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Didn't find much info (skydiving-wise) on this camera. Anyone jumping HDR-HC1? Your impressions? Is color good? How does it handle exposure - does it overexpose a lot, does it adjust exposure quickly when exiting the plane? Does the focus go nuts during deployment? Low light performance (sunset)? Does it fog? What wide angle lenses are available? Your experiences transferring HDTV video to PC, other cameras? Thanks!!!!!!!

I heard that KGB planned to build this tower so high that they will see Washington from the top. They stopped when steel at the base started crashing by the sheer weight of the tower. Oops. Now, with carbonfuckingfiber... It may look ugly during renovation after the fire, but I find it quite beautiful. At about 450 meters total height, it's held stable by steel cables in the core tensioning the structure from bottom to top.

That's absolutely cool!!! Jump in the morning, land at sunset.

Was there Moscow Base 2005? Is this event happening every year?

From the video, it certainly doesn't look like 45 degrees (look at the people standing on the slope). More like 30. And Loic is seen flying in "max it out" body position. I would say at least 2:1 glide ratio.

No mattresses for smelly fat dudes. Wear Dainese showboard shorts and land in the cactus field. "Sorry, the wind has changed. But you signed the waiver, right?"

My favorite maneuver so far is doing a gainer exit facing the tail, transitioning to head down flight, acquiring great speed in 10 seconds and pulling out of the dive "flaring" as hard as you can (takes a lot of arm strength). Using the excess speed, you can do nice carving turns with little loss of altitude, barrel rolls, etc. This is totally schweeeeet!!!!!!! If one had smoke cans on both hands, the view would be simply awesome. Like a small jet fighter doing acrobatics. Blue Angels, nylon version.

Exactly! Landing with a beautiful girl on a giant soft mattress....... that sounds just right!!! Total mals going in a huge freshly dug grave for instant funeral, students landing on monstrous haystacks, wingsuits swooping jacuzzi the size of a football field... We'll revolutionize the sport of skydiving!!!

And the main question: is there such a slope in New England?

After witnessing a few ambulances taking tandem passengers and quite a few rough butt landings, wouldn't a 5-minute call to 1-800-MATTRESS save 15% or more of people's butts? I'm only half kidding here. Ground is hard and even 2-3ft/s vertical speed can damage tailbone and back. If you damage tailbone once, you know where it is for the rest of your life. A few 150ft long 6-inch thick foam pads (covered with some carpet-like material to make it more "slidable") side-by-side to form a 150x150ft square should be plenty of room for tandems. Good for students, too. Heck, even tandem masters will stop looking as astronauts landing a shuttle with missing tiles. Save a butt or two!!!

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I believe landing a wingsuit is quite doable. Modern wingsuits do not have brakes. You can only change the angle of attack of the whole arm and leg wing -- analogous to rear riser input -- but you cannot deflect a part of the wing to slow down and increase lift. Thus, poor flaring capabilities of modern wingsuits make them unlandable. Imagine Luigi landing his VX39 on rear risers, without brakes. Ouch! Now imagine landing VX10 (area equal to wingsuit) on rear risers. Quarter the area, double the speed, quadruple the kinetic energy. Quattro ouch!!!! Jeb did his homework. Unlike most people here making macho impressions by speed typing in front of their computers, Jeb did real experiments flying his wingsuit side-by-side with Luigi on his VX39. Jeb knows his stuff. If he says "This can be done", he will do it. Safely. I have a few technical ideas and did some calculations to ascertain that this is possible. I don't have money and sponsors to build the stuff needed, and don't have experience necessary. But I do "find it funny how everybody thinks this is so impossible", as Jeb himself writes above. One key piece of technology could be a flare-able wingsuit, with some means of deflecting the tail of the wings to flare and slow down. Similar to airplanes and canopies. Another key piece of technology could be a huge pond with powerfull air compressors "bubble-izing" water into a homogenious foam. Air makes water compressible, a substance with density between that of air and water. Several feet layer of bubbled water will help flyer to slow down without hitting him hard. Besides, the foam can be set in motion towards the flyer by pumps, reducing his speed relative to ground. As for retrieving the jumper from water -- as long as he doesn't die on landing, who cares about him drowning after? Hitting water at ~60mph tangentially is nothing new to water skiers and swoopers. I believe flare-able wingsuit can be brought to

I was busy in the tandem area between the jumps recruiting pretty girls for my next porn hit, "60 seconds to cum". I didn't see you, either. I figured billionaire pornstars are working on weekends.

Wow, a Canadian making fun of the French.....Hello, do you know you are from Canada? Wasn't it French who did "Really nice work, very hard to see"?

According to Wikipedia, about one of every 1000 people suffers from multiple sclerosis. Source. Oddly enough, Viagra is used in symptomatic treatment. I hope you never forget to put your rig on before the jump.

Is her rigger packing a malfunction per every 15 pack jobs that you're calling him a flaky rigger? Maybe you should call him a "half rigger" since yours packs one mal per whopping 30 pack jobs.

The Ranch's bathrooms are the best in the world. There's always something interesting going on in there. The layout reminds a checker game: XOOX XOOX where X is a bathroom, O is a shower. There could be some people eating shit with spoons in one X, nylon (or plain) sodomy going on in one O, someone laughing his ass out in another X reading the crap from dz.com printed on toilet paper, someone else doing Shiatsu exercises in another X, inviting sexy voices from 3 girls in another O, loud as a fire truck siren farts from someone reading safety articles in another X, and masturbation moaning from another O... When you're at the Ranch, you're most welcome to take the remaining shower to join the fun.

He tampered with your equipment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, as boring as usual.

As a billionaire pornstar, what's $1000 a jump for you? Do you really want to service her?

If you come to the Ranch, you'll have to share a ride with 100 people in the Porter. If you're lucky, you can hang on the strut. If you're not so lucky, you'll share the 8-people cabin with 20 tandems. Two Twin Otters will be flying Yuri, since nobody wants to jump with him. On the other hand, Ranch bathrooms this weekend will turn into Houses Of Laughter. People will roll out the bathrooms with unwiped asses because nobody wants to waste the special toilet paper... Don't come to the Ranch!!!

Zippy, you're my true friend!!! At least, we are colleagues Only $5??? Don't be cheap!

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Yes, I admit. It was an honest mistake. There were too many drunk girls in Eloy tampering with my err.. "equipment".

I sincerely apologize and take my words back. I confused you with another girl (who's also at dz.com). But what you said about me is still a lie.