Mike Blankenhorn - 2013/03/12 03:57:34 UTC
Orange County
Suicide is highly under rated, Tad should try it, but no wait he's lost his balls!
Tad just lost one of his balls - but that was a long time ago. Got hospitalized for very advanced testicular cancer thirty years ago this month.
- But when he lost the ball he found that his IQ went up seventy-five percent.
- And now there's nothing he enjoys more than watching big balled assholes slam in on YouTube.
- And lemme tell ya sumpin', Big Balled Asshole... Big balls and hang gliders is a REALLY BAD combination.
So go fuck yourself, you miserable little Hang Two twat. And tell Rob McKenzie he can go fuck himself too.
Normally I'd say that is a low blow Mike. However, this time it's not. I don't want to re-post it. But the senile guy has read our entire forum history and make detailed comments about our activities.
Yes, reading your entire forum history and make detailed comments about your activities is a DEFINITIVE sign of senility. And endless cycles of unhooked launches and broken arms, cripplings, and deaths catalyzed by totally unnecessary standup landing attempts AREN'T.
He waxes on with glee about our fatalities.
QUOTE something - asshole.
It is disgusting.
You could rein me in a bit if you slowed your crash rate down a little. (Just kidding.)
Beyond anti-social.
Thank you.
Anywho. my comment this morning, posted only on shga at first...
Where did you post it next?
...got be banned from kitestrings.org
Goddam right it did.
Zack C - 2010/11/23 05:23:34 UTC
The purpose of Kite Strings is to foster serious discussion regarding the practices and technologies of modern hang gliding. This is a forum ruled by science, truth, facts, reason, and logic. Anyone with a respect for these principles and a willingness to learn and engage in rational discussion is welcome to participate.
There are TONS of places for Marc Fink caliber shitheads to stick their noses up the asses of Flight Park Mafia scum like Rooney and Davis and run their mouths any way they feel like on topics astronomically beyond their capabilities. But this ain't never gonna be one of them.
Speaking of which...
Davis and his brown nosing, pin bending, 130 pound Greenspotters have been getting so chewed to shreds over last month's Zack Marzec snuffing that, as of sometime between 18:32:37 and 19:16:26 UTC today he's also locked the second of the relevant threads - 174 posts and, at the latter time, 3413 hits - and has threatened all the Two Plus Two Equals Four Team guys with expulsion. So I'm QUITE sure you and your mindless drivel will be more than welcome over at his total asshole colony.
YES. You should BURY THAT THREAD - 389 hits at the moment - to make it harder for people who want to see it to see it.
And then you should all go rebury your heads in the sand, not listen to what Tad's saying, continue doing things EXACTLY the same way you have been for the past third of a century, and expect different results.
...and not give Tad the satisfaction that we are actually wasting our time acknowledging his existence.
Tad's good. Hell, he's had more satisfaction in the period between the first weekend in March and now than he ever thought possible. Get back to selecting an SHGA Safety Mascot. Note that I'll get satisfaction out of that too - but not NEARLY as much.
Yes, this needed to be brought into the light but now we should bury this asshole with some nice cold dirt (metaphorically) and never speak of him again.
Fine. But this asshole is all about stuff like force equals mass times velocity squared and WHEN you CONTINUE to dismiss that you're gonna CONTINUE to bury a few of your own assholes with some nice cold dirt (not metaphorically), and I'll CONTINUE to to derive the kind of satisfaction achievable ONLY with toldyasos and CONTINUE to speak of them.
Mike Blankenhorn - 2012/10/26 02:39:07 UTC
Orange County
Wow, I never saw it put quite like that before. Great write up!
You're welcome.
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Edit - 2013/03/13 03:29:00 UTC
Oops. Mass times velocity squared is kinetic energy. Force is mass times acceleration. Thanks to Zack for catching me.
But the point is that hitting the runway straight on at thirty miles per hour is gonna hurt four times as much as hitting it at fifteen miles per hour. And hitting it at fifteen miles per hour can kill you on the right day.
How to get banned from kitestrings.org ((tad drama)lol)
Pretty easy, OP. All ya gotta do is not meet the fairly simple standards defined by the Administrator - which, by the way, is not Yours Truly.
Kill this thread...
KILL IT? Don't you read the rules for ANY of the forums...
No posts or links about Bob K, Scott C Wise, Tad Eareckson and related people, or their material. ALL SUCH POSTS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DELETED. These people are poison to this sport and are permanently banned from this site in every possible way imaginable.
...in which you participate?
