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This means that the brake setting is too deep. the canopy starts backing up after deployment thus moving backwards in relationship to the PC. I am really surprised that no one who posted suspected it. take care, space

The Buzz job. It was a cloudy Saturday morning, around 30 students had arrived at this student factory weekend. A cloudbase load was called to check the ceiling, The clubhouse was located just off the end of a grass runway, sitting on top of a hill, with a bowl betwixt the runway and the clubhouse. As we were walking to the fully fueled plane (C182) with the pilot, my friends started chanting “Buzz job”. Not me, I´m a scairdycat. I think that for the buzz job connoisseur that this was maybe an almost ideal scene for the ultimate takeoff buzz, to hang a right descending into the bowl and then ascend up to the clubhouse which sat higher than the runway to the pavilion that the students and instructors were assembled at. I sat in 1st Student position facing rear, the other 3 were on their knees facing forward to view the scene. My view of the scene was looking out the starboard side and the expressions of my buddies. The take off roll was very abnormal. The stall warning buzzer was locked in continuious mode for the first 15 or 20 secs. The Pilot wasn´t pulling up after rotaton, but just keeping it planed to build up speed. I looked out at the grass speeding ever so faster than I had ever seen before. The the plane started banking to the right and the wingtip was mowing the the grass, then as the descent started, the neg G´s, then the posi G´s in the pullup out of the bowl. As I felt the G´s pinning me to the floor start to loosen, a tremendous THWACK and shudder went thru the plane! Miraculously the plane kept flying but the expressions on the fwd looking passengers was one of something that is indescribable. “The windsock” said Roy. “ I saw it tumbling towards the midst of the scattering students”. The Pilot is worried that the landing gear is damaged and the club is hailing us over the com asking us if we were aware of the situation. Denial ensued, and the pilot was now at the cloudbase 800ft agl. He told Bob to climb out and check the landing gear. Bob could not see any damage to the it, and climbed back in asking if we should prepare to exit, The Pilot paused momentarily and said “NO”, “ I need your weight to keep the nose wheel light on landing”. “There´s the Second city airport, they have a bar and fire trucks” said Roy. Adding that our future at the DZ seemed very unlikely if we made it through the landing. “Great!!! I thought,”I just lived thru a crash take off and now I have to do the same for the landing…….” My scairdycat hackles were rising to a new high. The Pilot decided to land back on the grass strip.. The touch down was wicked in that we were waiting for the gear to collaspe as the pilot wheellied it to the last possible moment to keep the weight off the nose gear. Taxiing up to the clubhouse… The club Pres is holding the top 3ft. of windsock 4”x4” pole pointing at the nose of the plane uttering unheard obscenities until the Pilot shut down the engine. I am 1st out, I walk around to the front and see the damage. OMFG! The cowling is trashed a foot and and half inside the prop radius. Maniacal laughter issued forth from my soul. We were dead, but lived. It did not seem possible. The club Pres was pissed about the the cowling and windsock and we were freaking out that we got a second chance to live when we should have died. I thinks that if it had hit the prop, the clubhouse would have been a flaming drive thru. The Pilot was fired. We were told to take the day off and we went BASE jumping. The Pilot was rehired a month later with a new, well earned nickname, and life went on. (names have been changed to protect the guilty) Take care, space

you certainly give a lot more publicity to your enemy (6 times) than your friend (3 times). wazzup wit dat? jes wonderin, If god would have wanted us to eat veggies, he would have made them out of meat. hehehehe take care, space

Different freq´s can have differing effects, one case resulted in the riser retaining loop being basically hotknifed by the grommet due to the radiation heating up the metal. take care, space

knee protection http://www.motoworldracing.com/producst-review-asterisk-knee-brace.html I´ve seen these in action and they rock.it diverts the impact to the femur and lower tib/fib. I would buy it if I had a future and the money. Stuntmen in Cali turned me on to this. take care, space

