Where is Trubuco canyon? Is it still open to hanggliding ?

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🧡✈️🩵 The 1970’s were great ! I was a little girl and my dad used to build his own hang gliders. Pennsylvania. I would watch/help him. He would just run and jump off cliffs around here. He went to California once later in the 1970’s to hang glide with a few other guys. We never had a dog. We had tons of cats. Thank you for this.

Nice story, your dog Curtis lived a long life. I love the videos of Torrey, looks so much different now and less crowded.

No Brian Woods flying a Wasp CB240?

The Solesbee family has so many good memories hang gliding there. I was only 10 and i drove the dune buggy up and down the hill. So much fun!

Awesome!

Got my hang 3 in the wills wing butterfly I got from you Burke at big black!

I’m still flying at Torrey when I can. Still the best. 🦅

That’s great!!!! Glad to hear from you. 🎼👍🦅😎

I want to get back into hanggliding but only have my Price harness left.😢

Remember the half way house in Mexico Cantamar?

Yes! Cantamar with my Cirrus 3 with Burke Ewing!!

Hi Burke. You were my hanggliding instructor. This is Karen😅

Just a couple weeks before the commercial cues debuted and audiences got more excited to see Joe.

Excellent combination of music to flying footage ! Loved the pooch as well

This brings back memories. My late brother started on a rogallo, then a Delta 6D, then a Proair. I always enjoyed watching him fly. His wife left him and he quit flying to get her back.

Me Too, in New England Great Fun. Orig member of the Ellenville, NY site😎

Broke wrist flying setted. Gwithed to prone. Flew with Bob Wills and Chris at PIne Flats( I pioneered with Jack Brittan and Scott Newman. Best time of my life but lost close friends.

We were flying in 75 in Pennsylvania soaring the ridge and valley system we have . I flew until 1995 and quit too old . But i still remember the old days. Hell I still have my old Comet.

Good Piece there Burke, Next time you're in San Diego at Torrey, CALL ME, lets get together.

This was awesome! Thanks for letting me forget the world for a few minutes.

Used to love this show as a kid.

Flare-a-chute.

I flew from 1973 to 1995. Still have my old Comet. I remember these times and guys..

That 180 deree tur to hit the bullseye is my favorite right now . At around 2:55 on the timer

Per chance do you remember my brother William (Bill) Allen photographer during the period?

In the early years of hang gliding they were very rudimentary. The maximum flight time was 5 to 10 minutes, depending on the wind. That was the reason why later they started to manufacture hang gliders with wider and longer wings so that they could stay in the air longer. Not only to stay in the air longer, but also to gain more speed. But they are undoubtedly wonderful images from the early years of hang gliding. And imagine the prices then? Today here in Germany, just last month, if I wanted to get a used hang glider for free, I just had to go get it. For free,... I just didn't pick her up because I don't have a car!

Thanks for the flashback. I was from the little old town of Coalinga, California. I bought my 2nd hang glider, a Ha-19?. from Pacific Gull, in San Clemente. I forgot the owner's name, nut he took me to Trabuco Canyon to test fly it. :ittle did I know I was going to where all the pro's. like you flew. I took a flight off of the 500 ft? hill? Took off, and landed ok. The owner had some type of military vehicle to get the hang gilders to the top of the hill. Pacific Gull; also had a test pilot that day flying a new "Alpine" hang glider. I was blown away by his flying! Later on a few years, in Ventura, I asked a friend if they knew anywherte I could fly. My friend's girlfriend said she had a freind who flew hang gliders, and would ask him. When I heard his name, I was blown away... Mike Arrambide! I am sure I don't have to tell you who that is. Anyway, the next day we took off from the 2000 ft or so peak, in Ventura. Mike took off, and like a pro was flying all over above the beach! Me, being a rookie, was staring at the power lines which were right abover, and before the freeway. I had to abandon ship, and landed safely, but not on the beach, lol. What an adventure it was to fly in Southern California. Of course, I remember your name from all the hang gliding magazines.

very nice! snazzy kite!🤩

Burke is there any chance of you uploading the music video for the song that is in this video about 1 minute in?

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I can’t find that song anywhere, I tried. Was it published ?

That Andy Hall guy… he’s handsome

I learned to fly at Santa Cruz then the hill above marineland of the pacific. Yes I also flew a standard Ragallo wing. I took to it like a bird just fledging. Still on my bucket list to do again maybe at kittyhawk this Spring or summer.

I totally get what this was about in the 1970's, I recall seeing some people trying this out off a hillside in the Kansas City area, I believe it was near Swope Park. I still think about what this would be like, and knowing as a child that this was something totally new. Still hoping to get the chance to try out some training some day...

I would like to try this some day...

Damn, did you ever sleep?

I started hang gliding in 1978 after 3 years of parachuting in the Army. What? You can actually go ... UP?? Thanks for sharing a great slice of history.

Nice footage Burke!

Notase un dinosaurio en la vasija con gente encima montandolo

I was born in 75... Learned to hang glide in 95. It's neat to see the evolution of the hang glider over the years. It's the most amazing sport that nobody does anymore.

I remember those days. Fun flying with you, Burke

What is this bullshit

Burke Ewing thank you for pioneering this technology, it was guys like you, Hal Jepson, Bruce Brown etc that showed us what could be done with the limited film camera tech of the day... without you guys we probably wouldn't have cheap GoPro's today...this film was a great influence on my impressionable 8 year old mind, now history and science fiction is my hobby. Thanks for filming and uploading

He had a Go Pro on his hang glider in 1977!

2:19 that's gotta be tip in the dirt.

Three minutes is not a full video

1:09 What has become of Hall Brock?