well said
----- Original Message -----
From: "W S Potter" <wester6935@attbi.com>
To: <webmaster@landracing.com>; "James Tone" <gmc6power@earthlink.net>;
"landspeedracer" <landspeedracer@msn.com>; "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>;
"Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Parachutes
> As secretive as Nolan may be or has been, he is friendly with other
builders
> who have gone very fast on the salt like Gene Burkland. These friendships
> go back before you were born Jon. He has learned from his mistakes. He
and
> Rick are in the safety business building roll cages. Along with that
> business comes the responsibility to their customers to explain what is
> needed to be safe. He may not be publishing a book but I am willing to
bet
> there will be some good information coming from him. His chutes DID ALL
> deploy. He did something right to have that happen ... you see a lot of
> fast cars that can't claim that for the latest run.
>
> My take on this whole business is that there will be more attention
focused
> on stopping cars. Just as Ted Halibrand made the jet airliner possible
with
> the invention of the spot brake, there's going to be someone who comes up
> with a solution for this problem. Until then the sponsoring organizations
> have to work to increase the reliability of the present systems. Perhaps
> inspection will have to enter into the equation somewhere to enforce
better
> stopping. As you report, the E Z Hook liner is working on parachute
> problems and testing, testing, testing every meet. Somewhere there is a
> solution and I hope we find it soon.
>
> Wes
>
> on 10/19/02 9:40 PM, webmaster@landracing.com at webmaster@landracing.com
> wrote:
>
> > Well a couple of views here.
> > Mayf, how can you say what might be wrong when you have not inspected
the
> > failure of the chutes at any particular occasion. Do you know that they
may
> > have tore cords, wern't installed properly and so on. There are too many
> > different failure problems, some are deploying properly due to dynamics
of
> > vehicle etc etc. I always will respect you mayf that just my thoughts.
> >
> > James Tone, what makes you think Nolan will campaign any information, he
has
> > always been the most secretive player on the salt flats ever?
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >> It is a problem for vehicles over 400 mph. Nolan is a supplier of
safety
> >> equitpment and I'm sure he has looked at everything possible since his
> >> problem at August SpeedWeek. This week was catastrophic for him and
his
> >> land speed attempts. After his recovery I'm sure he will champion this
> >> problem for the other "real" fast land speed vehicles. All of us at the
> >> list should take a wait and see position, instead of try to solve this
type
> >> a problem in this forum....J.D ps.We can't change rules to rule out
cockpit
> >> problems with parachutes.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> Subject: Parachutes
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