Tumbleweed at Cloudbase

Did anybody fly a 500km task or was it just a good-looking day?

Snagged a sheet of newspaper on my LP-46 wing years ago. A redtail in
the same thermal had snagged and shaken the sheet a couple of times,
seemingly daring me to try. I finally succeeded.

Rolf

Newspapers in thermals are tough to hit.

I remember being pelted by sand about 7K ft AGL in a 10+ knot thermal.
The sand would hit the bottom of the 1-26 wing in strong pulses.
Although you couldn't see it, you could hear it hitting the metal
wing.

Mike

Task, no; OLC, yes. TS1 did 333 miles in his LS-8/18. I attempted 500k
as an MAT but came up about 2000 feet of altitude short.

~ted/2NO

Telluride September 1979, 19,300' in a hang glider, no oxygen, I was seeing spots everywhere around me. They were golden colored aspen leaves in the thermal. Whew.... thought I was hypoxic.

Oh yeah, I was.....

I was in a very weak thermal one time, with just enough lift to keep me
aloft, near our airport over a carnival, and every couple of minutes a
helium balloon would get away from one of the kids below and float up. If
you timed it just right you could get 2 passed at it before it got above
you. It was great sport trying to get a kill in this target rich
environment!

Gary

"Bob Caldwell" wrote in
message ...
Telluride September 1979, 19,300' in a hang glider, no oxygen, I was
seeing spots everywhere around me. They were golden colored aspen leaves
in the thermal. Whew.... thought I was hypoxic.

Oh yeah, I was.....

At 15:00 22 February 2006, wrote:
Butterfly at 6000



Wow, you must have good eyesight...!

I ran across Sam Fly and Dick Mockler in a thermal, once... warped my
development from that point on... I've never quite been the same. HAHA!

Jack Womack

Soaring the moutain wind
I am out-climbed by
a butterfly

OK, this was in a hang glider many moons ago

Tony V
http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING