Bend, Oregon. Greg showed us around where they are making the duckhawk and building the Perlan gproject glider .
For those who don't know, the DuckHawk is composite (carbon fibre) aircraft so very light and strong, and as Allan has seen can fly very fast and has impressive energy retention. Chip flew it in the nationals at Mifflin and won with it. They make all the rigs, molds, etc in house; totally all made here in US.
Checkout Winward Performance website for more detail.
The Perlan Project is also being built here and we saw some amazing bits and pieces. Perlan is the project to fly a glider to 90000"( in a pressurised cockpit), which is incredibly Amazing - the moon mission of our time! This will be an amazing achievement! Here is Allan in the cockpit mockup, Greg is helping him in.
They still need funds, all donations gratefully received.
And then we went to Crater Lake, and saw some amazing sights. When I process the pics of the Fuji I will upload some; here's some off the iphone. Including Grommit navigating us through several feet of snow...
P.s. I have not increased the saturation, that is what it looked like!
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