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#85
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02-26-2020, 07:34 AM
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 +_+ Private +_+ Poster Rank:2176 'outie' Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 217 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 20 Post(s)
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Re: Man Riding Homemade Rocket Killed
For the last two years I have been building an experimental kit aircraft in my hangar at home. I have been weighing the pros and cons of a BRS parachute for the flight testing stage. The extra weight, cost and of course the actual benefits of it considering a great percentage of LSA and homebuilt aircraft accidents are in the flight testing stage and under 1000' I had struck it off my list. After watching him thunder into the ground I am going to reconsider installing one. This was obviously not a BRS as it looks about as effective as one of those paratroopers you would get at a variety store when we were kids. Wrap the chute and the parachords around the army dude and chuck it up into the air.... I could not in my mind imagine why anyone would want to be propelled 1500' into the air without any type of flight controls.... |
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#87
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02-26-2020, 01:59 PM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:1426 Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 410 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 62 Post(s)
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Re: Man Riding Homemade Rocket Killed
I know there are people that love him and are mourning his lost, and I feel bad for them but I have to say, it's hard for me to feel sorry for such an anti-science champion.
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#88
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02-26-2020, 02:03 PM
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| My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:2667 Male Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 157 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 77 Post(s)
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Re: Man Riding Homemade Rocket Killed
My buddy and I were considering building a LSA, however my buddy said “I don’t want the last thought to be going through my mind being ‘damn, that elevator control bolt should have had a lock nut!”
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