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Re: Chute Forces (1)

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Subject: Re: Chute Forces (1)
From: John Goodman <ggl205@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:23:41 -0700 (PDT)
If you want to see evidence of a deployed chute spike,
ask Turk for his Maxton QwikData files. Print the
histograms for his front and rear potentiometers. The
spike is quite evident.

John Goodman  

--- 3liter <saltfever@comcast.net> wrote:
> At the beginning of the month John Robinson left a
> posting about his former
> experience sky diving. The conclusion of that post
> was that he never
> experienced chute loads of greater than 2.7 G
> regardless of his terminal
> velocity or the chute opening speed. I though about
> John's post and also
> remember some analysis Mayf did after Nolan White's
> accident. While John
> accepts there might be a "G spike", his data never
> showed it. John was
> recalling data from a long time ago so this is not a
> criticism but only an
> attempt to understand his experience. In fact, thank
> you John for sharing
> the information and causing me to dig deeper.



                
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