A drag issue : to bungee wings or not to bungee

[Tortuga68]

I prefer to dive with people who see bungee wings for what they are.

A piece of ****?

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[The Chairman]

I prefer to dive with people who see bungee wings for what they are.

A piece of ****?

You forgot the [/condescension] and [/derision] arguments.

Here's a News Flash Walter Cronkite: a competent diver can dive anything given to them, keep proper trim and make the gear look good. The gear never makes the diver.

However, insecure divers tend to demean others and their gear selection, citing fallacious arguments, non-existent data and mythical studies. They have a hard time seeing that their criteria for selecting gear may not be the same criteria used by others. Go figure.

 

[danvolker]

Have you guys subscribed yet?

Now smugdiver is Funny.
Pete needs to remember his sense of humour

DanV

 

[danvolker]

You forgot the [/condescension] and [/derision] arguments.

Here's a News Flash Walter Cronkite: a competent diver can dive anything given to them, keep proper trim and make the gear look good. The gear never makes the diver.

However, insecure divers tend to demean others and their gear selection, citing fallacious arguments, non-existent data and mythical studies. They have a hard time seeing that their criteria for selecting gear may not be the same criteria used by others. Go figure.

Pete, No One could take smugdiver seriously....It is SO FAR out there, it's such an exageration, it is funny.

Regards,
DanV

 

[DevonDiver]

If bungeed wings create more drag..... you can easily offset that by wearing more powerful splitfins

 

[halocline]

Interesting but not surprising results.

Bungied wings are really a solution for an unnecessary problem.

How about an unnecessary solution for a nonexistent problem?

 

[Tortuga68]

Pete, No One could take smugdiver seriously....It is SO FAR out there, it's such an exageration, it is funny.

Regards,
DanV

I think you'll find he was referring to the post he quoted, not mine

 

[Tortuga68]

If bungeed wings create more drag...

Not to pick on you particularly DD - but if they do indeed create more drag, so what? It's not like doubles and multiple stages are exactly streamlined in the first place...

What's the point of wind tunnel testing a wing on it's own anyway, without a diver and all the other gear it gets strapped to?

And as for the comment that the DR wing is

 

[The Chairman]

I think you'll find he was referring to the post he quoted, not mine

Of course I was. I was trying to figure out who "smugdiver" was. I guess it was you, although I really thought the two peeps I quoted were being "smug" (not you).

 

[Tortuga68]

'Smug Diver' is the magazine I attached to my post...