21: How Newport Beach Became the Kitty Hawk/Woodstock of Hang Gliding

Update: 2022-07-14

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On a sunny day in the spring of 1971, a ragtag group of adventures gathered on a Newport Beach hilltop to participate in the first hang-gliding meet in modern history. A front-page story in the Los Angeles Times and an eight-page spread in National Geographic magazine about the rickety flying machines and their pilots captured the imagination of readers around the world and launched the sport of hang gliding.

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21: How Newport Beach Became the Kitty Hawk/Woodstock of Hang Gliding

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21: How Newport Beach Became the Kitty Hawk/Woodstock of Hang Gliding

21: How Newport Beach Became the Kitty Hawk/Woodstock of Hang Gliding