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Paul, I will be in Perris for a couple weeks next Saturday. You can look at me, shake your head, and ask me if Im insane, AGAIN. BTW, a photo you took of me is my parents favorite. I doubt you still have it but if you do, can you make me a print? It's this one. Mike

I photoshopped the #'s off....Plus, the cops already know where to find me.

http://www.jkairys.com/english/index.htm More cool Jurgis Videos

Just right click on it and Save as Quick time movie

Has anyone else done the Body for Life by Bill Phillips? I am 2 months into it and I have dropped all fat and I am starting to get really big muscles. Its kind of a chore at first (especially eating 6 times a day)but once you get used to the program, it gets easy. This program really works! Here is my DL pictures from 1999 at 200lbs and last June at 165. I didnt realize how fat I was till I saw these together. Mike

Attached photo is the Lithuanian pilot Jurgis Kairys practicing for his Inverted under bridge flight 2001 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Link to video below. He is, arguably, the best aerobatic pilot in the world. http://www.inna.lt/kairys-video02.html www.jkairys.com

Climb Mount Nitaka! Tora Tora Tora is, by far, the best war movie ever made.

A40055 - 880 Jumps mostly Freefly Private Pilot - 1800 Hours Mostly Pitts and Extra

http://www.bandlookup.com/post/artist.php?aid=273 As good as Jerky Boys?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586/

Nothing is "prohibited" except directing energy at the crowd. If you want to make a grease spot on the tarmac, nobody is stopping you. There is a huge difference in tthe safety of a low half cuban (relatively safe and easy to fix a screw up) and a reverse half cuban (no room for error). Think of it as doing a hook turn and needing to dig out of it in brakes hard every time, sooner or later.... The audience does not know the difference in many airshow maneuvers, so why do the really dangerous ones? They like noise and smoke. Proof: Got to an airshow. The thing that gets EVERYONE on their feet is the Jet 18 wheeler.

Ummmm...No, he was doing a Reverse Cuban Eight. He was on takeoff, pulled to a 45 degree upline or so, rolled inverted and pulled. The opposite of your Cuban Eight figure, therfore a Reverse Half Cuban. Had he been straight and level at 2000' or so and rooled and pulled, that would have been a Split S. Watch the plane in this animated .gif. It is exactly what the F-16 did. http://www.sanantoniorc.com/page/reverse%20cuban.htm Mike 1500 Aerobatic Hours

All the flames you see are from the rockets on the ejection seat. You can see a bit of the burner (bluish flame) at the bottom of the pic. And, the F-16 cant 'stall' in the traditional sense. The computer wont let it. Actually, the control stick doesn't even move, it just senses pressure. You apply maximum pressure and the computer will give you the highest angle of attack possible for the given airspeed. Mike

All civilian airshow pilots set their altimiters to 'zero' at the current field elevation. Same thing as skydiving. Imagine having to subtract field elevation from MSL at pull time. This is what the Thunderbirds have to do at every maneuver and I still dont know a good reason for it. If you are not going anywhere, MSL is pointless. This is rule #1 to get your low level competency card from ICAS. Also, thae maneuver the thunderbird did, a reverse half cuban, is a big no-no in the airshow world. It leaves no room for error, obviously. We are trained to adjust our maneuvers for higher density altitude but ALWAYS set the altimiter to zero. Mike

Heres a link to an even better photo: http://tknowlogy.com/TknoFlyer/misc/030915%20Thunderbird%20Ejection/Additional%20Shots/?txtPicName=Large%2Ft-bird-6-front-ejectmod+%28large%29.jpg

Pilot error caused this crash. For some odd reason, they don't 'zero' their altimiters to field elevation like we do in civilian acro and skydiving. They set it to MSL??? http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/190-full.html#186582

I think the roles were reversed a while ago!!!

I just moved back to Texas a month ago from CA. I jumped at Perris and Elsinore regularly. I moved back to the same hometown that I grew up in. (Krum). My sister is 3 years younger and her best friend when we grew up lived the next town down (Justin) I knew her best friend and went to her house often with my sister. This was all when I was a senior in HS in 1988 and I haven't seen or talked to her since. She is still friends with my sister and single, and my sister wants to set us up. I remember her being very nice and pretty and she has way cool parents that already like me a lot. Sound's perfect right? Here's where it gets wierd. She got married after college to a Navy Seal, his name was also Mike but I never met him. He was a skydiver too. I heard about a year before I ever skydived that he was killed and she was alone with their newborn baby, extremely sad. I realized after I started that her husband was the Navy Seal that was killed at Elsinore with the RSL failure in 2000. I told my sister she had to be kidding....I would pick this girl up in my car with CA plates and a 'skydive' sticker on it? And, how can I NOT bring up my love for skydiving at some point and that I jump where her husband was killed? What is we did date, could she ever not freak out every time I went to the DZ? Am I right in saying "heck no"? This is all for her sake, I would say yes but I can't imagine how the whole deal would make her feel. What would you do? Sleepless in Krum, Mike