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I have to say - Our third string just beat their Heisman. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

The database has not been updated in 5+ months. I will be doing massive updates to it in the near future. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Ohio vs Oregon. Sorry Billy OSU proved we can hang with the SEC all day Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I also have a 45k, its tight trying to get 4 layers of type 7 under the presser foot but it can be done. I think of it as a baby harness machine, it can do harness work but you want a 7 class if you are going to be doing a lot of harness work. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

iFly soon to enable you to 'fly' indoors in San Antonio Dec 23, 2014, 4:57pm CST Share on Google + Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Email this article Save Order Reprints Print iFly in Austin 1 View Photos Photo courtesy of iFly Austin-based iFly will soon bring Indoor skydiving to San Antonio. Sergio Chapa Reporter- San Antonio Business Journal Email | Twitter | LinkedIn Indoor skydiving will soon be coming to the Alamo City. Austin-based iFLY will soon be building a $4.5 million dollar facility off Loop 1604 and Interstate 10. The company uses a customized "vertical wind tunnel" to simulate skydiving indoors. Customers sport head gear goggles, head gear and a jump suit while floating or doing flips in midair. The groundbreaking ceremony for the San Antonio location is expected in March or April, while construction is expected to last six months. iFly has "flown" more than 6 million people at 34 locations in a dozen countries since launching its first vertical wind tunnel in 1998. The company has locations in Austin and Dallas, and it will open two locations in the Houston area over the next couple of weeks. The San Antonio location will be the company's fifth location in Texas. With other locations ranging from Moscow to Dubai, the company is experiencing tremendous growth with 14 locations under construction and another 12 new locations planned for 2015. iFly looks for communities with large numbers of families with children, like San Antonio, company spokesman Stuart Wallock told the San Antonio Business Journal . Two turns in wind tunnel will cost $70 dollars per person with a certified trainer right by their side. "We've fly everyone from 3 to 103 years old," Wallock said. "Everyone can do it. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Does anyone know of a TSO'd or STC'd Carabiner setup for a seatbelt? I remember seeing Jay Stokes was using a set up like this for his Most Jumps record jumps. (Parachutist November 2014 on Page 51) Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/community/joco-913/article4390820.html IFly Indoor Skydiving wants to open an Overland Park center. The company is in negotiations to build a 6,000-square-foot building — 60 feet tall — in the Met at 435 shopping center at 10975 Metcalf Ave. If the deal is completed it would open in late 2015. The company was founded in 1998 in Orlando, Florida and now has 35 locations and a history of more than 6 million fliers. It says anyone from ages 3 to 103 can feel the rush of freefall skydiving without having to jump out of a plane. Customers have a brief training session, then they are outfitted with a jumpsuit, helmet and goggles before entering a wind tunnel with their certified instructor. First-timers will float on a column of air and learn basic flying skills, including moving forward and back and turning. On additional visits, customers can progress to group flying and even advanced aerial gymnastic maneuvers. Customers of iFly include families, companies for team-building events, skydivers who want to improve their skills and military service members learning to skydive. The company said it uses a number of U.S. and international patents to create the skydiving experience. Four high-efficiency axial fans are mounted at the top of the building to channel air through a 14-foot-wide circular glass flight chamber. The column of air extends fully from one wall of the glass flight chamber to the other and supports fliers as they float, spin, turn and move in all three dimensions. The business will have 25 to 30 employees. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Buzz's is not an ISG design from what I have put together but an all new design. AZ is getting the ISG tunnel. I've heard that plans are in the works to have the ISG tunnels pop up in multiple locations once they get the ball rolling and have one operational. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I doubt it at least at the iFly locations. The prices seem to be pretty uniform at all the new iFly's around the country - benefit of being the only game in town right now. Buzz's tunnel might shake some stuff up and same with the tunnel in AZ being close to iFly's but until there is another tunnel company that puts one up near all the existing iFly's I wouldn't expect the prices to drop any time soon. