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Re: Parachutes

To: DrMayf <drmayf@teknett.com>
Subject: Re: Parachutes
From: Joe Amo <jkamo@rap.midco.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:11:39 -0600
Mayf,  respectfully with a statement like:

""it failed. don't need to know much more, do I?""

I gotta ask,  do all engineers think alike??:):):)

seriously,  thank you for the insight and calculations
you provide 

you got any for my engine (joking), I hear that cylinder pressures can 
get real
high (joking)

Joe :)

DrMayf wrote:

>it failed. don't need to know much more, do I?  And never said I  knew what
>was wrong at any time or any point. Just that parachute loads are very high
>when deployed in the manner they are and that can and does lead to failures.
>However, any weak link in the system will rupture at high loads rates like
>these.
>mayf
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>  In a message dated 10/19/2002 9:40:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>webmaster@landracing.com writes:
>
>
>    Mayf, how can you say what might be wrong when you have not inspected the
>failure of the chutes at any particular occasion
>
>
>  THE BEST STATEMENT YET! JACK

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