by Jeff Goin | Jul 6, 2016 | Log: Enterprise, Log: Hang Glider
We didn’t get to fly here last time. What a beautiful place! Wonderful folks, too. Tim and I launched late. Poor Tim got the short end of the wind stick: a tailwind after he setup. His launch was brilliant but, by then, it had gotten bumpy. Not by soaring...
by Jeff Goin | May 7, 2016 | Reviews: Paragliders
Reviewed 2016-03-19, Written 2016-04-24 Gin is one of the more mature paraglider makers with much experience in reflex gliders since they used to make wings for Paramania. I’m 147 pounds and flew a 24 during mellow conditions on an overcast FL morning with a...
by Jeff Goin | May 7, 2016 | Reviews: Paragliders
Flown 2016-03-18, reviewed 2016-04-19 I had owned and competed with an Ozone Viper 1 for at least 4 years before doing this review. I bought the Viper 1 even though a later model was out because Mathieu Rouanet had been competing on it successfully, without...
by Jeff Goin | Apr 21, 2016 | 31: Traveling with Gear
Every time I hear someone tell of their success at taking a paramotor on the airlines it makes me cringe just a bit. Kind of like when someone says they stalled their wing and “it wasn’t that bad.” Maybe THAT time it wasn’t, but in fact,...
by Jeff Goin | Apr 8, 2016 | Reviews: Paragliders
Air Design is a long time maker of paragliders, mostly for free flying (like most). The UFO is their first foray into hike-and-fly single surface gliders and they have done a nice job but I got to try it out on a motor thanks to Marco Bowles. It’s a well-behaved...
