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  1. howardwhite
    I've known Dan since 1966. He forced me to join PCA, taught me how to make neat patches on canopies and travelled with me around the Northeast when I was about to succeed him as USPA regional director. And my picture is in the Parachute Manual, modeling an old rig. As Jerry Baumchen has noted, he was seriously injured in a hang gliding accident and is not jumping. He is, however, very busy traveling around the world and is an active participant in both the Parachute Industry Assn. and the National Skydiving Museum, of which he's a trustee. I've seen him several times this year and will see him next in Raeford in December. I posted what is apparently a bogus email address (from his web site) but will be happy to pm people a good one. Just expect that his responses will be brief and to the point. HW
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    DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com HW
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    Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HER. She fell from the plane into the summer afternoon like a quadruple-winged victory wearing nothing but a wicked smile and a parachute with its harness straps chafing her thighs and cutting into her shoulders and as she fell to Earth the wind whistled through her outspread fingers and she began very elegantly to fall to pieces with her body parts streaking out in colour-coded vapour trails among the layered clouds and puffs of smoke accompanying her diverging limbs until finally her detached head hurtled upwards and then sideways all the while spinning wildly in eccentric arcs leaving her navel and a lonely wisp of pubic hair like an inverse exclamation mark to punctuate the sunny afternoon sky. Yes, she was a nude disintegrating parachutist woman and she came down in pieces all over me.
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    Qualifications modified for you. You probably packed this very rig. (Picture is from the Mass. SPC scrapbook and you will perhaps remember what Turners Falls looked like from the air.
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    It is clearly time to begin issuing dropzone.com OFRs (Old Fart Ratings). For the purpose of this exercise, after viewing the attached, you get: -One rating point if you recognize/have seen it on a reserve; -Two if you have jumped a reserve so labeled; -Five if you have trained/put out students with such reserves, or packed them. (Points are not cumulative; if you're eligible for 5, it's assumed you have the skills associated with the 1 and 2-point levels.) I am now at OFR point level 5. HW
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    I don't have one, but I just found another picture of one. It's the cover shot on a 1979 Dutch magazine. To the best of my limited ability to figure out Dutch, the cover note says technical data will be published in the next issue (which I don't have and couldn't read anyway.) HW
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    Ever tried to explain a belly-mount reserve deployment to someone who's never been trained for one? Maybe this will help. Or maybe not. (It was done on purpose for an article on reserve deployments and taken by a well-known photographer. Who and when and even where?) HW
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    Hmm... I made just 16 C-9 jumps before my first PC jump -- in 1966. I must have been a hot skydiver. HW
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    Like this one HW
  10. howardwhite
    Newton is not a product line, it's a phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_rings Brent is Brent Finley: http://www.brentfinley.com/ringsite.htm HW
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    Easily fixed. HW
  12. howardwhite
    Massachusetts Jumptown, Orange - NO!
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    These are screen grabs from a video compilation I received this week. The plane is pretty obvious , but where, when, who, and who did the video? HW
  14. howardwhite
    O.K., nostalgia time continues with two under-canopy pix and one ground pic. (I didn't take them.) The open tin shed is the left portion of the building. The third picture is the front of the right portion. Have fun identifying canopies, planes, people, cars, etc. HW
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    Whole bunch here: http://www.skydive.tv/demo.htm (not that I was involved in any of them) HW
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    And here, five months later, is a color picture of the McGurr/Daugherty wrap. HW
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    Yes. I took that to be obvious for this crowd. HW
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    Interesting exit shot. Who is it? Where and when? I know where I got it, and at least one person who is often here probably knows the answer. HW
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    Or you could just use a lead sinker, a.k.a. "ripcord stop." HW
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    Oct. 20, 1922: Harold R. Harris is the first man to be saved by a freefall parachute jump from a disabled airplane. http://www.ascho.wpafb.af.mil/birthplace/HARRIS.HTM HW (Of course we should not forget what Wikipedia reports for Oct. 22: "4004 BC - The universe is created. This is according to the 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated by James Ussher the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh.")
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    Search is your friend: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=489455;search_string=boogie%20taggart;#489455 HW
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    Yup. I had an early Yarbenet slider on my Volplane, replacing the hydraulic system. Instead of grommets, it had full-sized D-rings sliding on the lines. And now -- just for the historical record -- is that very Yarbenet slider. It came either directly from Pioneer or from Parachutes Incorporated -- I forget which. It may well have been built by Yarbenet himself. It is certainly one of the first-ever working sliders (and it's in my garage, for the moment, next to the hydraulic reefing system.) HW
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    Been there too... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2321988;search_string=can%20one%20of%20you%20old;#2321988 HW
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    Yeah, that was the same band of wackos who were also making square throw-out pilot chutes. I still have mine (but never jumped it.) HW
  25. howardwhite
    Yup .. see: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1528053;search_string=last%20hope%20rope;#1528053 ..and other threads referenced there. HW