Kite Strings

Nice summation.

Fuck your angles and altitude. Focus on the top of your last obstacle and get to it with speed any way you want. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51872894862_d07080e173_o.jpg I suppose when you know all and see all, you simply land in a new unknown lz. The rest of us have to do some sort of ment...

Here is a fellow who obviously has not heard of Tad's proclamation, "Thou shalt not fly the glider from the downtubes."

Blasphemy!!!!!!!

Someone needs to head up to Humbolt and tune this fellow up

http://vimeo.com/63609135

ground wrote:I don't think Davis is going to come around on this matter.

Everything you need to know is in the archives of this board. Take the time and read through it.

Welcome to kitestrings. Hope you stay awhile. Ask your questions here. The only dumb question is no question.

You would have to have some accurate numbers to compare the two methods of launching. number of bad outcomes/number of foot launches number of bad outcomes/number of tows Those numbers do not exist. Therefore it would turn into https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiq77O0AI-YLOjIMvU...

Speaking of skids, I watched someone land yawed with the skids. The pilot let go of the control frame and it skidded sideways on the skids as advertised. A wheel might have caught and taken out the downtube. I can see the utility of them, especially on launch.

Me? Master landings? Master anything? Nope, I am an eternal student, striving for mastery

Yeah, people who fly their asses off all the time tend to develop some really solid skills and you may hafta watch them for a very long time before you see them: - get hit at just the wrong time by something nasty enough to significantly derail their plans - fail to execute perfectly for a given si...

Ken is walking, talking and flying. An amazing recovery. He is flying a Falcon 195.