UNFUCKINGBELIEVEABLE! That "pilot" should be stripped of any license he has to give rides and then taken out back and shot in the face. Besides failing the absolute most basic and mandatory flight check (duh! for clipped in), he should have landed immediately in that upper field. He looks like he's going to for a moment (has a nice long landing zone behind the back of the houses at approx 27 seconds in), but then has issues balancing the kite and turns it back toward the (safer) lower landing zone. All I can figure was he was afraid (for himself and his kite) of a hard landing in the upper field, so he chose instead to take the safest route for HIS welfare. At that point, he was exponentially increasing the risk to the passengers life by extending the flight. I'll bet you anything he figured the guy wouldn't even make it, yet he kept on course to the lower field.

https://i.imgflip.com/1mcewz.jpg

the dude should have let go after .2sec.

Correct.

Obviously, that would have been the best thing to do, but it was the guys very first time on a kite. There is an uncanny thing that happens with people on their first flights (as any instructor level pilot would know) where their initial survival instinct reactions prevail over all logic/reason/judgement/instruction. I imagine in the passenger's mind he fully believed he was part of that kite and just expected to be going with it. As the kite began to leave him, he couldn't do the obvious thing in those first few critical moments, his instinct was to was hold on for dear life, with things only getting worse from there. Again, if your job is taking first timer tourists up in a kite, this is all predictable.

unrelated BFC pic:
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3f...d-knickers.jpg

Sound on.

I installed this (used) transformer about 5 years ago to run a small lathe in the shop for the boys.

Today they tried to burn the building down by plugging the plastic welder into it. "Because 240v is 240v" they explained to me. 1.5kva... Management didn't seem to find it as funny as i did.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ab77a358f5.jpg

My fault for sticking a 15a plug on it.

You can't outsmart stupid.

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random pic: HD Canvas "Trunk" Tool Bag
 

I picked up another one of these for a "trunk tool bag". Hard to pass up at $3.23 ($3 + .23 tax here) picked up from your local ACE. You need an ACE Rewards membership - which is free (can join on checkout) and accumulates rewards $ with every purchase.

https://www.acehardware.com/departme...l-bags/2295830
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Pictures are hard amirite?

Fat dog.

it's a link to instagram and the automatic reformat isn't working, since this is IB.

let's try to trim the fat off the link:


https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqu6QFJBOnQ/

still not working...


ill just direct link:

https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram...58966213_n.jpg



i decided anyone who uses the word "pree" should get their laptop stolen as well, but by someone who will find incriminating files and use them for blackmail.

First time I've ever come across the word Pree. Assumed it was a misspelling into googling it.

I'm no electronerd. But yeah, something like that. There are FAR more people even in this very thread that are way more qualified for these things than i am.

I just use 1000w as 1kva. With a PF of 1, (since it is an induction load, and i just want to play it safe).

A slightly bigger transformer, yet not nearly the biggest one we have. I posted a picture of our biggest transformer, but i can't seem to find it.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...dccf9698b0.jpg

https://scontent.fphx1-3.fna.fbcdn.n...66&oe=5C6546D1

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C...2018-11-29.png
source: https://didyouknowfacts.com/map-show...EZJQ2oq4BPVXf4

Gluten-free Vodka. Good to know.
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