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| Posted by: rustyh |
9/24/2007 3:27 PM |
More boring news from Hornby
So today was predicted as a perfect fly day here, but we all know the lackluster performance of the weather guys this year. Still, it was a nice morning and the tendrils of breeze were crawling up the channel when I took a look about 10 am. I jumped in the truck and took off for the hill, a ten minute drive. I think I must go into some kind of time warp on my way there because within the span of that trip the wind was definitely scooting up the scale. There was a Daphne eradiction crew working the bluffs, and they had taken up all the parking in MY lot, so I had to go down onto the runway and drive to the lower bluffs. This then made it necessary for me to climb up the hill with all my gear, a chore usually left to the end of a flight made easier because of the adreniline that would still be coarsing throughout my bod. Not today, I was still full of breaky, so a closer term would be, "I sloshed up the hill."
I got flaked out, wandered over to the blackberry patch to relieve some of the bladder pressure, and then came back to hook in. Today was the first time this seaason that flying with whitecaps was a no-no. Air density is back to winter normal, so more power per square inch. While I stood there getting my GPS to lock on, some good gusts broke through and it became apparent that I didn't have as much time as the forecast predicted, it was rising fast.
I setup and started my launch, took a peek at the wing, and lifted off. I felt a weird thump, then a rustle and looked up to see the tip caught in other lines. Turning to my left wasn't happening, so I kept my lean to the left in place while I plucked the wrong coloured line. Last week I changed my stabilizer line and now it's the same colour as all the rest, reddish, whereas it use to be a dark green. What I did to find it was to check all the diameters of the lines, looking for the thinnest, gave it a quick couple of tugs and the cravat released.
Now the ground was coming up and I experienced some lunging and buffeting, settled the wing down,and dropped slowly to the ground.
Here's the video link to what the helmet cam recorded
http://hv20.info/yopu/Pulling out a small cravat.mpg
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Re: What's a little Cravat between friends |
By rustyh on
9/24/2007 3:57 PM |
Crap, can't edit something wrong with the site, so a comment will have to do
it should read
http://hv20.info/yopu/Pulling out small cravat.mpg
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Re: What's a little Cravat between friends |
By rustyh on
9/24/2007 4:19 PM |
| Crumbs...just realized I should render it to a wav file as you people might not use VLC media player. |
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Re: What's a little Cravat between friends |
By rustyh on
9/24/2007 8:51 PM |
The player I use for mpg2 files is VLC media player, just google it and install, it's free.
What I get when I hit the edit button to correct the mistake I made in the url, is the following error message:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Could not find a part of the path "e:\". |
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