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The YouTube clips says:  “In this Lesson taken days ago my Instructor teach how to approach the Airstrip in 4 differents ways, enjoy it and comment if you want”.  Make any comments on the original post at YouTube. Here’s another pretty good video! “Flight from Santa Paula Airport to Ojai and Ventura on...
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The Saturday morning flight went smoothly until we “hit the wall” over Lake Tonle Sap and, as pilot Eddie “Moto Hawk” Smith said, “It all turned to shit”. Indeed it was a white knuckle moment, but in retrospect the turbulence and buffeting caused by a sudden change in air temperature wasn’t all that...
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Kathryn Grace Moran had flown over the Big Island many times in a helicopter during the year she worked as a dispatcher and parts clerk for Paradise Helicopters. But Wednesday, as a 37th birthday present, her friend Tedd Robert Hecklin took her flying on his two-person motorized glider. It was a flight neither survived. Hecklin’s Airborne Outback...
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Kealakekua, Hawaii- A pilot and sole passenger aboard an ultralight aircraft that crashed into Kealakekua Bay on Wednesday morning have both been killed. Police say 38-year-old Tedd Robert Hecklin, owner of Tedd’s Flying Adventures in Kailua-Kona, and his female passenger, 37-year-old Kathryn Grace Moran of Kailua-Kona, were recovered from the scene and pronounced dead at...
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Enjoy the wonderful scenery of Lake Powell, Vermillion Cliffs, Glen Canyon and more in this video.
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First shot is of the ultralight. Second sequence shows the active, hot lava beds. Clouds, smoke, sulfur dioxide everywhere. Note clouds on the ground on left in that sequence. They were flowing uphill along the ground. Second sequence shows rain clouds combining with smoke that was continually appearing and dissolving all around us. We...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man died Sunday morning when his two-seat experimental ultralight plane crashed by Alaska Railroad tracks outside Eklutna, police say. The Anchorage Police Department says an officer was flagged down just before 10 a.m. Sunday by a railroad worker, who informed authorities of the ultralight crash. According to APD, the worker found the...
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A small collection of my filming and photographic work in Iceland. Pictures are taken in various places mostly from ultralight trike. I am using big format 360° film camera, Canon EOS 1DS Mark II digital. I have also do lot of training on trike and use the time to take some photos on those...
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The Electric Trike developed by Manfred Ruhmer is flying. More info at www.icaro2000.com The latest developments in accumulator technology make it possible to fly for up to one hour, using just the power of the electric motor. The principal advantage of the electric motor is its very low noise output, about 49 decibels. From a distance...
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A strip of beach in the desert along California’s Salton Sea again hosted the Salton Sea PPG Fly-In 2010. From Thursday to Sunday, January 27-31, PPGers from across the country and Mexico came to fly their funny flying machines. The Salton Sea has the distinction of being 220 feet below sea level. That’s right, below...
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LIHU‘E — The Virginia engineer whose leg was broken in two places during an accident aboard a Birds in Paradise ultralight aircraft last summer filed a federal lawsuit claiming pilot negligence in the accident, Honolulu U.S. court records show. The pilot, Thomas Defino, “denies any liability for the accident,” said Gregory Markham, who is Defino’s...
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Recently I rented a DVD of the award-winning 2003 documentary Winged Migration. Famed as one of the most unique and beautiful films ever made, Winged Migration literally takes the viewer up into the sky as it follows birds on their long-distance seasonal flights around the world. Somehow, seemingly as if by magic, the cameras are right...
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Frank and I went for a flight before a winter storm rolled into New Mexico. We headed south and flew along the base of the lava bench by the Red Spot. Then I took Frank onto the mesa that forms the “lower jaw” of the Jaws of Death, a deep canyon in the mountains west...
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I don’t know what they are saying, but they call the video “crazy trike flying”.   There’s certainly some of that here, and some great shots.
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Flying in China on new Ramphos Trike in town Changsha I also took loofa of pictures on this trip http://www.photo.is/10/01/1/index.html Later I took to the place Chongqing and had a look on the China most beautiful Cave, Snow Jade Cave, Furong and Gost City
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Dirty Devil Airstrip is deep in the center of the Utah Backcountry. With no road access, the only way in or out is on foot, horse, or airplane. Paul, Mike and I flew from Cal Black Airport to Dirty Devil, reaching it shortly after sunset. The air was calm and smooth, and the three of...
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A microlight pilot aiming to fly to Australia to raise money for Britain’s injured soldiers ditched into the sea and died before he reached France. Martin Bromage was less than three hours into his 11,000-mile (18,000 km) odyssey when thick fog forced him to make a series of distress calls and abandon attempts to land...
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The body of a British microlight pilot was recovered off the French coast just hours after he set off today. Martin Bromage, 49, born in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England, took off Monday morning but contact with him was lost over the English Channel. A spokesman for Dover Coastguard confirmed Bromage’s body was found by a small...
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December Trike flying from Tracey on Vimeo. Gliding in our ultralight trike, turning engine off to enjoy the true beauty of flight, notice the shadow of the plane it is really nice. This was filmed at an abandoned airport that is reall a great place.
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“My 5 year old son Trym’s first flight in a trike. Watch his face during takeoff…
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ST. MARKS — About 300 heads quickly turned to look to the sky when someone in the crowd yelled that they saw the whooping cranes that everyone was eagerly waiting for at St. Marks Refuge on Wednesday morning. Hundreds of cameras went up simultaneously to snap a photo of the 10 endangered birds as they...
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Update 2: Shortly after 1:00 p.m., authorities received a report of a downed aircraft in the area of the southwest of Auxiliary Dam near Barlow Drive and Eva Avenue in Lake Isabella. According to witnesses, the experimental aircraft – the FAA categorizes all ultralight aircraft as experimental – had just taken off from the Auxiliary Dam...
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CHASSAHOWITZKA — The 20 whooping cranes that make up the Class of 2009 have finally made it to Florida. The ultralight-led migration of rare cranes flew the 43 miles from Decatur County, Ga., to Jefferson County early Monday morning, completing 1,085 miles of the 1,285-mile trek. At that stop, the flock was divided in two...
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On Thursday, Decatur County received some very special guests—about 20 endangered whooping cranes. There are 85 migratory cranes in the eastern United States, and the numbers are only that high thanks to the Operation Migration group. Teaching birds to migrate is vitally important for their survival. These birds cannot survive the harsh winters of the North....
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While a flock of 20 juvenile whooping cranes migrating from the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge remained grounded due to bad weather in Franklin County, Alabama, for the fourth day running on Sunday, crane watchdogs say there’s no danger to the young cranes. The endangered cranes, all hatched this spring and summer, have been following ultralight...
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