airsoft

i just got my new airsoft gun

Author: zunedude258
Keywords: cool
Added: October 19, 2008

Paintball Smoke Grenades - Fun, Painless Smoke Grenades

Important buying tips

Paintball is a popular gun sport that's getting people of all ages hooked. Paintball is not as harmful and dangerous as actual gun sport, but it can still cause damage to people who do not exercise care when playing. There are tons of paintball accessories available, one of which is the smoke grenade.

Smoke range - choose a smoke grenade that has a wide smoke range. There are grenades that can generate smoke for up to 500,000 cubic feet. Be sure, though, that you are only using these for wide open spaces to avoid any accidents.

In paintball

In paintball, though, a smoke grenade will not result to such painful effects. Smoke grenades in paintball are used for shielding against your opponent. The two kinds of paintball smoke grenades are:

Flameless paintball smoke grenades - these are battery-operated grenades that are flameless but produce a big smoke. These are great for police and military training.

When buying a smoke grenade, look out for the following:
Time limit - pick grenades that produce long lasting smoke. Some grenades produce smokes for two minutes or less, while there are those that produce smoke for up to 10 minutes long.

Standard paintball smoke grenades - these can produce up to 100,000 cubic feet of orange smoke and have an effect of up to four minutes. Standard paintball smoke grenades have to be manually ignited, where you have to pull a pin just like pulling the pin from a bomb.

Paintball Smoke Grenades - Fun, Painless Smoke Grenades

Airsoft gun Review 2 - Franchi A3 Tactical Shotgun

This is my second review of airsoft guns, enjoy.PS: The FPS of it is 276 and energy is 0.7 joule.PSS: No boxes was hurted in this video.

Author: stickmakerman
Keywords: review airsoft gun franchi a3 tactical shotgun powerfull ouch box
Added: October 19, 2008

The Greek runner Yiannis Kouros has consistently made his mark as the leading ultrarunner in both distance and multi-day races, and holds the vast majority of the available world records - including recently at the Colac 6-day race in 2005 where he achieved an astonishing total of 1036km. In 2004 the Danish runner Jesper Olsen won the Colac 6-day en route to becoming the first person to achieve a fully documented run around the world.

However, it was only with the marathoning craze in the 1970's that interest in the ultrarunning really took off. In 1982 a group of people British RAF officers decided to test whether the original story behind the marathon was true - whether it was feasible that the Greek messenger Pheidippides has really run all the way from the Battle of Marathon to Sparta in 36 hours. They verified it was indeed feasible and the next year the Spartathlon was born. Other races were begun in extreme climes that tested the limit of endurance - for example the Badwater race in Nevada, which aimed to go from the lowest to the highest point in the continental United States over a distance of 135 miles. Begun in 1986, the Marathon des Sables is a seven day race through the Moroccan Sahara, and is considered one of the toughest events in the world.

Many people imagine the marathon to be the pinnacle of running endurance, but people have been pushing themselves to even further distances since the middle of the last century. It seems hard to imagine now, but in the 1870's up to 75,000 people would gather to cheer on the contestants in six-day walking events in America, with the winners gaining national fame and astronomical earnings by the standards of that time. It all started in 1867 when Edward Payson walked from Portland to Chicago in 25 days, captivating the nation. A rivalry quickly developed between Payson and Daniel O'Leary, a recently-immigrated Irish farmer, and this rivalry spurred a series of 6-day races which developed into a "Long-Distance Championship of the World". The format quickly changed from walking to walk/run, with participants only sleeping a few hours a night and continuing on. Fred Hitchborn set a new record of 565 miles for this event, and pioneered African-American participation in sport. However the rise of the automobile and the lack of promoters led to the popularity of the series dying out in the early 20th century.

However other great ultramarathons were being started up at the same time. In 1921 the first Comrades Marathon was held in South Africa to commemorate soldiers fallen during World War 1. This 90 kilometre long race has now become the world's longest ultramarathon, attracting a field of 13,000 yearly. During the apartheid era, this marathon was notable for being one of the few events where people participated regardless of colour. In 1953 a London to Brighton ultramarathon was established along a popular car touring route and continued for over 50 years. In the 1950's and 60's, Ted Corbitt was a noted ultrarunning pioneer and is indeed today known as 'the father of modern ultrarunning'.

