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Re: G Loading

To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>, "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>,
Subject: Re: G Loading
From: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:39:07 -0400
Yeah it's some exponential number that will just boggle the mind. Mayf did
this once and it was huge.

One of the big things and often over looked is to increase the surface area
around the strap at the attachment point. A nice one to two inch aluminum
wheel seems to work well.

JB

> What is not said is the small piece of time when the chute deploys and
goes
> from 0 g pull to 2.3 there is a small point in time when it is a lot more
> than 2.3 G..
> Dave






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