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Offline earl1937

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Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« on: April 12, 2013, 01:27:18 PM »
 :airplane: :bhead I know I am probably beating my head against the wall, but, again, in the interest of adding a little "realism" to the game, could we please have a "tetrahedron" or wing socks on the top of the indestructible hangar. The tetrahedron could be mounted on the ground somewhere in the center of the field, as they were in real life. For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, a tetrahedron was a wind direction device, built in a tryangle shape, which told the pilots which runway was in use, or put another way, the direction the wind was blowing from! Couldn't find a pic to show you guys, but the ones I saw and were around were about 6 feet wide at rear, tapering down to a Sharp pointed edge about 10 feet from the rear. It had tapered sides joining at the top and remines me of a paper aircraft you used to make as kid in school. It was installed on a "race" of ball bearings and had to be greased on a regular basis. It really didn't take much wind to move it.
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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2013, 02:02:47 PM »
No wind in AH, so all you'd have is a flaccid wind sock hanging on a pole.

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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2013, 03:37:11 PM »
 so all you'd have is a flaccid wind sock hanging on a pole.

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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2013, 03:47:39 PM »
I guess we could have wing socks...at least they would dry fast.
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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2013, 04:14:30 PM »
No wind in AH, so all you'd have is a flaccid wind sock hanging on a pole.

At this very moment we have 20mph wind at 10K  and above in the LW arena  :confused:  :lol
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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2013, 04:47:52 PM »
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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2013, 04:58:16 PM »
At this very moment we have 20mph wind at 10K  and above in the LW arena  :confused:  :lol

Wind was turned back on with this update?

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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2013, 05:22:12 PM »
Wind was turned back on with this update?

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HT just did it after arena reset.



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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2013, 05:41:15 PM »
God d!@#it Ack-Ack!!!!! :furious  :bhead  :O  :mad:  :devil
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Re: Tetrahedrons and Wind "Socks"
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2013, 12:25:30 AM »
Sounds like HT wanted a trade off for milk runners.

As for the OP, I like the idea of a blowing wind sock. If for nothing else, just aesthetic purposes.