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    EENY,MEENY,MINEY,MOE
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    its an R&J Parachutes built "top secret" reserve container at least.built and designed by the people who built the "classiflier" (you know,the one that had problems with pack closures on the resrve)
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    Para Flite built something similar around 1976.and SSE/Para Plane around 1991.
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    any way to contact larry perkins to see if he has any plans on rebuilding any of these great old birds?
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    good question. back in the day... at steve snyders drop zone in new jersey we had an old howard dga 13.he replaced that with a stinson mule,which was a one of a kind prototype built by the late dave steves.it was a heavily modified stinson V77. it had all the fabric coverings replaced by metal, the anemic stock 450 pratt and whitney was replaced by a 650,both doors were permanently removed,and the right seat was turned around facing the rear for jumpmastering. this thing climbed at over 1000 ft per minute. noisy as hell.a favorite display was to get as much airspeed as posible ,hold it on the runway till the very end and just stand it on its tail. it would climb to about 300 feet (in just a few seconds)then be leveled off.what a rush!it was sold to perris where it operated till it crashed in 1970.
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    in my days at para flite,the rule in final QC was barrels inboard and screw down.the reasoning was that by putting the barrels inboard it was less likely to nick the slider grommets(back then they were nickel plated brass).
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    you all left out what i feel is the most appropriate response,which should be to take the person responsible outside and point out the error of their ways with a shovel or something.
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    i once found a baggie of pot in a repack.
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    i first saw them around 1975.they were on a french made(E.F.A)strato star.i was working at para flite at the time,and=we all thought it was funny that E.F.A could have used the french Maillon Rapide links that we were buying from E.F.A.(no one was distributing them in the U.S.A.at that time),but instead chose to apparently design a new forged link that was far heavier.ahhh those french...........
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    ..............time was when you bought a canopy it came with risers,toggles and d bag