Outlanding stories
Dutch junior championships, thunderstorm between course and field.
Within 20 minutes everyone landed out. So did I. I found a nice field,
close to a huge road. Anyway, final, touchdown, all went fine. At about
60 km/h, my wheel collapsed and I came to a stop... at least that was
what I thougt. Getting out of the glider resulted in sinking about 15
centimeters (7 inch) in the mud; probaly the result of the
thunderstorm. Also my wheel wasn`t collapsed , but just completely into
the mud.
Walking to the road I saw a huge ditch, covered with duck-weed. The
only way out was the other direction, about 200 meters of f**** mud.
After finding the farmer it took about half an hour to convince the
farmer that his 4X4 was able to tow the glider out of the field and
wouldn`t get stuck in it. Towing worked fine but the last 50 meters of
the field were just too muddy. So we decided to bear all the parts
apart. About 3 hours after arrival of my crew we were on oure way home,
the glider and myself being brown instead of white...
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