...if your tired of the Tad drama but I thought this was funny:
Talking about the free trade of ideas to make hang gliding safe:
Got A LOT of bad news for ya, dude.
- There IS NO free trade of ideas in hang gliding. Look at:
-- what there used to be in the magazine and isn't any more
-- the site rules for The Jack Show
-- all the glider forums which require permission of a local despot just to read
-- what just happened on The Davis Show
-- the people you can't look at because they've been banned
-- the flight parks (all of them) from which Tad has been banned for speaking out
-- all the people who are afraid to speak out because they don't wanna be banned
-- the fate of crash reports when they're delivered to USHGA
-- the coverage of fatal crashes like Jeremiah Thompson and Zack Marzec in the mainstream media
- The free exchange of ideas from the kinds of assholes who overwhelm the ranks of hang gliding ain't a good idea anyway. We're up to our armpits in exchange of the most insane ideas imaginable from every asshole with a keyboard and there's no critical mass of science and math literacy to differentiate sane stuff from the crap.
Quoting Tad: "That's what Kite Strings is ALL about - providing information. Welcome aboard, our newest member OPOP."
Yep. PROVIDING information. And you remain unrestricted in your ability to receive all the information available. And, hell, I'm even reposting your stuff from your mainstream hang gliding cults here and addressing your issues, right?
I posted this on shga,org. My local site, and a forum he lurks on...
I don't LURK on it - I READ it.
- I'm NOT a registered user and I have no desire whatsoever to participate in it.
- If y'all don't want people to READ it then why do you make it publicly accessible? Why don't you keep it under lock and key like all of the other cults that have plenty of shit to hide? Hell, I'm THRILLED to have lotsa "lurkers" reading my site.
The result is my "account inactive" at kitestrings.org so much for free ideas.
QUOTE ME SOMETHING in which I EVER gave the SLIGHTEST indication that Kite Strings was a venue for "free ideas". Kite Strings is a SCIENCE CLASSROOM with ADMISSION/PARTICIPATION standards. I don't accept/tolerate Creation Scientists / Intelligent Design nutjobs wasting everybody's time - especially after all the Bob bullshit I put up with for the better part of 2011.
If you want a forum based upon free exchange of ideas then establish one. And I'll divide my time between harvesting some of the more amusing stuff for my forum and warning people of varying ages away from it.
Thanks a lot, miguel. The more I get attacked on the FRONT page the more hits Kite Strings gets. Don't ever do that to me again.
Slagging someone with no access to reply is wrong.
I've GOT access to reply - HERE. And here I can reply just exactly as I choose to.
Orion Price - 2013/03/12 15:59:24 UTC
That's what he has done to me. That's why I'm here on the .org.
- And someone like you can rest quite assured that you'll NEVER be locked down, edited, sabotaged, or banned by Jack. So that's probably a pretty good place for you.
- Ya know, OP...
You came over on my site and said:
Keep on crusading! The truth is out there my friend. Stay hungry.
and then you went back to Sylmar and called me a troll and self proclaimed "engineer", said I was clueless, and denigrated my release system.
IF you had come over HERE and called me a troll and self proclaimed "engineer", said I was clueless, and denigrated my release system you'd have lasted a lot longer.
See... I've got a problem with people whose positions vary dramatically as they move from one venue to another. I'm really heavy into consistency in matters of both aviation and personal interactions.
I don't know him.
And obviously have virtually no possibility of altering that depth of ignorance.
Never flown with him.
And that's relevant to ANY hang gliding discussion HOW? If you fly with some asshole like Davis...
Davis Straub - 2013/03/10 12:04:42 UTC
I like and will keep my barrel release. You can keep yours.
...do you outfit yourself with a Davis Link and Davis Bent Pin Mini Barrel because he flies better than you do?
I believe him to be a crack pot.
But you're NOT QUITE SURE, are you?
Imagine turning his paper in at University.
- Which university?
-- Texas A&M-Kingsville where Dr. Lionel D. Hewett teaches physics?
-- Eastern Michigan University where Dr. Tracy S. Tillman taught engineering?
-- University of Michigan where Dr. Lisa Colletti teaches surgery?
You are being much too complimentary IMHO. I got so nauseated reading it I had to take a breather. Do you mean to tell me they wrote an article that wasn't insipid and self-congratulatory to the extreme? I've found their entire series on aerotowing to come off rather poorly to say the least. A sad waste of such exalted and highly qualified medical professionals. How do I know this? Well they won't stop patting each other on the back about how great they both are.
Pardon me while I puke.
