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Isn't that the purpose of a canopy, though??
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I believe that Pete C. (PC) Luter is D 763. According to an earlier posting, he's still active in NC. His son is also a skydiver and pilot.
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The plumbing area should have clear vinyl tubing, or clear reinforced vinyl tubing that would be less likely to collapse. They should sell both of them by the foot. I'd personally get the reinforced and use a marble or a large ball bearing. You can still see through the reinforced stuff enough to track the marble, but I think it's less likely to "pinch". There's also a plastic toy set called "marble run" that is like legos, but is intended to make stuff of this sort ... may be cheaper to use the tubing, though. I second the idea of using something like water-filled plastic containers as stands ... and duct tape. The purpose of something like this, if the teacher has a grain of sense, is not to see who can make something lovely or expensive ... just functional.
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Well ... if we're whoring out cute dog pics, here's "Roo" (registered as John n Daves Smoke Jumper Pilot)
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I've never really understood unions -- not the form that they've taken on since the 1950s, anyway. I was raised in the military, so those things were foreign to me. I remember having a conversation with a union worker's wife. It went something like ... She: I'm worried. My hubby's union is going on strike and I don't know if we'll have the money to pay the bills and take care of the kids. Me: Why doesn't he NOT go on strike then? She: Because they are his FRIENDS, and he has to be behind his friends. Me: Then why doesn't he explain to his friends that his family would undergo real hardships if they go on strike now, and that's why he needs to keep going to work? She: Because they'd beat him up! As I said, I just can't figure that system out. I've seen the office of the President of the United States, and I've seen the office of the President of the UAW. That frightened me!
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Remember that they also put your religion on there? Where most protestants said "Prot", mine said "Prost". I thought that was far more appropriate!
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QuoteI'm AB- also, and back when I used to donate regularly, they always gave me the VIP treatment because of my rare blood. [end quote] I never got the VIP treatment that some of you have talked about receiving, but I sure got whisked to the head of the line once, and there was a guy standing there to take the bag away as soon as it was full. Apparently there was some immediate need for AB+ at the time.
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I've never heard anyone yell "Geronimo" on a civilian jump, and never heard of it actually being done on a military "stick" jump. The closest that I've ever known to be something like that was -- During WWII one of the more popular C.O.s at Fort Bragg was General William C. Lee (known as "The Father of the Airborne" and original C.O. of the 101st Airborne). For awhile his troops had the habit of yelling "Bill Lee" as they jumped. Maybe someone in Hollywood figured that Geronimo was a better-known warrior than Lee, but it makes no sense ... Geronimo was a great fighter, but he was still a cavalry puke!
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I'll have to agree with both Charlie Brown and the Ng family. "Happiness is a warm puppy."
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Kudos to you, Derek ... a whole herd of them!
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No sh** ... I think his house just got paid for ... perhaps with new appliances!
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Inventive/creative devices to bring along camping/backpacking???
wartload replied to windcatcher's topic in The Bonfire
Depending on who you are going with, possibly condoms? Maybe it's just my friends, but nobody goes backpacking/camping just to walk and sleep. -
Yeah, Pop. Let's keep in touch with each other, just in case ... The good news, though, is that we're the universal recipients. They can apparently stick anything short of K1 kerosene into us. The O NEGATIVE folks (in addition to sending a depressing message to sexual partners) are univesal donors. If you know one of them, be nice to 'em!
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According to the American Red Cross: O Rh-positive: 38 percent O Rh-negative: 7 percent A Rh-positive: 34 percent A Rh-negative: 6 percent B Rh-positive: 9 percent B Rh-negative: 2 percent AB Rh-positive: 3 percent AB Rh-negative: 1 percent
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It's a small sample, so far anyway, but interesting how many are rare bloodtypes.
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AB ... and I'm positive about that!
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If I understand your question correctly, try this: Say that the figures that you want to reduce by 3/4 are all in colum C of your application (so C1 would be the first cell to have that figure). Go into the next unused column and type in: =C1*.75 This gives you 3/4 of the original price. If you want 1/4 of it, use =C1*.25 Then copy & paste that cell to all of the rest of the blank cells in the column where you want your answers. You can right-click on the cell with your equation, choose COPY, then left click on the next blank cell down and drag the cursor down to highlight all of the cells that you want. Then right-click in that and choose paste.
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Clowns shouldn't scare you. They just want to get you nekkid and poke fun at you. Actually, I could give you a long treatise on fear of clowns, but I'll spare you all but this small part. When McDonald's was first moving into Japan, it was pointed out to them that a white-faced character symbolized fear and death. They spent about a year introducing Ronald McDonald as being the exception -- sort of like our Caspar the Friendly Ghost. (Don't ask how I know this stuff ... it's a sickness!)
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why do skydivers like to have sex in the aircraft they jump out of
wartload replied to josheezammit's topic in The Bonfire
Because the peas are uncomfortable, the rigger's packing table is full of gear, and someone else is already using the office. -
Care to share who the manufacturer of that rig was?
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Funny video, but a sloppy loop.
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One guy that I knew had a habit of looking quizzically at a student as the plane was climbing out and saying, "I see a cross floating above your helmet!" We didn't bump knuckles, slap palms, or anything like that, but one potential tradition that was done, but never caught on, was taking the keys out of the switch before exiting at 12,500'
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Actually, early 70s ... but gas and beer were still still pretty cheap. Stuff like Miller and PBR were $1.25 a 6 at the grocery store. Bud was $1.35 a 6. 7.500' was up to about $4.50 - 5.00 then. The owner of the jump plane that our club used worked for a travelling evangelist* as a combination organ player and bus mechanic. About once a year they'd go out to "Fleece the Flock" in the western part of the country, leaving NC with cases of cheap cigarettes stacked up to the windowsills, and returning with Coors (then unavailable on the East coast). The Coors sold back in NC for the then-unheard-of $1 a can. (*The last I heard, this guy was still running a "church" out of his busses.)
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recycling nylon for parachutes?
wartload replied to heidihagen's topic in Skydiving History & Trivia
You sure that it wasn't silk stockings that they recycled? Nylon was new then, and the nylon stockings were of notoriously poor quality. -
Good advice, but that was the pre-cell phone era and I don't think there was a pay phone in the county back then. On the other hand, a case of beer could be had for about $5...if you weren't picky ... and we weren't.