Jonny Durand Flys the Morning Glory cloud in the Gulf of Carpentaria
Sunday, 24th January, 2010
Channel 9, Red Bull Glorious Days
NSW and VIC - 1.30pm (leading into the cricket)
QLD - 12.30pm
SA - 1.00pm
A mate does this every year in a glider, has some awesome photos from the wing
but a hang glider would be the duck's nuts ![]()
It would make a good chook plucker Alex.
This is me flying over Rockingham last weekend with my powered harness and hangglider, got up to 4850 feet, inversion was at 4200ft at 2PM Saturday at 39C ESE 15Knts.
Thanks for the heads up of Jonny, the worlds # 1 rated pilot from NSW
Idiot: Paramotors/paragliders aren't fast enough to fly the morning glory... we've looked in to it.
2 weeks ago there was another morning glory in a south american country... bolivia or something.
There are paragliders getting speeds up to 80 kph with reasonable glide. Both mini-wings and comp wings.
It would be interesting to see a mini version of the Ozone BBHPP. Maybe D-bag it out of a trike into the path of the morning glory.