Kite Strings

Hmmmm....

Three relatively short replies ...
Way shorter and way more humorous than mine ...
No foul language or wishing anyone was dead ...

OK, WHO ARE YOU and HOW DID YOU GET TAD'S PASSWORD?

I never said you didn't have a great sense of humor!!

I've been a big advocate for giving Tad a voice in hang gliding. When I was Regional Director I asked the USHPA Board to consider Tad's ideas rather than paying their lawyer to attack him. I specifically wrote to Tad's email address to invite him to participate on the US Hawks forum . I've spent a l...

Thanks for that post Zack. It's a real eye opener.

Great Post: It's not HIGH tension that tends to get planes - virtually always gliders - killed. It's MISALIGNED tension - and you can't defend against misaligned tension with a weak link because a hundred and fifty pounds of it can kill you just as dead as five hundred. This hugely preeminent state...

Hi Zack, John Heiney has considerable experience at balloon drops. He set the world record for consecutive loops in a hang glider by dropping from a balloon. Here's a link to John's video page: http://upshots.biz/video/video.html He shows a balloon drop starting at 1 minute into the first video (tit...

Thanks for your work on this Tad.

I've cross posted a link to this topic at:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=646

I think this is a good discussion to have everywhere.

Bob Kuczewski

I've been reading through this forum and it's really amazing how much energy Tad has put into his posts. With that thought in mind, I'd like to suggest that whoever is administrating this forum be sure to do an occasional backup of the MySQL database. From the FAQs page (http://www.prophpbb.com/faqs...

"Brothers" not uncles.. No, the "Banned of Brothers" is the other forum. :lol: Good to see you here Warren (thumbsup). I'm going to stay out of most of this debate. The Torrey Hawks has about 230 members. There are probably as many issues ( paper or plastic? / conservative or li...

"uncle"