Kite Strings

Skyting Don Boardman 1982/12 Saturday, myself and Dan Guido, a Hang IV and instructor from Mohawk, New York, 35 miles from Rome, spent the afternoon in final preparation. Both Dan and I had received a day of tow training at High Perspective in Toronto on September 21. We used a traditional V-bridle ...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=20339 FTHI Scot Huber - 2011/01/02 21:38:28 UTC Santa Rosa, California Risk Management Two years ago at age 55 I launched unhooked at McClure. The wind had been blowing in perfect at launch as we set up. Me, KM, and I forget who else were there. The land ow...

I'd disagree and say that our wing sweep acts more like a vertical stabilizer. I stand corrected and enlightened and am now more inclined to believe that we are seeing adverse yaw in the video. Cool. I always wanted to believe that we could achieve some measure of yaw control by torqueing our baset...

After World War I Germany got treated like total shit. That was a really bad idea 'cause it really pissed them off and resulted in Hitler and World War II. BUT - as I'm sure you know... They were forced to take all the propellers off their planes so they went nuts on glider development and refinemen...

Zack C - 2010/12/23 04:12:15 UTC Regulation might sound good in theory, but I for one fear it and believe the FAA has too little understanding of or interest in our activities for any additional regulation to be beneficial. - Hell, USHGA doesn't have enough understanding of or interest in hang glid...

Can't it be both? Yeah, it can be anything. I'm starting to get out of my depth pretty fast here but I don't worry about it much 'cause - if anything - it's a glider manufacturer issue, I can't do anything about it, and I have NO complaints about the way they're doing their jobs - beyond not offeri...

About John Woiwode, I read his account just yesterday when going through accident reports in your FAA document. My reaction was, 'nah, surely he doesn't mean he was aligning with the road in a crosswind...' Apparently he DOES. (And don't call me Surely.) Donnell Hewett - 1982/11 Some of you have wo...

http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=939 Weak link breaks? Jim Rooney - 2005/08/31 23:46:25 UTC As with many changes in avaition, change is approached with a bit of skepticism. Rightfully so. There's something to be said for "tried and true" methods... by strapping on someht...

Lockout Larry... Oops. Zack C - 2010/11/17 14:50:34 UTC Seems like every week something happens relevant to the discussion we've been having. Here's a report from a friend flying at Lookout this past weekend: I towed out behind (n-s) Pablo ok till I got above the trees, then I got hit by a strong gu...

Thanks for the 'center of mass' debunktion. I've always felt the glider is easier to control (more stable) when towing two-point, but I suspect that's just because it dampens pilot input or something. I've never used a Skyting bridle but I've heard they 'tow nicely', but again, I suspect it's just ...