VectorBoy

I saw a guy on tv once who had modified a street cleaning vacuum truck and he simply sucked the little jokers up... didn't harm them or anything and let them go on their merry way in the wild Prairie dog relocating service, funnyest thing I ever saw on tv that was varmint related. A rumor exist that if bury many glass bottles ( don't know how many) in your yard with necks sticking up the slight breeze will cause a harmonic in the ground ( don't know what type of ground density or compaction you have to have) that drives them crazy and they bail. You must have breeze. You could also smoke them out with road flares. light one stick it in the hole and cover the hole, move on to next one. problem is sometimes their holes cover many yards and they just retreat for a while. Then there is 7mm magnum a couple of warning shots should do it... it would work for me.

Baton pass????

Phree has a nice personal budget example made with a 20 something inch spokeless bike rim with no padding. In the archives you can read that it was very inexpensive to make including buying a sewing machine. Most bike rims have a sort of squarish cross section, like phree's, this is an example that I'm talking about. After examining a great many tubes that have been in play for many seasons and after having to repair the one I recently purchased because it was made with to thin a schedule abs plastic. I concluded that making a proper pvc HOOP ( just the hoop) that will last a very long time is also very inexpensive ( 11 eleven dollars ) and extremely easy and leaves you with a professional looking product for your effort.

Can you or anybody else here expound on this? What happened to Patrick?

I would avoid the use of a bike rim for the hoop and instead go for 1" schedule 40 electrical conduit. Less than schedule 40 will probably kink up. Reasons: I know you can probably get a rim for free some place but the conduit is 2 bucks for ten feet ( enough for two hoops, possibly 3 depending on the size you want) . Easily bent after heating over a BBQ or in an oven broiler maintaining no contact between the cooking surface and the plastic. I have used both methods with success, wear gloves. It becomes very flexible without going liquid on you. Or better yet if you have access to a heater designed to do just this, check with your electrician friends. Once soggy noodleness flexibility is achieved you just wrap it around something that is round and to the size of tube you want ( here is where that free bike rim would come in handy) I used some plywood scraps cut to size with a jig saw. With the hoop to size and still pliable I insert a little barbed plastic coupling that is used to splice garden hose lengths together ( .30 cents at garden centers). If the joint has cooled down I just reheat it and insert. Viola! I have even used this method to repair a tubes broken hoop without unstitching the ZP fabric. A bike rim has relatively sharp corners that will wear more into the fabric than the uniformly radiused conduit and if you loose the tube and god forbid it corks into someone the conduit will probably tranfser less energy.... even though it will still whack their salad.

Chuck, you got pics of the wings dynamic corners? Or are they available on the wings website?

Its the same jump wingi..... erh a Dave. Nice job steve who shot that birdman footage? Overall nice job on the whole thing.

Did you hear about the bear that was found dead of an overdose in the woods after eating some cocaine that had fallen from above not too long after this?

Its good that you are involved in your childrens life and are making sure that they are not spending all of their time logged on to internet talking to perverts trying to lure them out to Florida... Unless they are 33 years old looking for preverts who want to lure them out to Florida..

melinda's habinero.

Started flying in 84, started jumping in 85. Long layoff in jumping but now I'm back.

Fighter, helicopter pilot and tank commander helmets are also not DOT or snell approved.

Honest officer I was just helping it over the fence.

It looked completely gay. Chuck Do you mean, like, Flaming?

Yes some animals are abused but I know of at least a handful of german shepards that keep coming back for more from their coed owners on the internet. They say abused but the video evidence says aroused. Well at least they are not harshing the midgets!

Hey what no nylon tube action? Oh yah the on -off switch was given you a hard time, nows I remember. Still nice vid troop!

Looks infected.

Absolutely! And I laugh outloud at the poor "freeflyers" who take well over 1000 jumps just to get a 12-hour award. Some of them fly WS to balance their FF. Its all good

When did mcnuggets taste good?

Swooping incidents are caught on tape a lot more frequently and the tape could be a lot longer. So now you have something for the accidents waiting to happen, the know it alls that won't listen and all of the rest that start swooping before they have the skills....... What do you do for the people that don't swoop, are very conservative and visibly otherwise safe. until one day they perform a panic manuever or no imput to a situation that causes them to brake or die? What do you have to show the ones that realistically can otherwise be swooping.They know the risks, have been around and lost friends too. They have skills, lots of experience ( maybe beyond reproach by someone less skilled and experienced than they) and until the one day that they show us they're human and humans make mistakes. The fatalities point to an equal mixture of each of the above. Don't blame the total problem on one facet of the problem. The reaper is all about equal opertunity.

Just about every DZ has their share of good and bad people. Perhapse you experienced the bad where ever you were at the time.Quote This wasn't my bad experience it was someone else. To them the DZ thing was a very social scene and the flavor changed afterwards.

One due to the shrivel flap on the base PC pouch. Although I did fight with the bridle for a few seconds, In hind sight I could have gone to a head high posture to assist the velcro. In the reserve sadle at 2700, if your going to experiment do it high. It was totally avoidable and for the record did not need to pull silver. Sad that I just had a repack the week before.

Yes, last out, as in wingsuiters get first class seating. " The only way to zip on your leg wings". British voice off.

One of Eloys vans needs to orient the floor seating to face aft. I don't mind doin the door in the van while wingsuiting if I get enough notice and let the pilot know we need some xtra time before jump run to deal with it. I know you can have more people on the ramp on the CASA than you can have on the Van ramp ( 9 max). And unlike a CASA you can hang some FF from the bar.

The only reason something like that becomes a "glorious rite of passage" is because people are not having their nose rubbed in the reality of the pain, suffering, embarisment, humility, helplessnes, and expence of a long term hospital stay.Quote No! and the reason I bring it up was a few years back after I very badly botched a landing a peer that saw the whole thing said exactly that to me ( without the pin, ice, t-shirt and card part). Meanwhile I, looking like a prison gang rape victim, in shock, gear a total mess, very much unhurt and unbroken but in enough pain to be beyond pride just said " I wasn't swooping". That was his attitude not mine, welcome to the pain. I botched a completely low performance landing not a swoop. And don't think that everyone I know on the DZ didn't rub my nose in it! I deserved it and took my lumps graciously. People that I thought knew me and would know I wouldn't be doing that. I couldn't convince them otherwise. I can't speak for where you use to jump but if you bang yourself up here JP, others will turn a cold shoulder to you. You ask anyone that has busted themselves up in the last couple of years buddy. In a couple of cases this treatment was enough to squelch out that friendly fuzzy skydive vibe that emits from the DZ, and these people don't jump anymore as a result. They found out who their friends were. You can add this to the list of reasons that some people leave the sport after an accident, even though they really could still be jumping. Its just not as friendly anymore when everyone thinks your a dick. Even some of the previously broken dicks will turn and black list the next guy down. Don't have any delusions JP if you frap-in, you are going to see a change in your personal world of skydiving friends.