Fine weather in March

We spent a lot of time flying this month of march, hot weather, first thermals, blossom... spring explosion in Extremadura!
Aboard our hot air balloon it is a great show, another point of view, another way to watch nature and life... magical...
We have also flown a lot the one seat trike. It is really fun and handy. We play to manoeuvre on the ground without taking off.




A few pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ2rMk1pVtE&feature=channel_page

Sky diving

Here is the video of my last journey to Portugal: Sky diving in the clouds; magical show! I can rarely afford a leisure break and therefore upmost enjoy it.
It was a real pleasure with you guys, great ambiance; I remember how one of you kept singing in the plane all the way up! I felt at home.
Thank you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0EDa4S72o

When the weather is bad...

Time for imagination!! It is time to be at the workshop and give birth to handfuls of ideas and projects stored in my mind.
Like every year, I've conceived a new model of trike. This time I emphasised comfort airborne and was born this small compact aircraft. It is very well accessorised, very safe, a mini microlight with paraglider and plenty of small details that we were missing on previous models.
It is a way of expressing myself, giving real shape to all the observations I make every time I fly, what i like, what I dislike, what is missing... I put it all in this model, that nevertheless can adapt any engine.
I already flies! I'll soon have a video.


Thank you for following me.
In February I'll be "in the air" again, in China to test a new different robot much more developed than previous ones. I'll try to keep in touch and send regular pictures and videos.


See you soon.

Nostalgia

I haven't gone to play with the clouds under my hang-glider for rather a long time... When I was only a teenager, and explored all mountain ranges in Spain in an attempt to go farther and higher. Good masters and three Spain championships were the best school I could ever had. Years later I can still not forget the feeling of my first love... free flight has been part of my life ever since.
Now I'm running after time... the memories of those moments bring me motivation and enthousiasm...
I really have to dust my dear old hang-glider!! It is like biking: you don't forget it... well, I hope so!
I'll tell you!

Flying in Alsace France 2008

For me, flying in north of France is a huge change! Where I live in Extremadura it is more like Africa in summer: 35° to 45°C, dusty and sultry! On the contrary, here there are only grassy green slopes of those you dream about when you are a kid, like Heidi's! Excellent take off places where you can play to stroke the grass... adios the Spanish sharp rocks! And the cherry on the cake: mild temperature, just cool, ideal!
If you've got the opportunity one day, come here, you'll see how good it is.
Thank you to our french flying friends for the ambiance and respect in the take off places. I hope I'll come back next year.

Design from past for the future

I keep on bringing further my experiments with flexible wings and try to find the best capacities and efficiency of a paraglider...
Experimenting is one of my favourite activity: every day you learn something new, and every evening you go to bed a little less ignorant.
Within the research team, each one of us has its own judgement and conclusions, and we share opinions and results.
I am convinced that one day paragliding will be a transportation mean... in the futur... there are already incredible machines!!

Aerial views Extremadura Spain November 2008