Wind Dummy

Wind DummyThere's Nothing Like the promise of solo flight to get you watching natural wind socks: treetops, tall grass, steam plumes, flags, birds. Especially the birds if it's a paraglider you'll be strapped to--a piece of cloth without frame or motor that you'll pilot through whatever gust and thermal earth and sun happen to cook up while you hang between them, a wind sock yourself.I watched the hawks and the turkey vultures on my way up the northeastern edge of the San Francisco Bay toward th...