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Wonder Boy
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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:00 am Post subject: Re: Paraglider flies over highway, crashes into a moving tru |
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f19_1323004478
Has anybody seen this? |
Yes. 4 days ago
http://vimeo.com/32937390
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Wonder Boy
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Hope it it was an "air bag" harness......
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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Does anyone know how the truck is?
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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you can't fix stupid
might have outrun the truck in an actual aircraft
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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So much for clearing your turns when flying in traffic  |
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HangDog
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:15 am Post subject: |
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Avnav8r
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:31 am Post subject: |
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Hey,
What was the outcome for the paraglider pilot? Was he/she okay? I once saw a hang glider pilot fly into a parked car, headfirst. He just about took out the front quarterpanel on the Honda Civic and cracked his helmet down the middle. The pilot and glider were both okay and the car owner was sympathetic to the pilot. He even joked that he had a small dent in the quarterpanel that he wanted popped out and that with a little buffing, the car would be as good as new. I don't know who's insurance took care of the damage, though.
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Billyjoe
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:42 am Post subject: |
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John,
I was out at the Dry Canyon fly-in, way back when, and saw a HG pilot fly right into the front of a parked car...spectator's I think...and center-punch the windshield with the nose of the glider. The pilot ended up on the hood of the car with glider's nose in the car. I think the pilot was OK, but the car was a mess.
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Jason
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:47 am Post subject: |
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any word on if the guy was hurt?
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Billyjoe wrote: |
John,
I was out at the Dry Canyon fly-in, way back when, and saw a HG pilot fly right into the front of a parked car...spectator's I think...and center-punch the windshield with the nose of the glider. The pilot ended up on the hood of the car with glider's nose in the car. I think the pilot was OK, but the car was a mess.
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Campers,
Something similar happened in Golden, CO. The car owner was the HG club's self-appointed photographer, a retired gentleman named Art. When he was told about the incident, he did not want to hear who was responsible, just that the pilot was okay (the pilot was okay). Then he told his insurance company that his windshield was smashed by an Unidentified Flying Object (true enough, I guess). They laughed, but they paid. 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:20 am Post subject: |
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in the comments section some scallywag delivers the line/
'must have been a bug in his past life'
there is now splutered coffee all over my key board :<
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boarini2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Doesn't look like that crash had a good outcome for the paraglider. Looks like it could be anything between mild and fatal.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:00 am Post subject: |
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From the vimeo link above.
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I am very very sorry for scaring my friends there that day :-/ I was just unconscious about 10sec from impact, nothing more, thanx god.
All was my fault absolutely! I wanted to learn spiral landings, and i remembered that once someone told me to do it first over water, many times to practice exits from spiral 50m above lake, then to lover exits slowly in a lot of attempts, till i do it right. I would be happy if i did that :-/ No lake nearby, so i decided to practice a little different on our local hill. Here in video, that was the second attempt to make landing from a sharp turn(like in moment when exiting from spiral and bleeding out the energy). I wanted to do it without spiral, just from rotation that will be similar to spiral exiting. First time there was a little thermal activity so i flu more ahead from the hill and started turn a little higher, just enough to make a one and a half turn, and it was perfect landing. Then in second attempt, no hot air to lift me, so everything started closer to ground, little wind(just enough to drift me back few meters), and...no thinking about road traffic at all!!! I sow that i will hit that little slope near road pretty fast, so exited turn to "jump over" the road. And than come moment when i start thinking about traffic, but it is too late now  I don't know, i was an idiot with adrenalin in blood who thought that knows everything. Icaro syndrome call it...
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Wisdom begins with the recognition of stupidity. Real wisdom is
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| A split second difference and it looks like the para-glider would have been run over by the truck. So they can consider themselves lucky, I guess. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:06 am Post subject: Target fixation |
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| May have been a little target fixation at the end. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:35 am Post subject: |
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That video is almost as funny as the cat jump fail GIF.
want to figure out how to get that on a screen saver
Alternating cat I canz fly, and swoop thud
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:22 am Post subject: |
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Hey Igor,
Glad you are ok and lived to learn from your mistake.
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