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NYT: Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction. Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santos’s campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year. There was also little evidence that his animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, was, as Mr. Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization: The Internal Revenue Service could locate no record of a registered charity with that name. ... ...reported a $750,000 salary and over $1 million in dividends from his company, the Devolder Organization...he described it as a capital introduction consulting company...But Mr. Santos’s disclosures did not reveal any clients, an omission three election law experts said could be problematic if such clients exist. ... And while Mr. Santos has described a family fortune in real estate, he has not disclosed, nor could The Times find, records of his properties. Well, he should fit right in to the modern GOP!

The canopy wrapped around the wire. It had to, the energy of his motion had to go somewhere. Only 3 feet up still means it slid down the wire, and it slid down with both weight and speed pulling it. Fly a canopy at 15 to twenty miles an hour forward speed and whatever down with the weight of a human probably a couple hundred pounds into a 1/4 inch piece of steel wire under tension and what do YOU think is going to happen? In any case the proof is right there in the hands of whoever is taking the picture. The damaged areas don't match up perfectly because it is nylon fabric and it is flexible.

Fun fact - right now on FOX News the headline is about . . . Hunter's laptop. Look for the laptop being top news 24/7 for about a month now. Well, that and the war on Christmas.

some of it looks like an electrical burn, but some is ripped. did the canopy touch the live wires at all? if not, may have been friction burn on part of it. hard to say from a picture though.

That's some good advice. Being a good packer can be a lucrative gig as you are working through your certificates. In fact, it is probably the best going to school side job ever. Just be good and a good team player. Packing floors need to have all players working together and supporting each other. Get trained, get good, and I'll look at you for a slot.

The outlier is the few combat Halo jumps in Laos,, both front and back chutes... first one in late 1970, third June 1971. If Cooper knew about those, it may have been his inspiration. https://www.coffeeordie.com/macv-sog-halo Look how many guys have a right side pull..

My research is in line with Fly’s. I talked to some Navy guys of the era about a plane named the Twin Beech. Beechcraft. Recon plane and had other uses. They sent me pics and this info. This would indicate that air crews would know harnesses and chutes but may never have jumped. Makes me think of a life preserver drill you’d do on a ship, but may not have gone overboard. “The aircrew would wear parachute harnesses but the QAC chest packs were stowed in the cabin. In the SNB-5P/RC-45J they stowed quick attach chest pack parachutes on the back of each of the forward cabin seats on bungees and hooks and the aft seat ‘chute was stowed under the seat on the floor with similar bungees and hooks as can be seen in the photo. The pilots stowed their QAC chest packs on a shelf right across from the entry door. The door could be jettisoned to bail out.”

I found in my research that aircrew's used either front or back bailout rigs and that terminology was used from WW2 on.. they didn't seem to use both.. this suggests Cooper may have expected 4 independent rigs with harnesses, not just two sets. McNalley got and used a front chute with a harness. For something like a C-47, they would sit in a rack and get put on quickly for an emergency bailout..

People go by gut feeling. Gut feeling is unrelated to science. They want the good guys to win, and the bad guys to lose. However, "good guy" and "bad guy" tend to be closely correlated either with "like me or someone I can identify with," or "has a lot of money and can explain the story well and have it listened to." Kinda like how it takes 12 jurors, not 1 or 2. But even so, they're still humans, and might identify with groups. Wendy P.

I've been reading recently that Putin is leaning hard Lukashenko to get Belarus fully involved in the "special military operation". But there is enough unhappiness with Lukashenko in Belarus, that to do so would likely see him ousted from power. So the options are say "No" to Putin and get tossed out a window by Putin's goons, or say "Yes" to Putin and get tossed out a window by his own people.

A dropzone making correct safety decisions in terms of wind/weather conditions is in my view never a bad thing. Having been at some dropzones where I (at +- 6000 skydives) skipped loads due to weather conditions on landing, and then seeing guys with 51 jumps go up because 'the limit is 50 jumps', it can at times feel like a jump-limit was set with DZ income in mind, as opposed to safety. In the 6 or so weeks I've spent at the dropzone over 2021, I've seen the DZ limit jumping at 50/100/500 jumps, but in almost 100% of those, I had already taken myself of the load. There, at lower jump numbers, its sometimes worth trusting the judgement of people with more experience and eye for local conditions. The landing area is indeed not the lush patch of grass you see on other dropzones, for a large part caused by the all year round warm to hot weather. Summer season (June to August) we also avoid, as it just gets too hot. Though jumping from early to mid-day, and then chilling at the pool of your hotel, is never a bad thing. My main gripe with the surrounding area is not too much to do (sea/beach is an hour away) in the direct area surrounding the DZ, but enough good restaurants to not stress about that too much, as in the end, we're there to jump

Hi Rob, Re: SBs carry the same weight of law as FAA issued Airworthiness Directives. I disagree. A mfr may make a SB that they have issued 'mandatory' but it is still not mandatory by the FAA. An AD is issued by the FAA and is mandatory. IMO as to how this splitting of hairs' would stand up in court is not really known. Jerry Baumchen

Come to Wisconsin next summer. 6 days a week, 100 dollars a day average during the week, 250 to 500 a day Sat. and Sunday. Camper on site for cheap rent. Otter flies all week, cesena and beaver also. Get your working visa and come on over. Check out SkydiveTwinCities.com Oh yeah packing isn't a bad job as long as you are willing to work hard. The people who can't make a living are the one's who need fancy car's and big tv's and material things.