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Monday, December 29, 2014

Paraglider Flight Test Goes Deadly

The short article at the link below doesn't offer make or model of the craft, but it indicates that an experienced pilot was testing a new paraglider wing configuration.  The "locked in" comment in the article below may be correct or incorrect, but regardless of how this happened, it should serve as a reminder that the reason we "test" things is because we don't know for sure whether this new thing will work or not.  We have GOT to assume that it will NOT and have a plan in case it doesn't!

http://www.pe.com/articles/jacinto-752919-san-crash.html

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