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/nov/06/ifly-skydive-indoor-attraction/ A $10 million indoor skydiving attraction is coming to Mission Valley next summer, minus the thrill and danger of parachuting from a plane. iFly Indoor Skydiving of Austin, Texas, announced the project Thursday, complete with a jetpack-outfitted flyer who showed what the sensation of flying on a pillar of air looks like. Only in the new project, visitors will float on a pillar of air inside a see-through, 48-foot wind tunnel. It will be iFly's 35th such facility with another planned about six months later at the Westfield Carlsbad shopping center. A third such facility, previously announced by another company, is coming to downtown's East Village. "There are a lot of people who are drawn to this sort of thing," said iFly CEO Alan Metni, a former professional skydiver. "That is because as we go around the world, from city to city, we find that almost everybody at some point in their lives has dreamt about flying. And we have the unique ability, and frankly, the privilege, of being able to deliver that to everybody." Work has begun on iFly San Diego at a three-acre site at the southeast corner of Qualcomm Way and Camino del Rio North, just north of Interstate 8. Developed by Sudberry Properties in partnership with the Grant family, a longtime valley property owner, the $45 million Discovery Place development also will include a Springfield Suites hotel of about 135 rooms and a Starbucks cafe. The site is just south of the 17-acre San Diego River Trail and Discovery Center on land donated by the Grants and being developed by the San Diego River Park Foundation. Sudberry CEO Colton Sudberry said brokers brought iFly to his attention and a deal was struck to lease the site from Sudberry and the Grants. San Diego City Councilman Scott Sherman, who represents the valley, said at a ceremonial groundbreaking that the project exemplifies the new projects and improvements coming to Mission Valley and the city in general. "Once upon a time I used throw myself out of airplanes and this is a much safer alternative," Sherman said. He was talking about his teenage years of skydiving under the tutelage of his father, who served in the army's 101st Airborne Division about 30 years ago. Sudberry's son Beau, 7, also was on hand and looked forward to iFly's completion: "I think it would be cool how you'd get to float in the air." photo iFly customers float on a column of air as a trained staff member guides newcomers how to maneuver in the wind tunnel. As many a dozen experienced skydivers can crowd into the chamber and work out joint maneuvers that they might carry out in a real skydiving event. — iFly Indoor Skydiving iFly has built wind-tunnel skydiving facilities in a dozen countries, from Canada to Russia to Singapore, and has 14 under construction with 12 more planned next year. The Carlsbad facility will resemble smaller iFly installations at other shopping centers, pending negotiations with Westfield, Metni said. Indoor skydiving is not a fad, he said, but a growing sport enjoyed by everyone from toddlers to seniors. The median age of flyers is 13, reflective of its popularity for birthday parties. "It's exactly the same (as skydiving from a plane) without the big sudden stop at the end," Metni said. ompany spokesman Stuart Wallock said the three-floor, 70-foot-high facility will consist of a 48-foot-high wind tunnel, 14 feet in diameter, capable of handling 12 people every 30 minutes. The building also will contain an observation deck, conference rooms and a party room for birthdays and group events. The staff will number about three dozen. Guests, who will pay a projected $70 for the experience, get to "fly" on a 4-foot or more column of air for two one-minute periods, simulating the experience of skydiving out of an airplane. Family and group packages will be available as will banks of time for people serious about perfecting their skydiving techniques, Wallock said. Hours of operation are expected to run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays and from 8 a.m. up to midnight or later on weekends. "The sport of skydiving is like any other sort, like skiiing or tennis -- a little bit of practice and you can get pretty good," Wallock said. iFly's nearest facility currently is a 10-foot wind tunnel at the Universal Hollywood CityWalk shopping center in Los Angeles. It also operates a wind tunnel attraction in Union City in San Francisco's East Bay and built but does not operate Skydive Perris in Riverside County. Another company, Airborne America, has announced plans for a similar project in downtown San Diego's East Village that's projected to open about a year from now. Its promoter, Buzz Fink of Skydive San Diego, said he hopes to start site work in December and be ready to compete head to head with iFly. "The tunnel we have is a lot more cost effective and I think the location is a lot better," he said. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Shannon, Take Bill up on this offer! Its a great use of time to get a better understanding of your gear so that when you want a new container or canopy down the road you will know what you want to get. UPT, PD, Aerodyne, Alti-2 and everyone else is right there just off airport and if you call ahead they can usually do tours for you and get you a pull up cord or two

