On August 25th, Tom Henry made his first successful flight of his rebuilt Paracender Powered Parachute. He flew for about 20 minutes before sunset over a field south of Omaha. This was actually Tom’s 2nd flight with his PPC. The first resulted in a forced landing due to an inefficient older wing (parachute). He installed a much newer wing that is alot more advanced aerodynamically and structurally. His parachute is powered by a Rotax 447 two stroke cycle engine rated at 38hp. Cruise, climb, descent are all around 25 to 30 mph. On Saturday, he got up to 700 AGL. “I had a blastâ€, Tom said. “I’ve never seen anything as easy and relaxing to fly as a PPC. I had all kinds of time to play with my watch/altimeter, look around and monitor my engineâ€.
 
Tom Henry on the original flight on April 28th, 2007 which resulted in a forced landing.
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