half-an-hour after sunset for the record to be valid. *Is this true and, if so, why do they get half-an-hour longer than glider pilots?

Mike


They carried strobe lights for just that purpose. We need to look
into that to see if such an addition to gliders could give us the
extra 1/2 hour.

Bob
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Old January 13th 13, 06:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Hello Bob, you wrote at 01 Jan 2013 17:26:

On Jan 13, 8:59 am, Mike the Strike wrote:
As an ex hang-glider pilot, I also thought that the story was well researched and nicely written, without the usual inaccuracies.

One interesting note - the article says that pilots had to land before half-an-hour after sunset for the record to be valid. Is this true and, if so, why do they get half-an-hour longer than glider pilots?

Mike


They carried strobe lights for just that purpose. We need to look
into that to see if such an addition to gliders could give us the
extra 1/2 hour.


AFAIK, use of position lights allows this (at least over here in Germany).

regards
Werner
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Old January 13th 13, 07:04 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:59:41 -0800, Mike the Strike wrote:

As an ex hang-glider pilot, I also thought that the story was well
researched and nicely written, without the usual inaccuracies.

One interesting note - the article says that pilots had to land before
half-an-hour after sunset for the record to be valid. Is this true and,
if so, why do they get half-an-hour longer than glider pilots?


In the UK, anyway, a glider flight must take place during the day, i.e.
may not start or finish at night. The following definitions apply:

night ends 1/2 hour before astronomical sunrise
night starts 1/2 hour after astronomical sunset

....where astronomical sunrise and sunset must be calculated for a
specific lat/lon and day of the year. IIRC for the purposes of this
calculation the world is assumed to be a perfect ovoid, i.e. the effect
of nearby mountains between the sun and the required location is not
taken into account.

As this is an aviation definition of the start and end of night time, I'd
assume the same calculation is used in the USA.

This is why the article talked about the need to land before sunset + 30
minutes.


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