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  1. howardwhite
    Yes and yes. He returned to the northeast, starting skydiving again, and died on a jump in Maine. (I have the news story somewhere and will look it up.) HW
  2. howardwhite
    It would be cool if Chuck could persuade Lee Guilfoyle to come too. He's in Florida. HW
  3. howardwhite
    I'll stay a long way away from the tuffet. See you also in Reno. Congratulations and my sympathies on your new job. HW
  4. howardwhite
    Well, considering the original post was 5 1/2 years ago, maybe he's still in hiding. Doug Garr has a new book, just published this month, which includes a lot of Stormville stories. HW
  5. howardwhite
    The Pioneers of Sport Parachuting reunion will move to the east coast this year -- May 7-10 in Raeford/Fayetteville. Sponsors include Raeford Skydiving Center and the Paraclete XP tunnel and free jumps and maybe tunnel time are on the agenda, along with lots of jump stories. Linda Miller has created a web site for it, where you can find out more and make reservations. Reduced-rate event reservations are available until April 10. I expect that while some of the west coast regulars who have attended in recent years won't be there, some folks from the southeast who've never been to one will take their places. HW
  6. howardwhite
    I didn't write the copy. (I suspect it was done by the late Chuck Embury). Which means I also did not misspell 'oscillation.' HW
  7. howardwhite
    Well, some of you are kind of circling around the answer. When Bird was at Orange in '74, the Wings of Orange chose to jump rounds rather than PCs (or those new-fangled square things) so PI put together the Che-Po for them. I'm not sure who's in the picture -- could be Bird -- but it's a Bird reserve container for sure. Here's what the catalog had to say about it. HW
  8. howardwhite
    But the question was "what is this canopy". The name in the description is kinda funny. (And don't believe everything you read on Thom Lyons' web page.) HW
  9. howardwhite
    And who might be jumping it and what year? Unless you know, you might be surprised. HW
  10. howardwhite
    That would be a "clicky" rather than a "sticky". Whatever. Don't pick on me in the morning. It's still easy. HW
  11. howardwhite
    It's really easy to make stickies. http://www.dropzone.com/forum/Skydiving_C1/Skydiving_History_&_Trivia_F21/aerial_drug_delivery_P3077525/ HW
  12. howardwhite
    ...a sketch from the third Monty Python's Flying Circus episode,... featuring Eric Idle and Terry Jones as two strangers who meet in a pub. Idle (playing a younger man) asks Jones (as an older gentleman) several questions about his relationship with his wife, all bearing questionable sexual innuendo ("Does your wife 'go'?", "is she a sport?", "is she interested in photography?", etc.). Jones responds in a confused, non-committal sort of way, and Idle responds with an enthusiastic "Nudge, Nudge, Say no more" - the punchline being that after a period of time, Jones demands to know what Idle is talking about. Idle asks if Jones has slept with a lady. Jones says that he has, and Idle, fascinated, asks "What's it like?" HW
  13. howardwhite
    Like this one, at Skydive Chicago. HW
  14. howardwhite
    Here's an enlarged version. Looks more like a container to me, too. Robot/GPS guided airdrops are nothing new. They were used, among other times, to supply US embassies in (if memory serves) North Africa during a period of blockade. HW
  15. howardwhite
    The attached National Policy Notice was posted today on the PIA web site. Note that in addition to affirming the joint PIA/USPA guidance statements, it specifically mentions AAD batteries. HW
  16. howardwhite
    Here's one that, I think, will defy identification by most anyone, even someone well-equipped with old magazines and catalogs. HW
  17. howardwhite
    Here are a couple more screengrabs from the video, at Turners Falls, MA. I was on the first US Dornier load. You could see the whole video if you were my Facebook Friend (but I'm fussy about accepting invites.) What is this bridge stuff I keep hearing about? HW
  18. howardwhite
    Probably, but I have better things to waste my time on right now. I seem to remember reading something somewhere about Jacques Istel favoring the Oregon skydivers with a visit and your name was associated with it. HW
  19. howardwhite
    I don't have that one scanned, but I do have this. HW
  20. howardwhite
    Here's another page, from a magazine I really doubt Beatnik has, as it existed for only a few issues. These are for 1967. However, this one has no labels, only numbers, so I have no definitive answers. HW
  21. howardwhite
    PC #11 is The Black Knight HW
  22. howardwhite
    Nope. Wrong color, wrong "rank." HW
  23. howardwhite
    Then you are ineligible to win any prizes. HW
  24. howardwhite
    Yeah, but do you have lots of old Parachutes Incorporated and Para-Gear catalogs? HW
  25. howardwhite
    There are more to come.... HW