VectorBoy

Yes Mullins does not slow down, its all high speed baby. Did a peel out and downer not a jump up and present.

Very purdy

Congratulations to our very own Gravity girl Bonnie who took to winged flight this weekend for the first time. She landed with a smile that could sell a trunk load of wing suits. She was also reported as being the "best student ever" by her instructor.

Spookey...... you took that strange vision right out of the dark side of my brain.......twisted + campos for effect. I'm also seeing Marilyn manson in something like that.

Course I'm also a CRWdog who has landed off hundreds of times, and we've put down CRW 100 ways off airport. To me landing off is a complete non-event. Completely agree with Wendy here. Although last weekend with our team missing three left shoes the two of us following the gear decided to land in a near by park near the residential district our gear landed in instead of in it. No kidding on the shoes.

FYI: If you took it to Pete, he doesn't drink alcohol, unless it a VERY special occasion. (thats if you have to use your reserve) My old rigger didn't drink and he told me to just get him a "good coffee". So bring him a pound of some premium blend and he tells me he didn't have a coffee machine. He just wanted me to get him some of the good stuff from that gas station over there.

All of the soft non ferrous metals like aluminum and brass fill the spaces in between the weave of those abrasive cutters clogging them, build up heat, expand and crack the wheel in two. Very very dangerous on the bigger faster abrasive cutt off disks. You need something with real teeth that does not clog ( bi-metal, carbide or chrome ) slower speeds and a lubricant. Periodically cleaning any cloggage with a stiff brush. If you don't mind a larger kerf you can use some special machinist or dentistry burrs in your dremel. Think solid carbide miniture router bit. You might have some results with diamonds but it just depends on how thick your material is.

It is puzzling how the reserve got deployed. The forces involved must have been huge. While half of Frank's canopy spun up like a helicopter Franks body performed like a flyweight and kept the momentum going fast so he bounced off my legs several times. After I cut away my body acted like a flyweight governer bouncing on him from ahead and then spinning around and hitting him from behind until my ankle gave and spit me out. One of those bounces probably did the deed.

You did a very nice job on it Larry, thank you.

I would only be offended if the canopy owner didn't say thank you verbally, and just didn't say anything. May sound old fashioned but, well ya, so I am old! What leads you to believe that no one said thank you in this case?

The camera man didn't post the video and doubt lurks here. He was staying with his best friend while he was in trouble and at times got too close, but not on purpose. He has been talked to for what he did right and what he did wrong.

I've caught alot and have landed out with gear in some very scetchy places. I do it for the challenge and a little for the karma. I've never expected anything for it. Once I landed out with a cut away main and had it back in the packing area before the jumper walked across the runway with his reserve and was given a jump ticket. That was never my motivation. I have always paid my beer ( or what ever some one preferred) when it was my gear brought back or my ass bussed back. This included my few wingsuit students that can't seem to make it back. Always! The exception is if there is an injury or two, as is the case in your example. Then there will be a delay in delivering the gratitude. The list of the responders is long in this episode, the gratitude more than a couple of fistfulls. The primary responder was not forgotten in fact I asked him what flavor he wanted and how much while we were out gathering gear and broken jumpers. Trust that there will be a reward! Don't let yourself get peeved just yet....... although this is a good topic to bring up for some jumpers that take these things for granted and should be on the mind.

Corny yes and I'm over vulgarizing to compensate.

Is PD making the Storm in three versions like Aerodyne did with the Triathlon? RW, Hybrid and CRW? Hell, I'm just guessing, I don't really know. The PD web site sez you can get a CRew kit version that has continous center and outer A & B lines of dacron and the retractible bridle system, mesh slider and tail pocket along with all the standard free fall versions of bridle, D-bag and sail slider. But it sounds like all versions have a formed over nose.

By any chance are some ladies our age that are acomplished wingsuiters? It would be nice to have some POP-TARTs with us.

I'm old enough but I'm too underachiever to get on it.

10-way speed! a good 10-way team can practice from 6,000 and still break off at 4.5k.

so far I am liking mine. So give us a mini review of the Storm Scott. How do you like it for WS. What does it do better than your 9 cell eliptical? etc etc spill the dope.

There are different configurations available dependent on the jumpers preferences. The Storm is not strictly a CRW canopy. Both versions are well suited for WSing but there is no need to buy one with the CRW mods unless you also do CRW.

And just so Mike knows the lightning shouldn't be taken to terminal but your hybrids are perfect for terminal deployments, like If you wanted this container to be a backup for RW besides WS/CReW. You can deploy all of these with a Dbag instead of a tailpocket but if you use the standard Crew bridle and the three ring setup you should change the grommet in the Dbag to a #8 so it acts as a kill cone. Mind you once you do that and you want to swap back and forth from Crew bridle to standard collapsible you will need a larger french link to span the larger grommet and keep the bridle secure to your kill-line collapsible bridle.

My longest was from La to Brussels. stops in NY and amsterdam. I'll never do that again.

$400 for a classic is a bit steep regardless of how good the condition is. Typically $300 is ceiling on the classic 2, the single zipper 1 should be a little cheaper still.

Well the reason for that is so that the classics can still be in the flock.

It looks like a blended wing root. You can't see how the laterals enter the suit but its not hidden by a bulging wingcell its a smooth transition.

Depending on how involved you want to get in wingsuiting: a handful of fun flights a year but not your main discipline then a classic 1 you pay $250-$300 for will be fine.But if you get hooked and addicted and you start hitting events it will become limiting very quick and you will end up with something with more range and keep the classic to loan out or let it go. As far as the stiletto, some guys get away with it, it just depends. But there is nothing like a docile 7-cell deployment after a wingsuit flight. I just saw a triathalon 135 ( hybrid) for $350 in these classifieds. I've got plenty ( mostly) eliptical wingsuit deployments and switched to a tri a couple months ago and dig it.