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Great story, Air-Tee! I gotta nother good Lew Sanborn story, but I'll save it for later.

Hey, what about that Phantom 24'? I still have one in my current rig. Who was your roommate? Shoobi Knutson told me several years ago that he had a hand in designing and building them. I've got three or four rides on mine including one just a coupla years ago and it lands great (for a round). Of course, I'm not dragging it earthward at 240 el-bee's either.

Now don't start giving me shit for having a round reserve.

I met Bill Jones on New Years Eve (or was it Christmas Eve?) at Will Renfroe's house in Taft, California in '97 or so. He's a pretty cool guy himself.
"It's only arrogance if you can't back it up"

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I met Lew Sanborn at a traffic light in Longview, Washington.



That was a hilarious story. Lew must get that a lot. Here is how I first ran into him:

It was the mid-1980's, I had just several hundred jumps, and I was on a field trip away from my home DZ of Indiantown, FL. I went to visit Jimmy Godwin's place in Eustis, FL. It was a slow day, but I hooked up with three other people and spent the day doing four-ways out of the Cessna-182. One of them was a guy named "Lou". We all had a great time doing grab-ass 4-way.

At the end of the day, Lou drove off, and I hung around to drink a beer. Wilma Godwin, Jimmy's wife, came over and asked me; "Do you know who you've been jumping with all day?" I replied nonchalantly; "Yeah, some old guy named Lou..."

Then she explained to me that this old guy named "Lou" was actually Lew Sanborn, D-1.

And he got away without me knowing it, or getting him to sign my log book. I've since caught up with him later and received that magic signature.

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And he got away without me knowing it, or getting him to sign my log book. I've since caught up with him later and received that magic signature.



JR

If you ever run into him to get that logbook signature, have him contact me, I still have a bumper sticker and a beer mug I forgot to give him.

Brett

Got any good Bob Sinclair stories?
"It's only arrogance if you can't back it up"

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The first time I met D-1, it was the morning of the fifth day of creation. I was chatting with God, just as he was about to create the fowl that may fly above the earth, and I asked, "Do you think any of the creeping things and beasts of the earth, will ever fly?"

God giggled at the thought, and then made Lew.

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The first time I met D-1, it was the morning of the fifth day of creation. I was chatting with God, just as he was about to create the fowl that may fly above the earth, and I asked, "Do you think any of the creeping things and beasts of the earth, will ever fly?"

God giggled at the thought, and then made Lew.

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And neither have 'rested' since!:ph34r:











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I met Lew Sanborn at a traffic light in Longview, Washington.



Mine ain't nearly as entertaining, but I still remember it. In '98 I left home on a 10 day skydiving trip by myself. I left with a whopping 150 jumps under my belt and finished the trip with 188, including a couple thirty ways, a bandit ballon jump, and a 5 way that included Lew. After the Labor Day boogie at Perris had wound down, I stuck around for one more day of jumping. Mid-week jumping that it was, there wasn't much going on, but some of the SOS guys were gearing up at Perris for jumps that weekend at Elsinore. I saw the embroidery on Lew's mudflap and begged to make a jump with them. He convinced the others to let me. During the climb to altitude I noticed my altimeter was broken. I pointed it out and tried to keep my tough face on like it was no big deal. Lew quietly pointed out that I might want to remove it and put it in my jumpsuit so I didn't look down and react to an incorrect reading. Made sense, especially since all of them had chest mounted altimeters. I remember the skydive clearly. One guy ended up low going to the second point and another lost track of the dive flow. That guy started to chew me out on the ground as if it was my fault. Lew shushed him and told me not to mind him, that I'd flown my slot just fine and that the other guy had no room to talk. Made ME feel better. :)
Logbook entry:
Jump 172, 9/8/98, Perris, CA, Otter, Tri-175, Exit 12,500, delay 1:07/2:04:00/open 2500 (I think)/accuracy 50 feet

5-way - altimeter broke so jumped without it, freeflew exit, docked third, skydive was rotating spider, first point was good, second got kind of screwed up. Fun skydive.

Signed: Lew B. Sanborn, A-1, D-1, SOS-6, NCCS-12, NCCR-86

Blues,
Dave
"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

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