Acro World

Sunday morning at 5 am. Antoine's girlfriend called attention on Facebook that he is missing since saturday afternoon after he went for a BASE jump in the area of Collet d’Anterne in Haute Savoie, France. Just a few hours later many people such as friends, mountain guides, paragliders, base jumpers got together for the search of Antoine. In the afternoon the terrible news hit the scene, that they found him dead in the mountains. :-(

The Wing Load Research presents: Infinity with 24 m2!

Dell Shanze (alias “SuperDell”) performed probably one of the coolest Speed-Wing launches ever but got arrested the next day. He was using a 14m2 Speedmaster from U-Turn, the wind was smooth laminar around 16 km/h.
Catched him on the phone a bit to chat about what actually happened:

Sorry guys, but due to a crack in my chest bone (caused by a brutal hard parachute opening while sky-diving 2 weeks ago) I had to stop flying for a while and with this Wing Load Research is also on pause right now...
I'll be able to continue the experimentations in June...Thanks for your understanding!
Pal

The first test flight of the Wing Load Research is successful done! Well, this was actually my second flight with the glider because I had to abort the first one when my helmet flew off (my mistake) and got entangled in the lines during the very first Rythmic SAT.

With my take-off weight of 93 kg the 12.5m2 has a trim speed of around 50 km/h under extremely high wing loading of 7,4 kg/m2!
The glider is super fast with extremely short and sensible brakes and violent reactions to any body movement. It works well dynamic moves, Rythmic SAT and Infinity but very difficult for the rest of the maneuvers, especially stalls and helicos. The G-Forces I measured during Infinity had maximum peaks of 7G which is actually the same what I am used to with 17m2.