One of the most consistent places to fly...

We are looking at going back to Zapata in 2009 to go for World Records, as we have since 2000. I have posted tentative dates for the WRE up on the Oz Report calendar. We track the Drought Monitor hoping that Texas will blow away (well, at least not flood).

I'll keep you posted here at the Oz Report.

The goal....go 500 miles in a FlexWing Hang Glider

FAI Office <<email>> sends:

Sub-class:  Class 2
Course/location: Big Spring, TX (USA)
Pilot: Robin HAMILTON (UK)
Hang Glider: Aeriane Swift Light
Date: August 9th, 2008
Type of record: Speed over a triangular course of 300 km
Performance: 49.52 km/h
Previous record:  no record set yet

Type of record: Distance over a triangular course
Performance: 301.7 km
Previous record: 258.9 km (15.08.2000 - Marcus HOFFMANN-GUBEN, Germany)

Palo Duro Canyon

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96833445

When it comes to geography, West Texas doesn't exactly have the greatest reputation.

From Mack Davis' song about how happiness is Lubbock in his rearview mirror to Larry McMurtry's haunting novel The Last Picture Show, the flat, treeless, endless landscape inspires feelings of windswept loneliness. There's just so much of it and so little of you.

What do the competition pilots want?

Gary Osoba <<email>> writes:

We need not guess at what competition pilots want.