Those were the Days ...

Launch'n the Flight Designs 205 Javelin off a 200 foot hill & soaring above the 500 foot peak in Jefferson National Forest in Grayson County, VA








Soaring Independence, VA in my Wills Wing Duck :)



Launch'n the Electra Flyer 205 Super Floater @ Fisher's Peak, VA


Soaring Sauratown Mountain in Stokes County NC in my Comet.




My Manta Fledge hang glider with a cage & engine added to it by Doug Boyle. I am flying it at the Moser airstrip in King, NC

Soaring my Phoenix Super 8 @ Fancy Gap, VA

Pacific Gull Alpine @ Parlnd High School hill in Winston-Salem, NC
( 1st Hang Glider to fly over 100 miles )
.... my friend I thought they's never end ;)

"CLOUD CHASER" @ 11 'O CLOCK

From Hangar 13

An hour in the life of Lima Delta @ MWK



704LD used to be in a LA club called "CLOUD CHASERS"
and she still lives up to her name ;)

Tactile Flight Meet, Kitty Hawk, NC

Francis Rogallo talk'n to Pete Brock of UP

Soaring at Crestline California

In a Wills Wing HP AT 150 > June / 1990

Soaring @ Salt Lake City, Utah

Point of the Mountain > Northside / June / 1990
photos by Ken Blackburn

June 1990 Owen's Valley

One of Tommy's early day designs

I designed and built this to fly on the hill.
Later it sported a dacron sail and became my first flight mountain glider ;)




Parkland High School Hill in Winston Salem, NC


Hill along side of Hwy 421 in North Wilkesboro, NC

Just north of the field

Chico @ Hangar 13

Images around KMWK

Over Surry County, NC MAY 2009

Jason gets his first airplane ride ( 1983 )

Just north of Hanging Rock State Park over Stokes County, NC in May 2008

Concord, NC

T-28's

T-28's Taxi at Concord, NC 4-18-09

T-28's Takeoff at Concord, NC > 4-18-09

T-28's > CONCORD, NC

RUFF AS A COB 4-10-09

N704LD over Surry County, NC > May 2008

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Drive'n miss Lima Delta

Flying from KMWK to KEXX when the low pressure front passes by. April 10, 2009
AWOS reported wind 200 degrees at 10 knts gusting to 19 knts at the airport.
Winds at altitude was 30 knts.

N704LD

The Cessna 150...
" In a class of it's own "

1977 CESSA 150 M BROCHURE

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Orville Wright's 1908 Crash & first passenger fatality

One minute you are riding with one of the greatest airplane designers and pilots in the world. Then suddenly you are falling to earth like a rock.

Photos of the first aircraft accident investigation, September 17, 1908. Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge is recorded as the first passenger to die in a modern airplane crash. He was flying with Orville Wright at Fort Myer, Va.

Looking for another engine to rebuild

EXX

First inflight video of our plane

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Time to clean the plugs and get an oil change :)

I ain't never had to much fun!

Wilbur gliding 1902 Based at EXX: Jeff Michael's P-51 at Lexington, NC Heading south in our Cessna just west of Shoals, NC looking at Pilot Mtn State Park.

High over Surry County, NC in the Cessna ;)