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Damn women we met in person but you were sitting down. 5''10" is adequate in my book. So if you ever date the shah just meet him sitting down. It's sad to see a women with poor posture because their trying to minimize their height I promise I won't stalk you in spite of your large rack of Frequent flyer miles. I think unless the Shah lease's a wife for 3 yr's and get a new moddel before they to old, he'll never be happy. But what do I know I'm just a engineer that has been married for 36 years. One Jump Wonder

Hi 06 The lady that was the PR person for the WFFC (both locations)used to post under the user name of "oldfiddle" on rec.skydivng and I think I seen her post on DZ.com. If I remember correctly the camera guy asked her for permission, didn't like the response he got a did it anyway. There were also some pissed off skydivers on the chopper when the incident. Because the guy that got "hurt really bad" could have brought the whole bird down One Jump Wonder

Hi TB I think Midwest parachute was where I bought my first PC. Damn thing was Approx $300 in 1970. What I recall about the military canopies was they only had a 7 yr shelf life. before being surplused. Not sure about the reserve's. . We were assigned to a C-130 flying squadron,almost back in the day 66 and had a old school supply sargent (and rigger)that knew how to work the system, Think "radar" on Mash. Visited the supply guy's house one day in 68 wwhen we decided to buy some "surplus" gear and he took me out back to the garage to dig out my gear. The garage was actually where he was living and it was stacked floor to ceiling with military jump stuff. Couldn't even find the couch to sit on. Supply guy's have a lot of unofficail power due to their supply inventory (trading stock). The man was a master of the system (for his benifit). He was trading with other supply guy's all over the country including the army. T-10's round reserves etc. Besides the C-130's we also had B-52's and KC 135 at our base. When he found out a plane from our base was going someplace where he needed to swap some gear. He'd make a deal with a crew member to drop off and bring some stuff back for him. Not sure what happened to the guy when we were getting ready to leave he must have gotten bored and wanted to cross train to be a para rescue guy. If he was half as good at rescuing downed pilots from the jungle, as he was swapping gear. He saved a lot of guy's, Unless he got busted first. One Jump Wonder

In our part of the world our fire dept is a mixed crew of firefighters and emt/paramedic's. Every one on the crew responds to the 911 calls. So the down time is a lot less than it used to be. The first responders also do a lot of training when their not responding. The fire dept has to meet minimum response times to be certified. The challenge that we face in case of fire is rhe closest hydrant is probably 1 mi away. No sweat the house can be replaced people and pets can't. One Jump Wonder

Hi Mr T Small feet do have their advantages. Ther was a dude at the camp fire at LP....... Here's another link drom the same mag http://bellapetite.com/tiger-prefers-petite-meat.html Interesting that the mag has a specific target audience. I would have used some different terms to describe the type of women Mr Woods prefers. I yr old joke. Know the difference between Tiger Woods and Santa Claus. Santa stoped at 3 ho's. Go for it SHAH, you might be as sucessfull as Tiger was and you don't have that much to lose. One Jump Wonder

See above about the law of supply of demand. If there was a shortage of instuctors than the DZO's would have to raise instructors pay. What incentive doess the DZO have to raise the instructors pay? As long as there's a surplus of instructors than the pay isn't going to change. I hear the instuctors bitching but there's still a excess of supply Nothing personnel its basic business. IMO the only experienced jumpers the DZ needs are the working bee's. Tamdems tamdems tamdems. Tunnel tunnel tunnel One Jump Wonder

QuoteIf you and yours started out being dirt poor, were raised by abusive parents etc. And you both worked your ass off to break out of the cycle of poverty that you were born into then you may have a point based your real world experience. If not I hope we can agree that we disagree and move on. One Jump Wonder

Hi Folks Since SS brought up the subject of the cost of the FJC "almost back in the day". I'm trying to remember the cost of my first rig. I'm guessing that we paid less than $150 (forgot the exact amount already . A nice orange and white main with a 7TU custom cut to order (elipitical). A B4 container extendeed shot and a half's and quick ejector hardware, and the usual chest mounted surplus round reserve (no pilot chute). Being a lite weight was a big plus One Jump Wonder

9 Feb 64 - Jens Jorgeson ran a 'dz' out of Evergreen Airport in Vancouver, WA & we jumped out of his Stinson V-77 Gull Wing. The 'drop zone' was a farmer's field ~ 10 miles out in the country. As we climbed for altitude I happened to look down at a cemetary; now that made me even more nervous. If you made more than one jump in a day, you were 'hitting it hard.' JerryBaumchen Hi Jerry On your ride to altitude did you also notice the rail road tracks. "Almost back in the day" For some reason a lot of DZ's in the midwest were located close by cemetary's and RR tracks. One of my worst experiences at our home DZ was backing up under a rag towards the RR tracks and there was a damn freight train that looked 100 miles long using the tracks at the same time we were getting blown backwards. Decisions, decisions the rag didn't have much go go juice, we were facing away from the tracks trying to hold into a 10-15 mph wind, and had to keep on looking over our shoulder. Just in case we needed to go to plan B and try run down wind to fly over the tracks, and that damn train. How much did we pay for our first jump course back in 68? Due to my OLD condition It was so long ago I really can't remember for sure. I do recall We were trained by a club on a AFB so the training could have been free. R.I.P.

