By: Doug Foster

Doug Foster — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:41:32 +0000

Hello…this is Doug Foster here: All I can say, is those guys had way more balls than i did. All I just wanted to do was to get down!!! BuT, it was a ‘hanglider cometition’ and I did manage to land right on the bullseye. -Doug Foster, Class of 1970, Newport Harbor High, Newport Beach Calif. USA.

By: Don Fuschetti

Don Fuschetti — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:26:36 +0000

GOOD ARTICLE ! Nasty Nasty ‘Thermals’. Those ‘ol rising air currents caused by heating from the underlying surface, especially such a current when nature is not producing clouds. If we could only see them? Clues are there… These wretched wisps of nature are described to me by my neighbor, Doug Foster of Newport Beach, California in a quick story. Doug is a ‘Old Pilot Pioneer’ from the early 1970’s school of flight. School of hard nocks…and crashes!..Doug flew with the ‘Wills’ Brother’s Bob and Chris Wills throughout the early 1970’s. A quick “Thermal” story Doug told me: He described ‘A GIGANTIC THERMAL’ knows as an “Inversion Layer”, that came outta nowhere during a scenic Silmar flight, that began to pitch Doug, Bob, & Chris up… and forward at a rising speeds…. This “Inversion Layer” propelled Bob and Chris from Silmar where the launched, to San Bernadino! Doug landed back in Silmar, however the other sky kings (Bob& Chris) thought it’d seem fit to go-with-the flow and fly home. 40 miles + away… They landed at home in thier neighborhood. It’d like to have sen that !- Don Fuschetti, Newport Beach. Calif. CDM Class of ‘88.

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By: Doug Foster

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