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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:57:36 -0700 (PDT), Brad
wrote: A couple of thoughts: 1) Did I see Moffat cutting the tips off of his Open Cirrus and gluing on tip extensions? Was this a certified glider? if so, was it ok to make field mods like that back then? Not only Moffat's ship was modified, Gleb's was, too. Here's the story about George's Cirrus: http://www.classicsailplane.org/Cirr...t/cirrus23.htm 3) Is competition really as filled with broken gliders as we saw in the video? Not today anymore - although I know of a recent one in Europe where quite a few gliders were damaged. But I'm pretty sure that nowadays pilots tend to convert 500 ft into a safe outlanding instead of using Moffat's method of getting another 7 miles... But: Competitions taking place in mountains are very, very dangerous - the fatality rate of Grand Prix's that took place in mountains is devastating in my opinion (3 top pilots killed within the last 2 years). There have also been quite a couple of fatalities in the last years in competions that took place in the Alps (Switzerland, Rieti). Andreas |
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I was only getting audio too, then downloaded this program: VLC Media Player. Now the video plays perfectly.
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
On Aug 19, 6:53*pm, Bernie wrote:
The DVD I burnt from the converted .avi file plays *perfectly, the film is just great and the air to air scenes sensational. I can even live with the few Bee Gees songs..... The torrent is still active. *I converted the file to DVD using the program 'ConvertXtoDVD'. They sure crashed a lot when out-landing.............. *and landing at the field! I have not used torrents before. When I go to download the sunship file, it downloads a 54.3 KB file only. I can't open this file as windows doesn't recognize it (using window XP pro and Firefox). Is there a program to use for downloading torrent files that I need to get? Is the 54.3 KB file the file that will do the actual downloading? If so how do I open that file? Thanks! WD |
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
while Gleb had a lot of domestic issues to deal with, while going through a divorce, that ran over into
his contest flying. Not to mention chain smoking at the high Marfa elevations. |
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
At 15:29 20 August 2009, Whiskey Delta wrote:
On Aug 19, 6:53=A0pm, Bernie wrote: The DVD I burnt from the converted .avi file plays =A0perfectly, the film is just great and the air to air scenes sensational. I can even live with the few Bee Gees songs..... The torrent is still active. =A0I converted the file to DVD using the program 'ConvertXtoDVD'. They sure crashed a lot when out-landing.............. =A0and landing at the field! I have not used torrents before. When I go to download the sunship file, it downloads a 54.3 KB file only. I can't open this file as windows doesn't recognize it (using window XP pro and Firefox). Is there a program to use for downloading torrent files that I need to get? Is the 54.3 KB file the file that will do the actual downloading? If so how do I open that file? Thanks! WD http://www.utorrent.com/ |
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
On Aug 19, 4:53*pm, Bernie wrote:
They sure crashed a lot when out-landing.............. *and landing at the field! There was a prevalent attitude at that time which said the way to win was to take chances - i.e. "no guts, no glory". You still hear that occasionally from uninformed sources. Dick Johnson, like most top pilots, would patiently explain that the way to win was to be careful, conserve your personal energy and fly well every day - you couldn't win by crashing your glider or landing out in remote places that took all night for a retrieve. They'd say things like. "Know your limits and don't exceed them". "If you're not good enough to win, taking chances won't improve your score." "Study, practice and come back next year." Even if some of these yahoos didn't crash, they scared themselves so badly they couldn't concentrate. Back home, they'd try to explain their poor performance by saying 'everyone else' took chances to win that they weren't willing to take thus perpetuating the "no guts - no glory" myth. That said, many 1969 gliders were better designed for rough field landings. Many still had nose skids and high wings for good brush clearance. Lighter wing loadings made for slower landings. |
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
To open the torrent file you have downloaded, you need BitTorrent
client software such as uTorrent or Vuze. The client software will recognise the file as a torrent, and commence downloading the actual target file. Once you have downloaded and installed the client, simply double click on the torrent file to open it and start the download. I have not used torrents before. *When I go to download the sunship file, it downloads a 54.3 KB file only. *I can't open this file as windows doesn't recognize it (using window XP pro and Firefox). *Is there a program to use for downloading torrent files that I need to get? *Is the 54.3 KB file the file that will do the actual downloading? *If so how do I open that file? Thanks! WD |
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:29:08 -0700, Whiskey Delta wrote:
I have not used torrents before. When I go to download the sunship file, it downloads a 54.3 KB file only. I can't open this file as windows doesn't recognize it (using window XP pro and Firefox). Is there a program to use for downloading torrent files that I need to get? Is the 54.3 KB file the file that will do the actual downloading? If so how do I open that file? Opera 9.64 seems to handle torrents as just another download - at least the Linux version does. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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On Aug 21, 8:53*am, Martin Gregorie
wrote: Thanks for the replies! Now to try to convert it and burn a dvd. Will use the suggestions made previously. Thanks again, WD |
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Sun Ship Game on Youtube - Complete
Thanks for the link - got the movie and watched it last night. What
great stuff - makes me want to track down other older docos and movies featuring soaring. So many crashes and risks taken in this film though, makes me reluctant to show it to my wife! Seemed like almost every outlanding included a ground loop. Great to see the dress code for flying back then. Collared shirt and chinos. Reminded me of a book I looked at with history of gliding in Western Australia, with photos from the 1930s era of chaps in primary gliders wearing shorts with ties. Tally ho! |
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