There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy. For decades, this was known as a Mae West. Anti-inversion nets have made this type of malfunction rare, but when I went through jump school, they happened quite often.
There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy. For decades, this was known as a Mae West. Anti-inversion nets have made this type of malfunction rare, but when I went through jump school, they happened quite often.
Well, way to hit one of my semi-phobias, Larry J (albeit fortunately one I can avoid easily). This partial inversion - if it used to "happen quite often," I take it it's not typically a malfunction that results in jumpers plummetting to their deaths?
You're probably expecting the immature teenage male part of our minds to come easily streaming out. But I'm not going to be sucked in that easily. I will say it reminds me of my ex. She did the local weather. And she had great...legs.
Larry J said...There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy.
How serious is it? Can it happen to someone twice?
"tim maguire said... Larry J said...There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy.
How serious is it? Can it happen to someone twice?"
A Mae West is a partial malfunction. Your descent rate will be low enough to maybe survive but high enough that you're going to have serious injuries. It's a "pull your reserve" situation, complicated by the fact that your relatively slow descent rate (say 30-40 MPH) means you have to make sure the reserve doesn't get tangled with the main chute and has a chance to deploy. Here's a link to a picture of one.
Larry J:There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy. For decades, this was known as a Mae West. Anti-inversion nets have made this type of malfunction rare, but when I went through jump school, they happened quite often.
There was also an inflatable life vest known as a "Mae West"
mindnumbrobot said... “I'm a legs man myself. A great set of legs is harder to come by than a nice rack, IMO.”
I am a leg man, too, but of the opposite opinion. When I hit puberty, it was hard not to notice that just about every woman had a nice set of pins, regardless of what she may or may not have had under the puffy blouses/sweaters and oversized jackets of the late 1970s/1980s.
I guess I'm the only one who sees a motorcycle. Not that I'm a prude, but most porn features symmetrical balls and tits. This looks like a motorcycle coming at me - the perspective makes the front wheel look bigger.
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Back in my home town of Hooterville, this rare jetstream pattern was known as "Tits McGee."
Looks like a scrotum to me, lawclerk (No, I'm not gay, NTTATWRWTITWYA)
John Henry
What am I thinking? Reading minds these days?
And yet, no tag.
When God puts "8008" in his TI-84...
There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy. For decades, this was known as a Mae West. Anti-inversion nets have made this type of malfunction rare, but when I went through jump school, they happened quite often.
There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy. For decades, this was known as a Mae West. Anti-inversion nets have made this type of malfunction rare, but when I went through jump school, they happened quite often.
A couple of the arrows are pointed in the wrong direction.
Bodacious Tah-Tahs
Well, way to hit one of my semi-phobias, Larry J (albeit fortunately one I can avoid easily). This partial inversion - if it used to "happen quite often," I take it it's not typically a malfunction that results in jumpers plummetting to their deaths?
Motor-boatin’ Teh Mississippi
Uh, lost my train of thought there for a minute….
We are all really 15 years old.
Oh, I see it: A chubby, naked, legless man hugging the earth, his face resting on the North Pole, where Santa tickles his nose. Beautiful.
You're probably expecting the immature teenage male part of our minds to come easily streaming out. But I'm not going to be sucked in that easily. I will say it reminds me of my ex. She did the local weather. And she had great...legs.
..for 'equal' time ...some Rolex movements have this plate design. The design serves no real purpose other than fun...
"Omega Block" means "I don't want to get fired and blackballed in the business for saying out loud what I am really thinking."
Usually the left one's bigger, no?
Larry J said...There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy.
How serious is it? Can it happen to someone twice?
@Dogma and Pony Show, mother nature couldn't afford Brazil or Thailand. Pay Pakistani prices, get Pakistani quality.
My eyes are up here. —Canada
"tim maguire said...
Larry J said...There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy.
How serious is it? Can it happen to someone twice?"
A Mae West is a partial malfunction. Your descent rate will be low enough to maybe survive but high enough that you're going to have serious injuries. It's a "pull your reserve" situation, complicated by the fact that your relatively slow descent rate (say 30-40 MPH) means you have to make sure the reserve doesn't get tangled with the main chute and has a chance to deploy. Here's a link to a picture of one.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHZgyK2Z8e8/WSPGFN90j7I/AAAAAAAAAJY/I2fTQBolB0EbQj4-Ue9hx5T7L6dM4yGHgCLcB/s1600/mal.jpg
Looks like some bodacious weather for my upcoming trip.
Larry J: There is a type of parachute malfunction formally known as a partial inversion. It’s when one or more suspension lines are over the canopy. For decades, this was known as a Mae West. Anti-inversion nets have made this type of malfunction rare, but when I went through jump school, they happened quite often.
There was also an inflatable life vest known as a "Mae West"
I've as much a sense of humor as anyone, but it has been milked for all its worth.
A weather forecast so cold, that simply viewing it makes your nipples stand up.
"My eyes are up here - Canada"
Pierre Poilievre - High and to the right
Mark Carney - Down and to the left
Down and to the left it is.
Meteorology? Morphology. Mammary maps.
sad tits.
Temujin said... "I will say it reminds me of my ex. She did the local weather. And she had great...legs."
I'm a legs man myself. A great set of legs is harder to come by than a nice rack, IMO.
mindnumbrobot said...
“I'm a legs man myself. A great set of legs is harder to come by than a nice rack, IMO.”
I am a leg man, too, but of the opposite opinion. When I hit puberty, it was hard not to notice that just about every woman had a nice set of pins, regardless of what she may or may not have had under the puffy blouses/sweaters and oversized jackets of the late 1970s/1980s.
Such a thing is not rare at all. That's my reaction to the text.
Now we know where the term, "Colder than a witch's tit" comes from.
Mother Earth!
I always did consider the North Dakota-Minnesota border as North America's cleavage.
I guess I'm the only one who sees a motorcycle. Not that I'm a prude, but most porn features symmetrical balls and tits. This looks like a motorcycle coming at me - the perspective makes the front wheel look bigger.
When I saw that the comments were "all what you think," I expected a bunch of comments about climate change, honestly.
Making Weather Maps Great Again. Is there anything Trump can't do?
That weather pattern is the tits!
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