| From: | The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Night Glider |
| Date: | Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:54:08 -0600 |
> > Glider: an unpowered plane (that's right, if a regular plane loses
> > it's engine it becomes a glider. Some planes make better gliders
> > than others.).
And some are just bricks...
> > Parasail: similar to a parachute, the chute is wing shaped. I'm not
> > sure how the pilot controls the parasail. (I've flown planes, but
> > I've never jumped out of one :)
> In my (brief) experience, there are pull-cords which change the shape of
> the wing in the same manner as an airelon would. That and shifting body
> position. (Parasailing is almost identical to parachuting; parachutes
> are designed to drop more or less straight down where parasails are
> designed to maximize forward motion; like gliders, you can sometimes
> catch a thermal for a brief rise, but usually it's all downward.)
Well i havent ever actualy jumped but i have read alot (Why jump
out of a perfectly working areoplane?:)) You have the pull cords mostly
right though IIRC when you pull REAL hard you can cause the chute to
drasticaly lose lift for a fast decent... Parasails are more manuverable
than your typical round chute and therefor used for jobs needing pinpoint
landing (like in that small clearing behind enemy lines, or on the Fuchi
Building roof:))
The high glide ratio of a parasail also allows one to preform what
is called a HAHO jump. You jump out of the plane at (H)igh (A)ltitued and
have a (H)igh (O)pening of your chute. Usualy you will be so high you
need an O2 source to breath. You then glide from the drop point to the
landing zone. Suposedly with good weather, good chutes, and a high enough
jump you can glide for 20+ miles horizontal.
So theres this plane going from X to Y that happens to pass about
20 miles from my protected site, no big deal its a normal air corridor
nothing suspicious on radar. But what i didnt pick up where the 10 HAHO
jumpers that exited the plane and are gliding stealthly toward my site...
No radar return, No noise(well cloth flapping mabey), only a Human sized
IR signal and we all know about damping those right:).
Ya know you can get a lot of good ideas for running the shadows by
reading the non-fiction acounts of various special operation forces around
the world:).
Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
tmprice@***********.com
