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Old November 2nd 04, 12:25 PM
Chris OCallaghan
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Avoiding the sling shot effect by transferring the elastic recovery of
the rope into a yaw motion of the sailplane rather than an increase in
speed, creating more slack, and introducing another cycle of slack,
boing, slack, boing, slack, boing...