Winged Goliath
May 2, 2012
Airborne, New York
I have been grounded for much too long now, and my eyes turn skyward as I long to return there.
But twice recently, while visiting the Jamaica Bay Wildlife refuge that sits...
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Category: Airborne
I once tasted flight and will forever walk the earth with my eyes turned skywards, for there I have been and there I will always long to return.
Air France AF447 - The Human/Machine Interface Factor
September 26, 2011
Airborne, Science
Two years after Air France flight 447 from Rio to Paris crashed into the Atlantic, the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et Analyses continues its analysis work. A final report of the...
R.I.P. Xavier
July 7, 2011
Airborne, Schtroumpfissime
The paragliding community just lost a good man.
Xavier Murillo, a well-known French paraglider and author, had been missing in the Andes after a July 1st flight. His body was...
BEA Publishes Inconclusive Note on AF447 Crash
June 15, 2011
Airborne, Sans armes, ni haine, ni violence, Science, Web winks
On May 27, the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA) decided to publish what they called "... a note with information on the first facts established, based on analysis of...
AF447: The Black Boxes Have Started Talking
May 16, 2011
Airborne, Science
Having recovered the precious "black boxes" - which are actually painted international orange, the French BEA has begun analyzing the data and voice recordings of the flight's...
Airborne at last!
January 25, 2011
Airborne, Photoblogs, South Africa
Well it took weeks for the weather to settle and for me to get my act together, but today I finally found myself airborne, paragliding over Hermanus.
I'm afraid I have nothing...