Original upload date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 11:25:36 GMT
Jack Lambie was schoolteacher, as well as an innovative and experienced. The Lambie brothers, Mark and Jack, organized the Otto Lilienthal Universal Hang Glider Championships held on a hilltop in Cor
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ona del Mar, California on May 23, 1971 to celebrate the 123rd birthday of Otto Lilienthal. This event marked the rebirth of hang gliding in the USA, and my first and last involvement with weight-shift aircraft control. Plans for the Hang Loose are available here: https://www.amovitz.com/Hang_Loose.pdf
"May 23, 1971. That is the date, perhaps, that hang gliding officially became a sport." --From Manbirds, by Maralys Wills.
Read her account here:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.piloting/msg/2597ec3d4b97cacb?dmode=source
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.soaring/msg/59b3168722fa85ca?dmode=source
http://books.google.com/books?id=kcwHCy6F4vcC&lpg=PA92&ots=FLO6-rxMXm&dq=%22larry%20dighera%22&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q=%22larry%20dighera%22&f=false
I (with striped polo shirt) had just been granted an FAA Private Airmans certificate on October 31, 1970, and thought it would be fun to experience flight as those predecessors of Wilbur and Orville had. The blond fellow was my flight instructor, Keith Lindsay. We built the "aircraft" from clear Fir, bamboo, and 3-mill Mylar sheeting donated by Wally Herzog and the 3M Corporation. Our entire cost was about $50.00 and 20 man-hours. Our longest flight duration was 12 seconds. The late Richard Miller can be seen piloting his Conduit Condor mono-wing. The black Rogollo "Batso" was piloted by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.
