Well, we have a new contributor, randy Haney. Randy sent me some photos, with a promise to send more. For those of you that don't know, Randy was a serious record chaser and competitor in the 1980s and the early 1990s. He placed on the podium at three world championships and had many other competition successes both in Canada and abroad.
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| Randy Haney with medals at World championship at Tegelberg |
In 1987, he made the then-longest Hang gliding flight in the world, with a 200 mile/321 km effort from Mount Seven in BC to Trego, Montana on an Airways Magic IV (A British competitor to the UP Comet). Launching at 12 noon from the lower launch (in the trees along the ridge at the 9-mile mark of the road), he was in the air 9.5 hours and landed well after sunset. He had to sleep in a ditch, as he was not picked up the next day. His achievement earned him An FAI World record in the open distance category, And also a Guinness record.
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| FAI Record details |
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| Randy's Record in the British gliding magazine |
He later moved to Europe for a decade and was a Wills Wing representative in Germany and later Italy; He also manufactured Paramotors. During that time, he astounded the European hang gliding community with a 400+ km flight in Spain, launching off a small hill in the dry western interior of the country. That sparked a rush of pilots to the area to try for similar or better flights.
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| RandyIn an Italian ad for wills wing |
With two young daughters at home, Randy Eventually stopped competing and moved back to Dawson Creek BC, where he still resides there today.
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