Kite Strings

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9945 Launched unhooked George Stebbins - 2007/10/26 16:05:20 UTC The weak link is NOT there to prevent the glider from being overstressed on tow. OK, it serves that function too, but its main purpose is to release if you get too far off-line or some other is...

To George Stebbins 2011/02/03 23:15:33 UTC another one bites the dust 2010/09/16 I'll get back to this later, most likely, but it might be a while. It's been a while - and one more guy has been snuffed in a stupid shoddy towing operation using stupid shoddy aerotow equipment. If you go to: http://ww...

News flash! It took the Davis Cult less than two and a half weeks after Shane was killed to start considering that you maybe could put BOTH releases AND weak links on BOTH ends of the bridle without risking having your balls fall off spontaneously. Only fourteen years - to the month - after my lette...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22660 What can be learned from this "scooter" towing accident? Jim Rooney - 2011/01/30 09:09:45 UTC A bit of an eye opening experience that I don't suggest you try... this is something taught under very controlled conditions... is "lockout tra...

Tad, if you put every post related to releases in this one topic... It's always hard to keep these discussions organized. Releases, weak links, lockouts, stalls, fatalities, even suspension... Overlaps, gray areas, blurring, tangents... Yeah, I knew from the start that things were gonna get somewha...

I'm just worried about the loops failing (after many tows), not the entire harness. - Those loops are: -- OBSCENELY overbuilt -- stitched in to the extent that you'd rip out chunks of your harness before the stitching failed - Look at your weak link and: -- look at ONE of those loops. Which one do ...

Hey Larry, VERY happy to have you on board. I'm a pessimist... Goddam right you are. Hang gliding sucks 'cause 99 percent of its participants are optimists. This forum exists exclusively for rabid pessimists who won't take a one in a million gamble if there's absolutely no reason to do so. Robin Str...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=14230 pro tow set-up Bill Reynolds - 2009/11/02 18:44:46 UTC Florida Hey forum, Is the two barrel release set-up overkill? I need to buy a tow set-up, so I ask myself this question. Why not have just one barrel release off my right shoulder, with the tow br...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22660 What can be learned from this "scooter" towing accident? Gerry Grossnegger - 2011/01/30 04:40:49 UTC I've done it (single-point bridle under the bar) from a dolly with a big stationary winch, but I wouldn't recommend it. You've really got to ...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22660 What can be learned from this "scooter" towing accident? Jeff Johnson - 2011/01/29 17:05:47 UTC Was out there yesterday seen the setup spoke to an eyewitness. Yes, Weak link (205? leach line loop)at the end of the tow line instead of a carabi...