I've packed his reserve (he still owes me a bottle from the spring repack! ) a few times. He's on Facebook if you can't get him to answer his emails. He's a college student so he might not reply right away if he's around class finals. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

To update Ohio there was a DZ also in Celina (Grand Lake St. Mary's) until a fatality from a drowning. There were two separate DZ's that both operated for a few years out of Lebanon's airport. Jumping is occurring again at Waynesville. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Yes, its been floating out there for years that iFly has claimed original US patent rights to most modern vertical wind tunnels designs. Designs like Flyaway in TN/Vegas, the old Ft. Bragg tunnel, portable tunnels and the L1 outdoor tunnel in NC were not in their area but look at one of the patents that they own: http://www.google.com/patents/US7156744 Its pretty broad since it covers both one and two return designs like what iFly currently builds and at least roughly like what ISG builds. The patent basically says any design that is quiet enough to be in a residential or shopping area and uses a single or double return design is covered. With the new ISG design being built in Arizona and this new design I would expect iFly to fight this to maintain their Intellectual Property rights. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/24/airborne-skydiving-downtown-east-village/ Skydive ride heading downtown Two 30-foot-high wind tunnels to simulate free falls, no parachute required By Roger Showley 6 a.m.Sept. 24, 2014 Updated11 a.m. Airborne San Diego would feature glass-enclosed skydiving experience where two 30-foot-high tubes would use compressed air to simulate freefalling. / Carrier Johnson + Culture Now Airborne America plans to build San Diego's next extreme-sport tourist attraction: Skydiving in a 30-foot-high glass tube. Buzz Fink, a longtime Coronado resident who operates the Skydive San Diego parachute jumping school near Otay Lakes, plans to build a $10 million, 21,368-square-foot facility with two wind tunnels in East Village. "Everybody wants to skydive but a lot of people don't want to jump out of a plane," Fink said Tuesday. Civic San Diego, the city's development arm, posted the project on its agenda for Wednesday's board meeting. Pending issuance of city building permits, construction could begin at 14th Street and Imperial Avenue near Petco Park with opening late next year. It would be the nation's only two-tube wind tunnel attraction. "Hopefully, we would like to do it in more than one location," Fink said. "We've spent a lot of money on the pre-design and taken time to make sure it's state-of-the-art." For about $60, you'd don a jumpsuit, helmet and goggles, receive a few minutes of instruction and then step into a glass tube 14 feet in diameter. Novices, from toddlers to oldsters, would float 5 to 6 feet off the ground for two one-minute flying simulations, powered by a 30-foot-wide fan that generates 60 mph winds. An instructor would stand by -- and if the power fails, you'd simply float gently back to earth. Proficient fliers could rev up the wind to 180 mph and float 30 feet into the air with seven other buddies. "We picked East Village because it's an up and coming area," Fink said. "It's next to the trolley and bus lines, convention center and ballpark. We thought it would be a great location." But going airborne isn't only for locals bored with the beach and tourists wanting to get off their feet. Brent Srock, Airborne America's operations director, said a special training area will be set aside for Navy SEALs and other military personnel where they can learn to free-fall before graduating to parachute jumps. "They're begging me to open this," Srock said, because the trainees currently have to travel to wind tunnels as far east as Colorado for similar training. Joe Terzi, president of the San Diego Tourism Authority, said he and his wife and two daughters tried out a similar ride in Las Vegas. "It's not as easy as it looks," Terzi said, since riders have to learn to spread their arms and legs to take advantage of the wind flow. But he pronounced the experience fun. Would it appeal to visitors? "If marketed appropriately and the experience is good, I think it would be another reason for tourists and convention visitors to spend time in San Diego," Terzi