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    Hey Dave, remember living in a van in the parking lot of Lakewood NJ circa 83-84? I still have the original alti face you painted and still get a lot of compliments on it. Nice to hear your still around!
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    Your correct. I thought it was JIm but my wife says Mike did the photo jump and Jim did some later jumps with Kurt.
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    I had the chance to talk to Dana about a year ago. As some know, her son is handicapped and they decided to get him a service dog to help out. Dana knew my wife was involved with a service dog organization called Canine Companions for Independence and contacted us. I usually help out during the training that matches the specific dog to the individual and so got to talk to Dana a bit. She is doing well with a real job and her son Kurt is doing very well. She talked a bit about getting back into jumping but I haven't heard anything recent. For those that have a copy, Skies Call 2 has a picture of Jim and Kurt doing a tandem (possibly the first tandem) on pg 125 with photo credit being Charlie McGurr.
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    The first boogie I ever went to was there. We arrived on Friday to discover the dz's twin beech had a blown jug and the scheduled DC-3 had not arrived. Came back Saturday morning. 350 jumpers and 2 Cessna's! The managemnt scrambled and got a piston Islander that turned loads about every 40 minutes with 12 jumpers. We drank beer all day till they called our load and when we started gearing up they told us we had had way to much beer and they wouldn't let us go. The DC-3 flew in late that night in the pouring rain which never stopped and we spent the entire weekend drinking beer never having made a jump. It was the Tax Break Boogie of '84.
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    The video of this is a riot!! The first drop didn't splat the pumpkin. The second time, as Rapter indicated, the skirt was tied off and he streamered in. Since it was Halloween we had a Nun and a Priest available in costume to admininster Last Rites. The video also shows our local rigger removing the 550 cord from around the skirt on the sly. The video of the pumpkin doing PLF's and looking at the malfunction photos is great. It may get windy at Cal City but it usually wasn't boring!
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    I know a source that has about 20 FXC's he'd be happy to sell really cheap(>$30)! Probably just as reliable. Hee, Hee!!!
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    I only have 1 photo that I can actually confirm as Costerisan. I do have a fair amount of video that I haven't put on disc yet.
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    I did my course at Rigging Innovations. The expensive one you refer, it was part of the course to build your own. You sure learn a lot about sewing machines and techniques with large projects like these. Not to mention you can customize and design the entire bag for your gear. It sure was fun and I learned a lot about patterns and materials too.
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    There is in Cary's photo's!
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    I spotted that load and I didn't get a lot compliments from Brian. We got Mike Deluna to repack Mark though and he didn't miss a jump!!
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    The photo brings back some memories. I am in the dark blue suit with the yellow Protec, bottom left. Clockwise from me is Danny Benge, an unknown, Dave LeClerq, Cary Stephens, Roy Buchanan, another unknown, and Brian Fairhurst. My logbook shows the jump was probably made on 8/15/87 since I am jumping my Warp 3 container and I didn't jump my Vector till my second trip to Costerisan 2 weeks later. I remember because I scratched the reserve flap on my new container on the loading stairs we flew over with. The photographer was probably Mike Burt although it could have been Tom Sanders. I think it was Mike because I don't see Tom's logo on the photo. It is also possible that 1 of the 2 unknowns is Mike Deluna since he vollunteered to organize and jump with the Cal City group because the Fielding group was to big for an Otter
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    It's a requirement for USPA awards. IF you want your wings or badges you have to have a D. I complained about this long ago but was told that USPA wasn't interested in changing it.
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    In '83 at Lakewood Lubo Bednar (sp?) rode in a streamering main/reserve entanglement and only got slightly busted up. I was packing my ParaCommander and watched him go behind the tree's towing it all. I believe he had a back injury and maybe some busted ribs. Bob Young was the first person to him and assumed he was dead until he sat up and started talking. I kept packing and that was the best job that old PC ever had.
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    I did a tandem the other day and while watching the video noticed that I was chewing gum in freefall. You can get used to anything.
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    We put sea sickness bands on all our passengers and it has helped a lot. Maybe 1 in 1000 actually throws up. You can get them for about $15 at any drug store in the same section as dramamine. They supposedly trigger an accupressure point to avoid nausea. It's better than being puked on!
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    Riggerrob desrcibes it perfectly! Go to Home Depot and ask for a metal scribe used to mark sheet metal cutting lines. It will have a 90 degree angle pick at one end and a straight pick at the other. It makes it easy to pull the fold in the tape tight before lowering the presser foot.
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    I just checked with Jim Wallace. He said Jeff Davies was with a team called Poultry Products and that Jeff Fischer was on Al Kruegers team with him. It's nice to work for someone that was around in those days! I could be wrong on the winning Rumbleseat dates though, I didn't go look at the trophy in the Bombshelter.
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    Jeff Fischer was just out at Perris visiting Walley. He was on the winning '67 Rumbleseat team and was on Al Krueger's 10-way team for a couple years. Not currently jumping but he sure has a few good stories including a naked jump with a malfunction that my wife followed down.
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    Jim Wallace at Perris sells a nice bracket already made. Half the demo jumpers around here (So-Cal) jump them. Give him a call at 1-800-795-3483.
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    The one at Lakewood blew a jug on a load about Aug of 83. There was a television camera crew on-board that didn't participate in the emergency bailout. The plane landed over at Monmouth? airport and never flew jumpers at Lakewood again. It sat at that airport till I left Jersey in mid-84. All the Lodestar veterans at Lakewood had oil spots on their rigs and jumpsuits from the emergency bailout. I never got to jump it because I wasn't off student status till Sept of that year.
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    I'm a rigger and understand what you are discussing. For the benefit of the non-riggers and regular jumpers what is a "PR". Not all the people reading know the acronyms of the rigging community!
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    "The Wild, Wonderful World of Parachutes and Parachuting". If nothing else the pictures are worth it. It has stills of a guy with a main /reserve entanglement being caught in a packing mat. It also has pictures of Kittinger's jump. It also has a picture of a main entangled with the tail and airplane and jumper landing under the jumpers reserve. It has lots of that sort of things. It is out of print but Amazon got me a copy.
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    I have a bicep tattoo that is Japanese Kanji writing with a flame background. The modern translation for the kanji is skydiver and it's literal translation is Flying Man. Don't rush getting a tat, get what you really want, and have it done by a professional. You get what you pay for.
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    I landed out in LaPaz Mexico once. 2nd group out of a Casa. Looked around after opening and finally saw the hotel we were supposed to land in front of about 3 miles up the coast. Saw a nice open area that looked like a parking lot and landed there along with most of the people in my group. Gathered up our gear to leave and a guard stepped out of his shack holding a machine gun. He made us all sit down till someone from the hotel showed up and interpreted things between us and him. Turns out we had landed on a pier owned by the Mexican Navy! He finally let us go and we all took cabs back to the hotel.
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    My first logbook. Even after 23 years I'd give a lot to have it back!!