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Re: Chute mounting

To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
Subject: Re: Chute mounting
From: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:16:14 -0700
Just finished talking to Bob Stroud. He said effectively the same thing.
Draw a line between the center of the parachute and the car's center of 
gravity.
Attach the parachute somewhere along that line.

Bryan

Keith Turk wrote:

>Think of it this way Bob.... if you were the Jolly Green Giant ( ho ho ho )
>and you grabbed the parachute and lifted... you would want the car to tangle
>exactly straight down....
>
>it needs to pull from as close to the centerline of the car as possible....
>
>K






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