A History of Ultra Distance Running

Colt 1911 Airsoft Gun Review

Not a professional weapon means not a real gun

Author: paperairplanezone
Keywords: education
Added: October 18, 2008

Very Close Encounter With A Lunch Bag

The first air-to-air encounter with a soaring bird is another rather special experience for a soaring pilot. For me, it happened during a ridge-soaring flight on the small range of hills near Locheil, in South Australia. Heading towards the southern end of the range, I noticed a large bird, also doing a spot of ridge-soaring. On having a closer look it turned out to be an average-sized hawk of some kind.

At several thousand feet, I spotted a hang glider thermalling upwards several kilometers away. Naturally, I went over to join him, but curiosity was compelling me just as much as the prospect of a climb! Sliding under the hang-glider, maybe 300 feet below it, I then spent too much time trying to gawk at it and not enough time concentrating on my own climb in the thermal.

This next encounter is commonplace for many many soaring pilots, but it's a magical moment the first time you experience it. Again flying the Blanik L13, but solo on this occasion. It was a good soaring day, and I remember looking upwards as I spiraled up under a large cumulus cloud.

Maintaining the climb for as long as I dared, the great gray cavern got bigger and bigger overhead. I noticed the horizon had disappeared, in all directions. The air was deliciously cool. Here I was in the slightly concave underbelly of a healthily growing cumulous cloud. A whisp of grey shot past me to my right. Mmm, flying through scraps of cloud now, better get out of here, and fast. I pushed the nose way down, accelerating the Blanik up to a noisy 80 knots (150 kph) or so, before punching out into the brilliant sunshine that lay beyond the rim.

Soaring pilots of all types are familiar with 'thermals', those columns or sometimes bubbles of rising air that are warmer than the surrounding air. In central Australia, where I learnt to fly in the 70's, the summer thermals were often very strong. The thermal core, just a few meters across, would sometimes suck dust from the ground up to high altitudes.

Perhaps this isn't the most important soaring article ever written, however it should prove to be an interesting little read! Join me as I recollect some memorable aerial encounters during my years of soaring flight. A few things here to raise the eyebrows of pilot and non-pilot alike.

Rough Encounter With A Thermal Core

Close Encounters Of The Soaring Kind

By now, the bag was gently floating down through the air, losing altitude at a similar rate to the glider. Heaving the old Bocian onto one wing tip, I wheeled around tightly, turning back to look for the bag. It wasn't hard to spot. As it got closer, I had to make some very quick last-second adjustments on the controls to get close to the bag. Missed the first time. But after a few tries, FWOPPP there it was, pinned across the open air-vent flap! It really made my day. After landing, the bag was still jammed in the vent, and there's a photo to prove it...

First Encounter With A Hang Glider

Conclusion

Seeing he was out-climbing me, I left the thermal after a few minutes to avoid further embarrassment, hehe. But it was an interesting experience, watching such a minimal aircraft in flight. I could clearly see the pilot enthusiastically shifting his weight around, guiding the craft into the strongest regions of lift.

Determined to get an even closer look, I turned away from the ridge and approached the bird from behind, flying as slowly as safely possible. Wings outstretched, the hawk appeared almost motionless as it flew directly into the light westerly breeze. As my glider drew alongside, the creature twisted its neck to get a good look at me too. Two beady hawk eyes summed up the giant white bird which dared to share it's territory, for just a moment. My flying speed was far greater than the hawk's, so I soon left it behind. I never saw it again, but the memory certainly lingered!

Magical Encounter With A Cumulus Rim

Anyway, I was on a training flight with my instructor and we spotted some tell-tale dust some distance away. We lost no time in flying towards and then entering that thermal. What happened next took us by surprise, as we flew directly through the core. WHAM! The old Blanik L13 bucked skywards. A split second later, the huge upwards acceleration stopped, and every bit of dust and debris in the cockpit hit the top of the perspex canopy and then rained down on us again. We just grinned! Needless to say, it turned out to be a great thermal!

To be precise, a small brown paper bag. I just decided it would be fun to attempt to hit a small object in midair. A sort of flying accuracy test! With 1000 meters (3000 feet) or so in hand, out went my empty lunch bag, through the clear vision panel of the canopy. Then, I flew straight for a while to put some distance between the Bocian 2-seater I was flying and the bag.

First Encounter With A Hawk