- Perhaps I could see the documentation for one of the many original developments YOU'VE contributed to hang gliding. Then I could use it as a model and get things right.
Imagine trying to submit it to a journal.
I've gotta wait until I hear back back from the Chair of the Accident Review Committee...
Subj: FTHI
Date: 2009/10/13 16:03:35
From: nick.greece@ushpa.aero
To--: TadErcksn at aol dot com
Hi there,
Sorry it has taken me a bit to reply. Your ideas are being considered at the committee chair level. I sent your article to Joe Gregor, the safety chair, for comment and he will get back to you shortly.
Thanks and let me know if you have any questions!
Nick
...before I can consider submitting anything else to any more journals.
It's the ramble and rants of a mad man.
He's mad, I tell you! MAD!! MAD!!! MAD!!!! MAAAD!!!!!
- This document was NEVER intended to be submitted to a fucking university or a fucking journal. It's a stand-alone document that I:
-- used to duplicate the equipment that I developed; and
-- made available publicly available so that anyone else who wanted to duplicate my equipment could do so.
And it has so far served both of those functions quite satisfactorily - thank you very much.
- You don't have two percent of the IQ necessary to BEGIN to understand what's in that document. Compare/Contrast with Antoine Saraf (deltaman) who - with English as a second (or third, fourth...?) language went through the whole goddam thing, understood every word, found mistakes I had made, and beautifully duplicated the hardware and put it into the air.
(And also discovered and fixed a really dangerous flaw in the Four-String Emergency Release.)
Just glossing over it...
- Which is the maximum extent of any effort you ever put into ANYTHING.
- And you're QUITE sure that "it's the ramble and rants of a mad man" after "just glossing it over". Whoa, dude, YOU'RE GOOD.
- So tell me, douchebag... Point to ONE DETAIL in that document that doesn't add up. That might take just a bit more effort than somebody with a fifteen second attention span who just glosses things over is really up to but give it a shot anyway.
...he keeps using the word "Strength."
Yeah, well a lot of the document is about weak links. I realize that most other hang gliding interests are really adverse to mentioning anything about actual STRENGTHS of weak links and, instead, prefer to speak of them in terms of...
Always use an appropriate weak link with a finished length of 1.5 inches or less.
That's why we use 3strand at the tug's end. Using 4 strand can rip things off (it's happened).
...numbers of strands of 130 pound Greenspot but I've just always been of the opinion that we should be talking about STRENGTHS and expressing them in terms of pounds, decaNewtons, Gs, whatever. Just one of my many strange little quirks.
Yeah, I know what it means. People who know what it means tend to get a lot more airtime than...
GT Manufacturing Inc. (GT) and Lookout Mountain Flight Park Inc. (LMFP) make no claim of serviceability of this tow equipment. There is no product liability insurance covering this gear and we do not warrant this gear as suitable for towing anything. We make no claim of serviceability in any way and recommend that you do not use this aerotow gear if you are not absolutely sure how to use it and or if you are unwilling to assume the risk. Towing and flying hang gliders is inherently dangerous.
If properly used, there is a minimum of three ways to release from the towline. Do not depend on any of these ways by themselves and fly with a back up. The first release is the primary release which under certain situations may fail, second, is the secondary release that works most of the time, if all is set up correctly, and third, the weak link which will break under the right load. You should also fly with a hook knife that will allow you to cut the line if need be.
GT and LMFP Inc. assume no liability for the function and serviceability of this equipment. If you are uncomfortable with the risk of using this tow gear you will need to get gear that you are comfortable with or do not tow. There is an inherent risk in towing hang gliders that you must assume if you want to use this gear and you want to tow. Learn and understand the risk and the use of this gear. Your safety depends on it.
little snippet? What kind of numbers did you get for "serviceability"?
Have you read the excellent book, Towing Aloft, by Dennis Pagen and Bill Bryden? Any comment on:
Weak links very clearly will provide protection from excessive angles of attack, high bank turns and the like for this form of towing.
How 'bout Dr. Trisa Tilletti's article on weak links in the 2012/06 issue of hang gliding? Did you notice how many times he/she kept using the word "stall"?
I myself got zero. Think that Zack Marzec would've benefitted just a wee bit from knowing that there were opinions out there similar to this one:
A glider under tow is a powered aircraft. String powered. When climbing under power, the angle of attack is relevant to the climb path, not the horizon. And if the tow force is subtracted instantly, the angle of attack is instantly translated, whether or not there is pilot input. A classic Departure Stall can easily, almost instantly result. Pitch and power are not independent forces.
not expressed in Trisa's otherwise excellent article?
