flinote
Active Member
Hi:
I was just going back through some of my old photo files and found this image.
It was taken on President's Day 1976. That's me in the Easy Riser, and my brother has just assisted me in a hairy but successful launch at the Guadalupe Dunes near Point Sal, CA. The winds were postfrontal and quite strong so a "flying launch" was chosen with me already seated in the flight position; my brother just pulled me forward a little while he fell back and downward to clear. I gained many hundreds of feet on that flight, which lasted about 2 hours.
This image is (obviously!) a composite. I found the similarity between my image and the famous first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk to be pretty amazing.
Just something fun to look at, I don't claim any other similarities to the Wright Bros.!
Bill Hinote
I was just going back through some of my old photo files and found this image.
It was taken on President's Day 1976. That's me in the Easy Riser, and my brother has just assisted me in a hairy but successful launch at the Guadalupe Dunes near Point Sal, CA. The winds were postfrontal and quite strong so a "flying launch" was chosen with me already seated in the flight position; my brother just pulled me forward a little while he fell back and downward to clear. I gained many hundreds of feet on that flight, which lasted about 2 hours.
This image is (obviously!) a composite. I found the similarity between my image and the famous first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk to be pretty amazing.
Just something fun to look at, I don't claim any other similarities to the Wright Bros.!
Bill Hinote
