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Is that Devils Dyke in Kent?

Beautiful video. Thank you

Something isn't adding up here. The narrowest part of the English Channel is 20 miles. Our best best flex wing (fabric) Hand Glider of today has a 16:1 glide ratio. If you release at 6000 feet as stated in the video (4:50), you wouldn't make it even with a modern glider. Around 1990 the top Hang Gliders were probably 10 L/D, maybe 12. You would make it about half way. A fixed wing (solid) modern glider, like an Atos with a 20:1 glide ratio (or better) might just make it. To make it across the English Channel with a 1990 Hang Glider you would have to be better than 2 miles up on start, 11,000 feet at least. The only thing that that would make any sense here, was that what was pictured in the video was not the start, but a separate publicity flight done at another time.

Thanks for uploading this

Love it 😂 they had some balls back then

that's just a publicity stunt. Anyone could do that with a hot air balloon.

Fantastic!

That's beautiful!

Hi Justin, do you know where I can find the video of the hang gliding and paragliding trip to Emei Shan with the Girard Thevenot and the French film crew? I thought I saw it on your site but can't find it anymore. Thanks LT

What a beautiful soul of a human being , wonderful voice and demeanour.

Great marketing

A uplifting discovery , delighted to see her adventurous endeavours.

Wow. What a find !! I joined a club in San Diego formed by the Fronius family in the beginnings of this period, Built an EipperFormance Ragallo, initially using 4 mil polyethylene for the sail (very noisy) later had a gorgeous sail made by Tom Price. But my heart had been captured earlier when I first saw Taras Kiceniuk's flying wing biplane on TV. This led me on a 500 mile drive to Cupertino to meet with Larry Muro and make a down-payment on a UFM Icarus II kit. Eventually I built two of these magnificent aircraft and seeing this footage has filled me with joyous memories - Thank you!

Judy Leden helped many low air time pilots. When you leave the school you have trained with it can be daunting, Judy always came across to low airtime pilots (you had a red ribbon on one of your uprights back in the day) and helped see you take off safely - a wonderful person

Very NICE trips...¡¡¡

I've flow Escape Country!

Hands down one of the best collection of vintage hang gliding I've ever watched!!

Jack Schroder probably saved my life!! I was really new to the sport and setting up my standard Rogallo at Point Fermin in '74/5(ish). Jack was there and saw how nervous I was and came over and talked me out of flying there. He was right, I was scared s**tless, had never ridge soared before and probably would have killed myself. I see a post below that mentions him as ..."was one of a kind", so I'm assuming he's no longer with us. I'm sorry I never got to thank him in person for talking me out of flying on that day so many decades ago now...! I went on to get my H5 rating and still fly (occasionally) to this day - 40+ years later. Thanks, Jack!!

Wow brings back memories Gerry taught me to fly hang gliders in Wales in the mid 70's then one evening we did a tandem jump. He had me run with him to the edge of a massive drop off and then we flew like a bird for miles. Now I teach Kiteboarding in LA much safer and still lots of fun.

Citroen's advertising money well spent !!

1989? Good publicity... For Citroen.

And now there's very few hang gliders to be seen in Bir. It's now mostly paragliders. Fantastic flying site with flights to Dharansala, Mandi and over the back to Manali.

Thanks for sharing the footage. Awesome stuff, i wasn’t even born at that time 👍🏼

Really makes you appreciate your malibu😂🤣🇦🇺

Thank you so much for posting! Kelvin was a close family friend and my sister's godfather its wonderful to see this again 😊

Молодец!!! Слов нет!

She was the reason, I started hanggliding. I loved her book flying with condors.

I was taught to fly at Gerry's school in Crickhowell. One of my best memories - flying on his back (yes, piggyback with legs between the harness straps like a witch on a broomstick!) on an evening soaring flight on the hill above Tredegar. I believe he is now retired from flying after running a microlight school in Portugal.

Thank you, thank you, thank you - I have been looking for this doco for ages. I saw it when I was a teenager, and now a hang gliding pilot myself, I realise this film was instrumental in my pursuance of this amazing sport that inspires more in me than several other aviation disciplines I have had access to over the years. I have been searching for it since I started my training and realised the origin of my passion. Awesome stuff! #southdownshanggliding #onangelswings

i shall rise in the east ... jesus

i managed to get myself videod here landing my swift into the birrs ...never forgot those days ...skeatesy 2017 still designing and flying

Wow! Fantastic to see this doco again. I used to fly with Kelvin and Gerry many years ago - both amazing guys and superb instructors. This takes me back and back - thanks so much for posting this video!

Now that's classic! I was flying and competing during this time and recognized many of the faces in this film. Thanks for posting it.

Excellent , very vintage ! i still make tandem hang gliding with spirale glider over les 2 alpes !

can't believe i found it 15:45 my first flight in a hanglider will never forget taking off to be facing the wrong way to see everyone laughing at me!

Ooh! That's me at 5:45 at Bo Peep. I'm still flying in a stirrup.

No worries about getting beaked with some of those early gliders-the nose is in a different county to the pilot.

Steve Moyce? (They mean Steve Moyes.)

So that's where they landed at Point Fermin! (On the beach.) It looks impossible.

Title? Cold re- forming aluminium. No pilots were mistreated or injured in the making of this film