[Rick Masters]

PG speedflyer breaks his back in Austria last thursday.

[SamKellner]

Hi Rick,

Did I read you were going to Xico?

Speed wings????

I would sooner fly BobK's Little Hawk.

[Rick Masters]

Did I read you were going to Xico?

No. But if I ever do, it would only be to humor somebody.
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Speed wings????

Doubtful. Speed kills.

[Bob Kuczewski]

I would sooner fly BobK's Little Hawk.

Sam, you'd be surprised at how many people have seriously asked me about actually flying that thing. I had one fellow trying real hard to persuade me to let him take it for a run down a training slope!!

It is cute as a button:

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By the way ... in keeping with the topic of this Blog ("Superiority of Hang Gliders"), on no-wind days Little Hawk is a lot more fun for public outreach than a paraglider (here's where I need a picture of someone standing at Funston draped in a limp paraglider).

[Rick Masters]

I need a picture of someone standing at Funston draped in a limp paraglider

Air hog. Paste this over the paraglider on your U$hPA card.

[SamKellner]

I would sooner fly BobK's Little Hawk.

Sam, you'd be surprised at how many people have seriously asked me about actually flying that thing.

No. I would not be surprised at all. I have commented before that you should start building these.

If the PG mfgrs can sell their flying machine with NO AIRFRAME................

And u$hPa accepts that type of vehicle and covers them with liability, etc,etc.

u$hPa would surely be forced to accept Little Hawk.

[Bill Cummings]

People would stand on the lake shore and watch from start to finish as I towed up 5 or 6 times releasing and landing and reattaching the towline each time and still ask me: "Do you ever let go of the rope?"

Little Hawk is a safer speed glider due to the frame so Yes the more pilots that sign up for a joy ride (I mean training) U$hPA would insure and collect $15.00 a ride ---I mean ----training session.

[Rodger]

Hmm, forum does not allow deletion of posts. Will allow edits however. This is my edit.

[Bob Kuczewski]

Hmm, forum does not allow deletion of posts. Will allow edits however. This is my edit.

Hi Rodger,

The forum is set to let you edit your post for an hour. After that, it's frozen, but you can request changes by pressing the "Report" button and asking for changes (including deletion).

The purpose of the limited editing is to keep people from going back and rewriting the history of what they've said. That creates further confusion because people who may have responded to what was originally said may have to go back and change their posts, and so on.

However, there has been some discussion about the need for longer (possibly infinite) editing windows. That is still a topic of discussion.

[Rick Masters]

The purpose of the limited editing is to keep people from going back and rewriting the history of what they've said.

If they have said something inaccurate in recounting events, they may find they have actually rewritten history. That is much worse than changing a record of a pretty meaningless flow-of-consciousness hippie-style rap. That is why real blogs like those offered by Wordpad or Typepad offer full editing. They wouldn't dream of placing such roadblocks before their writers as third-party intervention, nor would they waste time attempting indefensible rationalizations. Realizing this, I have concluded this "blog," which is not a blog, is only suitable for offering short opinions and quips, but nothing any longer of a serious nature.