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Re: Parachute Deployment Load Rates...

To: "Joe Amo" <jkamo@rap.midco.net>
Subject: Re: Parachute Deployment Load Rates...
From: Doug Odom <popms@thegrid.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:57:15 -0700
    List; Does anyone know how the parachutes are hooked up on the space shuttle
or one of those really big transport planes? Is there anything we can learn from
those examples?  Just asking so no one get mad at me OK?  Doug Odom in big ditch

DrMayf wrote:

> Tom, thanks for the reply. Glad to hear that the analyses is pretty much on
> track with regards to yank load. It is what I was trying to get everyone to
> think about. I understand that there are speed secrets that everyone wants
> to keep close to their chests, but there is no award for stopping fast or
> correctly. We should ,as a community, be sharing all knowledge with respect
> to stopping after the race is done. As to the assumptions of failure, are
> you chiding me as to the cause? Hope not because, I very clearly make it
> plain that I have not a clue as to what exactly happened. And just because
> something works one time then fails another is more reason to look at the
> high speed parachute situation...and I suspect that not much goes over you
> head...
>
> not picking on you Tom, just a good place for more soap box.
>
> mayf, the red necked ignorant desert rat in Pahrump

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