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Geez, I have to laugh again. I keep posting guesses and suppositions based on general knowledge, and you keep coming back with documentation that my guesses could be off the mark. So was this rig the same kind of WW2 container as the other one? Most of the forces and stresses of the rig is taken by the harness. It holds the person, and takes the opening shock of the canopy. So putting a newer, stronger harness on an older rig (Hayden's museum rig) makes sense. But having a (30 year old??) cotton harness still in use in the 70's...?? Maybe the FBI is convinced Cooper died in the jump because they tried their best to kill him by giving him the oldest, out of date rigs they could find! Yeah, that was something of a joke, but if you tell me next that the canopies were also WW2 vintage and silk, and his exit speed was 200 knots, I'm going to become more pessimistic of his chances. Ha!

If I was going to line the bottom of a bird cage, it would be with fresh copies of something political, but NEVER with Skydiving.

That seems to be from a police practice range. i.e., black guy, facing the other way.

Hi folks :) I had a hard landing on my butt, and I had some pain, very minor pain, in the tailbone, the thing is .. The pain is so minor that I don't feel it when I sit down, or sleep, or even walk. I only feel it when there is pressure on the tailbone in a certain angle during bending my whole body (standing up from sitting on the floor) or when I sit with all my wait on the tailbone. After a little research, I realised that I mostly likely have a bruised tailbone, but not a seriously bruised one. Do you think it's safe to jump with this condition assuming that I will avoid butt landings at all costs? Disclaimer: I know you're not doctors, and I will never blame anybody for giving advice or opinions, I am responsible for my decisions ;)

Alright, now that we established facts what do I do. I felt and still feel bad to recycle so many colorful magazines - what do you do with them? Thought for a while to cut the front page and make a mosaic of some sort but I have too many projects to get to it ! Looking for advice!

Well, his argument has gone from “electric is going nowhere” to “electric isn’t gaining fast enough for my new goalposts.” All this winning. Wendy P.

I broke my tailbone after getting dropped by turbulence during a landing flare. The doctor said I snapped the tip like a toothpick. I was able to jump, although I admit I pulled back on frequency. I was jumping at a Cessna DZ, so I stayed on my knees on the way to altitude or sat in the back while leaning to keep the weight off the tailbone. This break take a very long time to heal, so I assume a bruise does too.

Okay there. I have no fucking idea what game you're playing, but congrats on the win: your trophy's in the mail.

Your anti-projection diet lasted an entirety of one sentence! You, sir, are to be applauded for your consistency with being inconsistent!

And why would there be any names? It's not like covid - the rich and famous aren't affected as much. Don't let them set up the goalposts like this ridiculous one. Even if you do meet them, they'll move it anyway (actually, brent already did).

All the specific information I have on this case comes from you people on these two sites. It's always been my understanding that the money is in packets of 100 bills, strapped by standard paper bank bands. Those packets were bundled in 2's and 3's by rubber bands. The durability of the rubber bands have always been in question, in regards to how 3 packets of 100 would end up together on T-bar. Is that wrong? Is Skinwalker Ranch under the Western Flight Path?

Not sure, I heard recently that nobody's really gotten to the bottom of 9/11

Use them as wrapping paper for gifts given to skydivers.

I had 40+ years of Parachutist and all of the Skydiving Magazines. I listed them in the classifieds for free and found a taker. I saved the very first Skydiving Magazine and still have it.

I don't know specifics of the program at Pietermeritzburg, but several civilian DZs were doing assisted freefall jumps well before Ken Coleman invented the AFF program and sold it to USPA circa 1980. Bob Sinclair was one of the first with his "buddy-Jump" system that saw him leaving the airplane holding his students' arms. Bob also invented an extended main ripcord that was sew to the student's left sleeve. This zap-handle allowed Bob to pull a student's ripcord even if they started spinning. Tom McCarthy developed his own assisted freefall program in Gananoque, Ontario during the 1970s. He started by giving every student a KAP3 auto-opener and teaching them how to pull their own ripcord during their first jump. Other Canadian DZs (e.g. Claresholm, Alberta) deveoped CSPA's Progressive Freefall Program. A key difference from USPA's AFF program was an insistence that students demonstrate a few stable exits from lower latitudes (S/L or IAD) before going to the top with a pair of PFF instructors. Few DZs do "pure AFF" any more. Instead, most DZ use a variety of methods to teach AFF students pre-skills like canopy control and the basics of freefall stability using tandems, solo IAD jumps and wind tunnels. Once a student has demonstrated basic skills, they often do assisted freefall accompanied by only a single instructor.

See? It has all been declassifed. Are we good now?

I'm no expert on the rules but: A data card is not *required* to be with a reserve. People lose them, don't pass them on to a new owner of the reserve, etc. A rigger might make a personal choice to not pack a reserve that has no known history, but that's not the norm. Under US & Canadian rules etc, the rigger inspects the reserve & decides whether it is airworthy. It would also be very rare for a reserve to have placard info worn away, like what one sometimes sees with older main canopies -- where the serial number is illegible. (That might indeed make a rigger make a personal decision not to pack such a reserve.)

This post is incorrect on many points. Your rigger is incorrect or you are misunderstanding them. You have only limited experience and you should not assume that what you have seen is all everyone will see.

Scene: With a patient in my medical exam room Me: How old are your kids? Patient: Forty-four and 39 from my wife who passed away, and from my second wife, 15 and 13. Me: That’s quite the age difference! Patient: Well, the older ones didn’t give me any grandkids, so I made my own.