15 Feb 10 - Olympic Spirit -
After my run and workout this morning I had to take advantage of another great day to
carve up the air. I've been flying my WJ airwolf and my SD. These two paramotors are
completely different in relation to the type of launch due to the attachment point. This
morning I flew the SD and completed about 30 take off and landing's consisting of light
reverse and forward launches. The weather here in California is outstanding, what a
place to fly!! Now time to watch the Olympics, Go Canada Go!!
12 Feb 10 - Evening Flight - Nice evening
sunset flight. I've been taking advantage of the Salton Sea air and flying several times
daily. This eveing the Sunset was very nice so I decided to capture the moment.
12 Feb 10 - Green Eagle Commercial Video - A
new commercial video was created for the Green Eagle during the ParaToy's Fly-In.
Here is a small portion of the footage.
6 Feb 10 - Connected with Skype - We are
connected with Skype and my user name is franksavignac.
5 Feb 10 - Salton Sea 2010 link - We've added the
2010 Salton Sea link at the top right of the page. It has additional photos of the event.
See link 2010.
1 Feb 10 - Sand Dunes - This afternoon,
Leslie, Johanne and I took a drive to the sand dunes in Glamis, California. Their were
approximately 25 pilots this evening camping in the desert enjoying themselves. I took my
Go Pro video camera and shot some video but unfortunately I had it adjusted too low so the
footage was not great. But the flying was
incredible!!
Dean and Frank - Picture taken by Leslie Britt
31 Jan 10 - ParaToy's Fly-In - Last night we
had a wonderful time at the banquette hosted by Michelle Danielle and Paul Anthem.
Most of the vendors were packing up but that didn't stop pilots from flying all day.
Leslie and I few in the afternoon and evening. I took Johanne up on the trike and
see enjoyed the evening sunset.
30 Jan 10 - ParaToy's Fly-In - Today was
competition day in which consisted of just two events, the cloverleaf and the spot
landing. Most competitors done fairly well but the top three winners were: (1) Chad
Bastian with a very good run who completed the course with no penalties; (2) Dean Eldridge
(UK ) who did very well but fell during his spot landing; and (3) Paul Linquist who again
did very well but had slipped on the plastic spot when he touched down during the spot
landing. During the Bear Drop, Johanne caught two bears this year and the last two
kites during the Kiting War was Jeff Goin and the winner went to Chad Bastian.
Johanne and I took the Xenit Trike out for a very nice evening tandem flight.
Johanne filmed the evening flight with our new GoPro professional wearable HD camera and
I'm going to make a video of the area.
29 Jan 10 - ParaToy's Fly-In - Eric did a
demonstration run for the USPPA Competition later on in the morning. Today is the
practice run to try out the course. There are
several competitors this year including Dean Eldridge from the UK Paramotor
team. It was great flying today, followed by a very nice evening flight.
Afterwards we had a
beach bonfire and watched videos from Phil Russman. Great time!!
28 Jan 10 - ParaToy's Fly-In - This morning
the sun was out and it was quite windy. Later in the evening the winds came down and
everyone was happy to fly. According to Michelle from ParaToy's they have
approximately 180 registered pilots. There's plenty of new equipment on the line including
the Parajet Rotron (Rotary engine). Everyone had a great flight!!
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