[Land-speed] Quick Release Helmet Restraints

[John Staiger]

Zorro - humor aside, thanks for the lead on Crossbow.  For the last 5 years
I have used crossed mercury switches as a tilt sensor to fire the chutes on
the Arrow streamliner bike if she leaned to far over.  This system worked
well in 2006 when a blown front tire launched the bike in a violent roll and
pitch maneuver.  The rider never had a chance to react.  The good news was
the chute caught the bike beginning it's pitch, straightened it out, and
slid it to a stop.  No injuries and minimal damage to the bike.  

I was planning on do the same design as an upgrade to the Berkeley this off
season.  I think I will use the Crossbow analog tilt sensor instead.  It
looks to be far more reliable and possesses order of magnitude increases in
precision. 

So sometimes crazy ideas are not so crazy...

John
569

-----Original Message-----
From: land-speed-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:land-speed-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bryan Savage
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 11:29 PM
To: Doug Odom
Cc: landspeed at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Quick Release Helmet Restraints

Oh, thanks Doug, I forgot to include the Crossbow, solid state Inertial Nav.
System. Very fast response, about 12 oz, works great in model Helicopters
and UAV's. Set to fire at 1 5 degree pitch, 1 5 degrees roll and 1 35 
degrees yaw

Zorro


Doug Odom wrote:
> Hey Zorro, What if your upside down???     LOL     Doug
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Savage"
<b.a.savage at wildblue.net>
> To: <drmayf at mayfco.com>
> Cc: "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Quick Release Helmet Restraints
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