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I won $3 million on the lottery this weekend so I decided to donate a quarter of it to charity. Now I have $2,999,999.75. Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

Seen on FB - If Elon Musk wants to make money, he should charge people to block HIM.

Here's my situation. A month ago, I was at an event in DeLand and had malfunction with an uneventful cutaway. The main and free bag came down in a wooded area. The main canopy was eventually recovered but the free bag was lost. Before leaving DeLand, I went directly to the manufacturer of my container to see about getting a new reserve pilot chute, free bag, and RSL. I was told the items were in stock and I asked that they be shipped to my home. It took almost two weeks to get the items I was told were in stock. When I got my rig to my rigger, I found out that the reserve ripcord pin and lanyard had also been lost. When I placed an order for a new one, I was told it would be FOUR WEEKS! What is going on in the equipment industry?

Maybe it's just me, but to me Composite B shows a good looking man, almost too good looking. No one said Cooper was handsome, but then again no one really said he was ugly.

or Tina claiming she didn't see Cooper's face head on with the FBI using her for the primary sketch and the "go to" to eliminate suspects.. a massive problem for any potential prosecution. and, current Cooper sleuth's using Tina as the gold standard.. something is up with Tina, she is being evasive or dishonest for some reason. It is hard to believe she didn't see Cooper's face,, but she didn't want to participate in the revision of the sketch,, why, did she initially want sketch A to stand.. because it was more accurate or less accurate.

I recently ordered new risers that were listed as In Stock, but discovered after I paid that it was a 2-3 week delivery time. I suspect that what In Stock actually meant was, "we have everything we need to make them in stock." Which in hindsight totally makes sense....I can't imagine rig manufacturers just happen to keep non-standard sized risers in stock because who knows is going to place an order. I would guess that it would be the same for other parts as well.

The same thing that is going on in aircraft industry. It is small, it is specialized, and it is just beginning to come out of big time disruptions of material supply and labour shortages. Try ordering an oil filter for a Cessna 182, or replacement fuel bladders. Or enough parts for an engine rebuild. Or even new tires in some cases. Four weeks will then seem like almost nothing.

He may name his suspect at CooperCon, but I expect the press conference will just be a teaser to get more folks to come to CooperCon, which I'm all in favor of.

Does anyone have experience with rodeo exit from Skyvan ? Skyvan has a back door, so jumping rodeo means passenger exits a little-bit before wingsuiter. I think we will roll over on the back and passenger will fall down. Are there any videos of rodeo exit from Skyvan ? Tips and comments are welcome.

Jane Fonda is Hollywood, a woman, and disrespected the US Military. An easy target to keep winding people up about. January 6 insurrection participants are patriotic Americans that have been disenfranchised by a rigged election forcing the greatest president in history out of office. it’s different.

Only way to settle this is to get an expert cop on the case: Herschel Walker.

I am reminded of Ron who feels a similar way. But when Trump being a draft dodger was brought up, he replied something along the line of "oh, I wasn't all that political back then, so I didn't really care about draft dodgers. So that's OK."

and I am a little concerned that people's recollections/identifications are: all over the map! witness hysteria due to pressure being applied to identify Cooper ? The process is wrong and is generating false responses ? Was he a square, a star, or a circle?

with KK5-1 and this photo I think it's safe to say that Cooper wasn't an attractive man.

I think we are too used to amazon and instant gratification. Skydiving is a niche sport and uses niche items. 4 weeks, especially when they said it would be 4 weeks, does not seem unreasonable. Even two weeks to get in stock items does not seem crazy to me.

NORJAK wasn't the first time Alyce was robbed on the job! Just found this today...

Correct. As I've said numerous times, she basically Forrest Gump'd him into the Cooper narrative. For every event that occurred in the Cooper saga she was able to artificially insert him into it.

i just don't see the ambiguity between hard deck and decision altitude. hard deck implies it's hard, no changes. decision altitude implies that you make a choice, the only time you choose between cutaway and don't cutaway. the numbers can change as you say, depending on lots of things, but that is after the student learns the definitions. if we need more words to convey the meaning, i'm all for it though. just because i understand it doesn't mean everyone does. the way it is sucks pretty good though. overall, i agree with you.

Never saw it, so I just watched the trailer. Omigawd, they used "Stuck in the Middle with You" as the theme. Every time I hear that song, I mentally picture Micheal Madsen dancing while holding a straight razor.

