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By looking at your avaitar, that is one big fatty ya got going there. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Only if it noted on the data card & in his logbook, he intends to unshackle it and has a signed note from his mom.... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Nice shots I didn't know you had a screen actors guild card.....(those don't know twardo see the pics he attached, he's the ugly one). you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Thats their loss. Born to be wild (guitar intro). you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Well I do and now the value of my rig just tanked. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

"Hey you don't mind if I fire up do ya, you know you might wantnna take uh couple of hit of this before you go out the door. It makes the trip down real interesting!" -Truman Sparks you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Just like there are those who refuse to or charge 3 times the going rate to pack racers or reflex's. Laugh all you want, I'll bet you will see some riggers refuse to service SP products, just as there are master in TX right now who refuse to sign off data cards for the removal of the RSL. Me personally I'm not worried about it there are two masters around who will sign off on it, so if someone shows up I will send them to the masters. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Well lucky for me this inspector knows me good enough to know I'm more then able to do the job. (inspector who used to jump and is very informed on the use and non use of an RSL) FYI the inspector thinks this is all really stupid, but that is the rule, and was telling me just put the thing on again and go get signed off and in compliance. I'm 100% sure they know I wasn't going to reinstall anything, just get my data card signed. BTW I have now found two masters who will sign off. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yep. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

After getting off the phone with my local FSDO as well as a master rigger, my understanding based on what I was told by the FSDO FAA inspector, I need to reinstall the RLS and take it to the master rigger to have him remove it and sign the data card as well as his log book, end of story. I would advise anyone who is not sure as to the wording of SP to call your local FSDO. I'm sure results will very from FSDO to FSDO. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I don't find it all that ridiculous, I have better things to do with my time then search the data base to make sure the name signed on the data card is really a master rigger. Or not be able to repack someones rig who just lost a main canopy with the RSL attached to it, in order to get them in the air with a loner canopy, now we have to wait till the RSL lanyard can be replaced. Think it can't happen, I have had a number of jumpers over the years lose a main canopy and not be able to find it till the harvest season, come to get a repack to get back up in the air with loners. (same day as chop) you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I have found one to sign off on mine. No big deal to him. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

That's good stuff.

For a second there Roy I thought you got stuck with the prop eating "Joe Boxer", but no smashed face on that dog... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Could this be why we see so many now on the market? HEY anyone want to buy mine..... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Sorry to hear he has moved on. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

I have heard that SDC will charge the TM for a canopy if it is chopped and lost. Don't know that to be fact, just what I was told by a former TM there. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yes your right, I was impressed too while there last time and did let my clients cover the last pack job's of the day, the guys and gals at nylon city did a great job and my rig's were well taken care of and the openings were soft and on heading, and for 6 bucks they did the whole job with no bitchen about my brakes and slider and PC being left unstowed, not once was I or my clients asked or told to do it. This is one of the few times and few places I would hire packers, it is a very well run operation. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

God*** #*&^(* #$^^&* Lawyers! Always mess'n up good fun I tell ya. Well not Russel Webb though he's one of the good guys, depending on who you ask..... you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Yep, But I didn't really want to write the whole chapter in an email to the person who asked me the question, just cover the fact that the first offical FF was done a McCook. But your right, I bet Floyd was pissed just having to fly the plane on the jump, let alone Irvin getting credit for the design. I still vote for Tiny as the first permeditiated FF, I doubt G. Martin would have gone along with a big lie. I had been doing some work for the 1911 Wright "B" Flyer museum, the pilot of it is a former usaf test pilot and history buff and was not aware of the parachute history of Dayton to any detail, so I think I covered the facts to the point I was trying to make with him.(note my post was a pasted copy of an email) www.wright-b-flyer.org you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Not really he is a pilot and owns a plane, I would guess more then once he has handled baggage too a fro from an aircraft. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Tell us how you really feel, don't hold back EH! you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

Thats great you get to have such a good little helper at work.

That is why I give him so much shit, but yes I think he would be good at it and has an eye for detail. Like I said, good to know he is "under good wings".

Funny you bring this up, I just was giving a little back ground info to the pilot of the 1911 wright B Flyer this week in an email, when he ask about this. However it was not a horse track it was at McCook field. Yes Irvin get's credit, but I vote for Tiny. Tiny Broadwick at age 15 made her first jump in 1908 from a balloon. On June 21 1913 at what is now a parking lot of the LA zoo she flew with Glenn Martin to be the fist woman to jump from a plane. In 1914 she gave the 1st demo to the GOV of parachuting, she did 5 jumps, 4 of them static line, on the 4th one the S/L tangled with the tail, so for the 5th she cut the S/L to a short length so she could pull it her self, so that made her the first woman if not the first person to do a premeditated freefall jump. She died in 1979 at 86, and is credited with many inventions for parachutes. Remember this was when there was no reserve chute. You should see the photos of the crazy crap they jumped with. In 1918 the Gov. authorized a board of experts to develop the emergency parachute at McCook field. At this time everyone thought if you jumped it would "steal your breath" and you would lose consciousness. In the same year Leslie "sky-hi" Irvin showed up at McCook Field with a parachute of his own design. (later McCook becomes home to Irvins factory) On April 28th 1919 the field was buzzing with gossip about a newly designed free fall parachute that was going to have it's first pratical test drop. Floyd Smith flew Irvin in a Dehavilland DH-9 biplane to 1,500 ft. then with a smile he stepped off and was in total control and fell for a few seconds and pulled the ripcord, everything work as Irvin said it would. (everyone thought he was going to die for sure) Other then breaking his ankle on landing. Irvin was officially given title as the first person to make a premeditated freefall parachute jump, with in days there was more freefall jumps being logged at McCook field and the age of freefall was truly born right here in Dayton and the rest is history....... As a side note, the caterpillier club was also born right here in Dayton as well when Lt. Harold R. Harris was the first person to be saved in a real bail out Oct. 22 1922. The first 4 or 5 members of the club earned their "caterpillier pins" over the skies of Dayton Ohio. This is all refrased from the book "parachuting folklore" The Evolution of freefall by Michael Horan, it has a lot of history in it about airplanes and the early pilots and those who dared to leap out of them "air-machines". If you would like to read it I would be happy to lone it to you. Ok there is your little known history lesson for the day. you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo