Funny story.
Nice Air. I'm sure Joe was circling the chute? Surprised he didn't try to
retrieve the chute via mid air snag.
Steven Meyer
SOAR
LSF IV
At 04:08 PM 7/1/2005, José Roberto Clark Reis wrote:
Hi guys....
this is quite of a funny story:
In april this year, there was the Intergliders 2005 in the city of ITU here
in Brazil.
A friend of ours had just baught a kevlar reinforced F3J/F3B chute, all
fency and stuff....
On the maiden flight, Joe Wurts asked me to tow his icon (thats usually when
a 6'6", 300 pounds Deffensive Tackle come in handy) on the usual pulley
system.... on the end of the line, there it was, the brand new parachute and
Joe holding his Icon.
Prior to zooming, the cambered the whole wing (he wanted to drag me down de
field.... .hehehe keep trying Joe....) and the line simply broke.....
Well, this is pretty much normal right? Not if you have a parachute that
knows how to circle a thermal..... Instead of coming down to be recovered,
the chute kept going on and on and on it went untill we lost sight of
it..... and honestly, it was going UP and it was not an optical
ilusion.......
Sorry about the off topic, but I couldnt resist..... if someone has Joe
Wurts'es new e-mail, could one forward this one to him?? He will remenber
this comic scene for sure......
Regards
Clark
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