said. Fink, 53, spent 13 years as director of fleet recreation at North Island Naval Air Station and founded Skydive San Diego, which organizes thousands of parachute jumps annually. He was an owner of Sky Venture Orlando, now known as iFly Orlando, before selling out his interests. Aerolab, a Maryland wind tunnel engineering company, and local architect Carrier Johnson + Culture are designing the San Diego project. Srock said the site is being purchased for less than $2 million and the building will cost nearly $10 million. He said as many as 10 other facilities might be opened around the country over the next five to seven years. Besides the two wind tunnels, Srock said, a Bubba Burger restaurant and gift shop will be located on the ground floor, and party rooms and training rooms will occupy the second and third floors. Srock said the building will be about 70 feet high with the mechanical equipment occupying the top 40 feet above the tubes. An additional 50 feet or so of space will be excavated below the tubes, where the air will be compressed and directed by turning vanes to eliminate "dead zones" where the lift effect is absent. The giant fans will be located in adjacent concrete bunkers. "You'd never know the facility was running when standing outside," Srock said. Carrier Johnson said in an architectural description that the Airborne San Diego facility's three-story atrium would create a "cathedral-like experience." "The building celebrates the achievement of human flight, and its architecture is a reflection of the principles of aerodynamics that facilitate it," the firm said. Between 70 and 90 people are expected to make up the staff; hours of operation are projected to extend as late as midnight. The admission price has not been, set but the iFly Hollywood at University CityWalk Hollywood charges $59.95 for two one-minute flights and $99.95 for a four-minute package. "It's like the most fun you'll ever have," said Steven Straley, the lead instructor. Fink, who previously performed as a professional hypnotist, also is an owner of EcoBusiness Alliance, which won a $12 million judgment against the San Ysidro School District related to the cancellation of solar panel installations. His Skydive flight school, located on Otay Lakes Road in Jamul, has reported several deaths and injuries over the years in parachute jumping accidents. A veteran skydiver died in March when his parachute failed to open as he was trying an advanced free-fall technique. Another experienced skydiver died in July when his automatic parachute deploying device did not activate. Fink said he currently operates four planes that accommodate 18-23 jumpers each. They skydive from 13,000 feet up. 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That is the wait on all their suits. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Yes, the difference between cascaded and non-cascaded lines on each reserve. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

I know of a few DZ's that have shoved TR375's in their Sigma's. This involves picking some of the stitches on the reserve risers so I would call UPT if you want to do this to get their take on it. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20140910/CRED03/140909809/skydiving-without-a-plane-its-coming-to-the-near-north-side The mix of entertainment venues near the former Cabrini-Green public housing high-rises is taking flight — literally — with an indoor skydiving facility planned for the area. The 6,000-square-foot building at 1300 N. Halsted St. will include a 12-foot-wide, 35-foot-tall tube in which customers will float atop winds of up to 150 miles per hour, said Stuart Wallock, chief marketing officer of Austin, Texas-based iFLY Holdings LLC, which wants to build and run the facility. The firm opened similar skydiving attractions in Naperville and Rosemont. iFLY signed a 15-year ground lease for the property at 1300 N. Halsted, currently a parking lot, said Josh Levy, vice president of acquisitions at Chicago-based First American Properties LLC, which owns the site. The development is a bet that as the economy grows, consumers and companies will boost their spending on entertainment outside of the house or office. Per-person entertainment spending fell off in 2009 and 2010, when the economy was in the doldrums, but has picked up more recently, according to Sam Elias, who operates the city's only Whirlyball facility just west of Lincoln Park. ENTERTAINMENT MARKET 'DEFINITELY GROWING' The entertainment market “looks robust. We have a lot of players coming into the market, which could be a challenge, but the market's definitely growing,” said Mr. Elias, who is developing a new, expanded Whirlyball and bowling facility near Bucktown, where he'll move his business. “We've got all these companies relocating downtown and they're always looking for stuff to do.” A gaggle of new projects are in the works in the neighborhood, many near the proposed iFLY