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  1. faulknerwn
    Actually if you want on the list email or PM me. emailing crwdogs@boxofclue.com won't work until you're already suibscribed. W
  2. faulknerwn
    I'm going to be spending 2 weeks in Tokyo next month and was hoping I could meet up with some skydivers while I'm there for a night out. I'm not sure yet whether I'll have any time to actually go jumping, but I'd like to meet some jumpers for dinner or something if anyone is out there. W
  3. faulknerwn
    Yeah - you know - its funny how I understood perfectly what you meant! Course I still have never had a world champion come through my topskin! W
  4. faulknerwn
    Bryan Scott's Website is at http://crwphoto.com/ - you might be able to contact him through there. All of the crw video I have online is pretty low-res.... W
  5. faulknerwn
    You need a >500 jumps answer - I think I was around jump number 800 when I first did. W
  6. faulknerwn
    I SOOOOO wanna do that :-) I would use my intentional cutaway rig though with my 3rd main ;-) W
  7. faulknerwn
    Now that would be cool!!!! Hmmmm. I am one of the organizers ..... :-) W
  8. faulknerwn
    Who cares? I'm free :-) Actually we did drop the dragplane in the cover photo - but the wings and the pilot did a starburst countdown and released themselves at the same time :-) W
  9. faulknerwn
    Normally you'll drop the bottom 2 people off into a downplane and they break normally. Even if you just drop the upside down person however, its ok because they'll swing around like a hook turn... W
  10. faulknerwn
    They're both easy. Its definitely stable - the more jumpers on top the more vertical it gets... W
  11. faulknerwn
    That's no guy - its a girl!!!! I love being upside down under canopy :-) If you look closely you'll see that my risers are twisted and I'm looking back at the camera as well! Its basically the same technique you use for a dragplane, except with more canopies on top it makes the bottom one more vertical.. The way I typically do it is to have the top person climb down, I throw my legs up between theirs and they hug them to their chest. I then execute a 180 degree toggle turn and we're off to the races! Yahoo! W
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    I'd disagree with that. You would be surprised at the difference though. I think I'm at 16 cutaways now or something like that - 12 or so with red teflon cable and 4 or so on yellow. Its a night and day difference between the two. Probably 50-75% of the cutaways involved twisted risers of some sort (either CRW wraps or spinninng ellipticals) and the only 2 that were difficult chops were on yellow. I remember how shocked I was the first time I cut away with the teflon cables - it was very noticably easier... W
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    I'm the opposite - rigs which have their reserve pins outside scare the heck out of me. If the pop top is packed right, its great and there is no danger of nailing a reserve pin. I get the heeber-jeebers jumping rigs where the reserve pins aren't on my back. W
  14. faulknerwn
    Actually it is a whole lot better. Obviously a true CRW canopy is ideal, but for casual CRW Spectres work wonderfully. 7-cells are just so much more stable than 9-cells. They're so much more stable that you can feel a night and day difference just flying them around... W
  15. faulknerwn
    I own 5 Racers and absolutely adore them. They're so much more comfortable (especially for those of us with skinny shoulders) than most rigs. And I've never known anyone to tighten their own pop-top. I've certainly gotten mine tightened on occasion - but always by a rigger... I adore them. W
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    I live in Texas. The answer to where the canopies would land are: a. A farmer's field b. A farmer's field c. A farmer's field or d. A farmer's field with a big bull... Our odds are good out here :-) And definitely I would never cutaway a mal that high. and we mainly do only small-way CRW (2-3-4 ways) so we practically never have a CRW wrap.... W
  17. faulknerwn
    I've done lots of CRW with 50 knot uppers :-) I do tend to go 3-4 miles long but what the hey :-) I even make the airport well over 50% of the time ! W
  18. faulknerwn
    They were in different rooms - but the thief from what I understand was in both rooms. So he wandered around both places, but chose for whatever reasons to not take staff-jumper's personal gear. He took t-shirts as well - is that not strange? W
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    Hopefully I'll get the serial numbers tomorrow. The padlock on the front door was missing (probably cut off) is how they got in. It seemed to be just 1 person as there was just 1 set of footprints going in and out... W
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    I thought a Master Rigger could do this? I've seen this mod on all types of rigs - Dolphins, older Javelins, older Vectors, Reflexes, ... I would want it actually not as much for the pop-top but mainly to avoid catching the reserve pin. The Dolphins generally only have a Velcro-closed reserve flap - I'd be MUCH more worried about snagging the reserve pin in there than the poptop. That's the reason you saw this mod a lot on Older Javelins and the ilk as well. W
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    It does make one wonder. But I can't think of anyone I know of at the dropzone who I think would even fathom doing something like this. W
  22. faulknerwn
    Someone broke into the Skydive Temple drop zone between Sunday night and Tuesday morning and stole all 6 of the drop zone Strong tandem rigs and 9 student rigs. They left an individually-owned Vector Tandem rigs and it appears to be all of the gear that belonged to individual jumpers that were there. Someone needs to be seriously strung up. I'll post the serial numbers if I can get them. This drop zone is just north of Austin Texas. The rigs were 6 strong tandems (black) 4 Student Javelins (blue) 2 Student Dolphins (black) 2 Student Infinities (blue) 1 Student Javelin (black) Please keep an eye out. W
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    Woo hoo! Nice video! W
  24. faulknerwn
    They were in Texas a couple of years ago. Not sure if they still are. W
  25. faulknerwn
    That's funny. I've got a nice F111 PD 150 that I love to death. I jump it a lot and like it as well as any of my ZP's. It swoops quite nice too for something that's loaded at 1-1.... W