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I've never felt pressured to jump a small canopy. What I have felt pressured to do, however, is justify my choice to jump a large canopy. That's a subtle difference, but a critical one....and I'm not sure which of those two is more problematic.

Oh my. Another legend gone. But what a life! Wendy P.

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We commonly have the 200+ pound newly A licensed jumper searching the classifieds for a rig with 190 main and room for downsizing. The newly A licensed jumper didn't decide on his own it was the right size. Changing the culture would help.

Yup, Tina did corroborate Cooper's statement in the HBO doc,, he said he won't be taken alive.. Dynamite does come in red,, but imagine the psychology of pulling off a hijacking with a fake bomb, if people don't believe it, he is done.. a sky marshal or a couple passengers may jump him. A real bomb would give him the confidence, a fake bomb wouldn't unless he had another concealed weapon. We won't know for sure, but I lean toward real.

They could see the glow of Portland,,, the clouds were broken. So, Cooper would know if he was over a city even if he couldn't see the ground, Vancouver and Portland would emit a glow.. There is no way Cooper intentionally jumps over a city at night in an unsteerable chute....

I can understand being emotional about freedoms you wanted for your fellow human beings denied because in spite of your best efforts you came up short and failed. But being emotional because freedoms you wanted desperately to deny your fellow human beings are about to be granted despite your best efforts is, to my mind, absolutely antithetical to the idea of being a representative serving in a representative democracy. We will never be able to move forward as a society, moreover as a society able to coexist to the point of integration with other societies, until all societies purge this nonsense from their bodies. Hence my continued pessimism.

When we were at Himmy's grandson's house we pulled out like a dozen letters that Jo had written to Himmy. Some weren't even opened. Since we knew Jo was full of shit and our time was limited, we just set them aside. I do wish I had glanced through them though.

I don't read it that way.. Thanksgiving day was when the FBI arrived.. He could have checked in the day before the hijacking and if he asked for a late wakeup call that may have been the 24th.. It could be unrelated and the wording is vague but why would the FBI take the registration card.. if it was Wednesday early evening, it wasn't Cooper..

Same problem here. It is difficult to change the culture when all the “cool kids, including all instructors and mentors, are jumping small canopies. The culture is deeply ingrained.

Agreed, except Loving v Virginia was decided in 1967, only 55 years ago. Griswold v Connecticut, the case that struck down laws banning using, selling, or providing information about contraception, was decided in 1965, only 57 years ago. That was another case that was opposed by the religious right wing. However there was also a racist element: the decision was supported by some in the southern states due to their fear of blacks having large families and "replacing" whites. Justice Thomas et al want to turn back the clock, but they don't necessarily have to turn it back too far to achieve their dream of imposing their moral choices on everybody in the USA.

This is why Obama’s presidency was such a positive and important step for the nation.

He didn’t invent that since Tina appears to have corroborated it. However, he definitely didn’t talk to Alice Hancock while she was living in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Alice has been living in Texas since the late 70’s. Makes me think that entire conversation was made up.

Tina says this in the HBO documentary. I've been a proponent of the bomb being real for some time now. I think that he would have only used it if he got cornered. Bomb serves two purposes if you set it off: it kills you but it also likely makes your remains unidentifiable. If he was killed in a shootout or something and they couldn't figure out who he was, you can bet for damn sure they'd have thrown his dead face into the papers asking "do you recognize this man?". So blowing yourself up eliminates yourself but also eliminates you being ID'd if you were peraps worried about bringing embarrassment and shame onto your family. While at CooperCon, I showed Kaye the statement that Tina made from the cockpit describing the bomb. He had never seen it before. One of the guys at the table had a brother who worked in Hollywood as a pyrotechnics guy and he called him to figure out how many amps (or maybe volts) it would take to set off a blasting cap for dynamite. Whatever that battery was (Tom knew what it was from Tina's description) certainly had enough juice to pop a blasting cap. So there's nothing to rule it out being real.

Hi Joe, That look on Trump's face says it all. He has/had no clue as to what was going on around him. Just a Babe in the Woods. Jerry Baumchen

So much for the enlightenment. Some of us want to return to Bronze age thinking, some of us want to go boldly into a future where yesterdays ideas are the valued building blocks upon which we stand to look even further forward.

Dear bokdrol, In the USA, all civilian parachute riggers are licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration. It has been a long time since the United States Parachute Association has had anything to do with licensing riggers. USPA was only briefly involved during the 1980s when they took over the ram-air reserve endorsement initially offered by Para-Flite. This was to help civilian riggers learned how to pack the new-fangled ram-air reserves. The Para-Flite or USPA "ram-air reserve" endorsement was in addition to FAA certification, but FAA never required the endorsement. I doubt if the FAA took Para-Flite's or USPA's endorsement seriously. At best, the FAA considered the endorsement to be "pack in accordance with the manufacturers' instructions." The FAA is famously slow in changing their ways. USA Federal Air Regulations change even slower.

Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster (2 awards) Distinguished Flying Cross with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster (6 awards, 2 for high altitude skydives) Bronze Star with Valor, 2 Oak Leaf Clusters (3 awards) 11 months in Hanoi Wow is all you can say.

A dishonest FORMER Marine with a BCD. A disgusting FORMER Marine who attempted resorting to espionage to make money, his country be damned. Fuck him.

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