At 19:09 21 May 2008, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On May 20, 12:14 pm, JJ Sinclair wrote:
On May 20, 7:41 am, Andreas Maurer wrote:

Darryl,

The ship was a Ventus A and the bail out occured while flying out of
Uvalde.
The glider received very little damage. Apparently the gear was down and
the gear "cage" took most of the impact. I owned it for a while but it
has
been passed on to someone else. It has not flown since the accident.

Ron Tabery had a similar problem in NZ flying his N3. He landed OK but
with very marginal elevator control. A good item to put on a checklist.

Rick Walters


Hi JJ

Is it true that the ship later floated back, falling leaf style, by
itself to earth with some significant damage but was later repaired?

Darryl