Kite Strings

Tina Jorgensen
"You might have been locked out a little bit."

Locked out a little bit? The glider was very nearly upside-down. Clearly the weak-link saved this pilot's arse.

I replace mine whenever they break.

2500 KG. Failed at 600KG max during testing a new crimp tool!!

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All that foot stomping certainly takes its toll!

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Quote Peter Hitchens (English journalist and author).

"As any scientist knows, no scientific question can be decided by majority."

Very apt!

Squeezing the front wires together is also a quick and easy test. This is something I've done since the days of bulldog clamps. A friend watched me do this last year and made it part of his preflight. Just in time it would seem as his rear wire failed at the keel while still on the ground instead of...

"Go back to 1970 and drop a piano on Dennis."

If you go back a bit further and drop a piano on Dennis you would have
a flat minor.

(Couldn't resist.)

A perfect example of how to change the context from what was intended... "Continued head banging Tad but some more progress, I'll update you soon." When I read the above again I can see it is lazy bollocks. "Head banging Tad" is of course very appropriate but an English version o...

Sure is nice to know that you're alive, Mike! I hope that you are doing well. Cheers. Yes alive and kicking. All healed up and with an enhanced respect of being downwind of anything taller than 12". Making myself a couple of harnesses, a cocoon (thanks for the photos Jonathan) and trying somet...

Tad Eareckson wrote:... And sometimes I'll get a passage with a glaring mistake in it that I'll scrutinize until I'm half blind and can't find anything 'cause I'm still seeing what I meant to say.

Anem to that!