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Floormats. Box of Kleenex(tm). AL80 scuba tank.

Along that line, obsequious. But I really like the sound of "infundibuliform."

Well worth watching once, maybe twice. After that, yawn, been there, done that. Also, like some radio guy said, anybody can look better with $10k of clothes and furniture -- how about queer eye for the poor guy, where they are limited to the Salvation Army store...

Clipper is a Flight Concepts 195 sq. ft. 9-cell. Search the "Gear and Rigging" forum for "clipper," and you will find some postings, and maybe some opinions. You could also ask about it there.

I am hot. Ski or snowboard?

It's not recommended to double wrap TubeStows around your lines. Maybe better to just get some small rubber bands that work well for your lines. edited to add link to manufacturer installation instructions: http://www.skysystemsltd.com/images/TUBESTOWinstructions.pdf

http://www.vanguardrecords.com/hiatt/Gone.html Click the real audio. My bro e-mailed me the file a while back, showing his typical sympathy for a derailment I had experienced on the bullet train of love.

Well, since the going rate at my home DZ is $15 single, $13 block, to 13k, most places are gonna cost more. Free cookies, and sodas are only 50 cents.

I always say that I meet all my "normal" friends skydiving. In my work and mid-week life, almost all of my interaction is with technical geek types, such as myself. Skydiving, I have friends from a much broader section of society.

Yeah, but the first time you posted you said "I'll take any hot skychickie." Really makes the others feel special. And speaking of special, the Island of Misfit Toys is pretty fun!

Okay, and you would be WHO? Gosh, we've held hands, and you don't remember?

Oooo! I want to have flyangel2!

Stress is often caused by not choking the sh!t out of someone who desperately needs it.

If swoopers tend to start their swoop over the same point on the ground, regardless of the winds, they must turn faster in high winds, if they want to land at the same point on the ground as in no winds. So, if they always start over the same point, they will lose more altitude in high winds than they will lose in no winds, because they are turning faster/steeper. So, yes, in this case you will lose more altitude when there is more wind, but it is because the turn rate was adjusted, rather than the turn initiation point. That might, indeed, be what swoopers tend to do, since it keeps the picture closer to their typical swoop. If so, they do indeed need to start higher, since they are turning faster/steeper. Edited to add: or they can start their same swoop rate/point higher, and have longer to fly upwind at the end of the swoop. It's not that you lose more altitude in high winds, with the same canopy contol input, it's that you will end up farther downwind, and need to fly upwind longer while remaining in your swoop.

You are just wrong on this. If your turn is made with the same input (risers, weight shift, toggles), you will lose the same altitude, and turn at the same rate. With higher wind, you would have to start that turn further upwind. If you start the turn at the same location, in higher wind, you would end up downwind of your intended landing point; in order to start the turn and land at the same points as in no wind, you will have to turn faster, which will make you drop more, so as to decrease the amount of time you spend in the air.

Just drink enough of either, so that you get a hangover. Take aspirin for the headache, which will then keep your platelets slippery.

My shower has 3 shower heads, with separate controls. Ain't nobody getting cold in there, at least until we drain 70 gallons of hot water tanks.

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Move a "1" from the 1st to the second column. Add the three rows, get 666, mark of the devil canopy!

52% pure. Unless having your ex lay there like she was dead counts for necrophilia

$18 if you buy a block. I think normal price is 19 dollars, but I am not sure.. never bought just 1 ticket. With an Otter around you should be able to take care of a block of tickets I may see you folks there, or I may go see that plane's usual home, where block tickets are $13. Kinda breakeven for me, since BAS is closer than Lodi.

How much are tickets at Byron?

If there is no exclusion in the policy, then you should be covered. Even if skydiving is not mentioned in the policy, look for exclusions relating to non-scheduled aviation flights. Most often, these only exclude crew members (i.e., private pilots), but read carefully if you are concerned. When are you going? Maybe I'll see you there. Gary

http://www.pleix.net/PlaidItsu.html Video, needs a fast connection, which is why I do this important stuff at work!

Hi Mary, One of my Georgia Tech jump buddies way back when had that same number, 13. Once he got past that, he turned out to be a good skydiver. In his S/L logbook were comments like "great fetal position." I had 6 static line jumps before freefall, so "less than 10."