Sad News - Paul MacCready passes

I just got news that Paul MacCready passed away last week. Paul was a huge inspiration to me personally, and I was lucky enough to meet him on one occasion at Caltech.
There's a terrific book about Paul, and soaring, and human powered flight called "More with Less." I recommend it to anyone interested in soaring.
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-09-05.html



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Flying again?

Rod,

Are you and Gwen going to visit soon, like at the fly-in on September 15? I haven't seen you folks fly for a few years...


Flying soon

Good question,

We have two kids now, so that changed the equation. We sold the truck with the hang glider racks on it. Then we bought a car that can carry all of us. I asked a guy at the beginning of the summer to build me an adapter plate for the trailer hitch so I could put a post there to support the wings, and the guy totally bailed. So basically, we were unable to fly this summer because this knucklehead didn't drill 5 holes in a piece of metal for me.

Gerrrr. So I need to get the piece back from him, and get it fabricated somewhere else. Once I do that, we're flying again!


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