You can see after launch he let up on the brakes as he was exiting a thermal, his glider accelerated forward in front of him casing a frontal collapse. Gliders are designed to collapse at a frontal surge point to prevent the glider going under the person and the person falling into the glider. Nice glider!
My guess is they are attempting to take off on the leeside of the mountain and air is rotoring down as it comes over the top of the hill ? Very lucky though.
nice one! You can see now what happened. Looks like he hit a sharp thermal. Good piece of footage. Amazing recovery of the wing.
You can see after launch he let up on the brakes as he was exiting a thermal, his glider accelerated forward in front of him casing a frontal collapse. Gliders are designed to collapse at a frontal surge point to prevent the glider going under the person and the person falling into the glider. Nice glider!
Nice handling!
He is one lucky guy....
My guess is they are attempting to take off on the leeside of the mountain and air is rotoring down as it comes over the top of the hill ? Very lucky though.
Was going to do this before... now I dont know!
That could have turned out much worse than it did.
geeeez!