Larry Tudor's guest appearances

Larry Tudor

Cloudbase Mayhem Podcast

Caroline Paul

Jeff Shapiro

Ben Abruzzo

Russ Ogden

Chris Gursky

Chrigel Maurer

Fabien Blanco

Myles Connolly

Paul Guschlbauer

Nick Greece

Jocky Sanderson

Dominic Rohner

Matt Wilkes

Mitch Riley

Tom Payne

OwlTail

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 going to make your head spin. Remember when hangies flew the Owens every day in the summer? Guys tumbling out of the sky and not using reserves? Flying without instruments? Larry was the first person to fly over 200 miles (in 1983!) and was the first person to fly over 300 miles. His 308 mile record from Hobbs, New Mexico in 1994 wasn't beaten for a decade. In the mid 80's Larry was widely regarded as one of the best hang gliders in the world and this conversation covers a lot of awesome ground. Scary close calls, whorehouses, guns, cowboys, flying in tornados, trouble with the police, flying with air force bombers and early towing nightmares- this podcast is a glimpse into a crazy world of the pioneers who laid the ground in free flight.

Episode 29- Larry Tudor from Scary Origins to Radical Records