I think you people are missing the point made by the video. Do you really think it´s ok to sleepdrive as long as you wear a seatbelt? I somehow got another point. I have a friend who was driving late at night and was getting sleepy, so he pulled into a rest stop, killed the lights and engine and fell immediately to sleep. Then he started dreaming that he fell asleep while driving. He awoke and started stomping on the brakes and thinking this was the end because his brakes weren´t working and his headlights were out. It took him a few moments to figure out what was going on much to the amusement of the other people in the rest area ;-). Needless to say, he wasn´t sleepy any more!!!! take care, space

Yo! PM sent!! take care, space

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/content/detail.asp?ID=31241&type=1&page=1&fav=0 Impressive! take care, space

Yeah! Hot air don´t rise..... take care, space

Hi Tom. It was not my idea, it was the students, this idea was tried and dashed by DM and AF (1990?) because of the slider inverting and and insert being blown off exposing the hook and hanging material to the lines. I have since told the student to cease this practice after notification. Are you still using this system? Any comments from the Manu´s? Take care, space

a. Many BASE gear manufacturers have sold rigs to jumpers with very little experience, less than Kit. What now? b. It´s cool that you have sorted out your own limits but where does that give you the right to impose your limit on others? I am interested in your answers, thanks in advance. take care, space

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=809199;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;guest=3604406 Choose a path maybe. I see you do think they are out to get you. Ironic. take care, space

Faber gotcha! so why do you want to be unpopular? New Awlins cain´t be all dat bad. take care space One Shell Square #1

Are you insinuating that some have forgot? or are you just brown-nosing? Are you hopin for a Mod slot? What gives? take care, space

http://www.sacredcow.com/allnew/index.php?n=waco_flaming_tank Try this link, a vid of the bradley tanks driving around the compound with flame throwers active. Have fun. take care, space

My memory of that video is of Bill Morrisey and passenger doing I think 19 revolutions before deploying the drogue and stabilizing. "All the way to the ground" was not on the video that Bill showed me. Albeit it was before `96, did they gruess it (video) up or what? did anyone else see this? take care space

Is this a typo? “One argument I heard (from Bill Booth) is that all broken risers he saw had been the right-side ” [So] “Vector installs RSL on the RIGHT riser”. Or am I the only one to misunderstand your statement. Otherwise, I think the debate about which side had/has a lot to do with the path of the cutaway cables, right vs. left. The right goes pretty much directly straight through the straight housing and to the riser whereas the left side makes a 360° turn possibly causing some differential loop clearing times as the left cutaway cable compresses the inside turn of the cable housing 360 under load. But BB knows a lot about this system .... Hope this helps Take care, space

George bush ain´t from Texas! deal with it sweetie. New haven, Ct. take care, space

Wow, Justice is swift in most of your minds. prejudice. Should not one wait until the verdict before hanging him in the electric chair? , Wrongway is living up to his name. I see "Kill all Nazis" graffiti tagged around Germany. Right to lifers killing..The USgovernment killing so many (children included) in Waco for alledged child abuse as a simple example. The spirality downwards is apparent. Man is Guilty until proven innocent seems to be your credo. yes, maybe this is the way............... Hopes dimming.... Life is not sacred it seems, Let the murders begin. take care space

From which manufacturer did you get this recommendation from? I would like to know as I have never heard of any problems with this. thanks in advance. take care, space

How did you deduce this, maybe I am failing in my comprehension of English. I see no ref to this... kick back, space

I disagree: The stows are for holding the D-bag closed until line stretch is acheived so you don´t get the dreaded (inertial bag strip) line dump and resulting injuries and damage to gear from hard openings. I would even go as far to say that I would prefer a bag lock on my main rather than an out of sequence opening resulting in gear damage and injury. 6-12 lbs to extract the locking stows was stated in the PD manual.This means one should be able to lift the closedbag, by the lines without unstowing the lines roughly. take care, space

Yo, sorry, I was hard on ya, Old school was that one must have 12 times the circumference hangin loose. I boated for a decade. take care space

Point taken, I am delving to bring the answers to you. take care, spACE

Is it really so important to know this? Why is it? I want to know.. space