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Fauci injected Prighozhin with 5G nanotrackers in order to kill him because Prighozhin fights for freedom, and Fauci hates freedom. Then Antifa got hold of the Jewish space lasers and used the trackers to target and kill him. Then Hillary Clinton got his blood to use for her adenochrome perversions. It all fits together!

Osiadacz is not a witness,, if he is telling the truth which is unverifiable he doesn't support Reca being the hijacker. At best he has Reca asking for a ride near Cle Elum which is nowhere near the flightpath. Human recall 40-50 years later is the weakest "evidence" you can get. People lie and create a distorted perception of historical events. Here are clips of Reca tapes... mixed with commentary.. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/solved-d-b-cooper-the-real-story/id1473919127 No way he is Cooper, he doesn't sound like Cooper, his speech and vocab is unique and very poor. He makes lots of case errors and is being led and fed information by Carl,,, If we had ALL the tapes, I am sure there would be many more errors.. Reca was a petty thief and serial liar.. Carl took him and wove his years of flawed case research into Reca's life... he coached and led Reca in those tapes. Not only is there no real evidence.. they got so much wrong about the hijacking that it easily eliminates him. To make this work the Reca people claim the CIA, FBI, Air Force, crew, witnesses, AF chase pilots, all the ATC operators, NWA, all the case documentation in real time and everyone involved in the case is participating in a massive conspiracy to cover for Reca.. either they are all lying or Carl and Reca are. I always thought Barb Dayton was the worst Cooper suspect until Reca..

I choose to not watch YouTube videos unless it's a music or skydiving video. No way in hell will I follow any links to the nonsense you espouse.

I'm in. 285. Only because he's mostly a bag of hot air.

When you have a funny hat you get to meet all kinds of people. Christine Lagarde (head of European Central Bank) and Marty Cooper (inventor of the cell phone).

Norway has now also promised F-16s to Ukraine. Ukraine has 61 promised to date and Norway has up to 25 available. They have not yet specified how many they will give. So Norway, the fourth least corrupt country in the world is giving up to 25 The Dutch, the eighth least corrupt country in the world are giving 42. The Danes the least corrupt country are giving 19. The US right who has its head up Putins ass are talking about Zelenskyy's corruption. Perhaps that new Ukrainian helicopter pilot can be rated on F-16s.

Ukraine just received a donation of a helicopter along with a trained pilot! The Guardian: Russian military pilot reportedly defects to Ukraine with helicopter

I'm in at 285 and one ounce.

I have some other search HQ images..

Wasn't somebody looking for the credit for this image.. Olemisscub? Robert Farrell

I just can't understand how anyone supports him. He's so openly, viciously, corrupt and dishonest, and at the same time incompetent. He regularly contradicts himself, even in the same sentence. Whats even more worrying is that a lot of world leaders on the right are now seeing this as a template to emulate. I just don't get it.

I was wearing a funny hat yesterday (me on the left). https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=311533631233429&set=pcb.311534324566693

And he gave you a like! Clearly dope has improved greatly since the day's of Thai Sticks and Panama Red.

Wow, and only two posts after I mentioned that I'd leave the incoherent posting alone as long as you didn't attack people.

In my country that video you posted has a notice imposed over top of it. "Covid-19, Get the latest information from Health Canada on covid-19". The link works, it just comes with a warning sort of like we have on cigarettes. Because toxic bullshit is toxic.

You know, I don't care if it makes me seem petty or even evil, but I'm looking forward to my 8:45AM root canal tomorrow simply because it gets me that much closer to knowing that Trump's fat ass was parked in a jail cell for even a minute and his mug shot was that much closer to being my screen saver.

Most often I can't decide if I am offended by or agree with you. Because usually I can't figure out just WTF you are saying. Woke is a construct of the current right wing in opposition to changes that offend them. It has nothing to do with liberalism just as being anti-woke has nothing to do with conservatism.

Of course it could also be Prighozhin faking his own death.

The video is interesting. I'm sure it's quite normal for the wings to fall off a bizjet in midair, nothing suspicious there at all. From the beginning I think we've all been wondering 'how the hell did he think he was going to get away with it'? Now the question is why did Putin put himself through the humiliation of doing a deal and giving Prigozhin his stuff back in the first place? If it's because he felt like he needed time to get all of Wagner's heavy weapons back, disolve their frontline combat units and get them out of Ukraine and Russia first, before he could get away with doing this, then that's another sign of weakness

Could not have happened to a nicer guy.

Seems appropriate for this to be reposted.

We did a 3 point 4 way from 2100 feet. Millennial skydivers freak out if they have to exit below 5000 feet.

