Jack Lambie was schoolteacher, as well as an innovative and experienced airman who had accompanied Captain Dick Merrill as copilot on the first commercial transatlantic flight on May 10, 1937 among his many accomplishments. The Lambie brothers, Mark and Jack, organized the Otto Lilienthal Universal Hang Glider Championships held on a hilltop in Corona del Mar, California on May 23, 1971 to celebrate the 123rd birthday of Otto Lilienthal. This event marked the rebirth of hang gliding in the USA, and my first and last involvement with weight-shift aircraft control. “May 23, 1971. That is the date, perhaps, that hang gliding officially became a sport.” –From Manbirds, by Maralys Wills. Read her account here: groups.google.com groups.google.com I (with striped polo shirt) had just been granted an FAA Private Airmans certificate on October 31, 1970, and thought it would be fun to experience flight as those predecessors of Wilbur and Orville had. The blond fellow was my flight instructor, Keith Lindsay. We built the “aircraft” from clear Fir, bamboo, and 3-mill Mylar sheeting donated by Wally Herzog and the 3M Corporation. Our entire cost was about .00 and 20 man-hours. Our longest flight duration was 12 seconds. The late Richard Miller can be seen piloting is Conduit Condor mono-wing. The black Rogollo “Batso” was piloted by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.
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I’m happy you enjoyed the video. I’d very much like to find a copy of that National Geographic magazine issue for reference. I presume you read the Wills account of this event at the link provided in the ‘more’ information. There’s lots more history on Wikipedia under History of Hang Gliding.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane. Reading of this event in National Geographic spurred me to take up hang gliding in 1974… and I’m still flying more than 35 years later!
quite amazing
Sor Brazilian and I was very delighted with your video ….. gave up the will to retrieve them and perhaps develop a prototype of like a hang glider you got there, and go on a mountain to have a good time like you did ..
congratulations ..
Very nice video, I like the diamond shaped black glider, it flew very well.
You must be very proud to possess the genes of an extremely courageous pioneer, the father of maned flight actually. It is a sincere pleasure to make your acquaintance. If you are able to locate the article to which you refer, regarding the death of Otto Lilienthal, I would very much like to see a scan of it. Thank you.
this is funny because my family has a newspaper article of when he died and im like his great great grand nephew
Great video! I started hang gliding in 76 when the glide ratios were all the way up to 5:1.
That was the late Richard Miller flying his Concuit Condor. Mr. Miller was the editor of Soaring magazine, the official publication of the Soaring Society of America. In 1967 he published Without Visible Means of Support.
My Dad refers to this era when he started flying as a time when “sex was safe and hang gliding was dangerous”. Awesome stuff!!
i wish i could ve been there…!
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very cool i thinkof building one what is it made of pls?
I’m speechless.. EPIC!
The topless high-aspect raio wing at 2:02 was amazing prescient – shame no-one picked up on the design advantages at the time.
oh that must be so cool to create that and fly/glide one of those
Best footage I’ve seen yet of the Otto Lilienthal meet. I was a late comer to the sport. I started in 1972.
Thanks for the flashback !!
Glad I started Hang Gliding in ’77
awesome fun
PRICELESS.I can soooo remember the 70s from this I can taste it.great history.Thanks!
pretty cool video!
Thanks for the comment.
I wasn’t aware that the late Jack Lambie’s hang-glider plans were advertised in Popular Mechanics. I purchased mine from his brother, Mark Lambie.
The story I got was, that Jack was a high school teacher who had his class construct an aircraft, and the idea caught on.
Among many of Jack’s accomplishments was a flying replica of the Wright Flyer that was used in a documentary in the ’70s. There is no question of Jack Lambie’s inspirational force in aviation.
Thank you for the kind words. This was shot in 16mm.
That is Jack Lambie’s “Hang Loose” A biplane glider made of visqueen plastic and bamboo! It was the very first ultralight and the plans were sold out of popular mechanics magazines for $25!! Hundreds were built! Great film!
otto is like my great great or great great great uncle,or sumthin like that…my last name is lilienthal! i looked it up in our geneology!
cool song
@XxGrifdadxX Im the opposite! id love to see an all enduro movie, clips from all the huge ones like erzberg and romaniacs and some enduro cross and trails and all that shit.
i have this movie and its cool
its all motocross and some enduro
ppl want a vid about motocross.. we dont want all this enduro stuff.. i guess motocross is more of the badass type of racing and thats what ppl wanna c.. i just think that a plain motocross only one would b the best seller
very nice !!!
love this movie, seen it 4 times already; beartifull mx, enduro, trial shots; motorbikes rulez!
Dude this movie is sick get it!!! Better than the great outdoors!
good movi i reccomend it for any dirt bike lover
2:01 over jump much!?!?!? ouch
magnifique,
+100000 !!!
fuck i cant wait to see this! im from south africa hope i can get here!
i gave up everything for this sport my gf of 2 years it sucked but it is a lifestyle n i cant let it go
soooo fuckinggg sickkk.
fantastic movie ;o !
ONE OF MY MOST FAVOURITE VIDS ON YTUBE!
Looks awesome!
@TeddyErickson Its called the Enduro at Erzberg. We just got the 2009 DVD in stock.
Piers Faccini – A Storm Is Going To Come i found it
does anyone know the name of the race when the character is talking about battling the elements.. its 2:40 in
ill ride offroad even if i go to hell!!!Rideing OFFROAD in hell!!!!
After watching this trailer I feel like doing something I’m totally not capable of doing!
Awesome!!!
WAY OF LIFE!!!!!!
thanks
The trailer for MOTO The Movie starts out with: Piers Faccini – A Storm Is Going To Come
:36, awesome scene