Never seen before 1970s hang gliding footage

This rare footage was filmed on a Super 8 camera. The footage of the early hang gliders in Australia was donated to the Melbourne Hang Gliding Club by Mr David John Taylor from Rosebud Victoria. David also donated the multicolored glider featured in the footage known as “The flying Brick”. Also donated was a treasure [...]

Landing a wet topless glider

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This is a video I made of a flight of mine that went bad. I was forced to land a wet Mylar topless glider. Not stated in the video is the fact that I could not continue to fly the glider in order to dry it as I was running out of lift and was [...]

Crashing at Flinders Monument

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Hang glider rescued from cliff at Bells Beach

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Taken from the Geelong Advertiser A HANG-GLIDING student was dramatically rescued after crashing into a cliff near Bells Beach yesterday. The 40-year-old Torquay man was having just his second solo flight under instruction when he crashed into the cliff about 4pm. SES rescue crews, paramedics and the police air wing worked for more than two [...]

Launching accident at Portsea, Victoria

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I helped the guy retrieve the glider from the bushes and let him settle down for 1/2 hr or so, then approached him to see if everything was ok & if he wanted a copy of the accident, but he was pretty arrogant, so I didn’t get a name or any details. Most of the [...]