Thanks for your help. I just ordered now a "Squirrel Swift 5" which through your help and other web research seems to make the most sense for trying everything out like barrel rolls, flips, ... For sure better than wrestling with a to big suit and my 1.63 wingloaded Safire 2. BR,zauche

April 2023 Right on the ground problems began. Barometer chip malfunctioned - my dashboard display did not show altitude readings, and no climb / descend rate. Anyway I decided to proceed. I can judge the altitude visually. I run the system on the ground. Okay. We took off, climbed to 11,000. I stood on the far end of the shelf. Commanded engines to start. They responded properly. As they reached the state “Accelerate” … I jumped. OMG The initial feeling was like there are two persons working together on common mission. I was busy to stabilize and fly wingsuit. Engines were busy to start themselves. Throwing short glimpses on the display, for my surprise and satisfaction, I noticed that they are making progress toward full operation. At certain point engines reported full run, 30,000 RPM. From that point I can control them. I then increased throttle. 50,000 RPM. 70,000 RPM. 95,000 RPM ! Gentle but powerful force on my foot pushed me forward ! I changed body position to fly up. In regular flight wingsuit will climb a little-bit, then will lose speed and stall after a few seconds. But now it was not the case. Despite climbing up I definitely continued to fly forward at significant speed. It worked ! Without altitude readings, I decided to keep larger safety margins, not to fly until the last moment. So I gradually decreased RPM and eventually shut down engines. Changed flight pitch to pre-opening, deployed PC and landed perfectly.

With about 40 jumps I agreed to do a 5-way jump on a day with questionable cloud cover. Cloud bases were at about 4k and were probably about 1,500' thick. Plan was to break off at 5k and pull at 3.5k. We funneled the formation right around 6k and by the time I got stable we were in the cloud and it was time to break off and track. I had no idea where anyone was or what direction they had tracked in. I was entirely unprepared for this scenario. I stayed in place, hoping everyone else had tracked, got through the cloud, cleared my airspace as well as I could, and waved off and pulled a little below 3k. Thankfully my hope that everyone else had recovered and tracked way came true. I haven't come even remotely close to a cloud since then. Several times I've gotten to the DZ and chose to stay on the ground. A couple of times I've been in the plane, got to the door and looked down, saw a big cloud, said nope, not going. I'm often told that I'm overly cautious. I've even been called a p---y once or twice. Whatever.

