UPT on the television show "Life"

[klingeme 1]

If you saw "Life" last night, you might have noticed our (UPT's) posters on the wall and rigs on the gear rack. I was contacted by one of the "Art Directors" and asked me to send out some rigs and other "stuff" to make their set look like a small DZ. Kind of nice getting national (very limited, but still national) exposure.

If you are interested, the scene is here http://www.nbc.com/Life/video/episodes/?vid=991801#vid=991801 at the 27:29 mark.

Mark Klingelhoefer


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This should have probably been posted in Bonfire. Sorry greenies.

[TheCaptain 2]

Gotta love a guy walking to a plane with no main risers attached to the rig

Nice shots of UPT rigs

Kirk
He's dead Jim

[klingeme 1]

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Gotta love a guy walking to a plane with no main risers attached to the rig

Nice shots of UPT rigs

From what I got, he was commiting suicide (His canopy was in the gear bag in his locker). Now why he had a rig on at all, that's another question.

Mark

[JerryBaumchen 1,466]

Hi Mark,

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Now why he had a rig on at all, that's another question.

So who besides jumpers would even notice that there were no canopies in the rig? We are a 'very' small portion of the audience.

JerryBaumchen

PS) Did not notice your posters, SAT.

[pchapman 279]

(We'll get this to bonfire eventually.)

It looked like the guy who was going to kill himself skydiving, was going to do it with his Vector I or II. No matter. It's still a bit of publicity for skydiving.

It kind of ruins a show one otherwise likes, when one realizes they make everything up and really don't consult with anyone. There wasn't really anything in the show about flying light aircraft or skydiving that was in any way correct.

They mentioned Perris, and got in a basic Perris, CA vs. Paris, France joke, but then didn't even take their camera crews across the state, creating a lame DZ hangar instead.

The detectives look at a whiteboard listing all the info about jumper's jumps, including exit and deployment altitude. On that board it shows that their suspect had been doing a lot of jumps from 8000 feet. They conclude that he must have been training to jump from that height. And, suspiciously, that's the same as the cruising altitude of the Cirrus single engine aircraft he was thought to have jumped out of (in which a guy was murdered).

I never realized how much one has to train to jump from 8000'...

[ozzy13 0]

That wasn't Perris..

Never give the gates up and always trust your rears!

[divnswoop 0]

If you weren't spending all your time with the "Hollywood" crowd,.......maybe you would have better customer service.


Nice exposure though!

[quade 4]

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Gotta love a guy walking to a plane with no main risers attached to the rig

No. THAT'S not what is stupid. What is stupid is the writer's idea that if you have a main in the rig you live.

If a skydiver wanted to commit suicide, he certainly wouldn't need to remove his main. Harley proved that and, oh yeah, THAT was at Perris.

Idiots.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[diablopilot 2]

"look in my van."

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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[bfilarsky 0]

That was Hawthorne Airport - real close to LAX. Sure looks like they got lazy and just used the closest airport!

My god he was pulling at 3k towards the end of his jumps! That's like totally crazy low and staring death in the face!!!

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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My god he was pulling at 3k towards the end of his jumps! That's like totally crazy low and staring death in the face!!!

Only for AFF graduates.