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The vehicle with 4 wheels to clear up any confusion.. If so please PM me. Thanks! Kevin

I bet you could do a somewhat safe birdman jump on that.. what do you think? Make sure you exit with your wings open so you get plenty of lift, clear the wing then have plenty of thrust to go even higher hehe :)

So what did he do after you bitch slapped him? Did his jaw just fall to the floor and you had to call for a cleanup on isle 4 or what? He sounds like a pretty educated wuffo

Well there is something going on that IE doesn't like. I loaded it in netscape 7.0 and it works guess something needs to be posted in the bug forum. Kevin

Dude you like guys? humm...

I'm running 2000 with IE 6, same problem. Do I need to call microsoft for a beta release of a browser to view those pics?

Yeah it is cool but everything in the movies has been moviefied. (Take the Jag & Aston Martin forinstance.. ) those weren't computer generated :) I bet the actual blades were not computer generated but I also bet they were also not filmed on a real jump either. Probably some snazzy mock up.

Now that is friggin nuts! If something happens to your car it seems like you could sue and win, seems like if they take posession of your car they take the responsibility of it too.

Tada! I know i'm good, I admit it :) Another shot

That happened nextdoor at GoldCoast at some point too, it was a pilot who didn't normally fly jumpers at GC - not sure what he was thinking. That was approximately a year and a half or 2 years ago.

Riight we all know you like telling people at the airport that it's the steel plate in your tibia

The Crossbow is the "French" wingsuit. Designed by Loic, marketed by Parasport Italia. I don't think you can buy them new anymore, at least not without having a personal connection with the French guys who are flying them. The Crossbow is generally more stable, and easier to fly than the Birdman suits, but suffers from a bit lower quality construction. Because it has bigger wings, it gets flying a bit sooner (a huge plus for fixed object flights--especially for the heavies) and takes a little less skill/practice to fly well. It has about the same glide angle as a GTi (not quite as good as a Skyflyer, better than a Classic), but tends to move slower (less forward speed, more float) than a comparable Birdman suit. The wing cutaway system is quite outstanding (one handle, dead center on the chest, cuts it all away, and it takes about one minute to hook it back up). Notably video you may have seen of Crossbows includes: Some of the "Crosswind" footage. Flare getting his handles sucked into the suit, struggling to get them out, and finally getting his reserve open for a four second canopy ride (that was the scariest skydiving video I've ever seen--does anyone have the link? I think it's somewhere on headdown.net). The Little Aussie flying between the guy wires of a television tower in Texas. I kind of wish they were still marketing it. Competition spurs innovation and advance in any field. Interesting, sounds like besides the construction durability factor that it was a good product. Why did they quit making them ? Kevin

Go to the skydivingmovies.com ftp server and have a look at the clip entitled FastestMotherFuckerInTheValley.WMV. Link to the thread referring to it (see posting by cpoxon). Estimates of forward speed on that flight were 200-250km/h (that's over 120mph). If you still don't get the impression of great speed, I can't help you. Blue Skies, Cold Steel. Hey tom - no one ever replied to me on that thread, do you know the stats from that jump? How high it was he jumped from, what he deployed at? Kevin

What the frap is a crossbow? Is that the "other" wingsuit that didn't "fly" or "takeoff" ?

*lol* Miami had one for a while I thought, at least that is what Igo told me.. what happened with that ? Kevin

Hey Mike! Kevin here (webmaster for goldcoast) that used to be my home DZ until I moved to va, i'm hoping to make it down for mardi gras and i'll be bringing mine.. look forward to it! Kevin

I've heard this was done once before.... was thinking about how it would be fun thought i'd ask about the safety concerns. I know obviously there is a risk of entanglement with the blades during deployment.. anyone know how big of a risk this is? I have never felt my dbag hit my shoe during deployment yet I still tape my boots (when I wear boots)... kevin

Nope that's the swoop fairy! She'll do that for a few months as your initiation into the closing pin necklace world and then she'll just start moving it to your back every night when you stop falling for the ear-ring trick. BTW - you wear hoop ear-rings to bed with you???

Just was looking over an article on CNN about wireless net access, shows a picture of the pope using a dell laptop but if you look closely the "dell" logo is covered up with something else.. could it be a holy laptop made especially for the pope??? ooo! the idea of it!

So - i'm curious if this is just me or if everyone witnesses this phenomenon. I hardly ever take off my closing pin necklace, the only time it came off in the last year was when an EX girlfriend ripped it off during one of her "moments" anyway, so I sleep in it - and every single morning i wake up and find the pin on the back of my neck and the fastener hanging down in the front. I've narrowed it down to the swoop fairy (cousin to the guy who comes in and messes up your hair at night) anyway the swoop fairy has been moving my necklace 180 degrees around every night. Does she visit you too ?? Kevin

Um forgive me for my ignorance, but what are these points redeemable for ?

Mwah ha ha :)

I know some of these were posted earlier, but this one has a twist to it :) check it out here

Okay fair enough.. is this girl also in the video? (the one on the far right looks like one of the girls in the video) Kevin

Yes... Dove's! What Number are you? I think when I got my ticket I was number 21...