I understand that regarding Weight as in: The amount of weight, Ones Hook-in Weight, Verus increasing the Weight of the Wing it's Self, are different Animals. If say John decided to re-design the predator. Making the Predator a Full Cantilevered Flex wing. regarding Weight: I am wondering if in order to engineer a Fully Cantilevered Wing. would the resulting Wing be a Failure? for the Lower drag and increased Performance. Would the increase in the Glide, and the Sink-Rate be more than Negated By the loss of Handling/ I should be seeing John up here this Spring. I am definitely going to ask J ..read more

After 38 yrs of memorable experiences I have one that stands out above the rest. Thermalling with Pelicans over Lake Elsinore. It was late afternoon and all my fellow Eteamers had landed and were sudsing up and telling their stories under the Oak Tree. I had been flying for 3 hrs and it was time to join them. Still plenty of lift over the Lake front and I circled at 3000ft AGL contemplating termination of my flight. A large flock 60 or more White and Black pelicans flew under me at approximately 500ft. They began to circle underneath me and continued in my thermal until reaching me. We climbed ..read more

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@bsquare : thank you for the picture with my dad on it. Could you give me the name of the 3 other persons ? Rudy died on the august 5, 2024 so I can't ask him who are these persons. Thank you ! Statistics: Posted by JosephineKishazy — Wed Mar 12, 2025 2:21 pm ..read more

KM Died from experiencing a Mid-Air while Flying at His Home Site, what happened to KM reinforced with Me that especially when Flying at a Home site. I will always have My Head on a Swivel. K< truly was a: {Fixture} in Our Flying Community, He truly was a Great Guy. Statistics: Posted by Roadrunner — Wed Mar 12, 2025 4:44 am ..read more

I fully realize that my typing a thought regarding Km is Way late! but what the Heck. I am just thinking about KM. It has been almost Ten Years since He Died. I still am saddened and blown away by His Death. We need Km back! He was just so pure Cool! I remember one time KM and I were in the LZ at McClure. KM had done something that KM so rarely did. He had sunk out and landed. Well, I had also sunk out and landed. Well KM Bent down and tapped one of THE predators down tubes, SO HE SAID: "Carbon, eh?" "You had better make Shure that you have a Sorce where You can buy More of these suckers". So ..read more

We all feel your pain and see it too! Good luck with your defense strategies. A snap shot of the dire problem for us all.. Key trends identified in the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report include: Global average of bad bot traffic reached 32%: Ireland (71%), Germany (67.5%), and Mexico (42.8%), saw the highest levels of bad bot traffic in 2023. The US also saw a slightly higher ratio of bad bot traffic at 35.4% compared to 2022 (32.1%). Growing use of generative AI connected to the rise in simple bots: Rapid adoption of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) resulted in the volume of simple ..read more

I fully realize that my typing a thought regarding Km is Way late! but what the Heck. I am just thinking about KM. It has been almost Ten Years since He Died. I still am saddened and blown away by His Death. We need Km back! He was just so pure Cool! I remember one time KM and I were in the LZ at McClure. KM had done something that KM so rarely did. He had sunk out and landed. Well, I had also sunk out and landed. Well KM Bent down and tapped one of THE predators down tubes, SO HE SAID: "Carbon, eh?" "You had better make Shure that you have a Sorce where You can buy More of these suckers". So ..read more

Server has been under attack for weeks now by thousands of SPAM bots. Clearly - more and more are getting through. Spent half the day implementing a new SIGN UP system to stop the spammers. Cross your fingers that it works. Statistics: Posted by sg — Mon Mar 10, 2025 8:07 pm ..read more

The google ad's that have funded the running of this site have dwindled to "not worth it". So I have removed all ad's. I've had people teach out to me requesting a DONATE button. Working on a solution and will provide at a later date. Statistics: Posted by sg — Mon Mar 10, 2025 8:05 pm ..read more