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Glider farewells Australia's famed Morning Glory with one final surf of the rolling clouds

James Cooper will never forget the day he got his wings.

"There's a photo my wife took, and I'm riding toward her on a bike with a huge smile stretching across my entire face after one of my first flights."

That was in 1980, when the Perth resident travelled to the Gulf of Carpentaria to witness the world-renowned Morning Glory phenomenon.

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