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"All 71 sky-divers were separated in four aircraft, named A, B, C and D. We had them lined up one in front of the other at 14,500 ft." Now I bet Jeff is wishing he came up with more original names... Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

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Seems so. - For what it's worth, there will always be variances in the uses for various suits. Like some are good for fast flight, others for flocking. You catch his drift, no doubt. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

At $600, I think the Tonysuit Intro is a great way to start, and then when you master it, you can trade it back in for $400 a new suit. You can easily flock with it and use it for everything that you'd want a wingsuit for. (Cue the Tom Waits "Step Right Up" lyrics here.) And if you want to find Purple Mike, all you really need to do is hold out a camera and yell, "Pictures!" and he will magically appear. /No, I am not a Tony sales rep and I get nothing for his sales of suits. I just think he and his team make a good product. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I'm the guy in the first of the two videos. As you can see, the catch was from sloppily stowing my excess line. It snaked right around the ringsite and that was that. I tried to break it off, but was unable to. All of the gear was ultimately recovered and works fine. In my opinion, jumping a camera helmet without a cutaway - even one as "snag free" as an FFX - is just too risky. For what it's worth, I also won't jump a ringsight - but that's mostly because the risk:reward analysis doesn't make sense in my situation (I jump camera for POV video that I post on YouTube. I'm not a professional photog, nor do I consider myself a video guy. None of my shots are worth the risk of entanglement. But that's a different issue.) Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I used to fly the hell out of my old Sabre2 210. I could even do a semi-swoop with it (with about a 1.0 wingloading). Within reason, it's all how you fly it. I guess the question I have is "why do you want to downsize?" But I agree with others - if you're going to downsize regularly, go used. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I'm pretty sure the guy who is having the surprise visitor didn't pack the guest that way. But then again, I'm not a BASE jumper. Those wacky guys might pack each other in their rigs for kicks. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

We need to break this down a bit. The issue is (a) is this assault? and (b) if it was an assault, was it a hate crime? Assault requires that you have apparent, present ability to commit a violent injury upon another. (That's a general common law definition, states vary.) So you are right, if the person whose property it was on was reasonably threatened. If they weren't reasonably threatened, I think you'd have a trespassing case only. Example: if I take my stuffed squirrel and put a noose around his head, walk to your front lawn, and hang the little guy from a tree, you probably won't be threatened - unless you self-identify with squirrels. If you do self-identify with squirrels, and are put into reasonable apprehension over it, then I could see how it might be assault. If I did it because of your race, gender, etc., then it might be a hate crime. But putting it on your own property is not a complete defense. If I lived next to a member of an ethnic group I didn't like, and put up a big sign on my front lawn saying, "I'm going to kill [Neighbor's Name]" (and it was reasonable to think I could), and stood on my front lawn waving a butcher's knife at my neighbor when he walked out of his house, then it would still be assault. If I did it because they are a member of that ethnic group, then it might be a hate crime. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

"Hate crimes" vary from state to state, and there is also a federal statute. Generally, a hate crime is "a criminal offense committed against a person or property motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a racial group, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, or disability." The federal crime is limited to "crimes committed on the basis of a person's race, color, religion, or national origin." Note: being a babbling bimbo is not a protected class. And again, it varies, but hanging an effigy of a person in general is not a crime (unless they are reasonably threatened by it). The first amendment casts a broad layer of protection to speech and acts - particularly in the case of political figures. The Secret Service is investigating it, no doubt, because it falls within their mandate of protecting Presidential Candidates. /Not an Obama supporter //But I dislike her way more than I dislike him. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

This settles it: he's got my vote. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

