28 mile loop ridden by bicycle from dusk through night from Cal Heights; along the Los Angeles River; past the lighthouse in Shoreline Park; along the beach below Bluff Park; along Bay Shore Ave.; 2nd St Bridge; E, N, Marina Dr.; up the San Gabriel River; past the power plants; down Harvey Way; and back. October, 2007. Music by Azam Ali & Tyler Bates
10 minute version of my first hang gliding flight since 1982. I did this edit to include a lot more of Joe Greblo's instructions to me and more of my flying and ground handling. This flight was on April 29, 2008 at Sylmar Flight Park. See: http://www.windsports.com/index2.html for lessons or http://www.windsports.com/index2.html for more details about the club that overseas this fine soaring site.
Noted paraglider pilot, Jérôme Daoust rides my Bacchetta Aero racing recumbent bicycle for the first time.
Some scenes from my hang gliding flight off of Crestline on 9/6/08 @ the Andy Jackson/Rob Kells Memorial Fly-In. Climb to 7,400' and some scenes from the LZ. This was my second mountain flight in 28 years and my best flight ever.
North River Loop Ride - Part 3 of 4 More details to follow.
5/26/08 We take a delightful ride on a Greenspeed GTT tandem trike courtesy of BentUp Cycles in Van Nuys, CA. From Bixby Knolls in Long Beach, CA down the (LARIO) Los Angeles River Bicycle Trail to Shoreline Park in Long Beach.
Short vignette fo termalling w/ Dusty in his Falcon 195 w/ purple LE from CSS & PG that I dove under to avoid a head-on when he didn't clear his turn. No harm done or feathers ruffled. 9/6/2008 1:45PM at Crestline.
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Hang Gliding Aerobatics @ Rob Kells Memorial Fly-In
Zack Majors & Jeff O'Brian do simultaneous loops then: Dino Dinaso, John Heiney, Bill Soderquist, Dave Biddle, and Erik Delf who do the world's first simultaneous, smoke-trailed, five-man loop. Mitch Mc Aleer didn't make it back up to launch in time after tumbling earlier in the afternoon. 9.6.2008 at the Andy Jackson/Rob Kells Memorial Fly-In @ Crestline, CA. Please forgive the bad video quality. I accidientally set my camera to 320x240. OMG! Thank you to JCFlies for all the names.
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Pine Mountain to Gorman by PG GoogleEarth Track
Robb's PG flight from Pine Mountain to Gorman by Paraglider. Tuesday, 9.9.2008. GoogleEarth animation. Here's Chip's helemt cam from the same day: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v15880296qeH7X9bb
Flew to 11,366' in my hang glider over Kagel Mountain in Sylmar, CA. This was later in the flight before I headed to the LZ.
From the San Gabriel River Bike Trail at Carson St. in Long Beach to Marina Drive in Seal Beach and to the Farmer's Market at the Alamitos Bay Marina where we meet one of my friends. Lots of nice relaxing scenary and vigorous pedalling and huffing and puffing!
Sloji takes his Carbent Sea Dragon out for a few test spins while getting it tweaked out at BentUp Cycles in Van Nuys, CA This version was 640x480 before uploading.
SLOBC Lighthouse Ride 2006
On the Los Angeles River Bike Path.
Through Heartwell Park in Long Beach, CA to the San Gabriel River Bicycle Path entrance on Carson Street.
Continuing along the Long Beach, Beach Bicycle Path to the Long Beach Yacht Club where my battery went kaput. More beautiful weather and chewing on sand I inhaled.
From the Alamitos Bay Marina along Appian Way and bay Shore Ave to the Long Beach, Beach Bicycle Path. Beautiful weather and lots of blowing sand!
……I last flew a hang glider. I used to hang glide from 1973 through 1982 then I stopped. On 4/29/08 at Sylmar Flight Park I took my first tandem flight/lesson with Joe Greblo, lead instructor from WindSports in Sylmar, CA. Our flight lasted about 31 minutes in moderate turbulence with ratty, broken up thermals. Maximum gain was only 500’ before we ran out of lift. The last time I flew at Sylmar was in 1974 on an 18’ Flexi Flyer. I and am now in the process of getting my wings back, thanks in large part to Joe’s patience and excellent teaching skills. Watch and listen, as Joe drills me on proper technique while I'm obviously pretty rusty and gravitate towards my old ways and habits. I have got a lot to learn to get my Hang 3 reinstated and will be using the full 37 minutes video to help remind me along with lots of practice and input from the excellent instructors over the coming months.
6/22/2008 - At Bent Up Cycles in Van Nuys, CA, Rich Pinto demonstrates a Corsa; Sloji calls my cell and gets pranked; I test ride a Vision R-40 w/ a NuVinci drive system.
Tony D. speaks about his flight after he lands his A*I*R Atos at Andy Jackson Airpark in San Bernardino, CA after 5 hours and 109 miles of soaring from Pine Mountain in Ventura, CA. He did this in honor of the late Rob Kells and Andy Jackson during the memorial fly-in, September 6, 2008.
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