Not to be a downer, but when I was in Kitty Hawk getting my cert with PASA, one of our days was spent learning how to hang glide. Anyway, they told us a story about one of their instructors trying a world record attempt for most rotations on a a glider. I am sure it was something similar to what we just witnessed on the video.
Soooooo, it turns out things when wrong, the glider failed and the pilot free fell to the ground crushing about every bone in his body. Somehow he survived.
It was amazing to see that canopy hold a shape like that.
The vimeo vid is AWESOME!!! Thanks for throwing that up. It shit I see like that on the forum that keeps me coming back!!!
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