A Fantastic Hang Gliding Novel – Magic Wings – Flying Story

Magic Wings is a wonderful insight into the world of hang gliding. It offers a new insight into the process of learning to fly, from the first steps up the training hill to harrowing flights suspended thousands of feet in the sky. And there is nothing more than your perseverance, ingenuity, guts, a polyester sail and a rope to hold you. Follow the author through outrageously beautiful landscapes, tedious launches from cliffs, hours waiting on takeoff until the wind blows right, and just plain funny story. In 154 easy-to-read pages, author Alden Moffatt takes you on an adventure through a largely unknown world, beginning just above ground. He even describes his experience of flying to a new, never-before-tested launch site and the stresses and uncertainties that come with it.

In this novel, Moffatt is not writing about catastrophes and disasters as seems to be the norm for people talking about these flying machines; instead, he expresses the greatness of living life to the fullest, taking risks while you do it, and remembering times when you wish you had done things differently. He talks about action and adventure, scandal and gossip, and everything else that goes with the experience. And Moffatt not only talks about hang gliding, but also about the community of people, the philosophy of life, and the funny, even hilarious, stories that go along with it.

The entire story is fun and easy to read, and the pages really do fly by like the rails of a giant roller coaster. The print edition is 154 pages.