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  1. howardwhite
    The prices for Jumptown (without and with video) are about $35 over retail if you booked on your own. HW
  2. howardwhite
    Hmm, I know AOD, but I don't remember ADD. HW
  3. howardwhite
    A little Googling... And, from an Amazon.com review of another of their offerings: HW
  4. howardwhite
    The Boston selection is Jumptown, which indeed accepts their certificates (and doesn't take Skyride) The description is provided by the DZO. I dunno how many tandems it's produced for the DZ, but it's legit. HW
  5. howardwhite
    Aircraft will perhaps help narrow this a bit. HW
  6. howardwhite
    If you're thinking about attending PIA's Symposium 2009, remember that the price goes up after Saturday, Nov. 1. (The earlier wording was fuzzy, but has been clarified.) The PIA web site also includes a partial list of exhibitors, a general list of seminar topics, and a schedule of meetings (including the USPA BOD meeting, DZO session, PIA and Skydiving Museum meetings.) It's a good take and hotel rooms in Reno are pretty cheap. HW
  7. howardwhite
    Reality is sometimes virtual. HW
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    I was about to say, glibly, that you only need to meet the requirements for a USPA 'A' -- until I read the SIM. It does indeed say: "and must have- a. obtained a USPA A license" This is odd, because for the 'C' and 'D' the SIM says: "a. met all current requirements for or hold a USPA B license" and "a. met all current requirements for or hold a USPA C license" Is this a mistake in the SIM? HW
  10. howardwhite
    Here's the proof. HW
  11. howardwhite
    Well, now I have the paper in hand. On top of Page One, there's a picture of a smiling Rick Hough, looking at the camera. The caption: Winging It With suits but no chutes, many take the plunge. No chutes, eh.? Then what is it they're "releasing"... "at the last possible moment?" HW
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    And here it is. Of course there is the obligatory bit about opening "at the last possible moment." HW
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    Well, to pick nits... This was one of the last half-dozen built, so by then it was no longer being built by Percival or sold under that name. Interesting that in this ad, "parachute training" was among the suggested applications. HW
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    Pretty rare. As far as I can tell, this one is still registered -- to an owner in Tennessee. I have no clue when or where this was taken, except it was probably in 1963 and it was probably not in Tennessee. HW
  15. howardwhite
    Beat me to it, but.... HW
  16. howardwhite
    Oh, and I also know who was jumping that funny canopy. He's still around to tell the tale. Sky Diver, covering the same event, has a funny story about all the hot-stuff skydivers from the west, told there was a new canopy being jumped at sunset. They laughed at the "triple Mae West" which was surely going to be chopped...but wasn't. Most of the other canopies exceot the XBO were backing up, but the "malfunction" actually "...FLEW to the bowl." HW
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    I don't need to guess. I recognize the DZ and I know what the occasion was. HW
  18. howardwhite
    Could be regional. Then again, I'm still trying to figure out why YouTube (on both my Macs) defaults to YouTube Germany. Edited to add:Hah. If I log out of my YouTube account and become anonymous, it works!!! But I just tried the UK URL and it didn't. Strange. HW
  19. howardwhite
    Hmm.. (see screen grab) HW
  20. howardwhite
    A Boston Globe obituary is here. HW
  21. howardwhite
    The event occurred at Northampton, MA. The NTSB report, here, is worth reading. HW
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    And what does that mean? HW
  23. howardwhite
    Curt is alive and well, living in New York City and, in his laid-back way, running his sports management company (as well as playing a lot of golf.) He is actively involved as a Trustee and treasurer of the National Skydiving Museum. If you're going to be at PIA in Reno next February, you might see him -- there will be a Museum committee meeting there. HW
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    Robert M. Murphy, who as a 18-year-old private jumped into Normandy on D-Day as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and later became an active skydiver, died Oct. 3 on Cape Cod. After Army service, he became a prominent Boston lawyer. In 1976, 32 years after the Normandy invasion, he jumped into St. Mere Eglise, France, landing within several hundred yards of the bean patch where he had landed in 1944. His book about the invasion, "No Better Place to Die," is being made into a movie. He served on the Massachusetts Parachuting Commission, which oversaw arrangements for the 1962 Sixth World Meet in Orange, MA. HW
  25. howardwhite
    Back in the very old days (late 50s and early 60s), when Capt. Jacques Istel, USMC, was traveling around the country promoting parachuting (mostly to college clubs), the west coast jumpers sneered at this rich east coast guy, with his rules and regulations and wussy ideas like sleeves on canopies. (The east vs. west culture story is worth a book in itself). But in the early 70s, Cameron and Istel were kind of thrust to the same side. Cameron was tossed off the USPA board and Istel was stripped of the title of "Honorary Lifetime President." Both went on the offensive -- Cameron in Sky Diver and Istel in TNT ("Truth,News, Trends")--a newspaper he launched largely to attack USPA. And Cameron wrote several long stories in praise of JAI. Cameron's gone, but Istel isn't. Maybe next time I spend some time with him, I'll see if he wants to talk about Cameron. HW