Wills Wing hang glider pilots take 1,2,3 at Canoa Open, Ecuador
Wills Wing pilots (L-R) Jeff Shapiro, Dustin Martin, and Jeff O'Brien finish 2nd, 1st, and 3rd respectively at the 2009 Canoa Open, Ecuador.
Every October the fishing village of Canoa, Ecuador hosts what Wills Wing describe as the purest test of hang glider glide performance at the Canoa Open.
The thirty mile course is run in under forty minutes at average speeds of nearly 50 mph! It’s a drag race in the compression, that contains all the best aspects of a five hour XC task packed into forty minutes.
Wills Wing congratulate their pilots Dustin Martin, Jeff Shapiro and Jeff O’Brien who finished 1st,2nd and 3rd respectively.
This video from YouTube user, Oliverlara90, gives a good feel of the event:
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