Pee bag gel

On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 11:35:07 AM UTC-4, WB wrote:
On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 10:33:31 AM UTC-5, WB wrote:
On Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 8:55:14 PM UTC-5, Bob Youngblood wrote:
On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 12:02:35 AM UTC-4, soaringjac wrote:
We have cats and just got a new type of litter for them called SoPhresh Gel Lock. This stuff would be great in a zip lock pee bag! Super absorbent and turns into a gel immediately. I have not tried it in flight yet, but once i saw how this stuff worked i knew it would be great to put in some pee bags. They have it at Petco and probably amazon as well

https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcos...lti-cat-litter

What do you think?

Back in the day toilet paper was used as an experiment to determine rotation of thermals. Probably only a few in this forum can recount this happening, but it resulted in the naming of a great glider club in Miami. I know that Burt knows the details and Scotty would also, so if you think the pee bags were exciting what would you do if you were flying along and were being passed by a 50 foot stream of toilet paper. Harry Senn, was one of the chief meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami and conducted research on thermal strength and size along with rotation by dispensing toilet paper from the cockpit of his 1-26. Check all this out, History -Miami Gliders. Those were the days, kind of like being part of the old guard. Bob

Good 'ol Thermal Research! I was lucky enough to get to sit around listening to Harry tell Thermal Research stories. One story was about taking off in a Sport Canopy equipped 1-26 with inflated balloons packed in all around him. Harry tossed them out in a thermal to see if balloons would work better than t-paper for mapping the thermal. He also told about flying a 1-26 into fair weather water spouts. He said folks were researching them with instrumented aircraft. I think he mentioned that one group doing this used a Cessna 310. Anyway, these folks were afraid of the water spouts and would not get closer than a hundred yards or so. Harry had observed them from fairly close and had estimated the updraft strength from observing debris, like bits of weeds, etc., going up in the spout. He figured that flying into a one of these fair weather spouts would be no different than a dust devil. So he just flew his 1-26 right through them. He said it was just like sticking a wing into a dust devil. Lifted the wing a bit, that was all.

Yes, Thermal Research, what a hoot we had, I was a young glider pilot flying with some of the best. We flew everyday, had a cooler full of cold beer and enjoyed some of the best glider flying one could imagine. I have some great stories about the cast of characters, Fritz, Harry, Benny, Alfonso, and a whole lot more. We never bombed the trailer park, but we did leave a few deposits in the Everglades. Back in those days we just stuck Henry in a big mouth bottle and filled it to the rim, tossing it out over the Everglades.. What a great time we had. Bob