wings came off

On Sep 20, 3:46*pm, Mike the Strike wrote:
On Sep 20, 3:11*pm, Berry wrote:

In article ,

*"hinterland" wrote:
http://www.ledauphine.com/isere-sud/...are-un-planeur....
que-en-plein-vol

What sort of glider was that? Wings looked sort of like an Lo-100, but
the fuselage looked like a pod-and-boom affair. One of the wings
appeared to chop off the tailboom as the fuselage was tumbling.

Good thing it was equipped with a ballistic chute. I think it might have
been hard to get out of with it tumbling like that and not too high
either.

Since Coupe Icare is primarily a hang-glider/paraglider event, I think
it is safe to assume that this was an ultralight, possibly foot-
launched aircraft.

No doubt we will be further enlightened by our European colleagues in
due course.

Mike

Mike

Indeed it was an Archaeopteryx - the schedule had two of them flying
there. Good photos and video on their website:

http://www.ruppert-composite.ch/english/index.html

Hope that their naming it after an extinct Jurassic flying dinosaur
didn't jinx it!

Mike