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Instinct's own Mark Dowsett receives a long-overdue certificate for a Canadian Record set back in 2007!  On the HPAC home pageA recent ceremony celebrated the Canadian Record attained by Mark Dowsett (below left) and awarded by Nick Jones, Ontario HPAC Director (below right) in Ontario.

With over 100 sold world-wide and to fuel our ever-growing desire for Selfies, we thought we'd improve them for 2015! Instinct Hang Gliding Selfie Camera Boom http://instinct.pro/Selfie https://www.facebook.com/InstinctSelfie A must watch video: https://vimeo.com/58137468#t=187s First off, we designed separate mounts for Carbon basetubes. They fit super tight and can be left on your basetube between flights. Our boom screws in to the base and can be panned at will during flight. The new design minimizes camera bounce. Wolfi and Jonas are the first to use these on their Rhythm of Flight project (http://www.rhythmofflight.com/) Secondly, we just finished a new, two-piece basetube...

Ollie Gregory recollects the incident that spurred him to make a better barrel release... Was towing at the first east coast championship at Ridgely MD. Think there were three tugs and a trike. The trike pilot was green. First time to tow at a comp. he was towing very fast. Almost 40 mph. The only peeps who didn't care were the rigid wings. On the first decent looking day of the meet, I hooked on his line and started towing out pretty early. Several wind techs had towed and sunk back to try again. The tows were fast, so I...

I'm happy to say that Instinct is now an official Moyes hang glider dealer. Mark has flown Moyes gliders exclusively since his first high performance glider back in 1998 and continues to fly a Moyes Litesport as his personal glider of choice. Moyes is known for it's high-end competition topless glider, the LitespeedRX, considered to be the Ferrari of the hang gliding world. Moyes has also recently started producing and distributing the Metamorphosi Conar parachutes. Ryan and Mark have been flying with those reserve chutes for well over a decade but they haven't been manufactured for almost that long...it's great...

This is a great video - very inspiring. I love his quote, "It's never to late to have a happy child-hood".