I just chatted with the current world champion WS pilot in performance category. I may be wrong but he is ~ 5'10 and 165 pounds???? definitely not abnormally tall or apey no matter what the actual values are

Recall the heat Obama got from the GOP when he said pretty much exactly that?

I consider Facebook anti social media. What friends, you probably don't even know most of the "Facebook friends" Things were better when you saw your friends in person, face to face.

Because until they're the ones giving chest compressions, tying off a tourniquet or holding a canopy to shade some poor broken fucker while waiting for the LifeFlight they will always operate under the credo "Anyone but me. It will happen to anyone but me." This shit isn't complicated. Myopic assholery, yes, but not complicated.

Yea, it came back as Max David Gunther. I think I just put in Max Gunther. What did you do to get a more extensive search? I offered to pay more $, but it ended up being free. I've since appealed, but I don't know if that means just a more extensive search. Gunther wrote the book in 1985. The FBI had to have talked about it, but there is no guarantee that those conversations are cataloged in their files. We just don't know what the FBI talked about. The 302s are always just summaries. I talked to Jo a few times, and I am not convinced she even talked to Gunther. Someone might have been fooling her. She got real vague when I asked her for her notes. Gunther may have talked to her just for fun, but things just did not add up. I asked her for the Christmas cards he sent and she got quiet. She claims Gunther tracked Clara to California, but there is no other reference to that anywhere. A lot does not add up with her story, and the Gunther family is not talking. As for FOIA's. I've been on the receiving end of a few requests from the public through the years. I'm not FBI, but in my organization there would be a liaison for FOIAs and congressional requests, etc. Here is the issue. That person would not be knowledgeable about the content (just like I doubt the FBI FOIA person knows much about DB Cooper). So if I got a request for information, it would be on me to provide the information I had. I would also have to do this quickly. If I had spent many years in the job, I'd know where all the files were, and where the information was. But if I was new, I might only know a little bit. So, in summary, we are asking for details on the DB Cooper case, but it is not Larry Carr who is going searching in the files, it is probably someone who does not know where everything is or does not have background knowledge, or does not have the time or motivation to get everything. That is what we are dealing with on these FBI Vault releases. I'm going to speculate here, but I imagine there is some lower level government employee who has been told to find 500 pages a month, and then is told to redact those files, and then publish. I'm also going to say that I think they are abiding by the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law. They are releasing 300-500 pages of files a month like they've been told, but are under no obligation to release the good files, hence us getting month after month of duplicates or pages upon pages of them investigating some suspect from Kansas City who we know is not related to the case. I trust most of the people in the government, I don't trust all the politicians, and I certainly don't trust the system.

Got an official response, the FBI has nothing relating to Max Gunther.

Don't put words in my mouth. I have never staked a claim to being "the guy in the right". Any statements I make are grounded in facts and historical examples. That's where best practices come from. It isn't my opinion that yielding to the low jumper (aviator) is the best practice. It is the opinion of every aviation expert, the FAA, USPA, AOPA, and on and on. It's also the accepted practice for gliders, hang gliders, paragliders, etc., and for good reason. I can cite dozens of cases of canopy collisions caused by a higher jumper failing to yield to a lower jumper - often during a performance turn that causes rapid altitude loss and a collision into a lower jumper flying a routine pattern or final approach. It's a scenario that has been repeated so many times that it should be obvious to anyone who studies our history. I take no pleasure in recommending jumpers ignore someone's advice. My intention is always to educate jumpers - especially young, impressionable jumpers - to help them stay out of the incident reports.

I have a tempo 170 in my rig right now. It's 20 plus years old. I had it pull tested before I went to rigging school and got my own ticket. I have 3 rides on this reserve. 2 cutaway malfunctions and a total nothing out in a wingsuit where I had to go straight to reserve. It flew great had very good flair. It's is also the smallest canopy I have ever flown. I landed standing up and on target all three times.

voilà. Time+Out!!+User+manual+-+01.pdf

Good reply Roland and thanks for the Skyderby linky, but to quote "Maverick" in the new Top Gun movie, "it all depends on the pilot in the box (suit)".

So, your side can only stand their own perceived "injustice" before they resort to violence and sedition for about three months. Yet people of color who have suffered unwritten oppression for a few hundred years are expected to just "wait it out" because "times are changing," without engaging in wholly law-abiding peaceful demonstrations demanding equal rights. Yeah, sounds about right. But using your own question then: how long should they wait?