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Where are we going to find a girl at our dropzone? ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

My fridge is empty - you can store them at my house. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

9 days 4 cartons 3 porno mags ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I wish you both happiness and long lives together. Congratulations. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Every time I get it, I wind up either getting sick from the shot itself or getting a strain of the flu from which the shot did not protect me. I think I am better off without it, so I never get it anymore. If there was a really serious flu going around I would take it, but I don't think it is worth it to have a mild flu from the shot in order to try to avoid getting it later, when there is a pretty good chance that your mild case of the flu won't protect you anyway. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

been there, done that http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=155411#155411 ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>TRUTH: Tim is missed.

If she cheats on her bf, how valuable is her friendship? Please rush to her defense by saying that she would never screw YOU over because you guys are friends. One thing that no one has mentioned is the possiblity that you will lose two friends. While one is not such a big loss in my opinion, there is a chance that you will tell him and that he won't believe you and will be mad. I am mad that none of my friends told me when it was obvious to everyone but me that my fiancee was cheating, but I am pretty sure that I never would have believed anyone who told me. I think it was pretty chicken sh!t for my friends not to tell me, but I have forgiven them. If someone had told me and I had given them the middle finger, it might have ended worse. Just my 2 cents, and I really don;t know what you should do. Just something else to consider. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I'm Elrond, too. quote: A stern yet benevolent organizer who often knows best, your wits are keenly fixed on aiding efforts you deem worthy. I don't really think that describes me very well, though. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>Wine racks are purdy! They can make a huge statement in the room you put them in! You'll get eewww's & aaawww's about your wine collection!

As near as I can tell, this is the reason that you have to be able to recite the headings of the runways in order to complete the A card. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>Apparently they did turn over at apogee, and come down nose first.

>>I'm aware that bullets get "unstable" when they drop below sonic speeds, but I was under the impression that just meant some wobbling was introduced, and not complete tumbling end-over-end.

>>BOOBIES is not crap

>>the question is would the bullet start to tumble when it reached the peak of its arc >I also think getting hit in the top of the head by a small tumbling peice of metal travaling at 120mph would kill you.

The tumbling at 200m plus is caused by turbulence as the bullet goes subsonic. The oft-discussed tendency of 223 rounds to tumble in tissue is the result of the fact that they are so long and skinny that their center of gravity is almost never exactly on the axis of the bullet, which makes them "wobble" in the air as they spin around their cg rather than their long axis. If they hit soft tissue while wobbling, the off-axis force on the bullet causes it to start tumbling. 5.56 NATO 62gr bullets destabilize quickly out of older M-16s with 1 in 12 twist barrels, because the barrels were designed for 55 gr ammo. That is why newer 5.56 uppers typically have tighter barrels (1 in 9) to stabilize heavier bullets. Agreed that crappy guns (particularly crappy guns with rifle twists unsuitable for the ammunition fired) result in all kinds of bizarre downrange bullet behavior. In theory, a perfect bullet fired straight up with no wind should fall back down the barrel base first, still spinning at almost the same rate as when it was fired, because there is very little laminar friction to slow its spin once fired. In practice, most bullets are not truly aerodynamically stable (center of aerodynamic pressure is not behind the center of gravity), so they wind up going unstable as soon as they go subsonic, regardless of spin. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

You are defining post whore by number of posts. I think that CrazyIvan is a bigger post whore than Aggie Dave, because CrazyIvan has more posts per day since he signed up than AggieDave. Clay is still a huge post whore even if you look at posts per day - 29. Post whoring is all about posting meaningless crap. Billvon is way up there in terms of total posts, but I don't really consider him a post whore. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

It's posts per unit time that make you a PW. There aren't a whole lot of people with more than 2 or 3 posts per day of interesting stuff to say, but there are sure a lot of people with a whole lot more than 2 or 3 posts per day. Remember chromey? At one point he must have been making 100 or more per day. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

And #3 was no doubt prompted by my little admission in the look before you pull thread. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

You're probably right. I'd like to think the jumps I was on were different, but maybe they were not. I was very thoroughly briefed for these jumps. They were an 8-way and a 10-way, and I hope it makes you feel better to know that there were more AFF-Is in the group than jumpers without AFF-Is. I was the only person who was not a seriously high-time jumper. I was doing OK on smaller group jumps, and I could track well enough to get separation if I had to. And I would have choked back the tears and held the pilot chute until I had clear air or hit 2 grand if it had come down to it. But you're still probably right. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Not at all. The people who want to take it to the basement can do an after star while you're stowing your slider. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I'm also a skydiver at WTS, and the whole point behind all this is that back in the day, more experienced jumpers who were not interested in becoming "official" instructors would be kind enough to take the new people on jumps before we had an A. As an AFF graduate, I sometimes paid slots for these people, and sometimes I did not. Mostly I did not. They taught me how to skydive, and I appreciate it. Now, I'd like to get out of the plane and fall straight down (no jokes from those of you who know me) so that a guy with 10 jumps can practice moving side to side, controlling fall rate, etc. But I can't. Essentially, the new guys are in a position of having to jump with AFF Instructors (who are busy) or do solos for 25 jumps. The reason we want the coach course is to try to increase retention of AFF grads by showing them that jumping with other people is fun. 18 solos is a lot to ask someone to do before they can jump with a group. And 18 solos does not teach them nearly as much as they would have learned had other people been working with them all that time. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I'm not an Old Hand anymore! ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>remember that you have been scammed before