Nov 4, 2012, 10:31 AM
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Just wondering who and or why they hit Kevin Harvicks car with the flag weight? He isn't my favorite driver, but those cars cost about $300,000. Does the USPA pay for this?
Nov 4, 2012, 10:43 AM
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Looks like USPA should require someone to requalify for their pro rating. Explain why they did a carving swoop over the crowd line to land crosswind? I thought being over the crowd line was specifically prohibited by the FAA.
Nov 4, 2012, 11:49 AM
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It looked like he profoundly missed his target! Can't say I've ever seen or done any race track demos at the larger tracks that would have the jumper land that close to the cars, spectators or equipment. There was plenty of room in the grass in the front stretch and Start/Finish line.
Weight on the leading edge lowers the chance of that happening and definitely reduces the damage if it does...but that would have been a tough one either way.
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HUGE grass landing area (pause the youtube video at 9 seconds) with obstacles and people on the one side he chose to fly over.
He'd have been fine if he made a sedate final approach into the wind down the middle of the grass instead of approaching over the crowd and making a low turn to a cross-wind landing.
Of course doing that wouldn't have looked as good on video as if he successfully pulled off this landing (standing up without damaging the car).
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Nov 4, 2012, 7:22 PM
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I would bet that RCR will be testing out the Demo insurance that Tom hopefully had for this demo gone wrong. The race car he damaged cost more that the plane he jumped out of. Unfriging believable.
Nov 4, 2012, 8:34 PM
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Sandy that looks like organizer Tom Schroeder and makes sense since his home DZ is or at least was Skydive Dallas, hate to say it since I know Tom, but looks like a very bad choice.
Nov 6, 2012, 7:33 PM
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Just wondering who and or why they hit Kevin Harvicks car with the flag weight?
It's a case of non-terminal Kodak Courage.
Jumpers do stupid things trying to look good in front of cameras and/or crowds.
What crowd? The stands looked mostly empty. But yeah, posing with the damage he did with a shit-eating grin "yeah i did that, wahoo!" was just asinine.
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