Paraglider tandem acro test flight gone bad - spectacular incident

Follow Pal: The 3rd ever aerobatics tandem test flight with the first U-Turn ’Twin Force’ prototype gone terribly bad when all ’A’, ’B’ and ’C’ upper gallery lines snapped under 6 G load of the Infinite Tumbling maneuver. The canopy itself however remained perfectly undamaged. At the end of the video U-Turn’s designer Ernst Strobl tells facts and figures how he already reinforced this very first prototype to stand the load of 10G (!) but despite the large safety margin this i
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