site. Besides Mr. Elias's Whirlyball project, the New City development, just north of iFLY's location, will feature a Kings Bowl America bowling alley and the city's first ArcLight Cinemas movie theater. The iO Chicago comedy theater is now open a couple of blocks away, on Kingsbury Street. “There's certainly competition for the entertainment dollar, but we're one of the most unique entertainment uses out there,” Mr. Wallock said. “It's not a one-and-done type of a thing.” The firm focuses on families with children — making the Halsted Street property, with its proximity to Lincoln Park, attractive — and corporate clients, he said. There will be a room for birthday parties in the new building, a conference room and an area where visitors can watch people in the wind tunnel. ANTICIPATING 150,000 VISITORS Mr. Wallock declines to discuss revenue but said iFLY anticipates attracting 150,000 visitors annually to the Halsted Street property. First-time visitors pay $69.95 for training and two initial 60-second “flights.” After customers get the hang of floating on the air, four-flight packages are available for $109.95.The company also sells options by the minute, such a 10-minute deal for $199 or a 60-minute plan several people could share for $975. The property where iFLY will open is in the heart of a fast-changing part of the North Side that was dominated for years by the Cabrini-Green high rises. While it took some time to learn about iFLY, First American became convinced of its ability to draw in customers and run a successful business, Mr. Levy said. “The ground lease is attractive. They're going to be building the building. That takes some of the risk away,” he said. “Now, knowing a lot about them, I can say with a high degree of confidence if they went across the street, they'd do well. I think they'll be here for a long time. It's something totally unique to the city.” Mr. Wallock said iFLY hopes to open by the fourth quarter of 2015. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

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Yep, announcement just came over that they are asking everyone to pick up all the gear and move it to the hangers to keep it safe since the storms are approaching. Looks like the event is going to be over for several hours at least. Last jump I saw was around 291 Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Eventually most jumpers figure out that there is more to life then spending every weekend at the dropzone and expand their social circle to include other people also. For years I spent all my time at a DZ and then all winter I only had other jumpers to try and hang out with. I could never get a non-jumper to date me long enough to last a season and eventually met a jumper that worked out long term. The issue is as we both matured and got tired of not having anything else to do but sit at a dropzone we started figuring out there was a lot more to do in life then just hit boogies and stare at rain from hanger doors on bad weather weekends. We started taking weekends off to do things like travel to the beach, we went to events and to backpack. Other time started being spent working on our house and eventually we realized just how limited we were when we only knew skydiving. While I still enjoy going to a boogie from time to time I have figured out a much better balance in my life and now can do things on the weekends away from a DZ and not get upset that I am not there anymore. Now that we have a child I find it just as much fun to hang around the house and play with her than I do going to the DZ on the weekend. My jump numbers might have slowed to only 100-125 a year now but with the balance in my weekends for the limited summer season I have way more fun now when I am out there. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

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10 years ago I had did some jumps with a lipstick camera that was attached via S-Video cables to a camcorder I wore in a fanny pack. I had to do things like rig a disconnect on the cables in case I needed to chop and stuff like that. Looking back it was stupid scary in case of a real malfunction having myself hard wired to my canopy. For a goPro a pocket on the bottom skin of the canopy is the best option. A Rigger could sew one up and attach it fairly easily. Pack the main into a bag much larger than you normally would jump it and into a larger container. You need to make sure its recording from the time its packed to after opening so the remote might need to be used it also. The line mount you are looking at is designed for Kiteboarding lines, they are much closer together that our lines are so it would not work. I saw a pulley system used a long time ago that let you hoist your camera up after the canopy was open. It let you do things like lift your stills camera up top since it was too big to pack into the rig. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com