Regarding the picture of the hang gliders, years ago I was a First Officer on a 737 descending into Burbank on a visual for runway 15. While crossing the San Gabriel mountains north of the airport we passed just underneath a hang glider, close enough to wonder if he might even hit the vertical stabilizer. To quote Michael Collins the surprise of our lives for probably he and certainly both of us in the cockpit, it happened so fast, had he had a camera now that would have been a picture.
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Regarding the picture of the hang gliders, years ago I was a First Officer on a 737 descending into Burbank on a visual for runway 15. While crossing the San Gabriel mountains north of the airport we passed just underneath a hang glider, close enough to wonder if he might even hit the vertical stabilizer. To quote Michael Collins the surprise of our lives for probably he and certainly both of us in the cockpit, it happened so fast, had he had a camera now that would have been a picture.