Taipanfc,

I'm sorry to say that your comments are utter nonsense.

First of all the pelican striker (as the setup in the picture is called) is whole fitted to the pole itself and therefor can not improve the displacement of the pole tip under load. The shown setup still wholely dependents on the pole tip and bridle support wires to limit tip movement and as such is absolutely no different from a setup without the pelican striker.

Secondly, I have no seen a F16 yet where the tip is displaced 100 mm under (spi) load. If that is the case for a given F16 spi setup then an error has been made in constructing it. A simple 40x2 mm alu tube with 3 or 4 mm dyneema support line to the tip and midsection of the pole is enough to lock the pole up in quite a stiff sense.

Wouter