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I was visiting a friend in Mexico at his lovely house in Valle de Bravo and as he and I are both pilots we had an interest in going to the Paragliding (Parapente in Spanish) World Cup Superfinals on January 12-23, 2016. We were perched on the top of the hill where the contestants ran a short distance and took off—they then proceeded to climb up to about 12,000 MSL and went approximately 60 miles away. I took this with my Canon 70D and 100-400 lens. Copyrighted photo by Rob Huntington.
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: Parapente in Mexico
The RV-5 at Olinger Airpark just west of Hillsboro, Oregon. This picture was taken by my father, R.A. "Bob" Brown. No date on the photo but presumably taken not long before the RV-6 came out. Photo submitted by Phil Brown.
RV-5
After a long COVID hiatus, airshows have started to return! The Thunderbirds wow the crowd with an overhead breakaway at KMGJ in New York's Hudson Valley on an ideal late summer afternoon. Taken with a Leica SL2, Leica 350 mm R lens with adapter. Copyrighted photo by Daniel Spitzer MD.
Airshows Return!
Regarding the picture of the hang gliders, years ago I was a First Officer on a 737 descending into Burbank on a visual for runway 15. While crossing the San Gabriel mountains north of the airport we passed just underneath a hang glider, close enough to wonder if he might even hit the vertical stabilizer. To quote Michael Collins the surprise of our lives for probably he and certainly both of us in the cockpit, it happened so fast, had he had a camera now that would have been a picture.