Kite Strings

It may have wanted to nose down but it's still being pulled from forward with a thrust rapidly increasing from about 125 to 260 pounds - the tow tension doubles in the course of a couple of seconds. Then how can you be so sure a stronger weak link would have held? At what point would tension start ...

What makes the most sense to me is letting the tug pilot decide what weak link strength he wants to use. Um...that was a quote from me. My meaning was that the strength of the weak link shouldn't be dictated by the aircraft (via the tow mast), but I could have made that clearer. I only know of thre...

There's no password. Not following you. Do you mean it's not prompting you for one? Can you still play the video? Or are you referring to the fact that the password is not listed near the embedded video? If the latter, there's nothing I can do about that. I did list the password with the link (abov...

Tad Eareckson wrote:Speaking of Stuart and the Peter Show... There hasn't been a whole lot of discussion about this guy who just got killed by a Hewett No-More-Than-One-G Infallible Weak Link over there, right?

Not a word.

Zack

(I'd LOVE to get him over here.) I'm not going to push him to join but he knows about the site. Make him buy one of Joe's. He knows it's what I use and I told him about the limitations of other models. He hasn't had problems with his Lookout model but doesn't like the fact it hasn't been tested to ...

I've been having an off-line discussion with Paul Edwards to address some questions of his resulting from the recent Zack M discussions. He's on board with using a stronger weak link, a better release, and putting weak links on his shoulders (he wasn't using any before). I found a portion of our exc...

Hey Zack... Regarding: http://www.kitestrings.org/post3732.html#p3732 I was on the phone with Chad May yesterday afternoon and he wanted me to send you his contact info - which I'm doing via e-mail - so's he could discuss with you using Wayback Machine to find out how close to Zack Marzec's impact ...

Any chance you'll give any straight answers to any of Zack's questions? Just kidding. I'd be content with any answers to my questions. I've asked him several times at this point what he thinks Greenspot 'works' to do, but... I'll answer actual questions if you're keen to actually hear the answers.....

REALLY? Can you cite a real life example of something like that happening? I'm stopping short of going that far because people seem to get really touchy if you suggest anything about the recently deceased... As sad as this may be, I think the situation would be different if the incident happened to...

Take your theory and shove it. The shit works in reality. Seriously...hundreds of thousands of tows.

So did Bobby introduce Greenspot? I've got no information on how it came into use.

Awesome post, by the way (3740).

Zack