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Dave - You are lucky to have him around there. Rudi, as you know, isn't the kind to go around blowing his own horn, but he's contributed a great deal to the sport over many years. I'd be willing to bet that he's trained almost as many students as anyone still active today. He's high on my short list of "Authentic Sky Gods".
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It looks somewhat like a very large version of a long-sleeved shirt sleeve. They were typically the same length as the actual canopy was when stretched out. These were slid down over the canopy, often with a flap at the lower end where the suspension lines were "S"stowed between rows of large rubber bands, then the whole thing was folded into the container. The object of the device was to slow the opening sequence of the canopy--in particular causing it to inflate from the crown downward. It made for a much more docile opening. If not correctly designed for the canopy, or if not present at all, the round canopy might start the opening sequence from the skirt--smacking your ass pretty hard against the saddle or leg straps. (How'd I do, 26ftconical?)
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Why do we call it a "period" when it's usually a "!" ?
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This one is just as bad ... or good!
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Notsoflash? Nope ... "Flush" (rhymed with "plush"). They had a life-sized stuffed-toy stunt double for Flash, and a pedigreed (the original Flash was a pound puppy) dog who was a stand-in (not sure why ... maybe it could sleep on cue?)
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Only a princess who has ever actually kissed a frog knows that frogs may be ugly, but they have remarkable tongues.
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Just clarifying a point ... the original Paracommander was a towable para-kite used by water skiers, correct? It had no steering device when it was originally tried out for parachuting ... that came after the Crossbow canopy was revealed to folks affiliated with the US Team? As a side note, I find it interesting to see how sport parachuting and hang gliding both have roots that extend a bit into the world of exhibition water skiing. Australians Bill Moyes and Bill Bennett used to water-ski launch Rogallo wings, then release the tow line and glide back down.
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VERY nice! Thanks for sharing your efforts!!
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VERY nice piece of history, 26ft! Thanks for posting it. Did you click on any of the links to pics that I posted, and can you add anything that you may have noticed?
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*** Some ELSE caught in the act of dumping high! Brilliant!
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Sometimes us guys can notice a good makeup job. But most of the time we can't or at least are distracted by something else - like boobies. So unless the woman is nicknamed "eye-brow" I don't think plucking ones eye-brows needs to be high up on the priorities list. Here, here! The only reason why I can think for a woman to wax her eyebrows is so that, in the rare case of one us men NOT staring at her boobies, she won't think, "MY GOD!!!! HE'S STARING AT MY EYEBROWS!!!!!" 'Long time ago I had a red-headed lady friend who didn't ever shave her legs. The hair on her legs was very soft, not all that noticeable, and not offensive at all. It was sexy in that it fit her little hippie chick persona, and frankly everything about her was rather adorable. (Too bad she ended up with the Moonies.) Had it been coarse, thick, and black, on the other hand ...
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SH**!! That's not the Virgin Mary, that's Jean Harlow!!! (hardly the same). Clicky
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Yeah, and "Lone Star is douche water!"
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Hmmm ... most of the Asian women, like Anglos, who look prepubescent ARE prepubescent. I personally don't care if a woman shaves her legs, so long as she shaves between her toes ... especially the two big ones.
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*** Or in the case of Mexican Food...NO breath! I remember a friend of mine coming back from Raeford one weekend and telling me about jumping with members of the Russian team. They didn't speak much English, but apparently *everyone* understood what, "HEY! Who stepped on that frog??!!" meant.
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Why ... FLASH, of course! Ok ... since someone beat me to it, what was the name of Flash's (stuffed) stunt double?
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Why ... FLASH, of course!
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It looks to me like a swell way to damage everything from fingers to shoulder.
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Well ...?? We're waiting with baited breath! (Nope ... wrong spelling ... unless we're trapping skunks.) We're waiting with bated breath! (That's better ... this is one of my main spelling gripes. It was actually 'bated breath ... a shortened version of abated breath, as in we're holding it. I guess you could say, then, that many of us older farts, riding in a C-170 or similar AC, waited for jump altitude with 'bated pee.)
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Ok. You've caught on to me.
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Yep. I'm not sure that "One Shot" was an accurate name. I remember hearing about someone snagging one on exit, popping the cover open, and not realizing it until just before he landed. You not only had to open them, you had to pull them down to release them.
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Help for the identification of a plane
wartload replied to Aile's topic in Skydiving History & Trivia
If I recall correctly, this airplane was also last photographed by gov't employees as it crashed into the FL swampland. Hi, Gary! -
That depends upon which way you are facing when you say it. The important thing is that it has the "OOOOOOOOO"!
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Wooo-HOOOO!!!
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digidiots?