[Rick Masters]

The man has found an excuse to hang glide all the time.        
I remember doing that. It was fun.
"Well, gotta go to work. See ya tonight."

[JoeF]

Meditation space:
hang board
snurfing
"When surfing and skiing was first combined I’m sure people thought it was a crazy idea — and here’s another one… THE HANG BOARD. Patented in 2006 it appears to be a combination of a snowboard and a hanglider."

http://www.hangboard.ca/video1.html
https://www.google.com/patents/US8096563
Donald Arney, Peter Brooke, Charles Buchwald

[KaiMartin]

http://www.hangboard.ca/video1.html

This sure looks like fun.

Since this is the thread "Safe-Splat" I can't resist to notice the abscence of anything between the helmet and an obstacle -- ski slopes tend to be accompanied by trees and rocks. Failure to control the board at a ridge may result in a headfirst plunge into whatever the landscape happens to offer.

Would the hangboard be less fun if the board would protude a critical amount beyond the head?

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[reluctantsparrow]

more FlyBar footage. This is only a Flydown but there is a clear explanation on this clip of the most crucial function of the Design.....to allow NO twisting of the DT's....

[reluctantsparrow]

Progress report on the Flybar:
Flybar version #1 allowed me to dive up to about 38 mph...
Flybar version #2 allowed me to up that to easily hit 43 mph....
Flybar version #3 is almost complete and should allow feet first at 50 plus mph in full control.
My flying buddy Scott Cambell dropped by yesterday, checked out my design and gave it two thumbs up....He can't wait to fly it. Scotty is a long time pilot...his Dad, Lucky Cambell, was the founder of a 1970's hang glider company....I think it was US hang gliders out of Arizona...
Scotty learned to fly when he was 8 years old...has worked for Cronk, Lovejoy, Wills, Was test pilot on the quicksilver series...Scotty is a bad a** pilot....so two thumbs up from Scotty means a lot.
I also rotated a deep belly bar downwards by 80 degrees to allow me to lower my center of mass by a full 4 inches for better roll control...test flight as soon as I complete a pair of skids I thought up last week...its all snow flying here in the NW and I always wanted to fly something that looks like Santa's Sleigh......Okay....that the update....I hope to blow past Fifty feet first with increased roll authority as well.....then land on a pair of "skids"....
P.S...here is my "skids" idea....I am going to buy an old style Tobaggan made from Ash or sitka spruce....Take one of the slats where they curve around and fiberglass the thing for strength....probably a bout four layers of Fiberglass cloth....the whole thing will be very light, naturally springy (shock absorbing) slide easily over a greater variety of surfaces and obstacles, and give my basetube which is rotated downwards good protection....
The skids will attach to the OUTSIDE of the control frame with only one pip pin per side, leaving the "inside" area free for maneuvers in the suprone position....Should have them built within a week....will post a "how to" on youtube if they work well...

[Bill Cummings]

[Bob Kuczewski]

Nice report Jim.

I look forward to your future posts.

[Frank Colver]

I'm enjoying following this subject since I never had any desire to fly my HG's (& my balloon) in any other position than seated. When everyone else went to prone I remained seated and very comfortable looking around at the terrain below.

However, the hang gliding seated position, which put my legs under the base tube, did result in my sliding in on my butt a few times. No injuries resulted but definitely there is the potential for some.

Frank Colver

[JoeF]

A hung-glided capsule has some Safe-Splat arrangement:

[JoeF]

Published on Feb 26, 2016
2016 02 12 Testing the new harness - an uphill, downwind wheel landing.