ZigZagMarquis

Yeah, but, won't they explode if a gal with them assends in altitude too quickly... like in an unpresurized aircraft... like, say during skydiving?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fBY9g7QLq8&sns=fb

Geeze... you'll at least wait until the kids and grandma are out of the room... right?

Found this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtIF1kzxY5I ... on YouTube! THAT was a great skydive!!!

AMMO!

Nah... skydivers would have nicked it and traded it for beer!

When I started jumping at Cal City back in the early 90s, I heard stories from the likes of Celaya, Philly, Cary and Hank that origins of "the hand" was something along the lines of it having been "found" in some old Indian burial ground "out in the desert" "somewhere".

N122PM is still around, I believe, as is N125PM. I saw 125PM at Perris recently when they were doing the 200-Ways / Cal State Record there a few months back, but I didn't have my camera with me that day. Anyway, I don't believe 122PM and 125PM have sported the ol' Pilgrim Airlines paint scheme in years. I think its just 121PM that still has that paint job... at least on a Twin Otter, that is.

I dunno man, leaving Q-ball out on the strut during a go-around makes up for all of that!

What does that buy you except a few less drag counts?

I've been wondering if she went to Florida to get a new paint job?

YES THERE ARE!!!

Friday, 25 November 2011: N121PM departed Philadelphia Intl (KPHL) at 10:40 EST enroute to KEYF (Curtis L Brown Jr Field) for an estimated arrival at 13:14 EST N121PM arrived at Curtis L Brown Jr Field (KEYF) at 12:48 EST from KPHL (Philadelphia Intl) N121PM departed Curtis L Brown Jr Field (KEYF) at 13:24 EST enroute to 28J (Palatka Muni - Lt. Kay Larkin Field) for an estimated arrival at 15:48 EST N121PM arrived at Palatka Muni - Lt. Kay Larkin Field (28J) at 15:22 EST from KEYF (Curtis L Brown Jr Field) N121PM departed (OMN286017) at 21:21 GMT enroute to 2IS (Airglades) for an estimated arrival at 17:18 EST N121PM arrived at Airglades (2IS) at 17:37 EST from OMN286017

DAMN!

Ditto... Call Ralph!

oh geeze! Please don't move this thread to the SC!

I'm surprised NickDG didn't post this. Maybe he and Julia were at the cape to watch the launch? ------------------ http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/26/nasas-biggest-mars-rover-poised-for-blast-off/#ixzz1eo9VRAM6?test=faces NASA Launches Super-Size Mars Rover to Red Planet Published November 26, 2011 | Associated Press The world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA's Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life. It will take 8 1/2 months for Curiosity to reach Mars following a journey of 354 million miles. An unmanned Atlas V rocket hoisted the rover, officially known as Mars Science Laboratory, into a cloudy late morning sky. A Mars frenzy gripped the launch site, with more than 13,000 guests jamming the space center for NASA's first launch to Earth's next-door neighbor in four years, and the first send-off of a Martian rover in eight years. NASA astrobiologist Pan Conrad, whose carbon compound-seeking instrument is on the rover, had a shirt custom made for the occasion. Her bright blue, short-sleeve blouse was emblazoned with rockets, planets and the words, "Next stop Mars!" The 1-ton Curiosity -- as large as a car -- is a mobile, nuclear-powered laboratory holding 10 science instruments that will sample Martian soil and rocks, and analyze them right on the spot. There's a drill as well as a stone-zapping laser machine. It's "really a rover on steroids," said NASA's Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator for science. "It's an order of magnitude more capable than anything we have ever launched to any planet in the solar system." The primary goal of the $2.5 billion mission is to see whether cold, dry, barren Mars might have been hospitable for microbial life once upon a time -- or might even still be conducive to life now. No actual life detectors are on board; rather, the instruments will hunt for organic compounds. Curiosity's 7-foot arm has a jackhammer on the end to drill into the Martian red rock, and the 7-foot mast on the rover is topped with high-definition and laser cameras. No previous Martian rover has been so sophisticated or capable. With Mars the ultimate goal for astronauts, NASA also will use Curiosity to measure radiation at the red planet. The rover also has a weather station on board that will provide temperature, wind and humidity readings; a computer software app with daily weather updates is planned. The world has launched more than three dozen missions to the ever-alluring Mars, most like Earth than the other solar-system planets. Yet fewer than half of those quests have succeeded. Just two weeks ago, a Russian spacecraft ended up stuck in orbit around Earth, rather than en route to the Martian moon Phobos. "Mars really is the Bermuda Triangle of the solar system," Hartman said. "It's the death planet, and the United States of America is the only nation in the world that has ever landed and driven robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, and now we're set to do it again." Curiosity's arrival next August will be particularly hair-raising. In a spacecraft first, the rover will be lowered onto the Martian surface via a jet pack and tether system similar to the sky cranes used to lower heavy equipment into remote areas on Earth. Curiosity is too heavy to use air bags like its much smaller predecessors, Spirit and Opportunity, did in 2004. Besides, this new way should provide for a more accurate landing. Astronauts will need to make similarly precise landings on Mars one day. Curiosity will spend a minimum of two years roaming around Gale Crater, chosen as the landing site because it's rich in minerals. Scientists said if there is any place on Mars that might have been ripe for life, it would be there. "I like to say it's extraterrestrial real estate appraisal," Conrad said with a chuckle earlier in the week. The rover -- 10 feet long and 9 feet wide -- should be able to go farther and work harder than any previous Mars explorer because of its power source: 10.6 pounds of radioactive plutonium. The nuclear generator was encased in several protective layers in case of a launch accident. NASA expects to put at least 12 miles on the odometer, once the rover sets down on the Martian surface. This is the third astronomical mission to be launched from Cape Canaveral by NASA since the retirement of the venerable space shuttle fleet this summer. The Juno probe is en route to Jupiter, and twin spacecraft named Grail will arrive at Earth's moon on New Year's Eve and Day. NASA hail this as the year of the solar system.

Ask Shah! He'll chat up some engineering chicks and get you the answer ricky-tick!

I thought it was, "Man small, why fall? Skies call, that's all."?

Brawndo! Its what plants want!

Why can't your travel with kids? My kids have been to 5 other countries with me or my ex. Seeing the world through a child's eye can actually enhance the experience. ... and now you have normiss to do that!

Blue Skies Andy Rooney.

Yeah, but lets leave out the part about the mid-air between the helicopter and the Otter while filming at Cal City...

This thread is 5 years old. I think I'm ok. DOH!

I'd make sure they're not running out of needles and "re-using"...