The plan was easy... just as I wrote in the last PIREP, when we were busy with the Defender parachute drop training. Take the Defender, and bring it to Lectric Combo. Yet the insurance agent broke up in hysterical laughter, when I contacted him and told ab out the above, easy plan. So I had to uncover some intimate details I had knowledge off about the past few night club visits of that barking coyote, the insurance agent. That solved quite a few things quickly. Well, I would not go on that trip without a good insurance, you know. Or probably you don't. I have been the very first man driving a perfectly fine, classic, standard, unmodified, unflyable Defender at approx. 1200 ft above ground! Cpt. Brick made it possible, I made the guinee pig. In short... the party was incredibly cool. Ask Brick. he was the second one doing that thing. It blows your veins from joy. Driving up there is a thing of beauty. But let me speak in pictures... they are much more colorful than my words.

We started at Sixtus B, runway 09, Brick behind me, fiddling with the hook and cable, me in the Defender, packed in my survival kit: a stunning effective shock absorption suit, made from a cann. sat. variety grown on Hemp Heights. The fibers of this plant are a result of a clever natural selection and crossing, selected fertilizer treatment and undisclosable magic ceremonies around full moon, involving equally undisclosable magic potions made of other varieties of our botanic biodiversity pool. But I am diverting, don't I?

Ok, as I said... I sat there in the Defender, ready to brave the unknown, unlived. Brick and I kept close and very concentrated skype contact while he was smoothly pulling up until the cable was stiff. And up, up we go:



You may get a small impression what then followed by looking at this picture here:



It was around and through me in a instant... this crazy feeling of driving a Defender into the blue skies. A dream comes true. :-)

Don't you get goose skin from looking at this shot above? Imagine you there in the defender...

But don't get caught in fantasies... this was very hard work regardless the moments of pure joy. Brick was working like a horse up there in the 'copter. Each quick acceleration resulted in me swinging like crazy with my Defender. So heavily that Cpt. Brick was pulled forwards and back in his tin can. It was scary and hillarious at the same time. I first didn't know if this is just the side effect of my brand new shockabsorption suit... it has sometimes some fancy side effects... but it was real, all data of our systems were showing the proper function. So, it was nothing wrong, but just hard hard work for Brick.

And he did an excellent job...

Again... imagine yourself there in this Defender. Open the door and enjoy the fresh air... :-) Above: in the distance you can see the peaks of Lectric combo island.

Brick had a rather limited view of me hanging underneath, but we managed just fine to compensate for drift and drag, shaking and stirring and lotsa other fun. Then came the final approach...

There are no pictures of this attempt. The ground came closer so fast, with the cable still swinging hard that I had to employ the second HempHeights industry™ product revolution: the worlds most elastic security pull back system. Coming from of a cann. sat. var. arabica, this fiber is five times as stretchable as silikon tubes, and 9 times harder than Kevlar fibers. The plant was grown side to side with a rubber tree, and a mountain cristal collection. We applied refined and complex sequences of color light pulses from a maser, and made it possible to transfer the substance inherent physical abilities to another substance by modulating the light frequency by the... but I am diverting, methinks. Ok. In short, 0.744 seconds before impact I was pulled out of the side door of the defender, and retracted to the helicopter.