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  1. fastphil
    Bastard child??, BASE is most accurately the Poster Child of skydiving, conceived in the minds of the best skydivers to take full advantage of all the altitudinal differences and free airspace that surrounds us. Maybe lesser skydivers are jealous…
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    Here’s a couple of Okie pics from early 80s (I think), could probably get log books out and figure out just what year and event and probably have more pics somewhere. That’s me handstanding with Smitty wondering if I even know which way is up. I jumped there at several events, and was out last on the 36 way world record set there, I believe Jerry’s mom was one of the ground judges. Dave Sickler was flying, Phil Smith and I met his plane in Dallas for the ride up and back. What a trip. My last jump at Muskogee; on opening I saw my wife opening just below and did a front riser spiral to get to her fast (too fast) that ended up with me inside her canopy, hopelessly entangled and eating altitude fast. After a canopy transfer by her I landed on the flight line with her canopy and she landed on Jerry Bird…
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    early 80s SST Racer from Jumpshack??? or a copy...
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    Boy, the site on abandoned airfields brought back a lot of memories, thanks HW. My older brother soloed when he was about 14 years old and his first commercial employment was at Metro Airlines southeast of Houston, and I flew with him in and out of many of the old fields that are completely gone now. Spaceland was my home dropzone, one of many plowed under for new development.
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    When I had a PC MKI I used a Grabber. I think the tapered spring compressed and stacked better than the Hot Dog's straight spring. Off topic, but while I owned this rig I was commuting mostly by motorcycle. One day, as I stepped off the bike after a fast ride to the DZ, the rig popped open and the Grabber landed several feet behind the bike. And yes, I sometimes wonder how I've lived to be 53...
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    Thanks Howard, can you do that to my memory also...
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    You Louisiana guys always did know how to have fun. Once the Spaceland management, knowing they were the only show in town with big aircraft, told us to stop our petty bitchin’ about jump prices or go jump elsewhere. By the next weekend Joe had lined up a new DZ, complete with cows, dirt runways, local law enforcement and best of all, a lodestar. We called the place “Cow Palace”, and jumped there the next couple of weekends (see pic)
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    I donno, but it looks awful close to the ground...
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    Hey Kelly, much of the sick feeling from skydiving, and especially BASE, comes from lack of confidence, which is only gained by experience. It’s only though experience that you hone your body into a fine tuned flying machine and discover the limitations of you and your gear. BASE puts your skydiving skill to use in an environment were there is little or no room for error. Take the time to learn, there is a well paved path to BASE, and keep in mind some are destined while others are wannabes (all just my opinion)…
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    usta call it a drag off, not a BASE jump...
  11. fastphil
    A little like riding a fast motorcycle, but without the motorcycle...
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    Here's another pic of Joe. Looks like Kathy is mediating a discussion of opposing viewpoints...
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    "forward speed that would hold up to 18 mph wind"; still trying to picture that...
  14. fastphil
    hmmm... is it that you might die, cause that'll happen anyway.
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    Here's a good one; recognize these skydivers. They jumped from California to Florida from Texas to up north somewhere...
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    Here's a couple pics from one of Doc's "Hit and Chug" contests. Took a good all around skydive/beer drinker to win one of those. I didn't know Larry Fojt then, but we work at the same company these days. It's a small world. I just happened to make my 1,000 th during the competition (second pic), so I got a suprize pie following my beer...
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    Here's a couple of old pics from my memories trunk...
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    Here's what I like (pic), plenty of room. I've seen round canopies packed on the way to altitude on a DC-3
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    I'm trying to learn something here. Why would loading have any affect, isn't it still the same amount of ass, just spread over a different amount of area...
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    Not for me, I enjoyed the entire trip...
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    My favorite jump plane is a DC-3, but I never thought of an aircraft as a platform. That might be a different answer (see pic)...
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    How about another from back whenever...
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    I love the old pics; I have about a brazillion of them myself. Here's a couple from the early days in Houston...
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    Grab risers and "skin the cat" (flip upside down bringing your feet under the slider), hook your legs over the slider from behind, reach up and grab all the lines possible just above the slider and pull yourself up. Should only be tried by the gymnastically insane, and be aware of possible mishaps like accidental cutaway...
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    I used to ride the slider of my Strato-Flyer, which, by the way, was my favorite canopy. What's wrong with that...