‘Skyaak Canadian Ring Wing Glider’ as artist’s muse

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Check this short clip out of California. It was such a rush to see the Skyaak Ultra-Glow experimental prototype flying around in the night skies over Berkeley Campus!
About the video:

Here’s a little bit of night flight with my new Skyaak Model 3 with the light kit. Flight is great, but more than that, this [...]

Skyaak ‘betcha can’t make just one’ contest reminder

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Seeing as how this space has now hosted quite close to 1500 visitors, thought it would be a good idea to remind y’all about the ongoing FREE SKYAAK PRIZE CONTEST.
As a gesture of appreciation to all of you that have purchased a Skyaak DIY deuce, here it is:
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Skyaak DIY deuce
‘betcha can’t make just one’
OK. It’s [...]

Skyaak re-birth-ing

Monday, December 29th, 2008

As mentioned earlier, we are now in the home stretch in the process to overhaul skyaak.com.

People still tell me that it’s a good-looking site,

but everyone around here believes it’s time for an extreme makeover.
For one thing, mind-mapping

and eye-maps tell us that the logo-man ought to be chucking the Skyaak up to the upper left-hand side [...]

Google ‘Maker’ Christmas Art take 3

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Here’s today’s Google ‘Maker’ art. Looks like things are heating up, you can see that they are getting some steam happening. Whatever it is they are making, it appears to be working!
Speaking of ‘making’, you can make your own Skyaak DIY deuce…the cool ring-wing glider that you can download, laminate, custom-decorate, cut out, build and [...]

Skyaak Skinny

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

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Why in the world would a grown man get up every morning with a spring in his step, all excited to carry on with the continuous evolution of an offbeat, odd-ball, esoteric idea like a ‘ring-wing’ glider?
That is a question I asked myself today as I went about my day…

I think back about 30-odd years [...]

Skyaak hits flickr

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Having fun working with flickr, just starting there really. Out of the thousands of pictures I have in the wings about 40 or so have been posted so far.
I will be fleshing it out soon.
Then I will come back and edit this post to just say there’s tons there now.

Skyaak ‘betcha can’t make just one!’ Contest

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

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Skyaak DIY deuce
‘betcha can’t make just one’
OK. It’s official. You read it here.
To make your Skyaak DIY deuce experience even more fun, we’re announcing a contest with prize awards of *FREE* Skyaak Model 3 units to best videos of your DIY deuce in 3 categories:
1) Most creative customizing
2) Best finesse throw with best glide
3) [...]