Why Do Fathers Experience Premature Graying?

[Ivan Seeking]

I don't know. Doesn't look like it. I'll have to ask her.

If she was upside down her hair wouldn't be sitting on her shoulder.

 

[dlgoff]

If she was upside down her hair wouldn't be sitting on her shoulder.

Oh yea. Your right.

 

[Ibix]

If she was upside down her hair wouldn't be sitting on her shoulder.

If she's looping the loop her hair would be on her shoulder even when the plane was upside down, due to the g force.

 

[Vanadium 50]

If she was upside down her hair wouldn't be sitting on her shoulder.

Mousse. Lots of mousse.

 

[dlgoff]

Here's my daughter with the acrobat team (the girl with her hand on the prop):

 

[Ivan Seeking]

If she's looping the loop her hair would be on her shoulder even when the plane was upside down, due to the g force.

If she was doing a loop I don't think she would be looking away from the window and controls.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Here's my daughter with the acrobat team (the girl with her hand on the prop):
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Yeah she doesn't seem to like this much. Next up, skydiving!

 

[Vanadium 50]

If she was doing a loop I don't think she would be looking away from the window and controls.

It's best to just close your eyes.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It's best to just close your eyes.

The natural tendency is to keep making the radius of the loop tighter and tighter as you near the end. I think most people would need to look at their instruments to be sure they make a circle.

 

[dlgoff]

Here's the latest from my daughter:

I'm not sure how the quality is but I attached a video of me running through my primary sequence. This was a practice flight from last week. It is not the best as I was still learning but this is in an Xtreme Decathlon. This plane is the pane that I have been practicing in for weeks and up to the day of the competition. It ended up breaking and I had to compete in a comparable but still different airplane that I had never flown before. I was very sad about that because I had my routine down quite well. I didn't fly very well in the other plane but i still managed to pull it together on my second flight and place 2nd.

The video has the wrong extension to attach.

 

[berkeman]

I have been practicing in for weeks and up to the day of the competition. It ended up breaking

She managed to break an aerobatic airplane? Yikes! Glad she is okay.

 

[pinball1970]

If she's looping the loop her hair would be on her shoulder even when the plane was upside down, due to the g force.

She managed to break an aerobatic airplane? Yikes! Glad she is okay.

She broke the first plane doing aerobatics so got in another one to complete the runs...mm.
If a plane (commercial) ever breaks i am on and we land ok I am not getting on another one just like that.
Not without meds.

 

[dlgoff]

She managed to break an aerobatic airplane? Yikes! Glad she is okay.

I don't really think she broke it. It was probably something else that had a problem. I'll ask however.

 

[dlgoff]

She hasn't replied about what broke but she did send a couple photos of her medals:

 

[OCR]

The natural tendency is to keep making the radius of the loop tighter and tighter. . .

And, then. . .

.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Wow...I'm impressed. To be dropped into a burning plane! I see they thoughtfully provided a canopy slightly after the pilot.

 

[Filip Larsen]

I think most people would need to look at their instruments to be sure they make a circle.

The human senses are actually a quite useful instruments during aerobatics. E.g. during loops and similar you can glance left/right to get a good reference to where your wings are relative to the horizon and you feel change in g-force in your butt much faster than glancing at the g-load. But you will likely use the proper instruments to ensure correct entry altitude and airspeed (you don't want to start a loop with too little of either).

I'm totally with her that she'd rather have a small nimble plane in her private hangar than a business jet, simply because the former has much higher fun capacity per dollar than the latter (and no one uses business jets for aerobatics or buzzing around in VFR anyway - not even rich people).

 

[dlgoff]

She hasn't replied about what broke but she did send a couple photos of her medals:
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Here are some more photos of my daughters competition:
She said:

Here are some more pictures. I placed 2nd for my flight on Saturday and 1st for my flight on Sunday. Overall, I placed 3rd.

 

[dlgoff]

Here's the latest from my daughter.

This is the Xtreme Decathlon plane that I have done most of my aerobatic training in.

 

[strangerep]

My hair would have turned grey on the day she came home with that tattoo.

 

[BillTre]

My daughter has two, but not nearly so big. (Biologically themed!)
(Hair's already grey).

Tattoos are really common around here (Eugene, Oregon).
I considered getting a tattoo, in college, when I was working on a ship.
I am very impressed with the current tattoo technology and their quality.
I was thinking of getting an blue anchor or something like that, 40 years ago.

 

[PeroK]

In the town where I'm originally from there is an annual celebration, where (among other things) they have an old-fashioned fairground. I had a look round and one of the attractions was a booth where you could pay to see an untattooed lady!

 

[pinball1970]

My hair would have turned grey on the day she came home with that tattoo.

I noticed that post #74
I thought wow that’s a big one, I bet that hurt!

 

[dlgoff]

My hair would have turned grey on the day she came home with that tattoo.

Let's just say my hair didn't get any darker.
It started getting gray after this one:

see post https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/nerdy-sports.951423/#post-6026592

 

[Vanadium 50]

Is that the Chinese character for "soup"?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Is that the Chinese character for "soup"?

It translates roughly as, "I'm doing this to freak out dad!"

 

[gmax137]

"If you can read this you're too close"

 

[pinball1970]

"This will ease dad into the bigger tattoo that's to come, then rock climbing, then ice climbing and I am definitely looking into flying lessons."

Chinese is a succinct language.

 

[dlgoff]

From the thread, it means: Pli Sung which translates as “I am confident of certain victory.”

 

[pinball1970]

From the thread, it means: Pli Sung which translates as “I am confident of certain victory.”

More pithy than my guess.