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The video is of a team sponsored by OZONE called the Renegades. http://www.the-renegades.com/ The website is in German.
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Are CReW Dawgs interested in Paragliding?
xsynergist replied to xsynergist's topic in Canopy Relative Work
Because of the slow flying characteristics of a paraglider and the ability to stay in the air for hours I wonder how many of you CReW Dawgs might be interested in exploiting your skills on such a wing. -
The following is a first hand story of 7 paraglider pilots who experienced "Cloud Suck". It is worth a read. http://www.xcmag.com/Spinner/read/article.cfm?id=464&uuid=B3D07876-D6AC-8EB6-6B40D0E01760F702 And here is another. http://home.online.no/~100km/articles/trapped.htm (Edited to add second URL)
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I don't know about that. But you can't knock manbirds advice! The only confusion I see here is that apparent Glide which is relative to the ground and Glide Ratio which is relative to the airmass are being used interchangeably. I don't see a conflict in the actual methodolgy. Just do what you know works. P.S. GravityGirl Rocks!
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I thought they all voted for Pat Buchanan? Where are Jake and Elwood when you need them?
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--------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ I'm sure you are right. It's just that of the people I know personally from both parties all of the one issue voters I know happen to be republicans. The democrats I know personally tend to a greatest good for the greatest number philosophy so a range of issues is generally important to them like healthcare, education, childcare etc. I personally have never met a one issue democrat. ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Once again I am sure you are right. All but one of the admitted racists I have known personally were republicans (I am from Texas). I admit the possibility that they were merely more vocal. I know many republicans who are not racist.
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Nice post Deuce. I can really feel it.
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*BUMP* Come On Ladies! I spent too much time on that previous post to watch it go Page 2 without comment. ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
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Some of you postwhores are SHAMELESS!
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I hope so. But I know what you meant. Since my father is a gun dealer, and I have owned firearms all my life, gun control is not a big issue with me. Personally I think that EITHER we should all be able to carry them wherever and whenever we want OR that gun control should be comprehensive and rigorously enforced. Either of these ways would be more effective at detering crime than the current structure. The problem with attempting rational discourse on any issue is that people are not rational. They are rationalizing. They are also easily manipulated by unconscious fears. Why do you think the republican party has consolidated its power base by pandering to the one issue voters? Because these people are easy to manipulate. Lets use the gun rights group as an example. A rational person might look at the data and see if some form of legislation might work at mitigating the social cost of guns in our society. An irrational person cannot even discuss the issue. Why Not? Because they have been programed to react instead of think. This programming is done intentionally to us by the monied interests involved using the process of association. The paid mouthpieces of these monied interests will associate the product (in this case guns) with emotional concepts like FREEDOM and HONOR or more often fear concepts like CRIME. You can determine whether you have been programmed by seeing if you have an instant emotional reaction to an idea. Any idea. Say Gun Control perhaps. If you are emotionally attached to an issue you cannot think rationally about it. That is what they are counting on. For the republicans its as easy to rack up votes from the gun rights people, anti abortion, gay haters, no taxers, and racists as pushing the one appropriate button. If they keep their finger on it long enough you won't even have time to think about the issues you are not emotionally involved in. And of course democrats lie. Everybody does. When Clinton lied nobody died.
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I vote for Lurking!
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Adding Paragliding to Related Sports
xsynergist replied to xsynergist's topic in Suggestions and Feedback
After all Paragliding had it's roots in using skydiving gear like BASE and some of the technology developed for paragliding (i.e. elliptical wings) has come back to skydiving gear. The current best forum for paragliding on the web is Jerome Dausts forum hosted by bigairparagliding.com. Perhaps he would moderate the new forum. His community includes designers and world champions but his software doesn't have the capabilities yours does. Just an idea. If you are agreeable I'll be happy to broach the subject. -
I used to be a nice guy. One of the nicest I think. After about the 20th time I heard, "I just don't think of you in that way" and, "Your the nicest guy I know, any girl would be lucky to have you" I realized I was doing something wrong. I had a buddy that was a total chick magnet, just a total dog. Sure, he was smooth, but he didn't look any better than I did according to women who knew us both. So I asked him, "How do you do it ?" HE DIDN'T KNOW!!! Hmmm... So I asked him what he was thinking about when he went up to speak with a girl for the first time. He replied, "The same thing I am ALWAYS thinking about (insert female anatomy here)! Whenever I talk to a girl I am just thinking about getting with her" AHA! EUREKA! Nice guys don't think this way! I decided to put this kind of thinking into effect immediately and observe the results. I Scored, and Scored, and Scored again! I decided to try it the second night as well I became a Bad Boy and a Dawg and never went without again till after I was married. (That's another story) My conclusion is that the signals a man puts out by thinking this way are responded to by a woman unconsciously. This puts you in her "pool" of potentials. Of course women make a concious decision on whether to act on it or not all the time but if you aren't in the "pool" you WILL NOT get chosen. Hence "Nice Guy" Simple equation Nice guy thinking = No nookie Straight Guys who never get nookie = Gay I think that is correct but we might need Kallend to verify the math. ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
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These people are smart and have a winning formula. A lie that someone wants to believe is all that is remembered. Facts have never been important to the republican movers. Manipulating peoples unconsious predjudices so that they will go against their own self interest is all too easy. The rich get richer and the poor keep getting sent to their deaths by the sons of the wealthy who were too smart to risk their own necks. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/barnes/index_np.html ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
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Here's an interesting article at Salon about G.W. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/barnes/index_np.html ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
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That is why I posted. I prefer precise information. I had hopes that someone here would have access to solid data and be willing to share it with the rest of us. Some information is better than no information but it is difficult to base a decision on it when the information you have isn't quantified. I'll contact the manufacturers of the cloth that Phree posted and see if they can provide specifics.
