[Merlin]

For the last few days I've been able to enter the Oz forum without logging in. Did I miss something?

[wingspan33]

Nope! You are absolutely correct. Once upon a time I think that was the norm, yes?

[JoeF]

The search tool at OzR seems much less effective than Google Search.
But I might be missing some skill over the searching.

[brianscharp]

For the last few days I've been able to enter the Oz forum without logging in. Did I miss something?

I noticed the same thing. I thought maybe I'd just been logging in all this time without needing to. I couldn't say how long it's been like this because I do automatically log in and just found out by accident.

[Bill Cummings]

For the last few days I've been able to enter the Oz forum without logging in. Did I miss something?

I noticed the same thing. I thought maybe I'd just been logging in all this time without needing to. I couldn't say how long it's been like this because I do automatically log in and just found out by accident.

Same thing here at my Toshiba Satellite. I wonder if they had to take down the login feature to allow Bob back in???? I don't really know since I'm completely computer illiterstupid.

[DaveSchy]

I just have to love the photo on Straub's posts of him flying with no harness, helmet, or shoes. For a guy who preaches U$HPA cow-puckie world wide to post a picture with several violations of club safety requirements gave me a good laugh today. Keep that hypocrisy coming, Davis!!!

[Rick Masters]

Many of us did that in the old days at the sand dunes. In the event you ever launched unhooked, it was good to know how to fly your glider that way. My good friend Dave Butz saved his own life after launching unhooked from La Cumbre by climbing back up on his bar, flying his glider out by standing on the bar, re-hooking in and landing safely. He had practiced the technique at Guadelupe Dunes.

One of the most amazing things I've ever seen was at Wilcox with some of the Santa Barbara hot doggers in '78. They were boating a big old WW along the cliffs. One would float into the cliff edge and jump off while another jumped on. The glider never touched the ground! This went on for an hour while everyone took turns. You can cry all you want about political correctness but think about this. I have dozens of reports of people dying by launching unhooked, but I don't have a single instance of anyone even being injured while flying a rogallo without gear.

There is a lot of political correctness out there these days, but back then some people didn't let it stop them from becoming one with their glider.

[wingspan33]

I just have to love the photo on Straub's posts of him flying with no harness, helmet, or shoes. For a guy who preaches U$HPA cow-puckie world wide to post a picture with several violations of club [USHPA] safety requirements gave me a good laugh today. Keep that hypocrisy coming, Davis!!!

I've also noticed Straub's Avatar pic. He seems quite proud of it.

And, you know what? I've got a picture just like it! lol

Only thing is, . . . it was taken just after getting my very first hang glider way back in 1975.

During my first "flying vacation" I went down to the dunes at Nags Head (near Kitty Hawk, NC). A fellow HG flier took a snap shot of me just after launch from the dune top. I've got no shoes, cut off jean shorts, no shirt and no helmet. I was attached to the glider by way of a harness we called a "swing seat".

So, on one count, I suppose I wasn't as reckless as Davis Straub. But then I have a feeling Straub's picture is a bit more recent.

Please note - I don't use that old photo - which documents unsafe flying practices - as my avatar. I may have done so back in the mid 1970s, but not now.

[brianscharp]

https://youtu.be/Mcp8gKNOZ5w

[Bill Cummings]

https://youtu.be/Mcp8gKNOZ5w

The Moyes harness shown in this video is the same prone harness configuration that I flew in 1979.