This OFTTH remembers the good old days (aar, me hearties) of the birdman
rallies off coastline jetties before hang gliding came of age.
Much crashery, usually within the space between the pylons of the jetty.
And then at one event the breeze was onto the launch ramp, and a hangglider
flew the req
>The raft of lawyers immediately strode forward to work out why he
couldn't/didn't win, which part of the glider had to be past the finish
line, etc. Birdman rallies suddenly disappeared from the scene.
No doubt the concept of jumping off a platform above the Glenelg jetty had a
few personal inju
How about a "gyro-glider"? The rotor, set for auto-rotation, could be spun
up before the launch (and helped along during the flight) by means of
pedals. The 3 man crew would have to "carry-launch" the contraption. Don't
know enough about the physics of rotary wings to work out the maths but the
wi