This thread could use some new stories, and so I'll add a few minor ones, even if they aren't from the crazy days of the 60s and 70s: These were mainly static line students in the 1990s, which is still 'old days' in that that was the main way to learn at the time, at local Cessna DZ's. Among the many students, 20-30 every weekend day in the summer, there were always ones that did their best to hurt themselves. It's amazing nobody every got killed around where I was. Watching students do dumb things was part of the excitement of the sport, sort of a life & death hazing ritual, or like watching car races for the crashes. Now when doing tandems or AFF there's more of an expectation that you have to keep your student alive... 1) Nearly an unintentional cutaway low One student has a minor canopy problem on opening, closed end cell or tension knot that's starting a slow turn. He starts to pull his SOS handle, but then remembers or hears on the radio to do his normal toggle grab and flare first. This he does, the problem goes away, and all is fine. He comes in normally to land, and I go over to meet him as he approaches, as his metal SOS handle can be seen dangling from his chest, well away from its pocket. I reach him as he touches down, and the DZO comes up too. Looking at the students' cutaway cables, one is only 1 cm (< 1/2") past the white loop. The DZ dodged a bullet that day. The student could have had a riser cut away at any moment. (The RSL wouldn't have helped, as the non-RSL side is supposed to cut away first.) 2) Grabbing something other than toggles Static line student has a good canopy, but then the round reserve streams out and inflates for a two-out. He chops the main and it clears fine so he lands OK. What happened? On the old gear that was a sort of Wonderhog style, the RSL happened to be a big Type IV yellow strap exposed at the shoulder, going up to the link on the riser. The student had grabbed that while looking for the yellow toggles... Not a good design. 3) Turning downwind at low altitude There was a clueless student who kept coming back for years, just a few jumps a year, never enough to progress much. One time I'm on radio helping guide her down. She's at 100-150 ft or something, not far out infront of the crowd line, on final, when she gets confused, and cranks a sharp 180. Now she's low, heading straight downwind, and headed for the side of two C-182s parked nose to tail maybe 20' apart. I tell her to steer between them and then "Flare like hell!" Not standard radio procedure but the best I could think of. She flies between the two planes and skids in, and is uninjured. She never had a rational explanation of why she turned like that. 3a) Another bad student landing Another static line student wasn't following commands well, at a time when the instructor had brought him in pretty close to the crowd line for landing. The student on low final angles off of the LZ, and heads for the firepit. He's coming in fast, and not flaring in time. He just misses hitting one of the huge solid logs that is seating around the fire pit, and ploughs into the large wooden box that contains all the empty beer bottles. That created quite a spectacular crashing & smashing noise! The student managed to limp away without serious injury. 4) How not to propack One DZ learned about propacking when it was pretty new, back in '91. With limited packing space in the packing trailer, they decided to give it a go for their students and packers. Well, the technique was new, and the person who brought the technique to the DZ didn't know all the tricks yet -- in particular, the danger of wrapping the brake lines around towards the nose. I was a newly licenced jumper, and had my packing down pat, as I had had my rigger rating at 50 jumps. I had learned to propack from what was a new video put out by Precision for their industry-leading Raven reserves. But for the rest of the DZ, there was a student mal pretty much every second weekend. One got to watch students float around under round reserves a lot. Good amusement. A number of students who got licenced that year had their first cutaway already under their belt. 5) Deploying reserve into the main I had one student who got broken, my first year of dispatching students. She was the last out of the 182, her canopy looked OK initially, I glanced away, but as the 182 turned I looked out again and saw her in a rapid spin with one side of her canopy collapsed. The student wasn't cutting away so the radio instructor called for her to to do her emergency procedures. After another 10 seconds of spinning, with I and the C-182 pilot looking out the door, we see a reserve canopy come out, stream up beside the malfunctioned main, and after a couple seconds of two canopies fighting for air, the main departed without snagging the reserve. The pilot and I look at each other, both thinking "Phew!", after seeing the near main-reserve entanglement. The problem had been that she had deployed while falling backwards off the step, snagging one riser under the reserve container, causing the rapid spin. When she pulled the SOS handle, that riser stayed snagged for a few seconds while the reserve came out, before clearing. The student broke a couple bones in her foot or ankle, landing the round reserve. 6) Bad reserve toggle colour This one was surprisingly only 6 years back but anyway: A DZ had a lesser known, non-U.S. brand of rigs for students, a type that was getting pretty old and has thankfully been replaced since then. A student has a mal, gets his reserve open, then floats off into the distance and gets slightly injured as he hits a small tree on landing and just misses a fence. What happened? The reserve toggles were BLACK, on black risers, and the student never found them. I can't believe anyone would build or pack gear like that... 7) Blown up canopy A heavy student did a 5 second delay or something and opened up. At first he seemed to be doing OK, so the instructor on the radio looked away and dealt with a less experienced static line student still in the air. Maybe he didn't keep a close enough eye on the advanced student, but he then noticed that the heavy student was a lot lower than expected. The guy wasn't spiralling down, but somehow was losing altitude relatively fast. At first the instructor called for the student to cut away, but soon the student was too low for that , so he was just talked in to a landing, emphasizing to do a PLF. The student slammed hard into a muddy field and was taken away with back pains but it later looks like nothing is broken. Turns out that the pilot chute attachment point wasn't all that well reinforced on that design of canopy, and after a lot of use the canopy had split nose to tail on the topskin on that opening. The canopy had flown just well enough that nobody understood what the problem was in the air. (Can't recall what model it was, maybe a Man O War. In any case, the couple other such canopies that the DZ had, went to static line direct bag only.)

Yeigh!....Artwardo tells the best jump stories. (I already told all the scary ones that I can remember.) We need a good jump story to listen to....Steve1 So far, the best one Airtwardo has ever told was the night demo with pyrotechnics, and the other one about landing on the roof of a building in the city... just unbelievable and funny as hell, both of them! They're in here on this thread... *** Who.....ME?!?!? Okay.......... I gotta quick cute one... I was doing a demo two weeks ago in Iowa, we were breaking in a new team member 'prospect'. A VERY accomplished skydiver and BASE jumper that I'd never met, but was a good friend of a couple of guys on the team. We were going to do a night pyro jump as part of the airshow night time festivities. The 'new guy' had been trained on the gear and now he was to 'train' me... it's a little exercise we do when breaking in a noob. I play the idiot, which isn't a real challenge...and have the prospect explain how everything works and how to use it, what to do as EP's etc... When he's through, I'll make some suggestions or corrections if needed. About 1/2 way into it... He's getting it right for the most part, but is getting a bit frustrated with some of my 'questions' about the system... Finally.... he says "Listen Jim... you should probably wait until this "Twardo" guy gets here to explain it all to you better... From what I hear he knows this stuff inside out...!" About this time everyone busts out laughing and we're more 'properly' introduced... ...We had to stand down from the first jump of the day beause of winds. We're all sitting around the team bus telling stories about demos and such...when the 'new guy' starts telling about this crazy bunch of old time outlaw club jumpers from the midwest... He was telling a tale he'd heard about this goofy fuck that was sitting on the jump step throwing Coors Bottles at grain silos as they flew past them....from 500 feet! All the guys on the team go quiet and look over at ME.... So I went ahead and corrected him, it was BUDWEISER bottles...and it was from 200 feet.... AND........ I got 8 out of 12 hits!! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~