BARF club takes to the sky at BRC

The Bay Area Recreational Flyers, a group of powered parachute pilots, met at the Brackenridge Campsite for a meeting this past weekend. Meeting every third Saturday of the month, they met at Brackenridge because of the open spaces. About 26 members are in the club, and are located in different areas in and around Texas.
    Lowell Henderson, a veterinarian and president of the club, said powered parachutes work better in a squarefield rather than an airstrip.
    “You have to face into the wind so we need to have a large enough area, a square area, to turn around the plane so the parachute will come up with the wind,” Henderson said. “You need about 200 feet of distance to take off, and grass is perfect. Low and slow is what we do,” he smiled.