2007/10/18 - Bille Floyd
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=4046
Accident Report
2008/08/29 - Jeff CraigJack Axaopoulos - 2007/10/20 19:03:19 UTCOwww oww OWWWWWWWWWIEEEEEEEEEEEEEThe impact broke both legs at the ankles and drove his shin bones out the bottom of his feet 6 inches.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=8254
Another Fatality at Sylmar
2008/08/30 - Kunio YoshimuraJack Axaopoulos - 2008/08/30 18:47:00 UTC
Damn My condolences to family and friends
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=8288
Another Brother Falls
2009/01/03 - Steve ElliotJack Axaopoulos - 2008/09/02 01:02:27 UTC
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo!
My sincere condolences to Family and Friends
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=9993
Steve Elliot
2009/08/31 - Roy Messing...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=13491
]Please give prayer for Roy
2009/08/31 - Roy MessingJack Axaopoulos - 2009/09/01 13:40:19 UTC
Triple crossing fingers here. Hoping for the best.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=13545
tow accidents
2009/09/19 - Bill VogelMy thread sent to Basement.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=13712 UTC
Very sad news
2009/09/19 - Bill VogelJack Axaopoulos - 2009/09/20 21:51:56 UTC
Nooooooooooooooooooooo.....
My condolences to his family and friends. What a sad day... this sucks.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=13744
control
2009/11/16 - Tony AmeoJack Axaopoulos - 2009/09/23 18:10:04 UTC
Not seeing power lines and hand position are not correlated.
The atos isnt even weight shift. Hands high or low you still have roll control.
The pitch pressure is super light too.
I would like to see hands low on the down tubes until in ground effect myself but this has nothing to do with the accident.
He didnt see power lines in time. Sounds like a POTENTIAL judgment error of some kind. It also seems that he turned away from the powerlines, so turning wasnt the issue. Turning low maybe... maybe some other stuff. WHO KNOWS. Thats the point. No need for people to talk out their a** about something they know very little about and piss everyone off.
The timing of this thread is awful.
Locking thread... this is troll/flame bait with extremely weak implications.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=14410
Wallaby fatality
Jack Axaopoulos - 2009/11/16 17:01:31 UTC
Nooooooooooooo!
2009/11/27 - Christian ThaleJack Axaopoulos - 2009/11/17 14:20:28 UTC
UGH..... heartbreaking
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=14608
Another HG death.
2010/06/05 - Tom MayerJack Axaopoulos - 2009/11/28 16:16:10 UTC
My condolences to family and friends, oh what a sad day
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=17038
CSS Regional Hang Glider Aerobatics Competition - June 5th
2011/01/15 - Shane SmithJack Axaopoulos - 2010/06/07 20:48:10 UTC
So terribly sad.....
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=20529
Shane Smith - RIP
2011/04/09 - Yossi Tsarfaty...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=21474
fatal accident in Israel
2011/06/05 - Tim Martin...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=22132
choochoonooga incident.
2011/07/23 - Keavy Nenninger...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=22619
Sad News from Highland
2011/10/28 - Lois Preston...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=23775
girl killed in training flight. UK
2012/04/28 - Lenami Godinez-Avila...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=26970
HG accident on front page of CNN
2011/05/26 - Charles MatthewsJack Axaopoulos - 2012/08/24 21:42:19 UTC
Followup on that story....
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/24/report-pilot-error-led-to-womans-fatal-fall-from-glider/
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=26238
Tug pilot killed at LMFP last Saturday?
You can tell how deeply affected he is by these because by the length of time he holds keys down when he's typing words, his use of smilies, and the fact that sometimes he's too overcome to post anything at all....
The only time he makes anything resembling actual comments is to jump in with the mob, attack Yours Truly, and lock my thread down after I suggested that if people are interested in getting better results than Bill Vogel did they might want to consider not repeatedly and continually doing the same thing he did.
Note that you also won't find Bob participating in any of these discussions - either on The Jack Show before his old buddy knifed him in the back or on his own show afterwards.
Also note the absence of participation of anybody from Wills Wing.
The people who control this sport are NEVER gonna do anything of any substance to fix any problems 'cause in order to accomplish anything one needs to take a principled stand and start calling spades spades. And that's never a good recipe for being friends to every pilot you meet and winning popularity contests, membership in your organization, loyal customers, and/or votes in your Region.Rob was a friend to every pilot he met, and his impact on and contributions to the sport of hang gliding cannot be overstated. He will be missed by everyone who knew him, and especially so by those who knew him best.
All they really care about is having people get along reasonably well and not too far out of line.
So let's start a pool. Pick the number of "o"s Jack will use in the word "No!" the next time somebody:
- forgets to do a hang check;
- stays on too long trying to save a bad tow instead of releasing and starting over;
- forces the tug pilot to make a good decision in the interest of his safety;
- is saved from a lookout by a Rooney Link; or
- gets turned downwind at the Happy Acres putting green practicing for that inevitable day when he'll need to stop on a dime in a narrow dry riverbed with large rocks strewn all over the place.
The current record is twenty-three.