NickDG

n>>ick is one of the ban-proof guys. you see, its all a conspiracy. all the best get banned, but if you eloquent enough dealing out personal attacks, and have history, your invincible. Not my fault, write something besides, a one liner, and do it for 30 years. So go fuck yourself . . . You punk. NickD BASE 194

I appreciate the hus . . . But it might be awhile before I can live with it . . . NickD BASE 194

You Morons . . . NicKD BASE 194

fuck you too . . and I ain't Dreaming . . . NickD BASE 194

Fuck you, you cunt . , , No Thanks,, I'll pass, you nappy headed hoe . . . NickD BASE 194

http://www.egwingsuits.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.15 Fuck you . . . NickD

Killer . . . NickD

>>"Landable" and "jumpable" do have two different meanings No freaking way, landable and jumpable means the same freaking thing . . . This ain't skydiving. NickD BASE 194

In about 1981 I was working for Debbie Blackmon at Lake Elsinore and Istel showed up and when I walked up Debbie's husband Brick, was trying to sell him a tandem jump . . . It was one of those great moments . . . NickD

The west coast version of course, SPIRIT OF AMERICA . . . ! Now, to ask you a Q, what bus are you on? NickD

The Ultimate Rubber . . . NickD

I'm In . . . http://www.egwingsuits.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.0 NickD BASE 194

Dacron will go a thousand jumps (500 for sure anyway) and have all the stretch properties we need. Who knows what the future will hold (or dosen't hold) and what it will be . . . NickD BASE 194

I realize that now, thanks . . . NickD BASE 194

Yeah, guilty as charged. But it still sucks . . . I'm just like everyone else now. More so when it's someone I knew. It used to be, when the sport was smaller, I knew everyone. And those were the toughest days of doing the List. Now it's impossible, but the distance (not personally knowing everyone) is somewhat of a saving grace, and the only thing that allows me to continue the List. However, the best favor we could all do each other is just stop dying . . . Sometimes I think when I finally turn the List over to someone else; maybe it shouldn't be a jumper at all. It will just ruin too many of their days . . . NickD BASE 194

>>Why people are so senstve is totally beyond me I notice it too. Really, I'm not trying to be insensitive, but the way we dealt with these things in the past is nothing like nowadays. Maybe it's a defense mechanism, but now it's so many prayers and condolences, when it used to be we'd just sit and snicker, "better him than me . . ." Two ways of doing the same thing, I suppose . . . NickD BASE 194

>>wind induced bridle entanglement is a pure speculation. Granted, but regardless, all five Perrine Bridge fatalities, including this one, involved pilot chute problems. And that has "trend" written all over it. So the real question is why? NickD BASE 194

>>It collapsed from the tail forward, collapsing three cells entirely and the fourth about 99%, leaving just the nose of the fourth still inflated. Thanks for correcting that . . . NickD BASE 194

As far as I know a metal Rapid link has never killed anyone. I'm not sure you can say the same for Slinks. You can qualify the use of Slinks in BASE by adding, "well maintained," or "properly assembled," and "relatively new," but just remember you are hanging it all on "one" canopy so you can't so easily accept too many conditions. In BASE the word bulletproof also needs to include poor-maintenance-proof, lazy-proof, and ignorant-proof. When a Rapid link does yield (bend open) for whatever reason, it usually retains the line group. When a Slink fails (like one did on my friend Koji while skydiving at the DZ) it fails big. And yes, that Slink had been on the canopy for a long time, but I know from experience we are really bad in knowing when, "just one more," is one too many. Then consider why use a Slink? The major reason, I'd assume, is to save weight, but is that such big deal with BASE gear? Also, at the DZ, Slinks make it easier to stow the slider behind your head, but we don’t do that in BASE. I'm not sure if the below video is indeed a skydiving fatality (so use caution in viewing as it's disturbing) or even for sure if it's a Slink or a Rapid link that failed, but the result is the result. Maybe I'm over-cautious, but hell, I'd put steel lines on my "only" canopy if it was possible . . . http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1173869887/Fatal_Skydiving_Accident_Caught_on_Tape NickD BASE 194

