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[replyAn F-16 couldn't have done it. Every tool has its purpose. A-10s are nice, I am told, if you plan on flying slow and have a tendency to lose a wing or an engine. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Cover Picture, February Skydiving News Magazine
FrogNog replied to rickfri59's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Camera, I reckon. -=-=-=-=- Pull. -
Oh yeah, that would be fun to wash the windows on. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I try not to go to strangers for gear checks. If I don't know them, I don't know what they probably know about gear or how concerned they are about helping me stay alive. Of course, so far I've only ever jumped at my home DZ. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Maybe he meant "the bends". -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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What was the speed of sound at his exit altitude? Doesn't the speed of sound decrease as the medium becomes more compressible? -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Has no one defined fastest? It appears everyone is assuming fastest means fastest per person with a full load, i.e. what any one of us would find if we got on such a plane with a stopwatch. Doesn't useful single-jump-run capacity count for anything? -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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It is on "Good Stuff" Is that the one with the yellow (I think) camera suit where he's swinging below something out-of-frame and then he disconnects and falls away? Or is there a different shot that's longer? -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I don't like any songs that are only a minute long. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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If you are starting to turn, you could just counter the turn. I'm not saying this is easy, but I am saying that you don't need to feel your leg being pushed in to know you're starting to turn, and which way - your eyes can tell you that.
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I am very careful whenever I pull the collapsed slider down over the toggles. But on some rigs I jump (I don't have my own rig yet) I now choose to leave the collapsed slider above the toggles because I feel more comfortable that way - the slider is very close to my neck / helmet and interferes with seeing my alti when it is down. So I suggest you might want to experiment once or twice with pulling the slider down and see if you like it. Personally, I expect on my personal rig I will use slider stops. Edit: I'm not trying to say you shouldn't take into account your current place in your career, I'm just saying that if you try it like I did, you might find that you just don't like it. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/158269_paynter28.asp In short, a blue T-shirt that reads "Everyone loves a Jewish girl" with $ signs and purses (and some hearts, and some stars or something) on it, and a 27YO woman who saw it in Urban Outfitters and, according to the story, "The stereotype stung to the point that Schwartz turned and left the store, tears welling." Yeah, everybody loves humorous, only mildly offensive stereotypes until it's about them. Oh, wait, I can't say that; I'm white and male and therefore don't have any perspective. Anyway, I think I'm gonna go down to UO and BUY that shirt. I need a hipster shirt, and "girl scouts" is passé. This is where it's at, clearly. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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You know you're a skydiver when....
FrogNog replied to Chizazz's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
On hearing any airborne vehicle in the sky above, you look up at it and state aloud "I'd jump that." -=-=-=-=- Pull. -
I'm not sure that solves the problem, if the utility lines are required to be in the surface of the solid, the houses are required to be abutting the surface of the solid on the outside, and the lines are not allowed to pass through the intersection of the bases of the houses and the surface of the solid. But just to be sure, I'll try this out on an inner tube - paper lacks and I haven't had much sleep. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Maybe he's a guest worker. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I believe its proper name is the reverse order - ".357 Sig". And technically it would be "kind of a 9mm wildcat" (or .40 wildcat) since it's a neck-down pistol round. Do I have that right - sticking a smaller bullet in a larger-diameter piece of brass to make something new is "wildcatting"? Or is that term inapplicable to any mass-produced ammo? Muzzle flash at night is just powder burning after the bullet leaves, so it might be correctable with different powders, a longer barrel, or good ol' flash-hiding (which now must be called muzzle braking, thanks to CRA 1994). I'm not sure if the powder could be safely altered in a .357 Sig without violating the pressure specs, though. And on larger bullets being better for plates and whatnot: while you are correct, remember that you can't miss fast enough to win. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Some say it's just a part of it... -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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One of our crazy swoopers hurt his leg so when he finally gets back to jumping, he doesn't upsize temporarily to like 3 digits of sf, he just wears padded shorts and slides the landings in on his butt. This is funny alone, BUT another, newer not-quite-as crazy swooper at the same DZ skates a nice one in and at the end of his swoop, as he passes us, he shouts some good-natured trash talk about there being no need for anyone to land on their butt. He hadn't finished his sentence when he slipped and fell over backwards going like 5 mph. Then there's the 1st-person helmet-cam video of a nice swoop that catches the flag pole. (For the record, no injuries or damage.) -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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What is "civilian acro"? And do pilots "zero" their altimeters on the ground? That sounds like crazy talk to me - shouldn't they always be set to MSL so the pilot knows how high the plane is almost no matter where he goes, not just at the airport he departed? -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I always wondered about little tunnel rats that get tunnel time and are used to no pull time? I ask because of my children (If they decide) Yeah, I've thought about this in terms of whenever I may make my first tunnel flight/trip: am I going to freak out without a rig on my back and a handle on my butt? -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Ah, a good old one. I remember being shown this one by a classmate in first grade. We had those really big black pencils and everything. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Sure ya can. Its just that the answer is always infinity If I may refer you to my plush response above, infinity times zero is not non-zero, so any non-zero number divided by zero is not infinity, it's "no number exists". And all numbers time zero are zero, so infinity times zero is not the only number that 0 divided by 0 "equals". -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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That's reason enough for me to go with anyone who 1. looks like he's got a chance and 2. looks like he'll do at least slightly less damage than Bush. Now, my desire to vote against Bush is not based entirely on his performance or what I think of the recent unpleasantness in Iraq, or etc.. I just believe D.C. needs to be balanced between Democans and Republicrats, and the Republicrats won so many spots recently that the executive branch needs to go the other way. I like to think I'm reasonable, though, so swing Congress back to the Democans and I'll vote Republicrat for President again. It's hard being a libertarian and looking at who they put up to run. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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I sucked in basic number theory, but I think the logical fallacy is in step 5: "0 / 0 = 0 / 0" is not true in the way they mean it to be, because 0 / 0 is actually undefined (or the infinite set; see below), not a number. The meaning of the value "x / 0" is any number that, multiplied by the denominator, equals the numerator. When the numerator is non-zero, we say the value of "x / 0" is undefined because no number multiplied by zero equals the numerator. And when the numerator is zero, as in this math problem, the value "x / 0" (or "0 / 0") is undefined because ALL numbers multiplied by zero equal the numerator. So step 5 is some sort of infinite set relationship, and that doesn't help prove the rest of the problem. -=-=-=-=- Pull.
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Marijuana and Skydiving. Good, bad, indifferent?
FrogNog replied to BravestDog's topic in The Bonfire
A friend of mine said marijuana's tagline should be "makes you stupid and lazy." That sounds like the two worst things for skydiving, and not much better for flying a plane full of people whose lives depend on you. My friend's tagline statement was about marijuana use _in general_ - not just while directly under its effects. YMMV; I will stick with fresh air, as fast as possible. -=-=-=-=- Pull.