Kite Strings

Thermal activity increased significantly and rapidly during the course of my flight. I suspect the storms earlier cooled things off, creating a lull before they picked back up. Had I landed before Kevin launched, I'd have advised against him flying, but at the time he launched it wasn't bad. In the ...

I'm skeptical of the electrocution verdict at this point... He was found unconscious after the impact. I was told he stopped breathing after the EMTs arrived but they were able to revive him. Once stabilized he was airlifted from a local facility to a hospital in Houston I believe. Apparently he wa...

That landing area selection was FAR from the horror story I had envisioned before seeing it. Some more info on the field, from one of the pilots on the scene: If you zoom in, you can see the two power poles from which the two lines are strung. The upper line being the hot line and the lower being t...

Now sounding to me like an unfortunate case of airport fixation. Yep. But we also gotta ask why he: - wasn't prepared for the situation in which he found himself - was being flown in that much wind if wasn't prepared for the situation in which he found himself Agree there as well. Kevin was a natur...

A lot of valuable referenced videos have been taken down off of YouTube. Is it possible and legal to make them available by uploading them here as downloabable attachments? I'm afraid not...pictures are one thing, but videos are massive. I'm not sure about our size limit for individual attachments,...

Like the width of that PNG image is 1700 pixels and the max width on the YouTube MP4 video file is 1080. The max height on YouTube is 1080...the width in that resolution is 1920, which was the original resolution of the screenshot (as it's also my monitor resolution). The image I posted is 1700 wid...

Tad Eareckson wrote:I just got results of "about 3030" for the former and exactly three - two thirds of them here and the rest on The Jack Show - for the latter.

I think you mixed those up.

Zack

Tad Eareckson wrote:And I'd also really appreciate it if someone could extract a full resolution still from from the video at 4:04 - whether or not it's Zack. I don't seem to have any software that can do it.

Dunno about Macs, but on a PC you can just hit the Print Screen button and paste into any image editor.

Zack

As you've said many times… 130 breaks at100 right? I suspect you're trolling , but if not, I've said many times that - 2 strands of 130 breaks at 130... I stand corrected… You're right… You did say 130 breaks at 130. http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=118891#118891 I give Jim too much credit...

I had them hang a barrel release from the ceiling. From that release, I had a rope with a loop. The loop was just a few inches above the floor. You stand on the loop, then activate the release. Don't take my word for it, go try it. Now, I pro tow with a 130lb weaklink. I'm 160lbs soaking wet. The p...