Kite Strings

hello Tad, and well done ! You win the first step of your battle. Davis is on his knees, pobably terrified by judicial action around Jeffery Lawrence Bohl. And now you should taste the pleasure to see your release published and promote by Davis Straub himself. What a revenge ! What is happening in U...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLFMaloMS5s

...instead of weight shift resulted in not being able to correct but was perhaps not the most severe issue. If you notice at about 45 seconds, the bottom portion of the bridle goes slack resulting in 100% of the tow force being applied to the glider. Right. 25-04714 http://farm8.staticflickr.com/73...

Radiocontroled release

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgZ7lcVPG3s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_iXlVKrE-w

Norbert Jungo, died in July 2013 Launch: Niederhorn/Interlaken (Swiss). Ramp above 150m cliff. Wind: 5-10km/h slightly crosswind, sometimes right face. Atos VR, flaps setting ok Pilot well hooked: carabiner, harness buckles, leg loops. Just after the first step he cried 'no, no, no' and attempted to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvoBJ9K_ruI

!? What? Did I screw that up? I measured 125 pounds / 57 kilograms on my (kingposted) Wills Wing HPAT 158 at about 320 pounds behind a 914 Dragonfly. As I tested the 4 strings (my video) we saw a slack lanyard at different phases. Normal tow tension was less than the minimum tow line tension requir...

It was a Laminar 13ST. The pilot is around 75-80kg clipped-in. Wichard in a 1 point configuration. 110kg weaklink in the towline. I tested the new 3 multi-string version and found 19kg as a minimum tow line tension to release. 42 pounds - about a third of normal aerotow tension. !? http://www.youtub...

This week, a friend had part of his arm broken after a lockout. Launch by cart with side wind. He didn't wait enough before to release the cart and banked immediately on the opposite of the wind. He was in a lockout, at 15m above the ground. The trike was in acceleration phase. He had a wichard and ...