That ought to be played as a clip as a requirement for getting your "A" license. If you can't identify at least 9 things that were done dangerously wrong, you fail. Glad everyone was OK. Was funny to watch in a sort of "Ow, my balls" kind of way, but seriously, that was scary... Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Not sure what the official answer to your question is, but the first team briefing had this to say: Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Well, for what it's worth, the CX7 does fit in the FFX. You just need to drummel the hole a little wider, find a spacer to lift the camera up higher, and open up the back hole a bit more (see aforementioned drummel). Will post pics at some point for those who want to see my ghetto camera mount. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I agree with Andy on this, but keep in mind that bright colors can blend into the trees as well. My first canopy was red, black and yellow. I figured that I'd easily find it in the woods if I had to cut it away. Unfortunately, my first cutaway was in early November in New England. So, the leaves were turning lovely shades of... red, orange and yellow. As far as I can tell, there's no good solution to this, unless you can find one that's neon purple, hot pink, or some color that simply doesn't appear in nature. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I'm not trying to start a pissing contest or whatnot with the others, but I'm curious why you're only considering Pheonix-Fly options? /I have no dog in this hunt. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

So one Christmas about five years ago, I ordered a turducken from an online turdenken seller (they shipped it in a styrofoam package filled with ice packs - very fresh). Overall, it was... OK. Nothing stellar. I won't bother doing that again. It could have been my preparation, though. (Because the different birds cook at different rates, I would describe it as a little unevenly cooked...) Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

The Boston Globe?!? Materially mis-stating something?!? That's unpossible! /I want an interrobang that shows up on dropzone.com so I can get rid of the ?!?s... Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Waaaaait.... I only got the beer. WTF? I was gypped! I'll have to raise this at the next meeting of the membership... Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

These are fantastic shots. Good job, guys. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Well, Lurch, in defense of the journalist on this one, you do tend to deploy at the last possible moment. (Yes, I know, not as low as some, but...) Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

A few pics taken by Scotty Burns and a Boston Globe photographer from a Flock U event earlier this year... http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/wingsuit/ There will be an article about wingsuiting in tomorrow's Boston Globe. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

This thread is interesting to me, because it sounds like what I run into every Tuesday night: I teach IP law at a law school part time (though, as full disclaimer, I focus on patent licensing and not copyright). There is a constant battle between people arguing (sometimes persuasively) about what the law should be. But as you listen to those arguments, you should keep in mind that thay may not be what the law is. Basically, Spot is 100% right - that's the state of copyright in the US today. If you use a copyrighted work without consent (a.k.a., a license) you are violating the copyright holder's rights. YouTube has simply automated the process of detecting copyright infringement. Saying "it should be enough to give the artist credit" is a "policy argument" (in other words, "this is what I think the law should be..."). You can agree with those policy arguments or you can disagree with those policy arguments (depends on your point of view). But at some level, it doesn't matter one bit - what the law is is what, ultimately, you have to deal with. To the person who posted that Europe doesn't have copyright - that's just not the case. In fact, European law on copyright is even more complicated, in part becase it's harmonised between all of the EU countries (sometimes well, sometimes not) and in part because Europe has a concept of "moral rights" which give artists limited rights to control the way their copyrights are displayed even if they assign (sell) their rights to the copyrighted work. And finally, on the YouTube automated technology - I read something interesting about it: it basically tries to match the music with whatever is in the database. If the audio track on an uploaded video doesn't precisely match the database, it doesn't detect it well. Basically, it seems to fail if there's too much noise. (For example, if you balance the sound so that it's 10% of the sound from the mic on your camera - noise - and 90% of an artist's work, it doesn't seem to detect it). But before you rush off to do that, keep in mind that it's still copyright infringement to use an artist's work that way. (It just isn't as easily detected by YouTube's automagic copyright detector thingy.) Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Mach1. Next one will probably be an XS (but I'll keep the Mach1 for flocking). Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Even though I did AFF and not static line - long after Mae Wests were out of style - I had those instructions running through my head on my first AFF jump... Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I use my Storm 190 for wingsuiting exclusively (that's all I do, pretty much). It's been great - nice on heading openings, good response to toggle input, good flare (but as has been noted elsewhere, you need to flare all the way - I was in a bad habit of "half-flaring" with my Sabre2 210). I have the non-CRW model. As was pointed out previously, make sure your bridle length is long enough (true for other canopies as well). Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork