Towards the end they made the rookie mistake of trying to control it from the leading edge and made a wing. The boss's wife did that with a 7' letter banner and my wife had the other end. Now they had a 50' long 7' wide wing between them, held across the wind. It started dragging boss's wife, then she got tangled in the lead rope and now it was dragging her by the leg through the wet grass and goose poop.
No, she did not want to go to Thai food when we were done that night
The boss and I were all dry and warm in the airplanes, but the ground crew? Not so much.