Hi 377 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Hi Back in the day of bellywarts what was the largest knife you ever saw someone jump with on their reserve. "Thats not a knife

Hi JR Quote Danger Ranger Have you ever seen a pissed off female elephant. One Jump Wonder

? Hi chuck I think it's a cultural thing. Ever see picks of the crowds in the capital wearing face masks. Think about the poor foreignor who travels to the states for team training, being stuffed into a airplane with a bunch of americans euro's etc that maybe carrying germs, sneezing We saw some germans at SDC once gearing up and putting on some kind of a tupe sock above the waist under the jumpsuit. Of course we had to ask. "Keeps the kidneys warm in freefall" I'm guessing that was also cultural thing. Nothing wrong with it, just different from what we're used to. One Jump Wonder

Hi JR Almost "back in the day" We used to drop flares from C-130s (stateside). I'm guessing the OD of the complete aluminum flare container,was approx 6" dia and weighed maybe 50-70#, approx 2-3 long. The C-130 had a removable flare tube launcher with a 30 degree angle sitting on the ramp. The launcher only covered about 180 degree's of the flare. To make loading aand unloading easier The flares were launched by gravity from the launcher and activated by a steel static line cable. The static line activated the whole process that included a time delay gizmo prevent the flares from opening to close, to the plane. We had 100's of flares on the plane for a mission. One time when I was getting short. We were returning to Luke AFB after a mission with our spare flares. I caught "the new guy" using a screwdriver and hammer in flight, trying to remove the bottom of a flare tube to get to the parachute. We had a short in flight safety meeting with the new guy and was able to convince him it was in his best interest not to mess with that stuff while I was on the plane. In summary it could be a parachute from a flare that was dropped from a airplane. Have you checked out the date on the pilot chute?. One Jump Wonder

Hi K Old man here. It's been a long time since we went out to party. So I'm still learning. But I keep on forgetting If a nice lady walks up and asks us if we party, is that anything like walking into a gents club and the ladies asking is we want a dance.It waas a long time ago and didn't know what a lap dance was. Par-tay. Does that mean if we answer yes the lady is going to share her drugs with us for free, or she wants us to share our drugs with her One Jump Wonder

Damn Now I have to lock up my 2 best friends ash's in the safe. OTOH at least we've been warned. There was a newsclip on this last night. They showed some clips from You tube about Teens etc snorting all kinds of stuff other than drugs. One Jump Wonder

Wouldn't that depend on if they were doing travel reimbursements or stipends? If simply a stipend, it doesn't matter how much or little a person pays for travel. If reimbursement, just change the policy so receipts are required.

I was kinda wondering about that too...maybe for the news reel they let somebody stick one? WAG it's a jump master/instructer doing a hollywood jump. Fot the PAO The volunteers will love those landings. No rolling in: dirt, mud, getting drug, and most important no one is shooting at them. Hell of a way to get to work One Jump Wonder

HI AC Thats what I'm talking about

WE might not have as many confused people as florida has But on the west coast and the PNW our confused people are a lot more productive. Sorry Mamma but I don't think you meet the victim profile for the confused folks of florida. Don't sweat the headlines. Your chanes of being a victim imo are minimal. OTOH how many skydivers will you never see again. One Jump Wonder

Hi Thats really hitting below the belt. Now the nice lady is facing some significant charges and may have been released on $10k bail. If she's a deadender. Who knows, stay tuned for the rest of the story I would be so gone with whats left of my well done junk, before that lady got released. One Jump Wonder

Hi JD We live in a small town, have a PO box, had a UPS box so we go there on a semi reguler and see some very stuff. At our local PO in addition to the humanoids working at the counter we allso have a computerized machine, like a self check out at the grocery store. No humanoid required. The folks that work for the PO IMO are hard working etc, but during challenging times like this, no telling whats in a box or package, Getting contaminated with anthrax or baby powder wasn't part of their job description. That clock someone mailed that goes tick tock, how would you like to have that package in your truck/bag. In the past when a "disgruntled" postal worker had a "issue". At least they would "discuss" it with their supervisor's and coworkers. Not the customers. We're doomed, doomed I telll you and the world will never be the same. One Jump Wonder

Hi John Sorry John but your incorrect. Everyone that counts is on Facebook

Hi Mr Spot The audio part of the link is very entertaining. One Jump Wonder

We held the door open for a older dude at the drug store, and cheerfully said "age before beauty" I was sizty at the time and the dude was a lot older than us. The old fart thanked me and calmly remarked "Pearls before swine" I had to think about what the older fart said. Before I realized what he meant. The dude called me a pig and I didn't even catch it. Damn One Jump Wonder