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  1. howardwhite
    Never jumped a S/L PC but sure put out a lot of them at Orange, Turners Falls and Pepperell, MA, among other places. HW
  2. howardwhite
    None. FCP (be sure you have the latest update) does it automagically. It works only in Log and Transfer, not Log and Capture -- in other words, you can't browse through the contents of the input stream and select only the bits you want. See this Apple Technote. I also tried a demo version of Voltaic before I found out I didn't need it for FCP. HW
  3. howardwhite
    A specific example: I created an AVCHD movie exactly 10 minutes long yesterday. I then put the stick in a card reader and used the Log and Transfer function in Final Cut Pro to bring it in. It took a little more than 13 minutes -- in other words, longer than if I brought in 10 minutes of HD data from tape. I haven't tried it yet in iMovie 09, but have no reason to believe it would be significantly different. HW
  4. howardwhite
    I've already PMd Mike about this, but it's likely that Lew Sanborn (D-1) and Nate Pond (D-69) were among the jumpers. Nate has always been an avid skier, but I'd forgotten that Florida boy Sanborn also skied back in the day. HW
  5. howardwhite
    These are screen grabs from a 1937 newsreel, which has several other neat old Russian parachute scenes. HW
  6. howardwhite
    Could be. Here's another shot of the tail, looking back at a formation. HW
  7. howardwhite
    ...and you thought climbing on the outside and sliding off the wing was something new... HW
  8. howardwhite
    That's a well-known Otter scrapyard. Another picture of it there (attached) HW
  9. howardwhite
    It is indeed a 210, and I think I might even have jumped out of it 10 or 15 years ago. It was at a time when Lake Elsinore had flooded the airport and the jump operation moved to a small airport nearby (Murietta, maybe?). The plane there was a 210 and I jumped with some turbine babies from Perris who had never jumped out of a Cessna and who were kind of scared about getting out "low" (at 10 grand.) I expect to see Kevin at the old farts reunion in Raeford in May, but maybe I'll ask him before then. It makes sense that it's his plane, since he's been involved in a lot of movies and TV shows. HW
  10. howardwhite
    No. But the one I really want to go to is the Dave Gold Collection at Wright State University (MS 310 here.) You can download a PDF file cataloging its contents. I drool when I read it. HW
  11. howardwhite
    As I watch approximately no television - and fer sure not The Incredible Hunk -, I defer to others. But 2291R is registered to Kevin Donnelly in Lake Elsinore, CA, whose name should be familiar to many people here. I can call or email him if you're terminally curious about this. HW
  12. howardwhite
    Not for a long time. It is Bird (wearing a Jerry Bird reserve) with Bill Ottley, Dick Fortenberry, and Mike Johnston, representing generations of skydivers and disciplines. I believe it's now in San Diego, but not on display. HW
  13. howardwhite
    The Jerry Bird reserve was not a pop top but a front-mounted reserve held closed by Velcro®. It was developed when Jerry and The Wings of Orange spent the summer of 1974 in Orange, MA. It had a handle on the closing flap which you pulled up to open the container. The attached picture was posted on Flickr by Jon Guignard, who worked with Jerry on its development. It will bring back memories of the team, some of whose members are no longer with us. I talked with Jerry on the phone last week and will do so again this week. And he used to have lots of Studebakers. Somewhere I probably have a picture of maybe a half dozen of them at the old Z-Hills. HW
  14. howardwhite
    http://www.lindahall.org/ Underlining doesn't make it clicky. HW
  15. howardwhite
    The person in the original picture is also in this one; not quite so spectacular, maybe, but still pretty. It's a well-known demo team. Who and where? HW
  16. howardwhite
    Right stadium, wrong person. HW
  17. howardwhite
    I'm not sure what the X in the parking lot is all about, but I'd guess it might be a helicopter landing pad in the case of medical emergency, etc. HW
  18. howardwhite
    And who said it was a Rolling Stones show? HW
  19. howardwhite
    ... not to mention that Knights probably never wore red jumpsuits. HW
  20. howardwhite
    This is a cooler-than-average demo. Who knows who, where, roughly when? HW
  21. howardwhite
    No big thing. I just couldn't tell whether there was a lot of other good stuff that was missing. HW
  22. howardwhite
    On page 7, there's a continuation of another story, but the beginning doesn't seem to be there. In the interest of completeness, can you add the missing stuff? I want to learn all about the "Secrets of Sky Diving." HW
  23. howardwhite
    Happy to oblige, and it remains a pleasure to see you on your rare (slumming) visits to the DZ. But PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. HW
  24. howardwhite
    I want "Media on the Dropzone" in part to beat into the heads of the video dudes that using copyrighted music could send them to the Big House. HW
  25. howardwhite
    That sux. I've see blood coming out of your face before, and it's not a pretty sight. Look forward to slides of both your presentations -- mebbe in time for Safety Day? HW