How to Build "Hang Loose" A "Chanute type" glider: Click for Plans
The remnants of the original "Hang Loose" Hang Glider that started
it all....
off La Paz Road, Irvine CA. 1971
Click here to read an excerpt from MANBIRDS: Hang Gliders & Hang Gliding
By: Maralys Wills -> Page 34-42 on
the First Otto Lilienthal Universal Hang Glider Championships
Monday May 24, 1971
Click here to read: Front Page: "Time Turns Back as Birdmen Take to Southland Sky"
Click here to read:
Page 3: "Birdmen Gather on Hillside and Soar back Into History"
Click here to watch a movie taken by Larry Dighera from the Championships-> You_Tube
Link to the: Location of the May 23, 1971 Hanglider Championships
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - Daily Pilot article: Celebrating the flying 'birdmen'
40 year reunion at San Miguel Park, Irvine, CA
The marker placed at the park states:
On this site, May 23, 1971,
with a Gathering of Enthusiasts
for Personal Human Flight,
began the Worldwide Sport of Hang Gliding.
Information on Otto Lilienthal:
->Otto Lilienthal Museum
->Otto Lilienthal
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 141 No.2, February 1972.
Article: Happy Birthday Otto Lilienthal! Page 288
We are repairing the "Swing Low" after a crash (see circle)
Ken Privitt, Doris Privitt, Doug Privitt, Kevin Privitt and Dave Walker
Doris Privitt (pilot) -
Picture from 
Magazine
September 3, 1971 issue "The Endless Weekend"
Ken Privitt (pilot) My longest flight...
The "Phoenix" which was resurrected from the ashes of the "Swing Low"
John J. Montgomery Memorial:
Taras Kiceniuk (pilot) in the Icarus. The longest flight at the meet...
Click here for information on John Joseph Montgomery:
->http://www.flyingmachines.org/mont.html
->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_Montgomery
A Man Powered Aircraft based on the "Hang Loose" design
Click on the link below to watch the
feature length movie:
"Playground in the Sky" by
Carl Boenish.
YouTube - Playground in the Sky
Click on the link below to watch some Hang Gliding excerpts fron the first and second Universal Hang Gliding Championships: