http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39287
Tad Eareckson's latest tow release
Bill Cummings - 2014/09/25 12:07:06 UTC
Orion Price - 2014/09/23 02:39:17 UTC
The only way Tad will say you are not "insane."
I think Op Op was laughing so hard when he posted that he typed in about a release when he really meant to say WEAKLINK!
I say this because I would only crack a smile on the parody referring to a weaklink and not on the reference to a release.
As to the "Black Hole," reference I have this to say:
Nothing else will drain the prejudice from your being faster than owing your life to a black man (Rubin Less) that lost his life in Cambodia at the same time when he stopped us (Charlie Company 1st of the 7th) from walking into a NVA ambush.
Rubin did this to save a man (white) from court martial due to his refusal to walk point through the Cambodian jungle. Rubin volunteered to walk point to defuse this cowards refusal to walk point. Rubin was the first of four men to die in that ambush. ( Austin, Welsh, and McCormick)
Rubin's experience as an infantry man and his sacrifice saved many of us that day.
As to the log in problems I noticed that due to my cookie blaster program that I selected I always have to log in each time I go to the OZ Report.
Before I was always automatically logged in. In short logging in could be a problem at your end.
This thread is going south moderators. I recommend that you consider locking it down.
I think Op Op was laughing so hard when he posted that he typed in about a release when he really meant to say WEAKLINK!
- Then why hasn't the stupid lying little shit said so?
- What's the difference? In hang gliding a weak link is just...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31052
Poll on weaklinks
Davis Straub - 2013/03/06 18:29:05 UTC
You know, after all this discussion I'm now convinced that it is a very good idea to treat the weaklink as a release, that that is exactly what we do when we have a weaklink on one side of a pro tow bridle. That that is exactly what has happened to me in a number of situations and that the whole business about a weaklink only for the glider not breaking isn't really the case nor a good idea for hang gliding.
I'm happy to have a relatively weak weaklink, and have never had a serious problem with the Greenspot 130, just an inconvenience now and then.
I'm thinking about doing a bit more testing as there seemed to be some disagreement around here about what the average breaking strength of a loop of Greenspot (or orange) weaklink was.
...a variation of a release. It's the glider driver's only real hope of getting off tow in any kind of emergency. It's your PRIMARY RELEASE 'cause everything else you use is always welded shut with frozen slush - so you just radio down to your snowmobile driver to floor it.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=14230
pro tow set-up
Ryan Voight - 2009/11/03 05:24:31 UTC
It works best in a lockout situation... if you're banked away from the tug and have the bar back by your belly button... let it out. Glider will pitch up, break weaklink, and you fly away.
During a "normal" tow you could always turn away from the tug and push out to break the weaklink... but why would you?
Have you never pondered what you would do in a situation where you CAN'T LET GO to release? I'd purposefully break the weaklink, as described above. Instant hands free release
Instant hands free release.
I say this because I would only crack a smile on the parody referring to a weaklink and not on the reference to a release.
So what do you think it actually is, Bill?
As to the "Black Hole," reference I have this to say:
Nothing else will drain the prejudice from your being faster than owing your life to a black man (Rubin Less) that lost his life in Cambodia at the same time when he stopped us (Charlie Company 1st of the 7th) from walking into a NVA ambush.
Rubin did this to save a man (white) from court martial due to his refusal to walk point through the Cambodian jungle. Rubin volunteered to walk point to defuse this cowards refusal to walk point. Rubin was the first of four men to die in that ambush. ( Austin, Welsh, and McCormick)
Rubin's experience as an infantry man and his sacrifice saved many of us that day.
Ya know what would've saved even more of you that day? If every last one of you had taken the lead of the only one of you who had his head on straight and refused to walk point through the Cambodian jungle, turned around, and been court martialed. But hey... Great job! It's thanks to guys like you that I'm safe here wallowing in all those freedoms you preserved for me through your noble and courageous actions and sacrifices.
This thread is going south moderators.
From where that thread started the only possible direction it could've gone was north.
I recommend that you consider locking it down.
And did I remember to thank you for my freedom of speech? I so do enjoy being able to go to forums like The Davis Show where I can write cogently and engage the intellect of others without fear of being sabotaged, locked down, deleted, banned by corrupt, deranged, egomaniacal dictators.
Go back to The Bob Show where it's safe for people of varying ages to visit and fuck yourself.
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Douchebag.
