art_lessing
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![[*]](./images/perspective/default_icon.gif) posted on 7-19-2010 at 02:14 PM |
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hmmm...idea
has anybody launched a parasailer/glider with a kite buggy?
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WELDNGOD
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| posted on 7-19-2010 at 02:27 PM |
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what you want is one of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRxb0StQmMw
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indigo_wolf
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| posted on 7-19-2010 at 02:56 PM |
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A glider is tow/winch launched into the wind. A buggy travels perpendicular to the wind (or downwind, if you like walking) .
Given that, I think you are going to run into some logistic/physics-based issues.
Add to that the comparitive weights and sail areas of the two critters and I could see you having some seriously ugly instances of the tail wagging
the dog.
I would appreciate it if someone would check my logic, but that's what I got at first blush. Could just be that my protractor is broken. 
ATB,
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stetson05
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| posted on 7-19-2010 at 08:08 PM |
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I have a paraglider that is about 24m. It takes about the same wind as my S1.5 17m to keep it in the air but if I was moving forward, maybe. Next
time there is wind but not enough for the 17m I will give it a whirl
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indigo_wolf
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| posted on 7-19-2010 at 08:57 PM |
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Hmmm... ok.... it looks like I misread part of the original post, but it seems like you would still have the same problems with launching "a
parasailer/glider with a kite buggy".
I am definitely missing something. 
ATB,
Sam
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WIllardTheGrey
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| posted on 7-20-2010 at 03:34 AM |
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I know that sometimes they fit a buggy to a paramotor. But a paraglider? maybe rolling down a hill to launch? Ok I have no clue what I'm talking
about.
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popeyethewelder
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| posted on 7-20-2010 at 08:20 AM |
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Drewculous
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| posted on 7-20-2010 at 11:20 AM |
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the first guy passed the CWS test!!!
he did it while drinking a beer!!
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| posted on 7-20-2010 at 12:47 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Drewculous
the first guy passed the CWS test!!!
he did it while drinking a beer!! |
I really should look into this as there is little to no wind here during the summer (this week being the exception)
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art_lessing
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| posted on 7-21-2010 at 10:42 AM |
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well I was just thinking about having someone in a buggy using something like a phantom to pull them along...and then having a parasailer attached to
the back of the buggy to loft someone up in the air the same way they do for tourists on a lake...but buggy powered.....
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stetson05
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| posted on 7-21-2010 at 02:02 PM |
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Ahh, Much clearer. Nope haven't done that.
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HQ 1.4m which my 5 and 8 year old fly
Pansh Legend 3m, Blaze 5m
HQ Hydra 300 PZ depower mod, Neo 11m
Flysurfer S1.5 17m
PL V2 10m
Homemade Buggy, Radbuggy
DaKine Speed Seat
SIMS snowboard, MBS Core 90, 95
Crazy Fly 145
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WIllardTheGrey
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| posted on 7-21-2010 at 09:51 PM |
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Rip just posted a video of someone skim-boarding behing a buggy but I'v never heard of a parasail.
I'll sign up to be a test dummy
"I gave up on wind speeds... its either crappy, gravy, epic, or stupid... in that order" --Drewculous
Plus; 1m ProFoil, 04 12m North Vegas 5th line, and numerous loners from BigSiler.
Wish list; Yakuza, Vapor, Nitro Evo, Combat, Prodigy, (you get the idea), Phantom, Rev B. I'm broke so don't tempt me.
My experience is limeted to one C-kite, some foils, an ATB and a buggy. Anything else I'm just being an internet ninja, I will try to source any
thing I say however.
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