Monday, September 03, 2007

I simply cannot understand this Website? Canyonland Flyers LLC


Ok, so I'm about to do my "website of the day" and I find a new trike website that has very professional graphics, a logical layout, detailed information, and all the elements of a "winner!"

So, as I'm browsing the site, looking for some form of contact info... ANY form of contact info... I find the STRANGEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN ONLINE! A complete and total OXYMORON. The site has the following on their "Contact" page (click below to enlarge):

"Currently we are not taking any requests from the web. Thank you."

In other words... thanks for visiting this really great website, with tons of great info on how we can help you to train, visit us, sightsee, give us your money, etc.... but "oh, by the way" PLEASE DON'T CONTACT US IN ANY WAY!

WTF?

Can someone please contact ME to explain what is going on here because this is so absurd that it is making my head hurt! Who is running Canyonland Flyers and "why" are they missing the boat in such an obvious way here?

Thank you for your patience... my rant is over now ;)

If you haven't seen this, you have not SEEN flying!


I always thought that trikes were pretty "maneuverable"... man how wrong I was! One night last week I fell asleep in front of the television. When I woke up, there was the craziest sh*t onscreen that I had ever seen!! These guys were flying a closed-course of gigantic inflatable cones with small overpowered aerobatic airplanes at speeds over 200mph! Unbelievable!!

You have GOT to check this video, it's called the "Red Bull Air Races" and they have "legs" held in different countries. This video is from Porto Gaia in Portugal.

Maybe I'm old fashioned? More Paper Airplane fun!

Could it be that I'm having flashbacks to my youth? Perhaps it's because I have two young sons? Either way, I'm hooked on all these really cool paper-airplane websites. Found another one today, this one shows you graphic animations rather than youtube video. Seriously well done, and some neat designs too! Spend a minute and harken back to the early days when you only dreamed about flying a trike and had to use your imagination, and a bit of folded paper, to take to the sky!

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