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Hang Gliding(Breaking Weak link while Winch Towing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=247GZLZFR8A
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Please watch: "Hang Gliding Crash Compilation(Latest)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFvTht9gL70
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Hang Gliding(Breaking Weak link while Winch Towing) because failed to accelerate the glider before switching to the line below the base tube - followed by a few tense seconds while trying to get rid of the rest of the towline before touchdown.
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Good thing that weak link broke when it did. Glider was just about at its structural limit there.
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Another Steve Wendt victim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m0RnbZ0Yu4

I dig that you've got BlueSky plastered onto the lower surface of the glider, Steve.
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hang gliding scooter tow
Doug Chestnut - 2016/01/18

One of my last scooter tows at Blue Sky flight park before moving to the truck tow.
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Dope on a rope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhchnYqUxL0
malibu tow
nlrsystems - 2016/07/31
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I wonder if folks like this modify their cars such that they can turn real good in one direction and hardly at all in the other.
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Nice find, Brian. Gives me chills thinking about the flights that I did there with that crap release equipment.
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A new way to observe the universe. This is a really big BIG deal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4XzLDM3Py8


http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_adams_what_the_discovery_of_gravitational_waves_means?language=en
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A perfect lesson for irony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnlIWpZSPXU
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Wish that I had learned to fly a kite like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSuvH6fYIjA
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