It turns out that Nick was very persistent and actually (according
to his story) tried to go into the dust devil five times, getting spit out four
times, and only on fifth time was he flipped over when the nose went up at 3,000
fpm. He managed to hold on to the base tube but let go when he was hanging off
the trailing edge and needed to throw his chute.


The opening shock of the chute apparently broke his down tube at a foot down
from the apex. He bent one batten when he hit the ground. And that was it. The
next day he flew the WW T2 120 miles.