Re: launching
Posted: 2019/08/16 18:42:46 UTC
http://www.kitestrings.org/post11674.html#p11674
http://ozreport.com/9.177
Another bad launch off the cart
http://www.kitestrings.org/post9056.html#p%209056
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident2.jpg
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident3.jpg
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skysailingtowing/message/6726
Weaklinks
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/292/18084234884_9e9889f1e0_o.png
These u$hPa / Flight Park Mafia serial killing motherfuckers have put untold tens of thousands of copies of their criminally negligent fatals happening and waiting to happen into circulation. And they know what they were doing five minutes after the beginning of time. And the more quality stuff that gets into circulation the more likely they are to get sued out of existence and thrown into prison where they belong. So there's no way in hell they're gonna tolerate anything that or anyone who smacks of reform, fixes, competence, integrity.
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P.S. - 2019/08/16 21:15:00 UTC
Just as I was about to post what was above Brian (correct me if I'm wrong) in an effort to amend his 2019/08/16 16:21:54 UTC post (the one in "launching" just prior to this one) with a couple P.S. notes but inadvertently created a duplicate post with the amendments. So I preserved his amendments, amended them where intended, replaced his text with mine, made a note that it was mine, changed the author attribution appropriately. (That last bit took me a while 'cause I was rusty with respect to the procedure.
Responding to the PSs...
http://www.kitestrings.org/post11676.html#p11676
Get that one carved in granite. And compare/contrast with:Yeah, good call considering "Bobby didn't give me the rope, thankfully".
http://ozreport.com/9.177
Another bad launch off the cart
Also from Big Spring (fourteen years ago) by the way.Davis Straub - 2005/08/28
And another good outcome that we can learn from.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meaneyman/sets/788578/
Bad launch good recovery
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meaneyman/35642942/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meaneyman/35642828/
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Tim Meaney has published a series of photos which show a poor launch by an Exxtacy pilot at the 2005 Big Spring Open. The Exxtacy's right wing has come up while the pilot is still on the cart. In addition, the right wing has come up so high that the right side of the control frame has also come off the cart and isn't being held horizontal. This means that the spoileron on the right side isn't deployed, or deployed as much as it would be if the pilot had held (or been able to hold) the control frame onto the cart. If the spoileron had been deployed, the right wing would have had a tendency to come back down. In this case, it didn't.
In the second frame the left wing is dragging on the runway and the weaklink has broken. This is a good thing. The pilot is in trouble and you want that weaklink broken so that he isn't dragged down the runway. Notice that he hasn't moved his hands at all, and doesn't throughout this sequence of photos. The weak weaklink does the heavy lifting for him. Use a properly sized weaklink!
http://www.kitestrings.org/post9056.html#p%209056
Nah, releases are totally negligible issues. It's the weak link that's the focal point of a safe towing system.Releases would be a close second for me.
If it wasn't previously obvious...
...there is likely no similar situation where Davis will try to release.
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident2.jpg
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident3.jpg
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skysailingtowing/message/6726
Weaklinks
Peter Birren - 2008/10/27 23:41:49 UTC
I know about this type of accident because it happened to me, breaking four ribs and my larynx... and I was aerotowing using a dolly. The shit happened so fast there was no room for thought much less action. But I wasn't dragged because the weaklink did its job and broke immediately on impact.
But really superb risk mitigation plans.A total dice roll.
30-2114I've yet to see the equivalent of this...
http://www.kitestrings.org/viewtopic.php?p=7974#p7974
Re: Releases
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuCEVn6QF7U
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/292/18084234884_9e9889f1e0_o.png
Cheap easily stowable bent pin crap excuse for a release....with Davis's release.
These u$hPa / Flight Park Mafia serial killing motherfuckers have put untold tens of thousands of copies of their criminally negligent fatals happening and waiting to happen into circulation. And they know what they were doing five minutes after the beginning of time. And the more quality stuff that gets into circulation the more likely they are to get sued out of existence and thrown into prison where they belong. So there's no way in hell they're gonna tolerate anything that or anyone who smacks of reform, fixes, competence, integrity.
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P.S. - 2019/08/16 21:15:00 UTC
Just as I was about to post what was above Brian (correct me if I'm wrong) in an effort to amend his 2019/08/16 16:21:54 UTC post (the one in "launching" just prior to this one) with a couple P.S. notes but inadvertently created a duplicate post with the amendments. So I preserved his amendments, amended them where intended, replaced his text with mine, made a note that it was mine, changed the author attribution appropriately. (That last bit took me a while 'cause I was rusty with respect to the procedure.
Responding to the PSs...
Sure, no prob. For any future issues along those lines you can just find an example somewhere, log in as me, click "EDIT" access the text and coding to use as your model.PS- Thanks for embedding that, I failed several times.
Or, unfortunately, any concrete. But I still haven't been able to figure out the "tires" reference.PPS- I see Davis couldn't hit any tires.
http://www.kitestrings.org/post11676.html#p11676