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{In fond, loving memory of a jumper & friend who added a lot of “spice” to our skydiving lore} Blue Skies Carbone! always in “The Zone” ............ It’s never too late for a Scotty Carbone story; I met Scotty in 72, we were both novice jumpers rising through the ranks at the Stormville Parachute center in NY. We were both “City boys” and I knew in an instant that Carbone was a clever, street smart hustler. I also learned he was a very skilled & talented individual and had that certain charm about him,(you loved him or not-so-much at all). We became jump buddies and friends. Scotty never seemed to have a “real” job, a car or any money but he always managed to get by. Since I lived in Brooklyn and he was on my way to the DZ, I would often give him a ride and believe me, surviving the 90 minute drive was an act of significant personal discipline. But as you may guess, there was always a surprise or two w/ him, some nights the, (OLD DIAL), phone would ring, like 2-3 in the morning, I would answer; “you BleepN recti, you woke my parents up, F—Off, I’ll pick you up at 8...” and too many times he wasn’t even home but somehow made it to the DZ anyway. During the next decade we jumped, competed, partied and we’re on a 10-man, speed star team together;(The Spaced Rangers). One of our guys,(Wayne S)got us a DZ sponsor for our jumps; Lakewood Parachute Center,NJ. They had a DC-3 and needed/wanted us to fill every load to help lower their cost of putting out static line students, so for $3 a jump we’d take our 12-13 slots and practice from about 7-7500’. Lakewood was a VERY conservative DZ and The Rangers w/ Carbone, (not-so-much). Their DZ manager always kept a watchful eye on us and our coolers, one day during a hold for low clouds, our cooler lids were active and later when the skies cleared, we hustled our gear on then headed to the 3, but In our way, is the manager, he’d seen enough and points to,(you know who), and says, “I want to smell your breath!”... well of course Scotty obliges in spontaneous Carbone fashion; he runs up to him, puts him in a bear hug, and smoothers this guys face with his wide open mouth. Scotty breathes hard into his face for about 10-15 seconds, (while we are pissing our pants laughing), then says “was that enough?” and lets him go, the poor guy did not know what happened. We boarded, jumped, broke off above 25, landed and packed... We never got checked again!! I can tell you dozens of Carbone Capers but if you’ve spent any amount of time w/ Scotty, you probably can too, that one was special...

That will make sense if PIA was about sport skydiving.

The PIA web site lists the dates for the symposium as August 30 - September 3, 2021, 5 months from now. All the links say stay tuned or information will be posted at a later date. Has anyone heard if those dates are still firm. I would think moving it to February 2022 then holding it every even year may be a better idea since the current dates are busy skydiving months.

If it causes DeSantis to get his panties in a wad, then it must be a good idea.

Be easier to just insert an RFID chip wouldn't it?

And the more tension that's built up in the pendulum, the farther it'll swing when released. There will be a swing; it's the nature of human organizations. It's just a matter how how far, and when. Wendy P.

Oh please. Halloween is totally Christian. It's the day before 'All Saints Day' (which technically makes it "Catholic", not "Christian"). It's "All Hallow's Eve".

Their marketing bullet points includes IP67, that should do it.

It was not ignored. It was factored in. You can have someone with a fatal level of alcohol in their body, still walking (staggering) around on the street. If you see them staggering about and shoot them in the head, you will still go to jail for murder. Because the cause of death will be the fact that they were shot in the head.

Well The Beatles tried promoting the 8-day week, but it didn't catch on.

Don't forget Xmas trees and yule logs.

Only in Derek's Merica

Ummmmm.....The Catholic church is pretty well "morally compromised". No confusion there.

Sign at Denton restaurant threatens to charge $50 ‘if I have to explain why masks are mandatory’

Consider this line stolen. Pure gold.

Try saying "margarita."

I'm sorry; I'm not sure I see the issue here... Wendy P.

I would also point out that it's a real PITA to make gas engines that rotate in opposite directions; you basically need two different engines. With an electric motor there's nothing to change but software. (You do need two different props though.) This is sort of a big deal with respect to engine out, because twins have a critical engine. When you lose the "good" engine the P-factor, torque, and propwash against the vertical stabilizer all conspire to turn you into the working engine, which counteracts the adverse yaw trying to turn you into the failed engine. When you lose the critical engine, everything works against you. This problem is mitigated with a high Vmc (minimum control speed) - a speed that ensures the flight surfaces have enough authority to mitigate that tendency. But you also pay a price in design, since the engines have to be as close as possible to midline to reduce those tendencies. And even with Vmc indications, loss of the critical engine leads to a lot of crashes. (There's an old saying that in a twin, the purpose of the second engine is to get you to the scene of the crash more quickly.) With a two engine electric airplane, you can use counterrotating props and not have a critical engine. Engines can be further outboard, Vmc is lower and there's less workload during an engine out.