Jeff O'Brien

THEE Sickest...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:57:00 GMT

Video I've seen in quite sometime.

VIDEO

http://www.zapiks.com/speed-riding-antoine-montant-1.html

The North face of Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix. I've seen the terrain. It's shown briefly at the beginning of the video. Antoine triggers the avalanche and simply pulls up to escape.

This is absolutely the future of ski films. He hits knife edge ridges skipping off thousand foot cliffs and gliding to the next. Avalanches are dispatched with pitch. More...

Ryan Voight - South Side - Point of the Mountain, Utah

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:16:00 GMT

Ryan Voight, South side - Point of the Mountain - 3.2.10

VIDEO HERE

Feeling Good on the South Side from Ryan Voight on Vimeo.

Thanks bro. More...

GROUND EFFECT

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:13:00 GMT

Wintertime at Lookout

More from Eric Donaldson - Eric received a shiny new T2C over the winter and has been honing his skills with some sporadic flying.

VIDEO HERE

VIDEO HERE

Check out his blog: HERE

Thanks boys. More...

Lack of flying induced insanity?

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:39:00 GMT

Thanks to Eric Donaldson and the Lookout crew for passing this along:

VIDEO HERE

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COLOR-PICKER

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:39:00 GMT

Picking out colors for a new glider - one of the most enjoyable tasks. Which of the below did I choose? None :)

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ZIPPY bombing down the beach

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:57:00 GMT

Zippy last week landing on the beach.

VIDEO HERE

Thanks to Jonathan Dietch for the video and link.

;) The T2C is an energy retention machine. More...

VERY worthy pilot projects

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:39:00 GMT

Christina Ammon, writer and PG pilot is closing in on the conclusion of a VERY unique fund raising project supporting VERY worthy charities.

"With This Ring Website"

If the ring sells, Chris is planning on donating $3000 to the bilingual school in Canoa Ecuador to support a teacher's salary for a year.

"The Cloudbase Foundation" exists and non-profit status is being finalized by Ricker Goldsborough. The Cloudbase Foundation website here"

Zippy's glider.

Free flight pilots are coordinating their efforts to pull the organization together in a very organic way and search for worthy charities to assist where "we" travel to. Ricker as been the primary motivator and I'm indebted to him for his tireless work ethic.

Father Frank, from the Mill Hill Mission in Guayaquil, Ecuador is still receiving our assistance, and we're committed to raising $500 per month to send him for medicines and nutritional supplements in his clinic.

Father Frank's website

Here are excerpts from Father Frank's latest e-mails:

WHAT A WONDERFUL SURPRISE!!THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH. THE $1000 ARRIVED IN MY BANK READY TO BE USED. YOU AND THE TEAM HAVE HELPED US TREMENDOUSLY IN THE DISPENSARY. MARIA LUISA WILL ORDER THE MEDICINES TOMORROW.

Father Frank has been sending me receipts of his purchases.

WE ORDERED THE MEDICINES AND THEY ARE NOW IN OUR BOTICA IN THE DISPENSARY.I ENCLOSE A COPY OF THE PAYMENTS. I HOPE THEY WILL BE CLEAR TO READ. THE TOTAL AMOUNT COMES TO JUST OVER $1000. MANY MANY THANKS. THERE IS A LOT OF SICKNESS AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.THE HEAT IS SUFFOCATING. THE HOSPITALS ARE FULL ASND SOME PEOPLE ARE BEING NTURNED AWAY.

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Dr. Batman Part 2

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:13:00 GMT

Dr. Batman has been on it...

Dr. Adam West has been having some nice flights in South Africa, Porterville to be specific:

CLICK HERE

AND HERE

All photos by Adam West.

133km down the road with no planned retrieve.

Taking an unconventional line going out into the valley.

Picturesque ZA.
Cheers Bro. More...

Adam West does Signals

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:41:00 GMT

Adam West and Grove flew Signal Hill at the base of Table Mountain, South Africa recently. Here's an excerpt of the account:

From Dr. Adam West's blog: CLICK HERE

Video by Adam West. Here's an excerpt from his BLOG

We climbed out rapidly into the classic, laminar air and headed for Lion's Head. Cloudbase was close to the top of Lion's Head, so we couldn't head for the Apostles. Instead, we boated around the site, out over Bantry Bay and Sea Point staying just under the cloud.

Photo by Adam West.

We glided together for long stretches comparing the performance of our wings, sometimes flying wing-tip to wing-tip. My Wills Wing U2 145 held it's own against Grove's bigger U2 160. These are fantastic gliders.

Photo of Grove by Adam West.

More from Adam tomorrow. Thanks bro. More...

Wolfi Swooping

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:52:00 GMT

Wolfi Swooooping

Wolfgang Ziess having some swooping practice.

VIDEO HERE

:) Great stuff. More...