News Article-"Bird Man Cometh"

[ltdiver 3]

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/7677957p-8617875c.html

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[bodypilot1 0]

Not a bad article....
Usually they make us sound like "death seekers" in a very "un"calculated sport, but the writer didn't over write that "skydiving=curtain death"....

Ed

www.WestCoastWingsuits.com
www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

[ManBird 0]

Ugh. It's so bad it's almost funny. This isn't news, this is a sixth-grade current events report full of invalid information and little to no relevancy between subjects. You know it's doomed when the claim is made that going from 120 MPH to 45 MPH *doubles* your freefall time to two minutes. 45 down more than doubles, even when pulling high. That whole BSBD/Porsche/BMW quote was a frickin' joke. BD's quote was the only thing that was true and pressworthy, but even then, the writer had to throw in a comment to twist his his words.

And where they got that Felix did anything BirdMan related in freefall for 14 minutes or that he popularized wingsuits (which he wasn't even flying), I'll never know.

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[bodypilot1 0]

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Ugh. It's so bad it's almost funny. This isn't news, this is a sixth-grade current events report full of invalid information and little to no relevancy between subjects. You know it's doomed when the claim is made that going from 120 MPH to 45 MPH *doubles* your freefall time to two minutes. 45 down more than doubles, even when pulling high. That whole BSBD/Porsche/BMW quote was a frickin' joke. BD's quote was the only thing that was true and pressworthy, but even then, the writer had to throw in a comment to twist his his words.

And where they got that Felix did anything BirdMan related in freefall for 14 minutes or that he popularized wingsuits (which he wasn't even flying), I'll never know.

The general public doesn't know the things we know
And as for the his writing abilities? Yes, he could use some help

Ed

www.WestCoastWingsuits.com
www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

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The general public doesn't know the things we know

True. I'm just anal about these things, I guess.

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[dgskydive 0]

At least they didn't mention the world famous "Knifes Edge"

Dom

[ManBird 0]

They didn't even mention "The Bottle Top Spin". FYI, "The Bottle Top Spin" is the name of a move that doesn't exist that can be applied to any sport where tricks are involved (breakdancing, dirt biking, kiteboarding, etc). It makes it sound like you know what you are talking about, and can be followed up with an accusation of not being a member of a certain "school", as shown in the two examples below:

- "What?! You've never heard of the bottle top spin? Man, and you act like you're old school."

- "You haven't hit the bottle top spin yet? You gotta get with the new school."

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[billvon 3,119]

>You know it's doomed when the claim is made that going from 120
>MPH to 45 MPH *doubles* your freefall time to two minutes.

120mph from 12500 to 2000 (where I usually pull) is around 60 seconds. 45mph from 12500 to 4500 is 121 seconds. That doesn't sound unreasonable.

>That whole BSBD/Porsche/BMW quote was a frickin' joke.

That was a quote from the skydiver being interviewed.

>And where they got that Felix did anything BirdMan related in freefall
> for 14 minutes or that he popularized wingsuits (which he wasn'
>t even flying), I'll never know.

I'll bet they asked Felix.

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>And where they got that Felix did anything BirdMan related in freefall
> for 14 minutes or that he popularized wingsuits (which he wasn'
>t even flying), I'll never know.

I'll bet they asked Felix.

HAHAAA!! I don't think so. His name would have showed up as "God of the Skies" if they went on his info.

4,500 feet? You wuss. ;)

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