Torrey Pines Meet 1960

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Lloyd Licher, who played administrative role in the sixth phase of HG renaissance
participated in the Torrey Pines Meet of 1960.

Phases of Renaissance?
Phase One: Waldo Waterman, Volmer Jensen
Phase Two: Rogallo and NASA, John Worth (Exhibit the equivalent of an echo of W. Simon's triangle control frame for hang gliders)
Phase Three: Prentice, Thomas Purcell, Jr.; Palmer, James Hobson; Richard Miller; Klaus Hill: Hall; Bruce Carmichael, Irv Culver, Faust, KITESA,
Phase Four: Self-Soar Association; Low & Slow, Mike Burns, Dickenson boat towing, Moyes mountain ski launch, Bennett commerce, Broyles, Kilbourne plans, Riggs, etc.
Phase Five: Otto Meet: Frank Colver, Jack Lambie, Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. and team Mike Koman, and others. Then Eipper for grass-roots commerce. Plans seeding the world via Popular Science, etc.
Phase Six: Licher administrative folding from S.S.A. over S-SA (Soaring Society of America faces Self-Soar Association challenges)
Phase Seven: Roy Haggard, etc. ... march of wings
Phase Eight: Getting PG-confused
Phase Nine: US Hawks ... getting unconfused Seeing PG as soaring parachutes with PDMC challenge. Distinctions and appreciation of safe airframe basics are highlighted.
Phase Ten: Hang Gliding Diamond Age ... coming. After the renaissance gets unconfused, there will be a flowering of wings and activities from quality wing running to busable packed airframed hang gliders; a spectrum of hang gliders fitting niche interests will show and advance. Citizens glide nearly as they walk and run ... in Federal airspace.

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Wow, even though it was damp, they lucked out with flying conditions good enough for a 4hr flight and 12 sail planes in the air at Torrey.

Thanks for posting, Joe.

The Nimbus IIIB was built by Don Mitchell who would 15 years later build the Mitchell Wings. The Fauvel flying wing is the one that Jack Lambie bought and flew in the middle 1960s. Manual: http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Fauv ... ceAV36.htm