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Hang-gliding pioneer tried to save Topanga home. His friends never heard from him again
12 Jan 2025 16:32 GMT
A hang glider for four decades, 69-year-old Arthur Simoneau was a calculated risk-taker. And so, as residents fled the Pacific Palisades fire Tuesday, Simoneau headed closer to the inferno.
He was returning from a ski trip in Mammoth when he learned of the …
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Bill Moyes, daredevil hang-glider known as ‘birdman of Australia’
06 Dec 2024 04:55 GMT
Molly Moyes gazed down at her battered husband lying strapped to a stretcher, his face twisted in pain with blood on his forehead, and pleaded with him in future to keep his feet on the ground. It was September 1970 and Bill Moyes, the “birdman of …
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Hang-gliding cat took to the skies in amazing retro find
08 Nov 2024 14:05 GMT
RETRO FIND: Hang-gliding cat soared the skies in 1981
Who said that flying is just for the birds?
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Hang gliding is *** popular sport. And at Marina Beach, people bring their …
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Sydney’s ‘birdman’ who pioneered foot-launched hang-gliding
01 Nov 2024 00:21 GMT
He became the star attraction at waterski shows. At one, an eyewitness reported: “Everybody, all 20,000 of them, just gasped. There was a deathly silence [as he went] in a glide … and landed right at the edge of the water. He just stepped straight onto the …
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Man in Pennsylvania killed in hang-glider crash
31 Oct 2024 01:10 GMT
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A man in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, was killed in a hang-glider crash on Monday, officials said.
David Haughwout, of Belleville, died after crashing his …
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Coroner identifies 68-year-old man dead killed in hang-glider crash
30 Oct 2024 14:51 GMT
AND NEW AT NOON A HANG GLIDER CRASH IN MIFFLIN COUNTY LEFT ONE PERSON DEAD. THE CRASH HAPPENED JUST BEFORE FOUR YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON BLOCK JACKS MOUNTAIN ROAD. STATE POLICE SAY THE VICTIM IS A 68 YEAR OLD MAN FROM BELLVILLE, BUT HIS NAME HAS NOT BEEN …
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Belleville man killed in hang-gliding accident
30 Oct 2024 04:14 GMT
BELLEVILLE — A 68-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene of a hang-gliding accident Monday afternoon.
According to a release from Mifflin County Coroner Andrea L. Alcalde, David C. Haugwout was operating an Aeros Hang Glider when the aircraft lost …
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68-year-old man dead after crashing hang-glider
29 Oct 2024 14:48 GMT
68-year-old man dead after crashing hang-glider in Mifflin County
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Updated: 10:22 AM EDT Oct 29, 2024
WHO WAS KILLED. IT’S 6:00 ON YOUR TUESDAY MORNING, AND WE ARE TAKING A PEEK OVER OUR HARRISBURG, SKY CAM …
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Man, 68, dies in hang-glider crash in Mifflin County; troopers investigate
29 Oct 2024 15:36 GMT
MIFFLIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a hang-glider crash that left a man dead in Menno Township on Monday.
The crash happened around 3:58 p.m. on Jacks Mountain Road.
Troopers responded to the crash to find the operator …
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Man dead after Pa. hang-glider crash
29 Oct 2024 15:19 GMT
A 68-year-old man was killed in a Monday afternoon crash while hang-gliding in Mifflin County, police said.
Pennsylvania State Police said the crash happened at about 4 p.m. on Block Jacks Mountain Road in Menno Township.
The hang-glider’s operator, a …