NickDG
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If you were a future young skydiver/aviation type in the 1950s there were two TV shows you never missed. Ripcord and Sky King. Ripcord isn't online anywhere that I've found, but Sky King is. Sixty four of the original 72 eps are here: http://www.americanflyers.net/entertainment/skyking.asp Watching Sky King as a very young boy I was mesmerized by the flying, of course, but for the very first time I started to notice there was something about Sky's niece, Penny . . . The Sky King Wiki is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_King NickD
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>>Well, whoever "them" are.. they keep tossing me off of the computer too.
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It's THEM . . . NickD
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Thanks, Bro . . . Now I know I didn't waste all that time watching Perry Mason on TV when I was a kid . . . NickD -
>>Just a thought... and I wanted to see what everyone's take was on this. I'm SURE I'm not the first to dream this idea up! Nick
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>>Gosh, Nick... I would never try to change you
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Yes . . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NickD
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Marry someone who accepts you as you are and doesn't try to change you. ---- Nicky, age 54 (Still looking).
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>>skydiving helmets....why so expensive?
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You shouldn't put being in the "hair dryer" in the parking lot into your skydiving log book. And your skydiving logbook is an "unofficial" official document. If anything happens to you at the DZ the FAA will definitely look at it. It's why United 747 Captains don't write, "Finally nailed that Lufthansa flight attendant at the Holiday Inn last night!" In their logbooks. Keep a diary under your mattress for the fluff stuff . . . NickD
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WTF, was that a release on AFF level one? Either way, mainside gets a big fat zero . . . NickD
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USPA wise I could still run for office . . . Until all the bandit jumps came out. Or the time I was fired from a DZ for burning a student rig that was going to kill someone. And the time I got into a fist fight with a rigger from a neighboring DZ who was telling our students we were dangerous just to get their business. Or that time Scotty Carbone and I stole a 40 pound Mackerel from the hotel kitchen reefer at a PIA convention and got charged by the police with Grand Fish. Or the time Bill Ottley and I were driving around Washington, DC when I was being considered for the position of PARACHUTIST editor. Bill, who knew I B.A.S.E. jumped, caught me gazing longingly at the Washington Monument, and he said, "This isn't going to work out, is it?" Or when . . . maybe I'd better stop now. My advice is to run for USPA office early in your jumping career before you get a chance to develope a rap sheet, eh, resume . . . NickD
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You all forgot this one . . . NickD
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Beautiful times ten . . . !!! NickD
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>>Lawyers crawl this site everyday and will feel free to use everyones comments as "expert" opinion if it suits their case.
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>>The question of 51 SOB (Souls on board) including everyone is just a confirmation to ensure that everyone is accounted for in case of a wreck of some type in which they evacuate the plane or have to look for bodies.
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I liked Brad's Gang name - "The Polisher" And pwin, I had a VLX for awhile. I rode it all over when I was in Cal City. It was the only motorcycle I ever owned that never gave me a lick of mechanical trouble . . . NickD
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A few vids for you posers, eh, new guys . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOBgvHmqf4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmpePaenvjo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs22KAw8Woo NickD
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The controller involved seemed a bit different than the norm. I'd think he'd automatically assign the longest RWY, especially for a pilot with a pitch issue. Then when he asked for the number of souls on board, and is told 51, he asks does that include the crew? What'd he expect? A crew of atheists? And then the topper is rather than refer to the emergency equipment on the ground as that, he uses the word crash. Not exactly the word you want to interject into the cockpit conversation at that point. Maybe any single one of those things I wouldn't have noticed but all three caught my ear . . . Oh, and it was an emergency slide that deployed in the tail area and was rubbing on the control cables that caused the pitch problems. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Politics/story?id=5581453&page=1 NickD
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Yes, would be better . . . http://www.cracked.com/article_16563_20-badass-ideas-improving-olympics.html NickD
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>>For me, having an earbud in one ear playing a specific genre of music isn't a distraction in the least.
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And then there's this Foo gem from some years ago . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BieVgyrfglQ&NR=1 Look for Jack Black . . . NickD
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You made a skydive. (Congrats BTW). The only type of of parachute jump that isn't a skydive is a B.A.S.E. jump . . . NickD
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"It seems unhealthy here . . ." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcpvx2EVCpU&feature=related NickD
