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skyking

skyking

Lifer
Nov 21, 2001
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Nvidiaguy07 said:
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what is going on here?
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No idea. Is it a tethered balloon or what? It looks like the cable ends just below where the plane passed through, but I can't tell.
I have not seen a skydiver with something dangling like that.
 
xBiffx

xBiffx

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Aug 22, 2011
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kage69 said:
Hey Biff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMVHBtfUrcM

:)
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Missed this post but finally got to it.

Been in that exact situation more times than I want to remember. Pocket rockets are the death of me. I end up folding them more times that I play them anymore. I almost never go all in with them now. I hate that game! (but i love it too)

I play like the guy with the kings. Yeah, he would have won, but you also can lose what you don't put in the middle.
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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Broheim said:
well, I can tell you about the one that is almost coming to an end.

get America scared of the commies so they'll do all the fighting around the world and we'll be free to spend our money on other shit :whiste:
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It's sad this political shit is here, but most of the world's wealth and influence is now owned by that flexing of the US by a handful of people/corporations.
 
destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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OCNewbie said:
I'm pretty sure that's either a paraglider or a powered paraglider (due to the seated position of the pilot). Not sure what's on the end of that rope though.
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Indeed, it apparently is paragliding. Of some sort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZiosgZ64JM


They also have an explanation.
The wire is sort of like an auto-launch. They lift up the glider, and once they are at the correct height, they disconnect and the individual is then able to do free paragliding.

I guess it's something they do when the land is flat for great stretches.
 
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OCNewbie

Diamond Member
Jul 18, 2000
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destrekor said:
Indeed, it apparently is paragliding. Of some sort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZiosgZ64JM


They also have an explanation.
The wire is sort of like an auto-launch. They lift up the glider, and once they are at the correct height, they disconnect and the individual is then able to do free paragliding.

I guess it's something they do when the land is flat for great stretches.
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Ahh, yeah... doh... They're towed into the air via a ground-mounted wench, or sometimes a spool of wire in the back of a pickup truck or something.

Edit: That was incredibly close.
 
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