mardi 5 janvier 2010

Un des pères du vol libre nous quitte...

Respect et hommage appuyé Sir...
Des détails (en anglais, en suivant le lien): The New York Times





David Barish, a Developer of the Paraglider, Is Dead at 88
By DENNIS HEVESI
Published: January 1, 2010

Loping down a slope near a mountaintop or leaping from a cliff, they capture the wind in the nylon canopy they carried in their knapsacks, then rise in a thermal to thousands of feet to float and swoop for mile after mile.


Barish Archives
David Barish, left, with Francis Heilmann, a pilot, in 2005.



Barish Archives
David Barish landing on Hunter Mountain, N.Y., in 1965

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