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The wind tunnel

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This rather forbidding looking contraption, tucked away on a grim industrial
estate with Yarls Wood detention centre.....is the wind tunnel where we flew
for the first time yesterday. It's an amazing experience and one I sadly
couldn't document. You can't so much as wear a wedding ring for fear of it
flying off, being recirculated by the giant turbine and coming back to have
your eye out, so no chance of going in with a camera.

However, the DVD
proves that I did indeed fly and, in my case, somewhat in the fashion of a
demented sparrow, forever sailing off higher than I should then dropping
back down to headbutt the windows. An amazing experience though, I highly
recommend, even if from the outside it looks and sounds like a low budget
sci-fi set.

Bodyflight

13th Jul 2008, 18:53 | tags:bodyflight

,it's not a dalek

,wind tunnel

Jane Doe says:

Was this a long-held ambition, or a spur of the moment thing?

13th Jul 2008, 19:54

OJ says:

Neither really. It was a gift to V, who has a long held ambition to jump out of a real plane.

13th Jul 2008, 21:03

factotum says:

I have NO ambitions to jump out of a real plane, but that looks like fun!

13th Jul 2008, 21:08

OJ says:

Likewise factotum, but it was incredibly fun. And I'm notoriously not good at enjoying things I'm no good at (see "demented sparrow" above).

Also, you got to see a bunch of skydivers who really did know what they were doing practicing. And they were amazing. Especially the Norwegian Ladies....

14th Jul 2008, 00:13

FilbertFox says:

wanna play!

15th Jul 2008, 08:49

Spiderbaby says:

Oh wow! That looks fantastic! I want to be a demented sparrow :)

20th Jul 2008, 18:01

OJ says:

It was fun, I've got to say. Watched the DVD again last night and the demented sparrow bits were amusing. As were the bits where I got overexcited, forgot myself and appeared to be trying to swim...

20th Jul 2008, 22:07