Thursday, December 28, 2006

Monday, December 25, 2006

Season Greetings


and what did you get from Santa?

I got a 2h20 minute flight and a scarf (which I wore)

Then I met a friendly couple from Kaohsiung (I live in Kaohsiung, remember),
Lin and his very, very pretty wife Mickey.
Sorry Lin, you are not in the picture...maybe next time.
They drove my car down from launch, which saved me a lot of trouble.
Thank you very much, Lin.



and from Korea (James Noh and his wife (whose name I cannot pronounce, let alone write)

Friday, December 22, 2006

I have a dream

No flying but close... I've been reading alot about this monster
lately...isn't she beautiful!
I want to climb it...my new 5 year plan...

Waar 'n wil is, is 'n weg. Vir Martin...hy sou dit saam met my wou doen.


Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Bundu bashing for 2 hours got us eventually to the top.

Cleaning a new site. Steven found this beauty. He is hanging on
the rope going down from my car, chppoing off yet another tree ;-)

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

1650 m asl camping and possible launch.
Clouds come from the south to cover launch as early as 11am.
Launch abandoned. Nice camping site though. Will try again in feature.
Locals reckon it gets more foggier in winter. Let's see.
Location: Between Tainan and Nantou.

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Monday, October 30, 2006

Retired hang gliders in the hangar at Nanhua airstrip - not
in use anymore.

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Yuri supplying us both cold beers! Note the tree landing!

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Monday, October 16, 2006

Les waiting for a cycle.

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doing what I do best...flying

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Monday, September 18, 2006

What do you do when...

the weather looks promising, summer is coming to an end
and you are looking forward to a long flight...when

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I put up my glider and get this far. I put in the left wing tipwand...

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And then I broke the right tipwand...damn. It had cracks in
it and I was postponing replacing them. Good thing it broke
now and not later in the flight. I was kinda relief then!

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Plan B: setup the Atlas.

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Fly the atlas.

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Sunday, September 10, 2006

Siau yu

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Approach, final, groundskim and flare

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Siau Liao...praying for better conditions

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Da Liao...one of the best pilots in Taiwan

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Monday, August 28, 2006

In search of a new launch...still looking

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

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Saturday, July 15, 2006

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Crossing the Kaoping river after a day's flying.

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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Good weather + good company = great time

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Saturday, June 24, 2006

and then came the rain

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