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Offline JackD

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Re: Air Drag Brakes
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2007, 05:46:41 PM »
I think I would rather throw out a brick on a rope.
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Re: Air Drag Brakes
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2007, 11:40:31 PM »
Since a chute is required anyway over 175 and everyone seems to stop fine why go to the trouble??  Heck Tom even managed to stop at his pits after a 410 mph run during that private meet without pulling the chutes.  Something I would not recommend trying :wink:.

Of course this is coming from someone who always makes the easy difficult  :evil:.

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Re: Air Drag Brakes
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2007, 06:01:36 PM »
In 91 when I ran FIA Cat A Group 1 Class 9, Ed was not there so I didn't think that with our crew being short-handed that we would have time to also repack the chute, do the service and turnaround thing within an hour. So on the down run, I did not pull the chute, just coasted to the 11 mile. I did let Cagle know before the run, so no one would panic.