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Yeah! How cool was that!?.

Congrats! on getting the opportunity! Is it for an air show? How did you get chosen? Are you a member of the local press? Was your skydiving experience a factor? Now, if you doing a tandem here's a prediction..... Your ride to altitude will reveal your subconscious gear checks. You will check a handle and, of course, it won't be there. Then, periodically you'll check a strap or something.....then something else. Each time realizing that "Oh Yeah!..I'm not wearing my rig." You will feel absolutely naked because everyone else is wearing a rig and you are not! It will be a little unnerving and very unnatural! Here's a local news anchor jumping with SOCOM this past weekend at MacDill Airfest. http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/good_day/laura-moody-takes-a-leap-of-fate-032210

My favourite tag line is from "Joe Isuzu" ......... "It's fit for a king...... or a queen, if that's all you've got."

If he has no problem screwing the governments of 2 countries, he will probably have no problem screwing you in the car deal.

Custom = Uniquely Designed for You (Specializing in) Custom (-Built) Homes & Remodels Since 19??. ( ) = optional or Designing, Building and Remodeling Custom Homes for ?? years. (? Generations) I understand the urge to include "for you" to try and "personalize" the message, but I never thought that made any real difference and sounds like pandering.

If you toss 1 quarter a year, your chances of having a head come up on all of your combined tosses is 50% If you toss 5000 quarters per year, your chances of having a head come up on all of your combined tosses is 50% The risk is independent of the number of jumps you make, all other things being equal. All other things being equal, the risk is almost entirely dependent on the number of jumps you make. If the chances of a fatality during any given jump is 1:100,000 and if you make 2 jumps you double your chances of dying as a result of a jump since you have now made 2 of the 100,000 jumps. If you make 100,000 jumps you will have statistically assured yourself of dying that year. Of course, if you mitigate your personal chances through training, and safe practices, following BSRs, etc. Then the 1:100,000 chance becomes somewhat more remote for you. To maintain the 1:100,000 figure, someone else's chances must become a bit more certain. In that case all other things are not equal. (even then, you may die during a jump and the careless jumper may never stub his toe.) Also......if you toss a quarter you will get some heads and some tails....most likely equal numbers. If you survive 1000 jumps and you don't surivive #1001 the game is over. Sometimes the game is over after 1 jump. Just about impossible to get 1000 where you live and 1000 where you die. Wrong. If some event has a chance of 1 in 100000 of occurring then the likely hood of that event happening at least once after 100000 attempts is about 63,21%. Note: I'm not arguing that you have 1 in 100000 chance of dying on every skydive. I'm just making a point about probabilities. Yes...... I worded that incorrectly for the point I was trying to make. I am focusing on the "all other things being equal" condition. If observed data shows that fatalities occur at a ratio of 1 fatality/100,000 jumps, then it is probable that at least one fatality will occur at some point before 100,000 jumps are made by any combination of jumpers......not inevitable. There may by 0 fatalities during the first 100k and 3 during the 2nd 100k and 0 again during the 3rd. What I meant to say is that if any jumper (again, all other things being equal) decides to make 2 jumps, then his chance of a fatal outcome is doubled, regardless of how many jumps he intends to make and regardless of how many jumps others make. If he intends to make 0 jumps, then his probability of dying while skydiving is reduced to 0. Also, my point about the coin-tossing correlation is that the model cannot be tested for a specific jumper since no more data can be gathered after "fatal" comes up the first time. I'm pretty sure that no one has yet survived 100,000 jumps. I hope that came out sufficiently convoluted to be able to weasel my way out of another misstatement.

If you toss 1 quarter a year, your chances of having a head come up on all of your combined tosses is 50% If you toss 5000 quarters per year, your chances of having a head come up on all of your combined tosses is 50% The risk is independent of the number of jumps you make, all other things being equal. All other things being equal, the risk is almost entirely dependent on the number of jumps you make. If the chances of a fatality during any given jump is 1:100,000 and if you make 2 jumps you double your chances of dying as a result of a jump since you have now made 2 of the 100,000 jumps. If you make 100,000 jumps you will have statistically assured yourself of dying that year. Of course, if you mitigate your personal chances through training, and safe practices, following BSRs, etc. Then the 1:100,000 chance becomes somewhat more remote for you. To maintain the 1:100,000 figure, someone else's chances must become a bit more certain. In that case all other things are not equal. (even then, you may die during a jump and the careless jumper may never stub his toe.) Also......if you toss a quarter you will get some heads and some tails....most likely equal numbers. If you survive 1000 jumps and you don't surivive #1001 the game is over. Sometimes the game is over after 1 jump. Just about impossible to get 1000 where you live and 1000 where you die.

.....and from the film: "Sometimes you get a pooch that can't be screwed." I forget who said that in the movie. I guess the quote referred to the "fact" that these guys could do no wrong in the eyes of the adoring public.

You should get that looked at.

The Sham-wow guy.

Ol' Gus,..he did alright! Nothing but a lot of admiration and respect for ALL those guys. They were (still are) my heroes way back then. ......true pioneers!

Not for long if he keeps landing with front risers!

At least I think it's Latin. Maybe not... It's from an ancient text entitled "To Serve Man" .................................It's a cookbook!

Too dangerous! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493248,00.html

OK, I came in late........ Are you describing Ireland, the UK, or the USA? ..........just askin

If you are riding on one of the floats, try not to get toasted and pee on the street. It causes the Shriners on their mini-bikes to slip and crash when they do their figure-8 riding exhibition.

Erin go bra-less

"Hmm, ze satellite photos show zey haf AN-2's based at Harvey. Ve must schtrike before zeir skydiving is stronger zan ours, ja." General "Buck" Turgidson: "Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft skydiving gap!"

I think this guy could help, he is known for helping gators. That's one badass "K9" officer!

Ha. I guess that's a cultural difference. Most old-time jumpers I know would have stayed in the car for at least a few good hits of that NO2... I think if he realized what was happening he might have done that. Imagine........ he's riding down the road one second and then suddenly there's a roaring sound and the car fills with smoke! I would have bailed, too.

I was in 3rd grade jumping a bicycle over a ramp made of 2 boards and a couple of rocks. Just after my mother told me not to do that again I made one last run and the bike went between the two boards and hit the rocks. The bike did an endo and I busted 3 teeth on the handlebars or the ground or something. Mom busted my ass all the way to the dentist.

A few years ago a kid was driving his Mustang to the local drag strip with a freshly filled bottle of nitrous oxide in his front seat. As he passed by us the pressure relief valve popped off with a hell of a noise. The car filled with vapor and he slammed on the brakes and bailed out of the car. When the "smoke" cleared we ran over to the car and saw that his crushed velour upholstery was shattered like glass.

Too bad.......Popeye showed up too late to help Julius. He was probably down at the press trying to put the squeeze on some extra virgin olive oil.

Why not! We're probably going to be using their spaceships for a while. May as well use their antiques, too.

Too bad.......Popeye showed up too late to help Julius. He was probably down at the press trying to put the squeeze on some extra virgin olive oil.