The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 70, No. 7 - February 18, 2021
Local Restaurant Provides Food for Inglewood
Thank you NORMS Restaurants and community partner, BYD, for helping the Inglewood Chamber of Commerce feed the community. In these times, it’s is comforting to know that local businesses are willing to give a helping hand. Photo courtesy Inglewood Chamber of Commerce.
Andy Beem from front page
a paraglider (a combination of the words
parachute and glider) instead of a parachute,
spacecraft could be returned to earth more
accurately and piloted to land on a runway
instead of splashing into the ocean. Despite
being dismissed before, scientists now took
great interest in his work, and NASA began
developing a program to implement the idea
on their missions.
With the clock running down and both
countries growing closer every day to a
manned space flight, the U.S. decided to scratch
Rogallo’s wings under the pressure of time.
The first few space flights were returned to
earth using a parachute with a large margin
of error on its splash landing.
By this time, though NASA didn’t use
his design, the idea of attaching this device
to a person had spread rapidly. Names like
sky surfing and sky sailing promised pilots
a chance to glide through the air with their
pair of wings, sans motor. In the late sixties,
Moyes Delta Gliders, named for founder Bill
Moyes, began manufacturing wings for direct
to consumer consumption. Many companies
followed, growing to over thirty manufacturers
in the seventies.
Around 1982, Andy Beem’s best friend in
high school asked if he would accompany
him and his father on a hang gliding trip as
their “chase driver,” meaning he would drive
them to the top of the mountain and then
drive down to meet them when they landed.
“When I would see them flying off the
mountains,” says Beem, “I thought ‘oh that
just looks so beautiful, so wonderful,’ but
there’s no way I saw myself doing that.”
With a fear of heights, he couldn’t imagine
jumping off the edge of a mountain and
gliding down to the bottom. One day, he was
invited down to the Playa del Rey site, now
the Dockweiler Beach site. Seeing pilots jump
off the thirty-foot landing and fly seven feet
off the ground for about a hundred yards, he
saw his opportunity. For the thirty-eight years,
he flew, perfecting his skills and building his
confidence.
Today, Andy teaches hang gliding lessons
at Windsports located at Dockweiler State
Beach. Every now and then, you can see
Andy and a handful of students from all over
the world gliding off the thirty-foot ledge and
landing in the sand.
This location is ideal, he explains, because
the wind coming off the ocean is smooth, with
very little turbulence. That, paired with the soft
landing, makes it a great place for beginners
to learn the ropes. Another advantage, he says,
is that the general public can see the flights.
In most other situations, hang gliding takes
place in the mountains or remote locations,
so the average person doesn’t get to see what
it looks like. So riding down the bike path,
there’s a better chance that someone will see
the short flight as he did in 1982 and decide
to give it a try.
Beem has become friends with many of his
former students, going with them on trips to
hang glide in places like Yosemite, Yellowstone,
and even Mexico. Though the sport
isn’t as trendy as it once was, Beem says that
for every pilot that leaves the sport, a new
one arrives. Over the years, it’s maintained a
Andy Beem, CEO and Lead Instructor at Windsports hang gliding
school.
firm level of interest and size of community.
“To this day, after thirty-eight years of flying,
there’s still nothing more fun than flying
a hang glider,” he says. It’s this joy in the
sport that he hopes to give to his students.
Seeing the light go on in a beginner’s eyes,
he says, is really what keeps him teaching,
and the joy of flying keeps him hang gliding.
“Most teachers that teach anything don’t
do it because they’re trying to get richer and
make a lot of money,” says Beem, “they enjoy
the process of teaching people.” He says that
nearly all of his students are really fun and
enjoyable people to work with, and many
eventually become good flying buddies. He
describes the hang gliding community as a
group of fabulous individuals with a lot of
camaraderie.
Whether it’s racing against time from
landmark to landmark, flying through a vast
valley, or just jumping safely down to the
beach, Andy’s life has revolved around hang
gliding, and he wants everyone to try it. •
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