Bill Moyes, 92, who pioneered foot-launched hang-gliding

[Mig.Rhodes]

Bill Moyes, who has died aged 92, was an Australian aerial daredevil and
hang-gliding pioneer who broke records (and numerous bones) flying
foot-launched gliders...

He never expected when he first flew off mountains that piloting kites
in that way would explode as a sport

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/10/31/bill-moyes-hang-gliding-dangerous-sports-australian-birdman/

[bryan_styble]

Thanks a heap for posting this one, Michael.

And so glad he survived to die of old age, rather than while "doing what
he loved".

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida