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I jumped one a few time in Poland. It's pretty much just like the article states. It's a huge biplane with a massive motor stuck on the front. For all that, it's very slow, both in flight, and in climbing. The motor kicks out so much smoke on startup, it looks like it's on fire. You definately don't want to be standing near it when they light it up, or you'll be covered in oil. Just because the motor doesn't push the plane fast, that 1000 HP beast has the most intense prop blast that I have ever experienced. You could stand behind the plane and jump in the air in a sort of leaning track position and actually get blown backwards upright. It was well nigh impossible to walk to the door and get in without help from people inside the plane to pull you in. Inside, it was all rather comfy, with some nice bench seats. The one I jumped even had lace curtains on the windows. It does take off just like the article says. About 50 feet of roll and it just drifts off the ground, for a nice 500 fpm ascent. It took about 25-30 minutes to get to 10,000 feet, and I don't think that much would have been gained by trying to go higher, as the climb rate dropped off alarmingly about then. Once we tried to float, the good old prop blast was there to flush us right off again, but it was way cool to watch it as we left it. It's a shame that the FAA don't allow it to be used for jumping. It could be a great plane for a little club that uses a 182. Maybe they will remove that restriction someday if enough operations petition for it, but I doubt it will happen soon.

Eek.

That would be anatedaephopbia Not to be confused with luposlipophobia, the fear of beine chased around a kitchen table on a highly waxed linoleum floor by timber wolves in your stocking feet.

The quilted backpad and pinstriping is free for the whole month of June. Just another of the great monthly deals that they do.

Doesn't matter which material that your BOC is constructed with. The pud handle fixes the same on both types. It's basicallt the same as the pullout systems, and chors to the container in much the same way.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. At least you'll be a statistic in the offroading community, not ours.

I'd be happy if that's all she could do. My GF can fart like a nitro burner coming off the line for a four secound quarter.

That somehow, somewhere, a duck is watching me.

There's a lot of stuff in skydiving that is worse than dying. There's almost dying. This point was made to him, but he clearly considers himself invincible. Mind you, this sport has a great record of disabusing people of this notion.

I just recently order and got my new Wings Rig and love it. I ordered from Gareth Holder, and he was so great about the measurements and answered all my questions. He is the bomb

I've seen more of these kids over the years as a Instructor and a DZ manager than I care to mention. I guess I'm getting old and jaded, but we just had another 29 jump hotshot at our place, talking about getting a 135 stiletto, and how he wasn't afraid of dying. He wouldn't listen, and he seemed destined to make a large stain of himself, so off to another DZ he goes, whare I believe he now has his Stiletto 135, loaded at 1.8:1, and no doubt on a fast track to a divot. Bottom line, some idiots you can't train. Just keep out of their part of sky until they either wise up, or the inevitable happens. Darwin didn't do all that research for nothing you know.

It's all moot to me. You're never out of date as long as you own a pen.

I have become even more respected and beautiful.

Not legend. Flight Sgt Nicholas Alkemade of the RAF over Germany in WWII, jumped without a parachute at 33,000 from the rear turret of a burning Avro Lancaster bomber. He couldn't get to his parachute and decided that he'd rather fall then burn in the plane. He awoke in a snow covered field having fallen throught the branches of a tall tree and onto a deep snow covered hillside which had broken his fall. The only injury that he had was a twisted ankle that he got from jumping out of the plane. Upon capture, he was nearly shot as a spy until the wreckage of his plane was found to corroborate his story. He's not the record holder for this sort of thing though. A Russian stewardess holds that dubious honor after a bomb blast on her plane gave her an unintentional 54,000 feet jump. She wasn't so lucky though. She survived the fall, but was left in a a condition described by those in the medical profession as "totally fucked" although she did recover somewhat over the following years.

Yep. It's called hydraulics. Fluid doesn't compress much.

I saw them get beat 6 time in 10 matches. Mind you, I watch it for the drinking game you can do with it. If the ingredient is alive, you take two, if the cook cuts himself etc etc.

I used Ampeg SVTs for many years professionally. Great punchy sound, and unburstable. You can't go wrong with them. There's only one rig better IMHO, and that's what I use now, The Trace Elliot 500W with 4X10 and 1X18. I user Rickenbacker 4003s, so I can really develop that ringing punch they are famous for. Here's a picture of the rig and one of the basses.

I probably would if I'd had enough to drink I suppose. I actually had the wrap that went around all the lines cut down a lot to speed up the openings. It was really weird to look up at the thing streaming while the lines came free from the wrap. Actually, I'd jump it again if I packed it. They were pretty reliable in their own way if you packed them right. Mind you, if you placed just one line in the wrong part of the wrap, the thing would just never open. At the time, I had it in a crossbow container with 1 1/2 shots and a talisman reserve mounted on top at the back of my head. If you had a mal, you had quite a lot to do to get off the main and under that reserve. As for the Dactyl, it never had a problem, mainly because it's just a bedsheet with short lines. The one I have was actually used as a reserve.

Here's couple of my two Wings Exts. Superior fit ans comfort etc etc ......

Only if it's incontinent and has fleas.

Rape an entire petting zoo.

Children should only be produced for the nutrients they can provide the rest of us.

Nope. That was the Irvin Delta II parawing that used to do that. I used to have one. I have still have my Dactyl though. I haven't jumped it in years, but it's probably still good to jump. Maybe I'll drag it out sometime and air it out.

Because apparently I'm just chopped liver...... I'd say that wasn't true. It's more like highly compressed ham.

From a number of things. Firstly, my 4 and 8 way team experience, followed by my stint as the chief organizer and general manager of one of the world's largest drop zones, and more recently, as a load organizer and world record event co-captain. I do. I'm not going to shill for them here in the context of your question, but the sponsors that I have right now, provide the best equipment available, backed with te best customer service IMO. Yes again. I get offered other endorsement deals on a very regular basis. None of what I'm offered is better than what I have, so there is no reason to reccomend equipment that I feel doesn't measure up to what I have now.