2013 US Nationals at Big Spring, Texas
Lessee...Pilots will be shown how to tie the weaklink so that it more likely breaks at its rating breaking strength.
We've been towing behind Dragonflies for over twenty-two years and somebody's FINALLY gonna show us how to tie the weaklink so that it more likely breaks at its secret rating breaking strength.
- Do we hafta wait until the pilots meeting the morning of the competition to learn how to tie the new secret weak link so that it more likely breaks at its secret rating breaking strength? This sounds pretty revolutionary. Wouldn't it make sense to describe the process or provide a video so that we could get some practice in before we go live?
- What if we're not gonna attend the competition? Shouldn't the dozen or so people who won't be able to make it to the comp have benefit of this new secret method of tying the new secret weak link material so that it more likely breaks at its secret rating breaking strength?
- How come the meet organizers haven't shared this secret tying method with the flight parks who are all constantly striving to perfect aerotowing? Or does this new weak link material and tying method offer such a radical improvement in aerotowing safety that we don't wanna be just handing it out free to whatever muppets just happen along?
- If you use the new secret tying method with the new secret fishing line will flight park operators who don't give shits about rating breaking strengths and numbers have something that...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
...just breaks every once in a while - preferably as early as possible in lockout situations but not in turbulence?Bart Weghorst - 2011/08/28 20:29:27 UTC
Now I don't give a shit about breaking strength anymore. I really don't care what the numbers are. I just want my weaklink to break every once in a while.
- If I'm unable to master the secret new tying method which makes it more likely for the new secret fishing line to break at its secret rating breaking strength can't I just use some inappropriate fishing line and a Fisherman's Knot and Double Lark's Head which makes it less likely for it to break at its rating breaking strength?
- I once locked out on an early Laminar ST. Went past vertical and past 45 degrees to the line of pull - and the load forces were increasing dramatically. The Rooney Link blew as I was reaching for my easily stored Davis Bent Pin Mini Barrel and the glider stalled - needed every bit of the 250 feet I had to speed up and pull out.
-- I'm alive because I didn't use a secret new fishing line tied in the new secret method such that it more likely breaks at its secret rating breaking strength.
-- Can I get a waiver to fly a single loop of 130 pound Greenspot tied with a Fisherman's Knot and installed on the end of my bridle with a Double Lark's Head?
-- That's a proven system that works and has a huge track record.
- If I start locking out low will I be permitted to blow my release at below the tension allowed by my new secret fishing line installed using the new secret tying method which makes my weak link more likely to break at its secret rating breaking strength? (I'd like to be able to do that but it seems like cheating because it would be the moral equivalent of using a weak link not provided and used in a manner approved by the meet organizers.)
(This is the most fun I've had since the Zack Marzec freak accident. (But, of course, this is still just more fallout from the Zack Marzec freak accident so I guess it's not really fair to count it as a separate category.))