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Ballooning challenges invite Safe-Splat mitigation.

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Filler fall: Splats with null-wings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9QrKzLVujs&feature=related

http://vimeo.com/27312284 
The password is 
red

lowercase, avoid spacebar

No wheels. No skis.

Hang Glider Landings (good and bad)


Hang gliding Landings Compilation Part 1


Hang gliding Landings Compilation Part 2


Hang gliding Landings Compilation Part 3


Hang gliding Landings Compilation Part 4 


Hang gliding Landings Compilation Part 5


Hang gliding Landings Compilation Part 6


Hang gliding Landings Compilation Part 7


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SSSASS Safe-splat-shock-absorbing ski set
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Face planting
Last 30 seconds: 
MOOOOve please girls !! (crash)


[[ Safe-Splat Shock-Absorbing Ski Set SSSASS ? ]]

Face shield, goggles, mouth guard integrated in helmet, ...
yet the mass of such still swings with the head mass, as the neck cavity is not filled by toroid brace.
Snap-back of carabiner ?

Severe incident is being investigated. Lumby 

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Noting a flash: 
Unbaked: 
Trigger a full-body airbag (harness integrated), 
but with a deflation system for use when wanted. 
Or: Pilot-powered full-body airbag inflation with also deflation choice. 
Coming in for a challenging landing and wanting full-body airbagging?

[ ] See BobK's "Safe-Spratt" share.  (historical section in our forum)

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Safe-splat devices were often used to protect a frontal propeller from touching the ground. 
Also, some early "lake flying" had a frontal float to keep the pitch-in from occurring. 

 Image from 1913 edition of Jane's All the World Aircraft.

1898 Polish. Czeslaw Tanski ???
I can feel his spirit.

And