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Getting Windy...
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Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:48 pmby patchz
Anyone have a really big kite I can borrow? It's getting rather windy here.
Re: Getting Windy...
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Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:13 amby Flying Trucker
Good morning Larry...
Looks like you need an umbrella as I see some severe thunderstorms as well...
The flooding I see, would that be along the Mississippi River?
Stay in bed and pull covers over head...Larry...
Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
Re: Getting Windy...
Posted:
Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:50 pmby patchz
Thanks Doug.
Actually, it never got that bad here. It got pretty windy for a little while before the storm front arrived, then just a little rain. It passed rather quietly. Folks a good bit further north did not have it so lucky.
Re: Getting Windy...
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Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:51 pmby BigTruck
My sister in law in Tuscaloosa called to let me hear the tornado sirens going off. I always find them so spooky. Can't wait to move there next year. 8-)
Re: Getting Windy...
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Wed Apr 13, 2011 2:35 pmby H
[quote]My sister in law in Tuscaloosa called to let me hear the tornado sirens going off.
Re: Getting Windy...
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Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:52 pmby patchz
[quote][quote]My sister in law in Tuscaloosa called to let me hear the tornado sirens going off.
Re: Getting Windy...
Posted:
Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:26 pmby Skunkworks
I'd loan you my old Raven 225 hang glider, but it's probably too far gone as a feast for moths...
Re: Getting Windy...
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Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:44 pmby patchz
If the 225 stands for maximum pounds it can lift, we'd never get off the ground anyway.
Re: Getting Windy...
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:55 amby H
If the 225 stands for maximum pounds it can lift, we'd never get off the ground anyway.
That's a bit questionable here... we'd remain at a standstill... tethered to the nearest tree... until there was a substantial wind (I began my major interest in aircraft with The Hurricane Story).8-)
Re: Getting Windy...
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:15 amby Skunkworks
[color=#000000]It was a single surface two seat training kite,
with about a seven to one glide ratio which compared to today's kites
it dropped like a rock, high tech for the early 80's!
225 lbs was indeed the max weight and I weighed a paltry
little 220 lbs back then. Oh to be young and slim again
Re: Getting Windy...
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:27 amby H
[quote]225 lbs was indeed the max weight and I weighed a paltry
little 220 lbs back then. Oh to be young and slim again
Re: Getting Windy...
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:11 pmby Skunkworks
[quote][quote]225 lbs was indeed the max weight and I weighed a paltry
little 220 lbs back then. Oh to be young and slim again
Re: Getting Windy...
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Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:42 amby BigTruck
[quote][quote]My sister in law in Tuscaloosa called to let me hear the tornado sirens going off.
Re: Getting Windy...
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Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:12 pmby H
You forget that I am a Marine...everytime I move I create an EF-5 tornado!
No, I haven't forgotten that you're part of the Military Armed Retinue In Navy Equiped Ships...
but, in that watery relationship to a twister, wouldn't you more like be spouting off?8-)
Re: Getting Windy...
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Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:54 pmby BigTruck
You forget that I am a Marine...everytime I move I create an EF-5 tornado!
No, I haven't forgotten that you're part of the Military Armed Retinue In Navy Equiped Ships...
but, in that watery relationship to a twister, wouldn't you more like be spouting off?8-)
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