If you click on the video in the local newspaper (the link Tom posted upboard) you can actually see whitecaps in the Snake River . . . NickD BASE 194

The List has been updated . . . NickD BASE 194

Here's the "official" report, just released, on the local investigation of Brian's death at BD 2006 . . . NickD BASE 194 http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_100002005.html >>Bridge Day BASE jump accident report released By Steve Keenan For The Register-Herald The death of BASE jumping pioneer Brian Lee Schubert on Bridge Day 2006 was due to jumper error, according to an official report on the incident released Monday by the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. Schubert, 66, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., perished from injuries received when leaping from the 876-foot-high New River Gorge Bridge as the noon hour approached last Oct. 21. About four decades earlier — on July 24, 1966 — Schubert and fellow Californian Michael Pelkey were the first to BASE jump off Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, which stands at more than 3,000 feet and is among the world’s tallest sheer monoliths. That jump provided a large dose of impetus for the growth of BASE jumping as a sport. Pelkey was also slated to jump on Bridge Day 2006, but scrapped his plans after the tragedy. According to a summary of the investigative report provided by Fayette County Sheriff Bill Laird, “An examination of all evidence related to this fatal accident would suggest that the death of Brian Schubert would be most attributable to jumper error in the late deployment of his parachute.” Late deployment “did not allow adequate time for proper inflation of the main parachute canopy necessary for the required deceleration of speed prior to his main impact with the river.” Late deployment most likely resulted from “spatial disorientation” that occurred when Schubert exited the jumping platform “in a near vertical launch which soon resulted in a slow backward rotation which may have contributed to a lack of spatial awareness required for the timely deployment of his pilot chute.” There was no evidence of entanglement, and the report ruled out rigging errors, equipment defects or failures. Also, a toxicology report by the chief medical examiner’s office said alcohol or drugs weren’t factors. Regarding Schubert’s recent BASE jumping experience, the summary read, “... the level and adequacy of the preparation training and the apparent lack of more recent BASE jumping experience cannot be eliminated as possible contributing factors.” While Schubert was an experienced parachutist with 141 skydives to his credit, records of the currency of those jumps “become less clear.” Furthermore, the length and adequacy of his training leading up to Bridge Day couldn’t be eliminated as a factor, the summary said. The report recommended future Bridge Day BASE jumpers be examined for the currency of their previous BASE jumps during the registration process. That will be done beginning this year, says Jason Bell of Vertical Visions, Bridge Day BASE coordinators. “We will up the standards,” Bell said, while admitting tracking that information could prove difficult. “We’ll definitely check currency requirements, among other things.” The Fayette County Sheriff’s Department and the National Park Service investigated Schubert’s death with the aid of an “outside, independent expert,” Laird explained. “We had a real keen interest in wanting to be thorough and complete.” For one day a year, the NPS gives people a six-hour window during which they can parachute off the world’s second-longest single-span bridge to the river below. Schubert’s was the first BASE jumping death at Bridge Day since 1987 and the third since the event started in 1980. Following the tragic plunge, jumping was temporarily suspended, then resumed during the afternoon.

It was "Cal Jam II" in 1978 in Nor Cal. But it was a demo by four "real" jumpers who landed behind the stage. Then Van Halen came on stage wearing rigs. I "think" the jumpers were from Pope Valley . . . NickD

Don't know where the thread went, but I was pissed about something yesterday and I took some of it out on you . . . I apologize! NickD

Warren blows chunks . . . And he always has. He sounds like an moronic AM radio DJ, that's not celebrating you, but using you, to make a buck and sure you can fly, but let's not show the ass over tea kettle landings . . . Don't be lead around by the nose. He's a glory hound cheerleader! NickD