Can anyone identify this skydiving photo?

[npgraphicdesign 3]

Was looking at some jobs in the NYC area and came across this link.

http://www.thehalogroup.net/who-we-are/who-we-are.cfm

Love the photo...and was wondering who took it. Oh and I hope the company is using this photo legally.

[Remster 30]

Old skool!

Remster

[quade 4]

Can't ID it, but it's upside down!

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Its over Europe and its old school, that is about the most Racers I have ever seen at the same time before.

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[iluvtofly 0]

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Can't ID it, but it's upside down!

That explains why something looked not quite right about it. That's an awful lot of Racers in that pic. Eeeeeek

[NewGuy2005 53]

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Its over Europe and its old school, that is about the most Racers I have ever seen at the same time before.

Is it possible that it's over one of the original 13 colonies in the US or another similar "metes & bounds" state?

[piisfish 140]

I would say Europe too. 3 Atoms

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[talon2 0]

teardrops not racers

[Andy9o8 2]

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Can't ID it, but it's upside down!

No it's not, I flipped it over & couldn't see their bellies.

[oldwomanc6 54]

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Can't ID it, but it's upside down!

No it's not, I flipped it over & couldn't see their bellies.

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[AggieDave 6]

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Its over Europe and its old school, that is about the most Racers I have ever seen at the same time before.

Three of those jumpers with Racers burned in due to the container design...then European authorities never let that many people in a single formation with Racers ever again!

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[oldwomanc6 54]

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Its over Europe and its old school, that is about the most Racers I have ever seen at the same time before.

Three of those jumpers with Racers burned in due to the container design...then European authorities never let that many people in a single formation with Racers ever again!

OK, I'll bite. Was that serious? If so, What's wrong with the design of the Racer?

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[AggieDave 6]

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Its over Europe and its old school, that is about the most Racers I have ever seen at the same time before.

Three of those jumpers with Racers burned in due to the container design...then European authorities never let that many people in a single formation with Racers ever again!

OK, I'll bite. Was that serious? If so, What's wrong with the design of the Racer?

Quasi serious. My wife nearly burned in jumping a Racer. We ordered a Wings immediately after that jump.

Racer SST?

Struggle Struggle Thump
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There are more.

Friends don't let friends jump Racers!

Seriously, if you went back in time to the early 80s you would be good to jump a Racer. However, it is 30 years later and every other manufacture in business has updated their designs except Racer (yeah yeah they added tuck tabs, whoopy-fucking-shit).

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[pchapman 279]

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Quasi serious. My wife nearly burned in jumping a Racer.

Can you comment why?
I haven't heard safety complaints lately. Sure, there's the tricky RSL design, and 30+ years ago there may have been some sketchy pack jobs. Maybe some tightly bent reserve housings at the shoulder in the early days inhibiting the pull, but that was long ago too, I thought. Not sure what would be an issue more recently.

[AggieDave 6]

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Quasi serious. My wife nearly burned in jumping a Racer.

Can you comment why?
I haven't heard safety complaints lately. Sure, there's the tricky RSL design, and 30+ years ago there may have been some sketchy pack jobs. Maybe some tightly bent reserve housings at the shoulder in the early days inhibiting the pull, but that was long ago too, I thought. Not sure what would be an issue more recently.

To be honest it was an older rig and this was 2003/2004. She had a pull out that was misrouted (impossible pull), then she had an exceptionally hard pull on the reserve. The hard-pull reserve is something that can easily happen with the design. Sure it can happen with other designs, but the Racer design is much more prone to it.

My wife got her reserve out using both hands as she got really close to 1k.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[oldwomanc6 54]

Ok, Gotcha, I've owned two. Late 70s into the 80s.

I'm assuming you are talking main deployment system? The pud design is plain stupid. Converted mine to leg strap pouch. Never had a problem with that, but that was after I had a total (floating pud w/ terminal reserve). I also had a cutaway, (sub terminal reserve without any problem).

I'm not a rigger, but the reserve (0n mine, anyway), was as simple as simple could be.

Did your wife have problems with the reserve? or problems with the main and ?

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[AggieDave 6]

Impossible pull on the main and an exceptionally hard pull (nearly impossible pull) on the reserve. Basically she nearly went in.

A few months after that I got cross trained on the Racer tandem. After that training I basically said "fuuuuuck that." The design is that bad, especially with the tandem.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[oldwomanc6 54]

Answered by the time I hit "POST" I'm glad she's OK.

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[jumpwally 0]

Rather than an rash condemnation how about a point by point explanation of why you think that ....

Packed wrong and poorly maintained usually is the result...

You're better than that....

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