Aero Linx: Hawaii Paragliding Association The Hawaii Paragliding Association (HPA) is a nonprofit association of paraglider pilots, formed to promote and support paragliding activities in Hawaii. We are a chapter of the United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (USHPA). The USHPA is designated by the FAA to administer all hang gliding and paragliding activities under Part 103 of the Federal Aviation Regulations concerning ultralight aircraft.

Navigation Reference System (NRS) The NRS is a system of waypoints developed for use within the United States for flight planning and navigation without reference to ground based navigational aids. The NRS waypoints are located in a grid pattern along defined latitude and longitude lines. The initial use of the NRS will be in the high altitude environment in conjunction with the High Altitude Redesign initiative. The NRS waypoints are intended for use by aircraft capable of point-to-point navigation.

"By observing this planet with Spitzer and Kepler for more than three years, we were able to produce a very low-resolution 'map' of this giant, gaseous planet. We wouldn't expect to see oceans or continents on this type of world, but we detected a clear, reflective signature that we interpreted as clouds." Source: Brice-Olivier Demory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge -- the lead author of a paper accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b.