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  1. fastphil
    I think it's a case of "rush to print" to beat the next Seal book release...
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    Probably likes guns more than parachutes, and doesn't care for static at all...
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    Holy Cow, and there I was strutting around with a 12 HOUR badge... All hail the Queen
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    too cool
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    I'm not sure how common this is, but on 1 of the 3 HH dives I've been on, 2 people both decided to take a last second dive at the hoop when it was getting close to break-off and got jammed inside the hoop together. Fortunately, the hoop broke as they and the people holding it struggled to free them. Rebar would have been a bad, bad thing on that jump. Skinny skydiving buddies would be the obvious solution...
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    RIP Bill... we made one skydive together, and you insisted on bringing that silly hula hoop along. Nothing but blue skies from now on... NSCSA 1
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    Girlfriend runs off with Skygod (hate it when that happens)
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    I formed a small metal rod (3/8" rebar) into a circle the same size as a hula hoop, then cut a regular hula open, slid the metal hoop inside and taped it back together. This one was durable and fell good, and became a DZ staple with a resume of its own. For nite dives we just tagged it with three chem lights. Here's a pic of the girls playing with it...
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    You're crazy, I saw it on the TV
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    "throw caution to the wind"?, you do sound like a skydiver. I don't think a person can ever un-ring that bell. Good luck with those knees...
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    oops, missed the clicky and musta thought I knew it all. Probably working too hard; I won't let that happen again...
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    JohnRich, tell us more. I initially thought of Hurricane Alicia, which turned over many aircraft at SpaceLand, but after a little thought I not so sure I remember the Otter being one of them. I do have pics of the carnage but it would take some digging to get to them. Records I could find show that Metro Airline lost a Shorts 330 in a storm earlier the same year (1983) at Beaumont TX. No record of ever losing an Otter, what gives. Who shot your photos???
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    Hurricane Alicia damage at SPX in 1983. I have more photos tucked away in my trunk, there were a lot more aircraft upside down...
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    The commercial flights I've been on lately had seats as hard as the floor and just as cramped conditions as a skydive load. I love heights, and used to climb the tower we started BASEing from almost daily just for a workout and to sit up nearer the sky and clouds...
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    Looks like human kind has just about reached the end of the line...
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    Sounds like you learn fast and took care of business...
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    That one flies over my house a lot; I like the second pic better because it is also provides transportation to the DZ...
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    Why does this actually sound amazing in every way? I remember a time when that was normal behavior...
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    I can't help, it was a couple of years before I came on the scene. It's interesting that a Salt Lake City newspaper picked up the story...
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    Forget your wuffo friends, there is no longer a need for them; and you're not risking your life, you're cheating death. Godspeed...
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    Yeah, what lisa said. Right now it's about body position, and later it may be formation or airwork, but eventually it's all about friends come and gone...
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    Congrats; and I'll keep my eyes out for the 50 years...
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    If the plane is truely crashing you are probably not saving any altitude by staying put longer; might as well do what you do best and get out...
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    A first quarter moon is almost as much light as a full moon and it is up earlier in the evening. There is probably two weekends a month easily jumpable, but there is something special about the lunacy of a full moon...
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    Next 30 years? A holodeck powered by quantum based computer and direct neural interaction (like a hyper-vivid stimulated lucid dream with computer induced/controlled virtual mental environments) where we can do virtual skydiving with safety protocols on (pain thresholds capped)... Skydives of that nature were chemically induced 30 years ago...