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They conned him into buying beer for everyone?

Looks like someone declared jihad on your link -- it doesn't work.

First I remember is "Hey, Jude." High school, about 1970.

So, what do you estimate the pack volume on that beast? I've been laughing at people suggesting that swoopers use a round reserve. Like they are really going to use something bigger than their entire present rig.

I don't plan to do my last 50 jumps for quite a while yet.

How big is your butt, and does your butt or your waist limit the size you fit? My GF's butt fits into my guy jeans, but the waist is several inches loose on her. I'd estimate a 27.5, but what do I know?

I fixed your spelling for you. It still fits.

So, what soul-revealing items did you let slip? Deny, deny, deny. Or better, just don't let it come up as an item.

1.2 is not such a low wing loading that penetration should be a problem. If it is, then spotting or canopy control must be contributing, or maybe you have a smaller landing area with no "outs." Is increased forward speed her main desire in a new canopy? The Katana is trimmed much steeper, so an 89 would give a lot more speed than she has now. It will also come out of the sky much faster, unless she rides rear risers or brakes. I've found the Katana openings to be less consistently on heading than my previous Stiletto. Nitro/nitron canopies are available in an 88, and are more on-heading. The Nitron flare is better than that of the Stiletto, but the Katana flare is better than either of those.

Amazingly enough, I just bought a block of 50 week before last, still $13 each. Singles still $15. Altitude varies a bit, but averages about 13k.

Tech versions of old favorites office gags

If you're changing canopies, then yup, the only safe way would be to completely repack and run the lines. If you are just changing risers on the same main, you can get away with leaving it in the bag if you are VERY careful about keeping your line groups and riser sides (front/back) straight. I accidentally switched front/back on my left riser once, so obviously not fool proof. Be careful, and if you're in doubt that you did it right, take the extra time to repack and run the lines. I think you've got it exactly backwards. There is no way I would change the riser connections to the lines without fully checking and repacking the canopy. For swapping canopies in the same container, people come up with different contrivances. Some have made carrying bags with places to snap in the risers, so you can keep it straight as you put it into and out of that carrying bag. You can also just fasten the risers to the bag with something like gaffers tape, so that the risers can't twist or swap. You still have to remember what you did! It helps to have the right and left risers marked, or just to realize which side the RSL ring is on, etc. I've seen CRW folks with other things, so you might ask in the CReW forum for more ideas.

I had a suit that was too tight down the front. It was a bootie suit, and it kept me from fully arching. Increasing your fall rate by 14% would require more like 29% more weight, so you aren't going to solve it that way. How tall are you? I am 5'10, with a similar exit weight. I usually wear 8 pounds or so. Optimal on 4-way would be more like 12 pounds, but that starts getting uncomfortable. I've seen small women carrying considerably more, but its a task.

TMI. I didn't need the visual of Dom riding your back seat.

"The way you look tonight" The Lettermen, or Sinatra. "Through the Years" "The Masochism Tango"

I've jumped out of these. No door to remove, just open the canopy. You're not supposed to open it more than a few inches in flight, but maybe it's been done

Table has at least some errors. e.g., the Gross Income line under charity metrics does not equal the sum of the lines indicated, at least for the 1999 year. All money raisers, or charities in general, have overhead expense. It should be pretty obvious that when jumps, suits, lodging, etc. are in the mix, the bottom line contribution is going to be less. Anyway, I hope no one thinks all the bucks they are raising is going to research. If they wanted a higher percentage of what they send to go to the cause, they would skip some jumps and send all of the saved cash to the end user. edited cuz I cnat spel

Maybe you could just post whore enough to decrease your overall efficiency.

Tie dye is so, like, 2003. It does hide the wrinkles in the pack job. Hey, maybe I can tie dye my face, for the same attribute.

Hawaii, 41-way from a DC-3. I think the year was 1991, maybe 1992, at the Party in Paradise.

Well, that was a pretty quick conclusion of Bush's investigation as to where the problem lay.

Movie was made in NE Georgia, mostly on the Chatooga river, about the damming/closing of another river in Georgia. The movie producers wanted to change the mountain men to drug-crazed hippies, but the author of the book held his ground to make it follow his plot. The big rapid where they wipe out doesn't really exist. They used bulldozers to move rocks and treestumps around, set the canoes and stuntmen there, and opened up the flood gates of the upstream dam, to make that shot. When canoeing the Chatooga, it was interesting to pass the points where various scenes had been filmed.

Kathleen Blanco, Micheal Brown, and GW Bush are touring the hurricane damage by air, when their chopper loses a rotor and crashes in the gulf. Who does God save? The denizens of New Orleans.

This is one of my favorites. Or should I be posting this in the Women's forum?

Fogging is a LOT more problem with a closed face shield than with goggles. It's not usually the helmet, it is your glasses. So, you only want a full-face helmet which has a face shield which you can quickly open. On anything but a low-humidity day, I usually open mine under canopy before breathing. I found room for my regular glasses (pretty small) under a Havok and FreeZR. I didn't like the FreeZR security, as it's chinstrap doesn't really do anything. I now wear a tiny pair of glasses, kid's frames, which just touches the inside of my Z1. It's gonna depend on your head size and shape. If your prescription is not too high (maybe less than 2.5 diopters nearsighted) you can get wrap-around frames, which will fit inside more helmets.