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  1. fastphil
    Yeah, and the more jumps you make the more you never really seem to quit. My last skydive was about 1985; I never consciously quit but I did move on down the road to the next adventure. I am comfortable with my skydiving career as is, but I didn’t really seem to quit. Good luck down the line...
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    and my favorite quote, "if it rains, we don't jump"...
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    sure, it could be done, but one thing you are forgetting is water, even when dissipated through a "bubbler" carries a lot of inertia. freefall through rain can hurt, heavy rain is super painful. now hitting something at high speed that is half water half air? not something that could be repeated with any safety or desired repeats. Quote But Calvin, isn't this because you're falling into the sharp end of the rain drop...
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    You bring back good memories. Michigan and Sweden are possible locations for these two ladies...
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    Yep, it's the rule of "been there, done that"
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    Next two seconds were probably open flying canopy. I have many hundreds of freepack openings on StratoFlyers with no complaints...
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    And orange passes for the less adventurous, they fall just about right... Funny story Pat, no where but Texas.
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    Did he jump at Spaceland?? One of these guys looks a bit like him...
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    Like much of our governments efforts, it doesn't make sense to me; guess I'm an outlaw...
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    We boycotted at Spaceland once; it was short lived but I think the DZO realized that the experieced jumpers were part of his biz. Of course, you have to have an alternate location to jump to make this happen...
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    She's making the right decision; it's not like you're going to have time or money for her anymore anyways...
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    That's some cool pics...
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    Yeah, I think Kevin Gibson too, but it took Wendy pointing it out to remember the name. I thought TeXXas twenties were just twenty ways done at Texas DZs. I might even have one of the patches somewhere...
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    So is a DC-9 jet or climbing a television broadcast antenna tower, but a lot of people want to do that, too. I don't follow the comparison, climbing a television broadcast antenna seems the most efficient use of a skydivers pent up energy, resulting in true FREEfall...
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    Hard to imagine being in that sitution; the times I've cutaway was a single motion so fast you could here the ends of the cable pop like a bull whip...
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    Crispy's real name is: Mike Branch from Florida, lived in Houston from 1977 - 1985 Hmmm... but I thought Mike Branch's real name was Crispy. (Just kidding, how are ya Mike ;-)
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    Absolutely...
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    5 chops with 6 reserve rides for me...
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    Patches and cards. Sparky It's interesting, but not totally surprising, that Joe Svec signed your NSCSA card...
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    Not a bad thing by any means, it gives skydiving lots of exposure and does generate interest...and is the main reason, (Thank God) for that wonderful kerosene smell that permeates the drop-zone ALL day long! And that reminds me, it's hard to picture a day "back in the day" without a couple of those radial engines smoking up the DZ...
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    Let's see those patches...
  22. fastphil
    I think when you refer to "back in the day" you acknowledge you may be over the hill... (I also think that skydiving defined itself in the late 70s and early 80s)
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    Post round pre square = triangle
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    I made a jump or two with Anna Kealing at Spaceland in about '76; quite the skygoddess. Here's a pic of Doc A. (and others) at Hitchcock in late '70s or maybe 1980. Not so long ago...
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    Cool... simple, but not easy. Did ya'll drink all ten cases that night??? SCSA 15 NSCSA 1