On Feb 10, 3:43 pm, Stefan wrote:
schrieb:

Lets just remember the victims name here firstly.

Neil Lawson.

Which means he was not some unwary spectator, but he had seen many
contests before and he was fully aware of how pilots fly final glides at
such contests. Heck, it was a race, yet he deliberately chose to climb
onto a car roof inmidst the final glide path and expose himself to the
risk, because he wanted to produce spectacular pictures. Or how do you
think he made e.g. the following pictures?

http://whiteplanes.com/gliders/glide.../gliders49.htm

Neil used large lenses to pull the action into the camera.
We used to talk a lot about lens choices and photography techniques.

What do you notice about the above 3 pics.

They all had their wings level!!



If you read the report, you'll learn that those spectators had to jump
from the car roofs before because some gliders came in low. And what did
they do? They climbed onto the roofs again!

That is their own judgement or lack of it the red van roof was
clearly above any bushes that might have forced a glider higher.

The fact is if the glider that hit Neil hadn't banked he would have
been forced higher by the bushes on either side of Neils car.



It's always sad when somebody gets killed, famous or not. My thoughts
are with the pilot who will have to live with the fact that he has
killed somebody.


That is something to be considered but you know what I rather enjoyed
chatting with Neil.