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You tell em' Major George! ... and come home safe. Zing Lurks

According to arachnologists, the average human is never more than 3 feet from a spider. If all spiders were eradicated from the earth, the insect population would overwhelm the planet in about a week. Zing Lurks

I'm betting on Shell. Zing Lurks

I'm sure I have absoltively, posulutely no idea what you're referencing there ... I was busy jumping or flying the airplanes, although there used to be some sort of ritual in the cockpit that involved higher altitudes. Nowadays, jumpers seem to expect more tudes for the mere sight of a pair of tits ... but my memories could be faulty. Zing Lurks

The loops and rolls are a piece of a cake in a Twin Beech ... it's those tail slides that are a real bitch, and they are reluctant to recover from an inverted spin with one engine failed. Zing Lurks

"We were taught how to make a suitcase nuke in Chemistry today... " Was that the class with the professor you've had such, umm ... interesting political discussions with? Zing Lurks

He's just another shill who is for sale to the highest bidder. Zing Lurks

"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." No, no, no .. the proper quote is, "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat all day drinking beer." Sheesh, get it right will ya! Zing Lurks

If that rat is female, and came from a communal pet store rat habitat, you may end up with more than one rat ... and in short order, they'll turn into more rats than you'll ever want to keep. I found that out through experience back when I used to keep snakes. RP was a reticulate python who was 11 feet long when I got her and 14 feet long when I sold her. She was unable to keep up with the rats' breeding prowess. Zing Lurks

These were done with lines and mirrors. Zing Lurks

C'mon now Twardo ... you don't remember those days any better than I do! Zing Lurks

Next time you all get out to Perris, ask Jim Wallace about temporary pins left in a rig that got jumped. Fortunately for Jim, only the main was pinned. Zing Lurks

Here's a couple photos of my old Baby Paraplane. This was the one that I had "Suzuki of Fargo" sewn onto the bottom and jumped it on demos. The one of me over the Blue Angels aircraft was at an airshow in Fargo, Hector Field, around 1974. The Golden Geeks were there too, but the wind was howling at about 2o knots with gusts and the Knights were still jumping Paracommanders. The second one was a demo into a car dealership in Moorehead, Minn a few months later. Three of us got out just as a major thunderstorm came in. The other two were on a Paracommander and a 27' Russian PC. They landed 3 to 5 miles from the dealership, but I managed to land just a few 100 feet fromthe parking lot. The guy running the dealership said that when he saw the weather hit as we got out of the airplane, he didn't know whether to call an ambulance, or the media ... so he called the local tv station, and his dealership made the 10-o'clock news on all three local stations. Both these photos ran in the Fargo Forum newspaper. Zing Lurks

I've seen two. Watched one go by the Porter I was flying. Saw another one go in from the ground. Both stayed more or less top of the helmet toward the ground, but they do rock back and forth and appear to slide around rather than plummeting straight down. Zing Lurks

You keep digging Jo, and those of us who can will keep trying to lend you a hand where we can. Zing Lurks

Except it says "DODGE" on the trunk deck. Zing Lurks

" ... High winds, closed DZs, black skies, constant rain, utterly miserable and depressing ... " Under those conditions, I expect riding that there motorpickle wil be almost as much fun as skydiving! Zing Lurks

Didn't mean to imply that he had. I was trying to point out that setting the trim won't work if the pilot is going to get out of the seat and walk toward the back because the CG shifts with the movement. In reality, going back and closing the door is no big deal, but, generally, a Twin Otter is back on the ground so quickly after the jumpers leave, that it is hardly worth doing. The last time I went back and closed the door was after letting jumpers out and then flying 2 hours home. Zing Lurks

Hell, I took out a 30-way once when the winds were hardly blowing. Zing Lurks

Looks one of each. Zing Lurks

Six weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a landlord in Tucson called the Pima County Sheriff's Dept. about a condo that no rent had been paid on. When the deputies entered the condo, which had belonged to two of the WTC hijackers, they found guns and ammunition, flight manuals for the Boeing 757 and 767, and a bunch of flight training related materials being translated into Arabic. Also found, was information about the dropzones at Eloy, Buckeye and Marana. Larry Hill told me that a couple Arabic-looking guys had inquired at Eloy about flight training, but he turned them down. No one from law enforcement/TSA, FBI or any other agency ever followed up on the information. I recall standing on the tarmac at Eloy around mid-October of 2001 as we prepped 8 airplanes for one of the major competition boogies about to start. Now they want to do something about it? Five years later. The TSA is a joke. Zing Lurks

But, if you set the trim for hands off flight while you're sitting in the pilot's seat, then get up and walk your body weight 10 to 12 feet back toward the door, you will find the airplane is no longer in trim for hands off level flight. Zing Lurks

Well, no doubt Zinger participated in a few SCR loads too, but that ain't me. Zinger lives in Seattle, a fair spell away from the desert where I live. I hate being confused with a lawyer. Zing Lurks

I come from a large family, 5 brothers and 4 sisters. When I was about 10 years old, the church my folks went to finally built a new house of worship after years of fundraising. The first Sunday that services were held in the new place, our entire thundering herd was sitting in a pew with mom and dad trying to keep us all in line, a tough assignment because we were hell on wheels. I was bored with the whole service thing and started digging in the hymnal holders on the back of the pew in front of me. There sat a plexiglass clipboard with a card on it for the attendees to note their impressions of the new church, make suggestions, etc. Looking at the pencil stuck in the clipboard holder, I saw this ... "We're here to help you get what you want." This was actually the slogan of a local bank, but you couldn't see the bank's name, merely the slogan line. I pointed this out to a couple of my siblings, which started a wave of giggling, which pissed off my dad, which caught my mom's attention. As her fingernails started digging into me arm to shut me up, I pulled the clipboard out, and showed mom what was so funny. Her face froze, then she looked at me, looked back at the pencil's logo ... and burst out laughing with her distinctive sound that reverberated through the sanctuary. Everyone in the church knew who that cackle came from. My dad looked like he just wanted to die right then and there and other worshippers were ahgast at this breech of ceremony in a church, but my mom couldn't stop laughing ... and had to get up and leave the sanctuary, dragging me out with her. I thought I was going to get killed. Years later, not long before she died, my mom claimed that that was the most precious moment she ever had in a church. Our family still treats it as an inside joke, and outsiders have often been baffeled when one of the Engstrom clan blurts out, "We're here to help you get what you want!" Zing Lurks

I'd think the G-load would be some higher than that, although for a very brief interval. Stapp's tests said a human body properly supported (That being the key phrase here) could sustain up to 42 g briefly. I think I read that the guy at Perris last week showed something like 30 g of acceleration. If you had the speed from launch to apogee and the altitude attained, the g load could be determined, but it would require a better math whiz than me. Zing Lurks