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Wills Wing Crew Member - Matt Barker

Jan 11

Written by: Jeff O'Brien
1/11/2010 6:32 AM 

Matt Barker is a Wills Wing Crew member to watch. Here's a bio on Matt:

I learned at Kitty Hawk summer of 2000. Worked there off and on Summers of ’01 and ’02 and man what a blast that was! After that I helped start Ground Industries with 2 friends. We make mountain boards and just this year are making longboards too. Check us out at GROUND INDUSTRIES And my blog is FLYINBARKER.COM



Matt happy?:) about his new U2. (Photos Courtesy of Matt Barker)

As far as memorable flights…Early November 2002 up at Woodstock in N. Virginia was a good one. I launched and turned N to fly 9.5 miles to the end of the ridge and then back. At that point that was the farthest I had ever flown away from a primary LZ so I was stoked with that. Little did I know what I was about to get into! As I got back to launch I was 1500’ over. I noticed an area on the ridge that was collecting thermals and I stayed there and got up to 3000’ over launch. This was without a vario but I did have the altimeter on my watch. I was new to thermaling so to gain another 1500’ was killer. Again, I was stoked.

At this point the air got really smooth and the wind picked up considerably. Lift was everywhere and I eventually figured out that I was in a wave. I surfed the wave with everybody else that got up in the lower thermals for the next hour and got to about 10,000’. I was over 9K above the LZ, flying with the bar at my hips and couldn’t tell from that height which field was the LZ…I loved it! It took almost an hour to finally get down. We were all amazed at the flights we had and spent the rest of the night re-living the day! Amazing day for the East Coast!



Now I’m really excited to be getting into comps. I picked up a brand new U2 160 this past August and I went to team Challenge in October and had a great there. I will be at the Rob Kells meet this April and flying my U2 in the sport class. I’m looking forward to learning a lot, flying, and meeting new peeps! I can’t wait.

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