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You just did what? And thanks for the input regarding the acids in the florscent dyes. I think that for me the safety aspects of the brighter colors visibility outweigh the shortened life span of the cloth. I'll just keep it out of the sun whenever possible.
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Cuz the girls only give it up to the Bad Boyz? ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
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Maybe a cooling fan for your proc and a DVD-RW? The rest should work. You have 2 SCSI HD's running off of a PCI card? Seems like the on board serial ATA would smoke em. I would look at the throughput first to be sure. Some of those ULTRA SCSI drives are fast. Enjoy your new box. Cheers ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
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This is from Performance Designs Main Users Manual: "Since sunlight irreversibly damages nylon parachutes, an indoor or shady area is best. Packing in the sunlight is unavoidable at most places, so try to reduce your canopy’s exposure to direct sunlight as much as possible. Cover it with a packing mat or jumpsuit while you debrief a jump or critique a student. " Since the UV degradation of Nylon does apply to PD's parachute material as well it is logical to assume that the color chart in my original post is accurate.
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This is what I actually posted in the other thread. And where did I propose that we all fly black wings? If you are going to insinuate I lack intelligence with your sarcastic comments at least get your facts straight. Does anyone with actual information care to comment?
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you are kinda comparing apples to buicks*** Possibly. But Nylon is Nylon and all the research I have done indicates that Nylon is degraded by light and heat with UV doing the most damage. My understanding is that there is a definite UV life to nylon and that this life can differ depending on the processing of the fabric and the color. I just want the facts.
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Penetration into the wind is relative to a fixed point on the ground. From the wings perspective it is merely gliding through the airmass at a constant speed determined by its design and wingloading. If the Airmass you are in is still or moving in the same direction you are going then your apparent glide (apparent relative to the ground) increases. If the airmass is moving perpendicular to or away from the point on the ground you are using for reference then application of the brakes can create an apparent decrease in glide while in all actuality the increase in the angle of attack does increase your actual glide ratio through the airmass. The reason that it seems as if your glide is decreasing is because the added drag has slowed you relative to the airmass. The airmass is still moving at the same velocity so your apparent glide decreases. The same thing works in obverse. If you decrease the angle of attack by pulling down on your "A"s your actual glide ratio will decrease but your speed through the airmass will increase and you will penetrate into the wind (relative to the ground) better and increase your apparent glide. ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
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Brake application only increases your glide ratio inside the moving airmass and not relative to the ground. The increased drag due to an increased angle of attack decreases your penetration into the wind. Just because the glide ratio is higher doesn't mean that it is more efficient. The increase in drag in overcoming the headwinds or crosswinds force can more than offsets the gain in glide ratio and the net effect is your apparent glide is decreased. I think this is essentially correct. ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.
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This is from the Apco website concerning a zero-P powered parachute canopy they manufacture. The capital letters are theirs. "DO NOT LET THE PARACHUTE LAY ON THE GROUND EXPOSED TO SUN RAYS. THEY ARE VERY HARMFUL TO NYLON AND QUICKLY DESTROY THE FABRIC AND CAUSE COLOR FADING. SOME COLORS ARE MORE SENSITIVE TO UV-RAYS - FADING FASTER AND LOOSING TISSUE STRENGTH- THAN OTHERS. THE UV-RAYS ARE ESPECIALLY HARMFUL TO ALL FLUORESCENT COLORS(FL-PINK, FL-YELLOW, FL-GREEN, FL-ORANGE" The more UV exposure your wing receives the faster it degrades. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the weakened nylon will therefore wear faster when subjected to the same physical stresses. Considering that it is only exposed for a few minutes of flight it seems obvious that packing and storing your canopy out of the light would greatly increase the life of your canopy. Are there any industry people out there than can shed more light on this matter? ------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house.