Larry Tudor – CLOUDBASE MAYHEM

Episodes

1. 234

   #234 A lifetime in the clouds with Chuck Smith

   Free flight tends to attract some rather big personalities to its crutches. And among its most interesting and passionate devotees is American pilot and pioneer Chuck Smith. Chuck learned back east on the dunes in the US with his brother in the late 80's under the tutelage of climbing legend John...

   Nov 29, 2024

   1h 57m
2. 218

   #218 John Heiney and 45 years of Hang Gliding

   John Heiney started hang gliding in 1978 and he's still going strong today. His photographs of free flight have been on more than 50 magazine covers. He broke the Guinness World Record for looping in 1988. And then he broke his own record again ten years later! He was crowned the world aerobatics...

   Apr 19, 2024

   1h 22m
3. 164

   Episode 164- Veso Ovcharov and the Power of Desire

   Ovcharov hails from Sofia, Bulgaria who's background is in acro but he's about as all-purpose as you can get in the realm of free flight. He's passionate about wing suit base jumping; he just competed in the UAE Hike and Fly Championships in Dubai; he won the overall XContest this year chasing…

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   Feb 3, 2022

   1h 08m
4. 145

   Episode 145- Standing on the shoulders of giants with Mitchell McAleer

   Mitchell McAleer properly crashed a hang glider on literally his first flight in the early 70’s. But he shook it off and was in the right place at the right time and had the right mentors and right attitude and eventually became the winningest aerobatics pilot in history. Southern California was...

   May 21, 2021

   2h 30m
5. 122

   Episode 122- Storytime with James “Kiwi” Oroc

   James "Kiwi" Oroc is a journalist, photographer, artist and pilot born in the small South Pacific nation of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Since 1998 he has been pursuing and reporting on the cutting edge of extreme sports in more than 40 countries around the globe and has written three books- the...

   Jul 5, 2020

   1h 29m
6. 116

   Episode 116- Chasing Hang Gliding for 47 years with Charlie Baughman

   Charlie Baughman has been flying hang gliders since 1973. That's 47 years...and he's still going strong. In 2011 at the age of 64 Charlie broke the Oregon state record (which still holds) when he flew 218 miles into Idaho, and then did a very styly self retrieve. We have it on good authority that...

   Apr 9, 2020

   1h 02m
7. 80

   Episode 80 – The History and Future of Hang Gliding

   Hang gliding is arguably the first "extreme sport" in human history and it literally changed the world. Drawing inspiration from Leonardo Davinci, Otto Lillienthal built the first foot-launched hang gliders in the late 1800's. His wings inspired Octave Chanute and his assistants to make thousands...

   Nov 29, 2018

   1h 43m
8. 56

   Episode 56- Miguel Gutierrez and a century of flight

   For all of us who make the yearly winter migration to Valle...

   Dec 15, 2017

   1h 33m
9. 54

   Episode 54- Dustin Martin and finding the magic

   In this wide-ranging and laugh-out-loud episode Dustin Martin takes us through some close calls with tornados (plural!); how to assess a gust front; a brief history of hang gliders; the importance of mentors; how to find good lines; avoiding sink; working light lift; reducing drag; advice for new...

   Nov 14, 2017

   2h 04m
10. 29

    Episode 29- Larry Tudor from Scary Origins to Radical Records

    Larry Tudor was known as the "Dark Prince" back in the day. We roll the clock way back to 1973 when Larry learned how to fly his first hanglider in the seated position (yep, pre-prone days) on a wing that got a worse glide ratio than today's smallest speed wings. The stories in this episode are...

    Nov 27, 2016

    1h 34m