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Mercury
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Planet, Greek mythological god, chemical, name given to things, etc. Explore the hang gliding connections with "mercury" in this topic thread.

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Icarus flew close to the sun. Ouch. Planet Mercury in our solar system is planet closest to the sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)

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Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. named his hang glider Icarus I, II, III, V. Icarus 1 is in crashed pieces (in-air break by someone who is now writing this note) in the back room at the Smithsonian. U.S. Hawks still wrapped Taras at the recent sponsored Otto Meet at Dockweiler.

Well, Bob Lovejoy (R.I.P.) named his very successful hang glider "Quicksilver" which word is a common-language name for the element mercury.



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(mythology)
Messenger to the gods!

See that he may be a micro hang glider practitioner as well as a swift hang glider guy. Fitting: get the message out to the universe that hang gliding is super.

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And behold, chemists in the world have chosen to symbolized the sparkly metal mercury element with the equivalent abbreviation for hang glider: Hg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)

==== person who hang glided to his end ========================== Village Voice November 8,1976, by Doug Garr, article mentions "Mercury" --apparent name of a pilot---in an article that may not have put HG in very good light:
HERE, if you dare to read. :::: In the article "Mercury" met his Maker via hang gliding. Dr. Jack Haberstroh, a San Diego State professor, was mentioned in the article (he is a story unto himself; perhaps a topic in history section of our forum could feature him).

The story: http://users.resist.ca/~kirstena/pagesourcefamily.html

Mercury's "father": https://vimeo.com/58953915

Get the Movie: http://www.thesourcedoc.com/#store

The "music": http://www.yahowha13.com/index.php

A wiki at Wikipedia has James Baker himself as the guy that died from the Hawaii crash. But the Village Voice article wrote that TWO members of The Source family crashed and died in hang gliders in Hawaii, one named "Mercury". James Baker "Fr. Yod" had three children.

wiki as of Nov. 21, 2015, to be verified wrote:On December 26, 1974, the Source Family sold their restaurant and moved to Hawaii. On August 25, 1975, despite having no previous hang-gliding experience, YaHoWha used a hang glider to leap off a 1,300-foot (400 m) cliff on the eastern shore of Oahu.[5] He successfully crash-landed on the beach and died nine hours later.[5] After three days of vigil, YaHoWha was cremated and his ashes put to rest at Lanikai Beach in Hawaii.[citation needed]

So far, the only other related place that I find "Mercury" related to James Baker "Fr. Yod" is:

http://accelerateddecrepitude.blogspot.com/2012/05/my-2012-maryland-film-film-journal.html wrote:My girlfriend Amy commented later that she was most impressed by the long-lasting relationship between two fellow family members, Electra and Orbit. Though at one point Electra was bequeathed to another lover (Mercury?) on Father Yod's orders, she went back to and remains to this day with her lover Orbit. (Amy's a romantic at heart!) Jodi Wille later added that another Source couple, Electricity and Harvest, have now been together for 30 years.

Sourcing to Rick's "son of" statement:

Read more at the link: HERE Read where the son Mercury pushed dad out on dad's first Hg flight... and last. A year after dad passed, Mercury at age 22 did a late night flight and crashed the Hg and died. See details in the book. Apparently another member of the cult was a Hg pilot named "Jupiter."

From another http://tinyurl.com/MercuryNEWonHG newspaper source, it seems that Mercury had these names: Douglas Geiger, Mercury Aquarian, "Merc", and clip: