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Hi Harmless, Sorry for your loss,...like you said, at least they didn't get your rig!! Had bandidos break into my van when I lived in Whittier. My rig was unpacked and piled up in the back, had an R/C model A/C in there too. Bastards broke the dash, stole my stereo and speakers, tapes some odds and ends "But Left The RIG!!!??" They left the plane too but dumbasses took the R/C Transmitter!! No good without the plane!!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Jim and all, "That smell, that gasoline (or was it keroscene) smell,...I love the smell of.....(If you don't know the rest by now...) Jet-A, JP, 100LL, 80 octane (red) and if ya' ever ran a model airplane engine that burnt shoepolish smell of "Glo-Fuel!!" They're all good. Jez depends on the sulphur content of the fuel!! Get a good blast of stack gas out at sea when the Navy is burning the high sulphur oil and ya' don't have to wonder why yer lungs are melting!! The water (H2O) in your lung tissue mixes with the sulphur dioxide (SO4)=H2SO4..Sulphuric acid!! I'm not a Chem Geek but I think that's close enough for Government work!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi pch, !! I just thought the trip was kinda' funny, at least to me!! After all, it's just a darned cord and to me the funny part is how "Yuppified" it has gotten along with everything else in this sport!! Finding material for pullup cords that doesn't "hurt your hands" is cool!! Over the years, it wasn't the callouses as much as the "dry cracks" at your knuckles that go to the bone!! When you've worked in the business and passed as much nylon webbing, cord and cloth over your hands as I have ya' gotta laugh!! 'Usedta' go thru jugs of Cornhuskers lotion to combat the dryness. Come to find out that besides the abrassivenes of nylon, the mfgrs. would treat the cloth, webbing,tapes with "Formaldehyde" you know,"Embalming fluid!!!!!" to prevent mildew and mold growth on the fabric!!! That's what really wacked our hands!! Rigging tip #69, get a short wood dowell and file/carve a notch around the middle, wrap the ends of the pullup around the notch and use it as a "Handle," saves yer fingers!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Wally, Da' Dajango Dragonfly!!!! I'm with ya' on that one!! When it comes to all the things like pack volume, ease of packing, on heading openings, easy openings, L/D, turns and flare the "Fly" was tops!! Besides my Stilettos' it was the only other canopy I've ever had that I didn't have to cut away from at least once (besides a couple of cheapo's!!)!!!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi L-T-J, What ever floats yer boat pal SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi sky-1, "Pullupcords!" just pieces of scrap cord used to close your rig!! Shoe laces will work!! I like good old gutted Mil-C-5040 T/III #550 cord aka T/IIA. The coolie flat binding tape that everyone uses works but the main reason it's flat tape is ya' can print yer logo or advertising on it and it's cheap advertising!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Natty, Think about somethin'? Next time you do jump, leave the plane facing the door. Now, about ten feet down, try to go back...... There's no going back once you've left that door. You can quit skydiving, but it will always be there in you. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Speedybaby, You must have found my stash of old "Brother Dave Gardner" records Now, listen to me talk and go figure?? I'm first generation here of Hungarian parents I was born in "Newoawlinz!!" Louisiana and grew up across the lake in Hammond in the middle of an immigrant community of Hungarians (turn of the 20th cent farmers) Italian immigrant farmers up the I.C Line in Independence, Red Necks all over, some English, Irish and don't forget the Cajuns, Blacks up and down the street, a clan of Syrians that had the farm across the street, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Alponca Indians, was the only Hungarian kid in a Catholic School full of Dagos, staffed by a bunch of Creole Nuns from New Orleans down in the Irish Channel off Poyadras Street by the docks and God knows what else and you got the ballz, gall and audacity to say we talk funny!! Ever been here?> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickfaw,_LouisianaLived on the corner of Whiskey Ln. and Tin Can Alley. You wouldn't like their jail. Nice tubing down the river tho. NO rocked in the day. Lines of coke on the bar in Fat City. No Problemo. Hi ak, Funny thing?? You must be talkin' 'bout the Tangipahoa river!! I lived in Hammond but my brothers' wife's folks lived there off Whisky lane on Stone lane named after her father Stonewall Jackson Rogers. Ridgels and Rogers all over!! Small world!! The approach for runway 13 at Hammond Airport is over that area!! Was a major Skydiving Meca in the 60's till Leon Riche got into it with local politics!! The Airport was the most bitchin DZ in the area because of the light traffic and lots of room!! Right down he road from your place on the river is Dunnington's bridge, it had the best sand bar for beachparties!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Speedybaby, You must have found my stash of old "Brother Dave Gardner" records Now, listen to me talk and go figure?? I'm first generation here of Hungarian parents I was born in "Newoawlinz!!" Louisiana and grew up across the lake in Hammond in the middle of an immigrant community of Hungarians (turn of the 20th cent farmers) Italian immigrant farmers up the I.C Line in Independence, Red Necks all over, some English, Irish and don't forget the Cajuns, Blacks up and down the street, a clan of Syrians that had the farm across the street, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Alponca Indians, was the only Hungarian kid in a Catholic School full of Dagos, staffed by a bunch of Creole Nuns from New Orleans down in the Irish Channel off Poyadras Street by the docks and God knows what else and you got the ballz, gall and audacity to say we talk funny!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Blue skyz Joe, That "Star" up there just grew one slot bigger. Fly on Joe. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Andy, Cliffhangers are a drag, what's yer' solution?? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Jack!, When Shark Air first showed up at Perris, Ben was leasing it from some dude before he bought it. At the time it had no inflight door and we were using it at one of the Turkey boogies and it was "COLD" upstairs so we had a blanket to put over the people closest to the door. The plane had that funky shark face painted on the front but the "SA" in the "N numbers" were not for "Shark Air" but "SIERA ARCTIC!!!"

That would be ~The Hunter~ Korea war flyboy movie with Robert Mitchum. Hi Jim, Did ya' get the "Bonus points plus!!" ???? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Jim and all, Hope the esoteric factor is OK on this one?? "AT EASE AT EASE!!! OK men, meet Cleve Saville, he and I were flyin' together when all a pilot had for breakfast was a cigarette and a hangover!!" Who said it, about who, where and when and movie name????? Bonus points for Cleve's handle?? Hey remi, howz the esoteric factor on this one?? Bonus plus points for this one if ya' were sitin' in the front row of the theater on a Sat afternoon with yer buddies when this movie first came out and were tossin' popcorn at the bad guys on the screen!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

That's because Apocalypse Now is just too awesome. "In a situation like this, you really don't wanna take the advice from a man who got a C minus in astrophysics" I guess it's just not esoteric enough for ya'?? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

I'm surprised no one came up with.................. "That smell, that gasoline smell!...........I love the smell of napalm early in the morning.....it smells like .....Victory!......" Then later on,....."The Horror!...." SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Nick, Yup, that was Jody. She passed a few years ago i think from some kind of Cancer. She ciould be very stern, you found out!! Once an old whuffo couple was touring the DZ and went into the store. The man just off the cuff inquired," How long to you have to pull your other chute if the first one don't work??" Without skipping a beat Jody says,"The rest of your life!" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Jim, and everybody within shouting distance on the DZ stops what they are doing, turns and looks at "YOU!!?" (I guess they know who they are!!) SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Pat, Sorry to hear of Skippy's passing. If it was posted before I don't recall, oh well. As a fledgling Skydiver at Hammond Airport, La., I remember Herb Golden and others telling storys about going to Texas and jumping with Skippy and about his antics!! One story was that he would sign log books with his name and Clyde Jacks D-number!! When the person would recognize that the number was Jacks' and not Skippys', Skippy would say,"It's OK, he's dead, he don't need it!!" Yup, time sure flys when yer' havin' fun!! That "Star" up there got one bigger. Blue Skyz Skippy! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi John and every body else, When I started jumping there was for competition Style and Accuracy (period!). There was NO RW!!, just us "Fun Jumpers" and as far as the S/A freaks cared, we didn't count. I say "We" because I was one of those disgusting "Fun Jumpers!" But "We" didn't care and kept fun jumping and even went to S n' A meets, competed against the hard core S n' A types, partied hardy with everybody on Saturday night and even though "We" didn't win, we still had "FUN!"' I don't have ta' tell ya' what happened next?? The sound of the single engine cessna 182 got over shadowed by the coughing, sputtering, smoke belching, oil slinging, klackking roar to life of twin 450 Prats and the sound of 10 men yelling "3-2-1-GO!!" in a practice line up. The S n' A types tried to say that "We" still didn't count but "We" didn't care and went up and did,"10-MAN!!" Then along came this new stuff called "Sequential RW" that grew out of "10-MAN" "and" down the road came Freak Flying, Free Flying, Board Flying, Up-Side-Down(I don't do that too much as the blood rushes to my head and I get dizzy!!)Flying and God knows what else!! I'd toss in Swoopin' but that's under canopy like CREW. It's just too bad that someone that does "One kind of jumpin' only" has to get upset if you or me does somethin' diffrent. I like to "Skydive" and that is to me best described in the immortal words of Jerry Bird,"Skydiving is having fun in freefall with your friends!!" And then there's this,"We're here to jump and have fun..we don't need any rules or restrictions--we're restricted enough by our own abilities...Rules or no rules, when we cut on jumprun, we're going to hang as many guys as we can get outside the airplane and build the fastest, cleanest formation we can...." This was the philosophy of the "Clear-Eyed Homegrown" 10-MAN team at the 1974 Casa Grande "Chute Out" as expressed by Matt Farmer. "RW Hatred??" I'm sure there are a few people who may express this "misguided attitude" but I wonder, "Are they 'Skydivers??'" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Chuck, 'Just saw the name in the line up.......That "Star" up there just got one more great person. Blue Skyz Roger. 'Love the Geeter Mathews story at the bar of Roger landing his 182 in the driveway of his house out at rockfish!! Drive by and take a look!!!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi 126, "When in doubt, Whip it out!!!!!!" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Lou, I've heard that many times. Dig around in the archives and find the old Steve Moran Cartoon of some troops doin' S/L out of a '119 and in the middle of the stick are these two skydivers with gutter gear almost in a 2-man one of them just discarded his M-16 and is saying to the other,"I thought there was something funny about it when that Recruiter said we could get all the jumps we want for free business??" PS, I got it stashed somewhere but right now I hear a beer callin' my name!! If'n ya' can't find it, let me know and I'll dig for it. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi SM and all, 5 pages and growing!! Kinda reminds me of an old T.S. Nast Political Cartoon of the post Civil War era,"Let us clasp hands over that great Bloody Chasm!" Shows two men high on the wall trying to reach across Andersonville Prison. How long before history repeats itself??....How long? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi rdu, "Ma Death" was Dana from Snoots, moved to So. Cal. Elsinore and eventually married Jim Hanbury. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out