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Let’s shoot for 9:30 or 10. I’ll be there ballooning and will pull out as much of the ground equipment as I can.
Tad was an extremely resourceful and fun guy to be around. He had his own way of doing things…which was more often than not ingeniously efficient and brilliantly simple. I understand he was an instructor in Poland and part of the team that designed the PW-5.
A friendly face at the club who will be sorely missed.
To piggyback off this (potential) wastage of fuel, I ask that we leave the cans of drained fuel in place. Tried burning a small amount earlier today in the fire pit and it behaved in a way that miiiight be safe to still use in the heaters. Waiting one week for a special calibrated flask to ship, then I will weigh it to see what the gas:kerosene ratio is. If there’s too much gas I will bring it to a hazmat disposal site. Let’s hope we can still make use of it.
-Your friendly neighborhood chemistry nerd
All good points made here. It’s true that it is possible to jam a Schweizer type release if the load is applied in the wrong direction, perpendicular to the long axis of the swinging link. Denny made a great point about the tow plane being susceptible.
I also wonder if the pitch attitude of the kiting glider rose to a point where the angle of the tow rope caused its release, also, to jam.
In essence I wonder if both releases jammed at once because of the unusual pitch attitudes.
