Built4Speed
127 posts
Apr 30, 2008
10:54 AM
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How do you measure 400 feet? I have seen some really deep ones pull out at the last minute, and lived to do it again
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Dale
SGVS
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rollsoffury
78 posts
Apr 30, 2008
10:59 AM
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Thats awsome!!! Now thats show i would really like to witness myself. I've had birds that rolled 400 ft. plus, but they hit.
Alex
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rollsoffury
79 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:02 AM
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The question was, has anybody witness an approx. 400ft. roll and not hit!
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gotspin7
1307 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:02 AM
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Dale, the ones that roll like that are just fun to watch once in a while aint they!LOL... Brings back memories--as a kid I used to breed for that!LOL
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Sal Ortiz
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rollsoffury
80 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:07 AM
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How do you measure 400 feet?
Approx. 400 ft. for me it be about 5 telephone poles lenth
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luis
877 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:09 AM
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I read somewhere that a bird drops aprox 10 ft per second.Give or take a little for birds wich drop at different speed.Does that mean that a bird wich is said to roll 400 ft would have to have been in the spin for about 30 sec?Impossible, or this theory is way off!
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Built4Speed
128 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:11 AM
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I remember back in the 80's flying with the BHRC, Sam Guteirrez would call those palm tree specials. lol...... your right fun to watch that's about it
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Dale
SGVS
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rollsoffury
81 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:16 AM
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I think your right luis, It would probably be more in the neiborhood of 5 ft. per second drop. I guess it depends on size and type of roll of the bird.
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spinner jim
298 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:19 AM
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If my birds only did four hundred feet i would get rid of them ? medium rollers are no good to me lol,jim uk.
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rollsoffury
83 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:21 AM
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By no means a competition bird, but fun as hell to watch specialy if doesn't hit.
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rollsoffury
84 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:27 AM
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spinnerjim, If you own a bird that rolls 40-60 ft. and been flyin it for about three years, and one day it does an crazy approx. 400ft. would you get rid of him?
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PLS
124 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:33 AM
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That would be FUN to watch....
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Fire_Baller_916
248 posts
Apr 30, 2008
11:44 AM
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I had one that rolldown from a dot all the way down and survive with a limp leg...He ended up in the pot a few days after...Couldnt afford to watch him do that again...
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Chai Seng
www.freewebs.com/raining_fire_loft
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rollsoffury
85 posts
Apr 30, 2008
12:20 PM
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Chai, What did mean when you said he ended up in the pot, did you have him for dinner?lol
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Last Edited by on Apr 30, 2008 12:30 PM
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sippi
208 posts
Apr 30, 2008
2:42 PM
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Four hundred feet and not splatter is my goal for my Fireballs. We have made a few that will roll really deep but finding a bird that roll four hundred from four fifty and thirty from fifty both is where the problem seems to come in. I guess you call it control.
Sippi
I also think that after a bird passes a certain depth the second rule is out the door. You have to consider the rate of acceleration times gravity.
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Fire_Baller_916
249 posts
Apr 30, 2008
2:56 PM
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Yeap that's what i meant...LOL...It's in my pops tummy...I dont like the taste of pigeons...
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Chai Seng
www.freewebs.com/raining_fire_loft
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MILO
954 posts
Apr 30, 2008
8:08 PM
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I've had a few wing switchers over the years go even deeper than that. I believe last NBRC fly I DQ'd because of one. I was flying a very small kit, and that cost me. A lot of oooh's and ahhhh's, but it cost me the fly. Anything that rolls more than 40 feet loses a lot of quality and speed in my opinion. Sure it's cool, but not the best of rollers.
c
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Scott
458 posts
Apr 30, 2008
8:39 PM
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It would be as about fun as watching human waste being dropped from a 747 , thanks but no thanks
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Just my Opinion
Scott
Last Edited by on Apr 30, 2008 10:45 PM
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WaTtS UpP
696 posts
Apr 30, 2008
10:32 PM
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i wanna see something like that burning up the sky
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Watts uppp homeboy
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