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Yes, it's best to fly in an aircraft before you jump out of it. Well, you could jump out of one before you fly in it but I don't think you could call that a skydive.
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Yes, that can present a whole new set of problems, including the need to train the jumper in the use of the tert. which is worn up front and requires a different body position for deployment. Now he must perform a cutaway and reserve pull and still be prepared to use a totally unfamiliar reserve system. Not true. I have several intentional cut aways with a three canopies without a belly set. A local jumper had a manufacturer make a harness system with a three ring attachment system that you can cutaway. We wore that under out normal rig. Exited with the third canopy in a paper bag and deployed on exit. Just hold onto it for a few to clear the tail. So, do you think that would be a better arrangement than the "normal" tertiary system for a low-timer to use for cutaway training purposes? All the handles in the correct places, etc.? I dunno.....just asking.
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Yes, that can present a whole new set of problems, including the need to train the jumper in the use of the tert. which is worn up front and requires a different body position for deployment. Now he must perform a cutaway and reserve pull and still be prepared to use a totally unfamiliar reserve system. _____________________________________ "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 _____________________________________ But aren't the men who are not free the ones who really need the use of arms?
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Here are a couple of 'em lined up on the flight line at Bartow Air Base, during the early 1950's.
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That sorta is Andy's point.
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You pilot-types probably already know about this guy. I watched his performance at Sun-n-Fun yesterday. Amazing routine with a Twin Beech! One of the best demonstrations of the show. Interesting to note that the website mentions that this a/c was formerly owned by a DZ. http://www.younkinair.com/
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Then you haven't been to Sebring "back in the day".......although I will say that half the people there didn't even know there was a race going on.....or even how they got there. I think it's cleaned up a lot in the last several years but it may still be dangerous to venture inside the "hairpin".
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Maybe they got stuck in the drive-thru book return drop-off. Sometimes that happens. Or maybe the scanner incorrectly read the barcode when the clerk scanned them "in". That sometimes happens, too. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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That sorta is Andy's point.
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You're too late... I've already been called out on that one!
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Warning: Thread Drift Alert Oh yeah? I cooked with gas for years.
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One of my favorite "blues" tunes by one of my favorite artists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JFgC3Ub10E
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Really. You're telling me that if somebody offered you the chance to hop in one of these cars and take a few hot laps you'd pass it up? That's just nutty. I honestly would. Its just not my thing. Now if we are talking the US airforce taking me up in an F15-E... now we are cooking with petrol...gas....petrol... same thing. Nope!.... you don't cook with petrol, or gasoline, (well, I suppose you could) ....you cook with gas (propane or natural gas)
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Don't let's forget the name "Gooney Bird" either. "Dakota" & "Puff" & "Spooky" & "Gabby" (I didn't know about the last two till now.) http://www.dc3history.org/ac47_puff.htm Also, Phoenix Air was a C-47.
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I think I remember reading somewhere that AA ordered the door on the right side because of their terminal design.
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Realization of your own mortality.
muff528 replied to Amazon's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
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I really don't think that any jumper who has seen this clip is failing to see the potentially serious problem that resulted from this event. Incidents with bad endings can usually be traced back to that proverbial "series of events" leading to that ending. Even those of us who are cavalierly laughing our asses off over this video (and it really is funny!) are filing this in the back of our minds. I would just about bet that the next time any of you reaches out to take a grip on someone's harness (or if someone grabs yours!) you will replay this video over in your head. So a lesson is learned. I can think back over all of the things I've seen or stories I've heard since I've been jumping and take lessons from them, funny or not. Some need further discussion, others can be taken at face value. Which is which depends on the individual. Any jumper should be able to discuss any event or eventuality openly without worrying about whether he is going to be ridiculed or lambasted.
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I just can't get over the hilarity of you handing him his handle and he looks at it and then at you like "Gee, thanks buddy, now WTF am I supposed to do with this!?" You could have at least carried it down for him!
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Damn turbine kids! the space inside more than makes up for the wait The oil that thing spits, now thats another story
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Here are a couple more for anyone who's interested. I took these several days after the accident so a lot of parts had been removed by then. The right wing extended over the road. The first pic is standing at the plane and looking south across the road towards Zephyrhills Airport. The marks on the field show the path of the plane. It turned sideways about where the fence is and crossed the road and went up the embankment into the orange grove. The last picture is during better days. I jumped this plane just the weekend before the crash and even then it was so newly refurbished that you could still smell the paint curing. It was at the DZ only 2 or 3 months, IIRC. 2 crew + 40 jumpers, no injuries! This happened shortly after Easter Boogie and we spent the following summer jumping the Beech 18.
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Hard to tell, but it looks like you gave it back to him before breaking off. What did he do, put it in his pocket? You didn't have time to re-thread it for him? I agree about the look on his face. You need to send this to Leno.
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I like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uqBTzfcIk4
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Poor Mr Douglas is still sitting forlornly on the tarmac at the Tullahoma, TN airport with a busted engine. Been there for several years. You can even see it in googlemaps. I was lucky to have jumped that bird a number of times, including being front float on it at Skydive Chicago when they were doing 70+ ways with it and their 2 Otters! I remember one window was loose and would vibrate pretty loudly. If I sat right in front of it, I'd annoy the other guys on the plane by putting my hand on the window and lifting it a bunch of times. BBBBBBBB BBBBB BBBB BBBB BBBB BBBB BBBBBBBB "Billy, stop that fucking shit will ya?" I last jumped Mr. Douglas in about 1995. Beach jump at Sebastian. Here's a pic of PhoenixAir from Phoenix/Zhills parked in the orange grove a couple miles north of the airport. Sweet while it lasted.
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Isn't "Driving Miss Daisy" the original title of #9 ?
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Nice one! Here's my kid's first fish........