Friday, August 20, 2010


  Most tamdem loops in one jump  - Pal Takats and Gabor Kezi sets world record

 Lake of Walen, Switzerland -- Hungarians Pál Takats , 24, and his partner Gábor Kézi , 28, performed 45 consecutive authentic loops with a paraglider on their daring descent over the Walensee lake in Switzerland - setting the new world record for the Most tamdem loops in one jump .

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   Pal and Andi Gabo, 28, are the first tandem pilots to manage so many loop the loops in one paraglide.

   Pal added: "We didn't plan to do so many. We were just in rhythm and carried on doing the loops." The pilots landed safely on the ground dizzy, but otherwise unharmed.

    The adventure started high in the mountains in approx. 1800 m of altidude, where the fields where green and the surrounding amazing.

    After take off they were able to do 45 real loopings in a row, flighing straight of the parachute. With that first premier, the test pilots from U-Turn showed, what Aerodynamics never expected, real loopings with parachutes are possible, not only with hard wings.

   „Of course, the borders of physics are set, but where excatly we still have to find out," says Ernst Strobl, Chef-Developer of U-turn.

    With a modified Acro-Parachute, Takats, one of the world bests acro-pilots, already did various loopings, called Infinity Tumblings. Now, also in the double - with Gabor Kezi.

   It was really tough. „Due to longer lines, the way to pass for both pilots was even longer each looping." Takats explanis. For us it was about 6 G. For the parachute it was even more, up to 12 G, which is a real challange for the material.

   Deep blue lake, bright blue sky, deep blue lake, bright blue sky – the top pilots speedily performed the dizzying acrobatic manoeuvre.

    To be more precise: 45 times deep blue and 46 times bright blue, and as a consequence the ultimate answer was given that also aerodynamics experts might be wrong.

    On account of the reduction in the lift coefficient and the pressure relief of the profile of a paraglider, up to this date it was supposed that authentic loops are only possible with rigid wings.

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