dterrick 0 #1 July 24, 2003 I'm perplexed. While house-sitting here in California I have stayed AWAY from the TV except to watch Lance Armstrong kick but in the tour de france ...(will it be 5? Could Tyler Hamilton be a new underdog?) Anyhoo, Monday night I watch Married with Children for the first time in years (and years) and there's an episode where Bud Bundy is convinced by a real live hottie (not his regular blow-up ) to go skydiving. Horrible, horrible scene with them all wearing old open face motorcycle helmets with boom mics 'so they can talk back to the jumpmaster' . Ya, it's cheesy - there are no '3 rings' where they should be (maybe they could only afford a container?) but it's skydiving. Incident one. Tuesday night, elevenish, I think, I watch an episode of MacGuyver . Maybe been ten years since I've even seen a rerun and on this one... you guessed it ... a 'friend' buys a heap of a DC-3, and they're up in it when an engine quits. "Ten miles from the runway" the buddy says but one landing gear fails. Good ol' Mac crawls into the 'only' parachute on board and down into the gear bay. With a handy O2 bottle that 'happens' to fit the broken hydraulic line, he makes the fix and then falls out as the landing gear deploys. Gratuitous shots of a semi-square (ex-mil spec maybe?... before my time) and a PLF landing. Of course, Mac knows exactly how to coil the lines and para-hike to the hangar. Incident two Finally, as I write this I'm recovering (sunburned again) from a day's thrashing through Marin County's twistiest roads and tallest trees. What's on TV? Spies Like Us with Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd. Within ten minutes of the opening scene... guess what? Yup, kicked out of a C-130 (no static line), bad talking/tumblefuquing in freefall and wacky deployment of big brown 7 cell squares (looking suspiciuosly like Raven 3's). Incident THREE Now tell me, please... can this be a fluke? What am I destined to tune into tomorrow? Anyone? Bueller? ...Bueller... hey, if I gotta be at home at least I can WATCH skydiving... it just seems strange that I don't remember these scenes from years ago. Hellllppppp -Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumprunner 0 #2 July 24, 2003 QuoteI'm perplexed. While house-sitting here in California I have stayed AWAY from the TV except to watch Lance Armstrong kick but in the tour de france ...(will it be 5? Could Tyler Hamilton be a new underdog?) Anyhoo, Monday night I watch Married with Children for the first time in years (and years) and there's an episode where Bud Bundy is convinced by a real live hottie (not his regular blow-up ) to go skydiving. Horrible, horrible scene with them all wearing old open face motorcycle helmets with boom mics 'so they can talk back to the jumpmaster' . Ya, it's cheesy - there are no '3 rings' where they should be (maybe they could only afford a container?) but it's skydiving. Incident one. Tuesday night, elevenish, I think, I watch an episode of MacGuyver . Maybe been ten years since I've even seen a rerun and on this one... you guessed it ... a 'friend' buys a heap of a DC-3, and they're up in it when an engine quits. "Ten miles from the runway" the buddy says but one landing gear fails. Good ol' Mac crawls into the 'only' parachute on board and down into the gear bay. With a handy O2 bottle that 'happens' to fit the broken hydraulic line, he makes the fix and then falls out as the landing gear deploys. Gratuitous shots of a semi-square (ex-mil spec maybe?... before my time) and a PLF landing. Of course, Mac knows exactly how to coil the lines and para-hike to the hangar. Incident two Finally, as I write this I'm recovering (sunburned again) from a day's thrashing through Marin County's twistiest roads and tallest trees. What's on TV? Spies Like Us with Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd. Within ten minutes of the opening scene... guess what? Yup, kicked out of a C-130 (no static line), bad talking/tumblefuquing in freefall and wacky deployment of big brown 7 cell squares (looking suspiciuosly like Raven 3's). Incident THREE Now tell me, please... can this be a fluke? What am I destined to tune into tomorrow? Anyone? Bueller? ...Bueller... hey, if I gotta be at home at least I can WATCH skydiving... it just seems strange that I don't remember these scenes from years ago. Hellllppppp -Dave OK, on a serious note, I remember scenes from years ago about skydiving when I was a kid, but are very vague. From these, I had always thought that if you open the chute too late, even though it is fully open and fully inflated, you still wouldnt slow down in time to hit the ground too hard and get serioiusly injured or killed, so I thought it took all kinds of time to decelerate after the canopy was out and fully inflated. And flaring? Nope, never heard of that. So much for what TV makes you think. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
