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> You can only have one bladder pumped up at a time. You want to know their
> logic on this? (man this is so funny) as explained to me by a stuporwings
> enthusiast? If you have air trapped in one bladder, inflating the other
> will empty it out! AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA, HOOOOOOHAHAHAHEHEHEHOHOHO! THE
> GUY SAID THIS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, HE WAS SERIOUS! AHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAH,
> OH, GOD STOP IT, HOOOOOOHEHEHEHAHAHAHHA!
Jim,
glad you are so easily amused.
Of course the reply you got was right on the $.
You ask (or ignore on purpose) the wrong questions to try to prove
your point.
What is the purpose of a 2nd bladder?
- to use when the primary one fails.
In failure modes what do you want?
- as much buoyancy as you would get from fully inflating the
primary bladder. If your rig requires more air than one
bladder provides you have used the wrong gear and misued the
idea of a "backup" bladder
In failure what happens when if the primary bladder is only
partially damaged and does not vent all its air (as you suggest
above).
- who the hell cares? You still have one complete bladder
to inflate and use for buoyancy.
Let me get my crayons out here Jim. Draw a set of wings. Now
draw bladder #1 in red, bladder #2 in blue. If there is still some red
left (all the air wasn't lost at failure), then you don't have to fill
the blue as much to get the lift you want. After all you are
terminating the dive. If by inflating the blue one all the
way you force out the air in the red one, BFD.. you still have a set
of fully functioning wings. And that was the idea, wasn't it?
The 2nd bladder just did exactly what it is supposed to do.
So keep laughing, and don't mind the guy with the little jacket and
the white coats if they show up.
Mike
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