Kite Strings

When we're designing stuff to go on planes we're trying to keep things light and CLEAN - one of the many reasons I despise Wallaby, Quest, and Lookout releases. You're putting a bunch of crap into the airflow which needs to be available for three minutes, fulfills its function in an instant (if you'...

One more question...is the thimble required to use a Bridle Link... Forgive me for going ballistic here, but... YES!!! My father was a sailboat racing nut and I spent a LOT of time on crew. When glider designers started getting their shit together they started ripping off sailboat technology and ha...

http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3167 Freak accident at Highland Paul Tjaden - 2008/04/12 12:40:28 UTC John (Simon) took delivery of a new Combat L on Thursday and very unfortunately, had an accident on his maiden flight. Let me add here that I think John is a fabulous pilot who h...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=17092 Crash at Questair Shannon Moon - 2010/05/28 12:31:35 UTC This is my write-up of my hang gliding accident on 2010/05/09 at Quest Air in Groveland, Florida during an attempted foot landing which resulted in shattered arms, bilateral humerus fractures, a...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=786 John Woiwode critically injured John Woiwode - 2005/08/31 05:20:52 UTC I've been moved to a new hospital in Salt Lake: Aspen Ridge, 963 East 6600 South, Murray, Utah 84121, 801-713-3104 direct. Thanks to the many well-wishers who have written me. I am hu...

http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3695 good day until the wreck Lauren Tjaden - 2008/12/31 04:29:12 UTC very light conditions at quest. me, paul, dustin, carl and jamie were going to fly out and back but not high enough so we flew around the patch. i worked small lift using carl's ...

http://ozreport.com/3.066 Weaklinks Davis Straub - 1999/06/06 During the US Nationals I wrote a bit about weaklinks and the gag weaklinks that someone tied at Quest Air. A few days after I wrote about them, Bobby Bailey, designer and builder of the Bailey-Moyes Dragon Fly tug, approached me visibly ...

--- 1996/07/25 - Bill Bennett / Mike Del Signore Dave Farkas - 1996/08/02 I was checking the glider in the mirror as we climbed out and it appeared a little low, but not way off. Mike seemed pushed out, but not all the way. The glider never dipped below my view in the mirror and seemed to stay about...

So you have a weak link around the thimble at the lower end of the primary bridle? Yes and no. On a conventional bridle, yeah, you have a conventional string loop weak Lark's Headed onto both the bottom Primary Bridle eye (as you would at the top) and onto the Thimble. The Lark's Head on the Thimbl...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22447 Is hang gliding dangerous? Mike Jefferson - 011/01/04 01:37:47 UTC I had a older guy break his wrist on a hard flare which would have ordinarily been fine but for him it was not. Rando - 2011/01/10 05:25:46 UTC Back in '89 when I learned, my instructor...