Hang glider camera ship and a paraglider at Telluride, Colorado. For more of Skip Brown’s amazing photography, see under External links later on this page. The glider in the Skip Brown photo is a Moyes (Australia) GTR. Toni-Junell Herbert and Robert Millman at Cape Kiwanda, Orgegon. Welshman Geoff Loyns over Big Spring, Texas, in about July 1990 Texas is another part of the world where towing up is the only option, but aerotow is used more commonly than winching there. The author flying across the Norfolk flatlands by circling in a thermal in 1991 In the 1980s, Tony and Rona Webb of hang gliding school Lejair pioneered the use of winch launching for hang glider pilot training in Britain. Photo by Glyn Charnock.Ī static winch enables hang gliders to operate from a flat field. Photo by Dave Freund.īob Cogman launches from a flat field in Norfolk, England, in 1993. Assortment US champ Tony Barton sliding a landing in an Ultralight Products XTR (alloy-frame version of the TRX) Mitch McAleer at Elsinore, California. See also Donnita in Hang gliding 1975 part 2.
Nothing to do with the SETP, but this photo, the original of which was in the September 1992 edition of Hang Gliding, represents that many of the pioneers were still flying 20 years after they started. The paper was derived from Mike’s article for Hang Gliding magazine, Why Can’t We Get A Handle On This Safety Thing, to which there is a link in the Sport Kites/Wills Wing of California related topics menu. Mike Meier of hang glider manufacturer Wills Wing received the Jack Northrop award for the most outstanding technical paper presented at the 45 th Annual West Coast Symposium of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. SETP Major Mark Stucky USMC and Mike Meier of Wills Wing at the SETP conference on September 26 th, 1992 (no larger image available) This image over Mission Ridge looks south to Mission Peak, California. See also the Moyes and Dennis Pagen related topics menus. Hang gliding author Dennis Pagen flying a Moyes XS at the 4th annual glide ratio contest at Morningside Flight Park. Pioneer pilot and long time editor of Hang Gliding magazine Gil Dodgen in 1991. In this image, instructor and pioneering hang glider videographer Paul Hamilton has a rocket-deployed emergency parachute mounted on the front of his harness. Instructor and pioneering hang gliding video maker Paul Hamilton Pete Lehmann at Templeton, in eastern USA (Source: Dick Cheney, from Oak to Carbon Fiber by John Heiney, Hang Gliding, October 1993.)įor more about UP, see the Ultralight Products of California and Utah related topics menu and for more about the use of carbon fiber in flex-wing hang gliders, see under Litespeed in Hang gliding 2015 to 2019. Tony Barton won the 1991 US national championship in the TRX. Based near Salt Lake City, Utah, the Ultralight Products factory was ideally placed to use that city’s expertise in carbon fiber R&D. Terry Reynolds, sailmaker Dick Cheney, and development test pilots Tony Barton and Mitch McAleer contributed to the creation of the TRX. The first TRX weighed only about 60 pounds, but later production models, including mine, weighed 80 pounds. In 1991, he created the TRX based on carbon fiber airframe manufacturing by Ultralight Products, whose 1977 Graphite Spyder pioneered the technique. Terry Reynolds flew C-130s in Vietnam, earning two Distinguished Flying Crosses there. Reynolds’ number Terry Reynolds eXperimatal - the TRX in 1991 See Copyright of early hang gliding photos. The images on this page, with two exceptions, are artistic derivations of contemporary photos. This page follows Hang gliding late 1980s. Home (contents) → Chronology → Hang gliding 1990 to 1993 Hang gliding 1990 to 1993
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