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Pictures are mandatory if you're posting descriptions like that. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Chris Martin (GroundZero) Memorial DVD
TomAiello replied to freefalljason's topic in Wing Suit Flying
I'm going to sticky this one. Blue skies, Chris. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com -
Did you read the bullet cam thread? It seems like a pretty good way to go about things. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Commenting on the size of someone's genitalia is not appropriate here, especially not when done in a pejorative way. I'm banning you from this forum for 14 days. Please try to play nice when you come back. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Seems that JenFly00 has taken a particular interest in me???
TomAiello replied to rhino's topic in Speakers Corner
See my posts in the other "what would X do?" threads. Rhino, JenflyOO, Lisamariewillbe; If you start another of this pointless threads to bash each other, I'll ban whoever does it for 2 weeks. If you respond to such a thread, I'll ban you, too, at the same time I ban whoever starts it. The purpose of this forum is to discuss political issues, not provide a free fire zone for flame fests. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com -
Please, guys, play the ball, not the player. This is very silly. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Nope. That's just a PA fest. Why don't you guys (yes, that means Jen too) just lay off each other. This is silly. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Why is a female life more "valuable" than a male?
TomAiello replied to quade's topic in Speakers Corner
Flip Answer: Because women are better people. Duh. More thoughtful answer: Because we culturally feel more protective of our women than our men, and of our girls than our boys. We're culturally conditioned to view women as needing more protection than men, and striking at women as more cowardly than striking at men. We also view a large part of our cultural duty as protecting "our" women. I'm sure there are biological, as well as cultural, roots for that kind of thing. And personally, I'm not sure that I think it's necessarily such a bad thing. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com -
It's Birdman's new target market: "The billionaire-spelunking-BASE jumping crowd..." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Um, you tested your deep brake setting slider up? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Congratulations Katie! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Can you tell us what your test process was for determining this? Thanks! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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It's not a BASE site. It's a climbing site. It's still in test mode, and not yet an operating concern. It's unclear if it will be going up in that form or not. There has been a climbing test group/forum here on DZ.com for some time, as well. I'm sure if he wants to Sangiro will elaborate. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Did they at least tell the pilot after the fact? Kind of screwed up to knowingly put the pilot at risk without telling him the straight scoop. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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No. That's why I began my statement with "I think..." rather than "I'm sure..." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Why do I have the sick feeling that this thread is going to result in 460 checking his references again? Cause people just dont get it. Tom could always refer to post#18 So, something that you wrote on this forum is as authoritative as a textbook used by a Ph.D. physicist? I'm not doubting that you've got some good insight into these things, but I'm still going to ask as many people as I can. I'm unlikely to accept that the answer is x, y or z simply because someone (whoever that someone is, be they you, me, or Dwain Weston and Carl Boenish speaking through mediums) proclaims that they know the answer. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Dude, drive the San Juan skyway. It's fantastically scenic, and good for killing a day. Plus there's this wee little cliff somewhere there... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Can you comment on the inflation of the PC? Does the PC inflate through drag or through lift? Or some other mechanism? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I believe Dan Preston at Atair spec'd out some engines for a skyray. You might ask him about it. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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What Kevin said. I don't know how big a canopy you're jumping, but if it's not a 280 (at least), borrow one that is for the jump. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Tree, Johnny, Please read this discussion of personal attacks. I've reproduced the most relevant portions below: Consider yourselves warned. This thread has a lot of interesting technical information, and good input from both of you. Throwing in the "no, you're dumberest time infinity..." bit makes it sound like 2nd grade. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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If I read that correctly, though, it also implies that: (a) Drag cannot be responsible for a PC inflating (a force perpendicular to the airflow, not back into it), and; (b) our most likely cause for PC inflation would be lift (which pulls the sides of the PC in a direction perpendicular to the airflow--drag would actually pull the PC back toward the jumper?). Interesting stuff. I'm sure there's an application buried somewhere in the theory, probably having to do with Nick's drogue-built PC. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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There are a lot of different explanations for lift. I've had an actual aero professor tell me almost exactly the same thing Lou said ("drag _is_ lift"), as well as telling me that the above explanation for lift (which is the same one I have generally accepted for most of my life) was basically incorrect (according to him, the majority of "lift" in a wing is actually coming from deflection of air from the bottom skin--i.e. drag). I think there is plenty of complexity in the subject, which includes big disagreements even between folks with a lot of high level education and a bunch of toys (like wind tunnels) to test their ideas. Personally, I'm happy that it just works somehow. I've not got the time, energy, or brainpower to worry too much more about it, after realizing that people have spent entire academic careers trying to pin it down. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Are you certain? I haven't done the math, so I don't really know, but remember that you need to add your downward and forward vectors to determine your actual relative wind speed during deployment. Wingsuits and tracking garb decrease the vertical vector, but they increase the horizontal vector--I'm not sure what the net effect is. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Yep. It was also the incident which spurred the development of the floating handle. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com