The Raven

By 1978 Kestrel Kites no longer existed but the Wessex Club continued on. Pete Robinson, by this time the club's most skilled pilot, flew a Gryphon.


The 1978 Jim Debauche Raven. This link accesses history of the annual glide ratio contest.

In Britain, too, strange shapes took to the skies.

The UP Mosquito of 1979.

The 1979 Southdown Sailwings Sigma.

In 1999 a glider rider was (and still is) a British-made device of padded tube with suction feet that sticks to a car's engine hood and supports overhanging bagged hang gliders. Twenty years before, Glider Rider was an American magazine that, in February 1979, addressed a major concern about hang glider pitch stability.

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Contemporary flexwing hang gliders, including Gryphons, Antares, Superscorpions, Ravens -- both crosstube and bowsprit rigged -- and even the Atlas, were all about to be eclipsed by a new American flexwing.

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