Wow!
Chris
> On 18 Dec 2014, at 20:53, Mike Lazzari <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Trees can be your friend. My father kept his certification UTD after the war
> and as a kid we'd rent a plane every once in a while. We flew out of a couple
> of the little local grass strips. A couple of friends flew 'owner built'. But
> that's another story. One friend was learning to fly and had just soloed.
> This particular strip was short and surrounded by trees. Natural reaction was
> to grab altitude as those trees come up fast. Well, one day he stalled and
> went into the trees right. The trees saved his life as they cushioned the
> fall. He ended up about 20' in a tree upside down. You could see the spiral
> gashes in the bark as he came down. He came out shaken by
> scratch-free...until he undid his seatbelt and fell the last 20 feet!
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