Roy Cross. The Bat hang glider. Built 1895 by Percy Pilcher. He also built another one called Hawk, 1895-96. Pilcher died 02.10.1899 in a crash at Stanford Hall, Leicestershire. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #PercyPilcher #HangGlider #BrookeBond
1976 Bally Hang Glider 4-player electromechanical pinball machine.
2,325 units produced. Designed by Jim Patla with art by Dick White.
As seen at the Ann Arbor Pinball Museum aka VFW in Brighton, Michigan.
Continued…
#pinball #arcade #hangglider #hanggliding #Bally #ballypinball #70s #1970s
Would you dare to fly this? Early aviation pioneers launched themselves into the sky holding onto wooden frames and fabric wings, with no engines, no safety gear, and no parachutes to save them if things went wrong. How dangerous do you think those first flights really were?
#gliding #hangglider
allow yourself
to sail free
when the wind
offers to carry you.
take her up on the offer.
#poemoftheday #poetry
#naturephotography
#poem #hangglider
Photo of a hang glider in the cloudless, early evening sky not far above a gravel country road
Is it good luck or bad luck if a hang glider crosses your path? #WaterlooRegion #Woolwich #hangglider
Wings that let you fly
#hangGlide #hangGlider #aiPainting #aiArtOfTheDay #aiArt #ai #aiGenerated #aiArtCommunity #midjourneyArt #midjourneyv7 #synthography
Miraflores Cliffs and the beach in Lima, Peru. #SouthAmerica #Lima #Peru #Cliffs #Ocean #Beach #hangglider #mall #Shopping #Waves #Pacific #Ocean
Hang glider taking off from Sandia (Watermelon) Mountain, Albuquerque, NM. Taken from the Sandia Peak Tram. #newmexico #sandiamountain #albuquerque #hangglider #sandiapeaktramway
We see a very wide panorama of fluffy clouds in shades of blue, and a silhouette of a hang glider over a silhouette of the land below.
🎵 Nothing but blue skies do I see...
#BlueSkyMonday #eastcoastkin
#Opposites =Passive/Active Soft/Hard #SensoryArt
#HangGlider #Clouds #Silhouette #panorama #photography #ArtYear #PhotographersOfBlueSky #mountainmonday #classicmono #Stunday #Fuji
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLyric
© Nancy Goodenough
Hangglider shown in a sky starting a sunset over the ocean.
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The Journey: 'Up Up and Away' 🎵
1967 single by the 5th Dimension
#BlueSkyArtShow #TheJourney
#WeekLforLyric #AlphabetChallenge
#landscape #scape #eastcoastkin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #silhouette #PhotographersUnited #hangglider #sunset #ocean #clouds #Fuji
© Nancy Goodenough 2015
Wonderful July flight years back in Vågå Norway #hanggliding #hangglider #aerial #film #photography #flight #soaring #xc
#avgeek #flying #sailplanes #hangglider #history
Newly discovered scroll reveals gliding is older than we thought:
