Lake Tyers has from time to time been visited by Powered Para Wings, mind you with human operators precariously slung underneath them.

I had hoped to get a photo of this spectacular past-time on a number of occasions as they whizzed past our windows and to day I succeeded in getting a few photos.

Enjoy these photos and perhaps give the brave pilots (men or women!) who are flying them a big wave next time they go past your balconies.

Our jet liners would not be possible without people like these in the past who put their lives at risk to explore the physics and economics of powered flight.

Here is a link for the curious
Powered Parachutes.

Good luck!!!!

Flying like the Birds

Autumn and the flying machines are here

A lovely Autumn day at Lake Tyers Beach and for once the skys are not the unchallenged home of the soaring Pelicans and Sea Eagles, a noisy mechanised flying bird has taken over the sky.

Powered para Wings at Lake Tyers Beach

If you are looking for some exotic ways to travel then this is probably one the best. Just put your faith in aerodynamics as Wilbur and Orville did almost exactly a hundred years ago, strap a motor to your back and use parachute technology (Wilbur and Orville did without them, however I don't think they ever flew high enough for them to work anyway, so they just carried on regardless, true pioneers :-)

Powered Para Wings Lake Tyers Beach

Only the Pelicans could compete with the elegance, though the birds do manage to do it much more quietly. But for the occasional Sunday arvo with a little noise, who really cares. That true aviator spirit is on show at Lake Tyers Beach and good luck to them.