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Here are a few links to web sites of interest to our local hang gliding and paragliding community. If you know of a particularly useful site that isn't included here, please let us know what it is and we'll add it.
Please see our Educational Resources page for links and articles where you can learn more about hang gliding and paragliding.
Nearby Events: |
The Annual Kitty Hawk Kites Hang Gliding Spectacular |
Real-time NOTAMs from The Department of Defense
or from Aeroplanner.com : provide
the KZDC ICAO to obtain NOTAMs affecting High Rock
Hang gliding news in The OZ Report : Also offers Free Classifieds to pilots.
The rec.aviation.hang-gliding newsgroup
Sectionals On-Line : from
Aeroplanner
A handy front-end service to the TerraServer database of topos and Earth imagery:
mapper.acme.com. Or, if you prefer MSN's
interface, try: TerraServer itself
Hang Glider / Paraglider Marketplace : submit your free classified via the web; courtesy of the Ventura County Hang Gliding school.
Swap Shop : hang gliding classifieds at the Vermont Hang Gliding Association.
Free access to USGS DRG topographic maps
Dan Buchanan's web site : the only hang glider pilot
who performs professionally at airshows around the US.
Wind Drifter : Richard Cobb's website has lots of
information about powered hang gliding harnesses
The Hang Gliding WWW Server : huge compilation of URLs for HG/PG, photo galleries, email addresses of pilots, etc. Aka, the "Sky Adventures" site. Includes a
photo index that's definitely worth browsing.
List of Hang Glider Models : also from the Ventura County Hang Gliding school.
Use the FCC license-data lookup service
from the National Association for Amateur Radio
to find your call sign after passing your HAM exam,
or find callsigns via the UALR club's Callsign Lookup Page
The Radio Modifications Resource
from QRZ.com
Jeff Sinason's WWW version of the Hang Gliding Digest at his HG Digest Web Site (response time is a bit slow...)
ArtSci Publishing provides a database of
Open HAM Repeaters,
including those in
MD,
PA,
VA, and
WV
Knots and more knots: at Bruce Tetzlaff's knot page ; the 42nd Brighton Scout Troop's knot page; knot page of Troop 9 in Billings Montana; Crest Capital's knot resource has links to a wide variety of knot resources.
The Palmieri's book Hang Gliding Spectacular can be ordered online. Jim and Maggie's prior work
Sky Adventures is available at Amazon.
Stewart Midwinter has created a Flight Poetry website of flight-related poems and songs, mostly written by pilots. Just click the 'Begin Searching' button and a list of all the poems will be returned.
Helmut Reda's Because I Fly, a collection of aviation poetry
Charles Close's original Oil Paintings and Stained Glass Sculpture inspired by a passion for recreational and historical aviation.
Harry Martin's cartoons and hang-gliding/paragliding clipart (of Hawker and Vario fame).
Bob Grant's SkyDogSports website has hang gliding and paragliding areas with many videos and photo collections for purchase. There are also links to quite a few online vidoes (YouTube, wmv files, etc).
The Adventure Productions website provides DVDs, books, and educational products for hang gliding and paragliding, and for many other forms of aviation. Navigate to their AP-store storefront for a list of products. AP produces the 'Cloudbase' DD series for HG & PG.
From Reklai Salazar, The Cloudbuster Hootenanny Songbook, where you can find songs about hang-gliding, paragliding, skydiving, and other forms of aviation. A really fun site to explore when you're grounded.
The Parawaiting website : HG and PG have more in common than many people think! ;-)
Gone: The SkyGoddesses Calendar,
at SkyGoddesses.com
Gone: Russ Brown's cartoons and hang-gliding tales, as presented at the Sky-Adventures site.
Gone: Roger Butler's hang gliding cartoons, at his Hypoxia web site.
Clubs and Organizations
Pilot Resources
Hang Glider Manufacturers / Glider Info / Reserve Parachutes
Schools, Dealers, Flight Parks
Steve Wendt's foot-launch, scooter-tow, and truck-towing school at Manquin Flight Park
Sunny Venesky's and Adam Elchin's aerotow flight park, offering flight instruction and
glider sales and service.
Richard Hayes' foot-launch school.
John Middleton's foot-launch school.
Learn to fly on the dunes! Flight instruction and glider sales.
US Aeros distributor (Stealth, Target); Icaro helmuts
Aero-towing flight park and equipment dealer
Aero-towing flight park and equipment dealer
Aero-towing/foot-launch flight park, glider sales and equipment dealer, flight instruction
Aero-towing flight park and flight instruction
Equipment: Chutes, Varios, Radios, Racks, Software, Hook-Knives, Apparel, Etc
Books, Poetry, Paintings, Cartoons, Videos, Clip-Art, Humor
Miscellaneous Aviation-Related Links