GroundZero 0 #1 May 20, 2003 Very soon... look at the numbers... Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ManBird 0 #2 May 20, 2003 Eating an entire cake in freefall?! FINALLY!"¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #4 May 20, 2003 The problem with a marketing campaign like this is . . . nobody cares enough to go rooting around guessing what the f' you're talking about. Just tell us and be done with it.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GroundZero 0 #5 May 20, 2003 but Paul, you just bit... if only a few more will, then it'll happen... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #6 May 20, 2003 Zzzzzz....quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freakydiver 0 #7 May 20, 2003 Hey Quade, I care enough. Zzz to you. No need to fill this thread with my opinion out of your mouth. I personally REALLY ENJOY how creative some of the folks get in these forums. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." -- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base704 0 #8 May 20, 2003 ...are you gonna be the first?You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base570 1 #9 May 20, 2003 Ahhh, only 5 more to go huh?? I see what your saying or maybe I see something different 570 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #10 May 20, 2003 what, your first wingsuit jump? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ManBird 0 #11 May 21, 2003 3000 posts in this forum?"¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ManBird 0 #12 May 21, 2003 With this post, at this time, we are now tied with the relative work forum. What losers we are."¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #13 May 21, 2003 This is neither the Talkback nor Freefly forum. Don't post whore here just for the sake of seeing yourself online or racking up numbers. While I do love mindless banter in the right context, I could care less how many total posts we accumulate. Feel free to knock yourself out in talkback or via PM, but I would prefer to keep this and the other topical forums,as free of clutter as possible. Still, I don't know; if enough birdies think it's best to become like the Freefly forum, I might allow a bit more levity. PM me with your thoughts. Don't clutter this thread with your responses. Chuck (the overlord) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GroundZero 0 #14 May 21, 2003 But Chuck... they got it! We Bird-men (and Babes) have now attracted more attention (see thread and post numbers for the forums), than the RW forum. Now don't get me wrong. I am an RW kinda guy.... just a few years ago, if it wasn't 4-way, i was wasting expensive 100LL taking up a space on the airplane. But then something happened. Someone turned me onto a wingsuit.... It was pretty funny... a friend, sent me his Classic... I'd never seen one before. There I was, standing on the deck at the DZ, wearing the borrowed suit. All the arms and legs zipped up, trying to pull my rig over this funky suit. The leg straps not long enuf to go over those long leg wings... Since then, I've only visited my old love (rw) once or twice. I fell into the dark... no... the BLUE side of skydiving. It looks like a lot of other people have taken an interest in "flying". Here's a salute and beer to all the others here that have shown more interest in Bird-Manning than RW and CRW... don't get me wrong... I love rw and crw both, but look at the interest here! Salude! Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #15 May 21, 2003 Salude! It is a wicked thing how it grabs a part of your soul, and tortures it every moment you are not winging it through the sky above! And then at the end to be able to live your second joy, canopy flight.... I was born to do this.... Cheers to you all...---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #16 May 21, 2003 A new member of the GK 8-way team, Scott Janise, made his maiden flight yesterday afternoon during a break in training. Needless to say, he was instantly hooked. I trained him some months ago on a rainy day (along with another of his teammates), but he just got around to thinking about it. In my old Classic, he flew to an average of 65 mph vertical; not bad for a first flight. There was actually talk some time ago about getting wingsuits for the demo teams. This, in order to get an even more dramatic separation during "the diamond track." As the new team commander is a pretty good friend of mine, I think I might have to put that bug back in his ear. Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VectorBoy 0 #17 May 21, 2003 Welcome to the other, other darkside chris. I remember jumping hard just to get the required jump numbers just to take Kims class when BMI came out last year, I was already "hooked with just one look". The follow up flight was even better than I had hoped. As far as using wing suits in demos I was wondering when some wingsuiters were going to perform a formation flight with several members using smoke. The plot thickens. Glen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #18 May 21, 2003 Quote There was actually talk some time ago about getting wingsuits for the demo teams. I heard bps was trying to get this started for the AF team, too. Damn it, what's next, Golden Knights BASE jumping for demos? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GroundZero 0 #19 May 21, 2003 Golden Knights doing diamond tracks with Bird-Man suits... what exposure, what a show!! Get on that Chuck... What a crowd pleaser! Hey, that gives me an idea... they have a slot in our airshow in Tullahoma in June... maybe I could upstage them by doing a birdman diamond track before they do their part of the show.... hehehehe.. Who knows where i can get 2-minute smoke? or let's see... maybe a longer lanyard to fire the second can at the turn (2 different color diamond track... oh the possibilities!!).... oh this is gonna be good!!!! hehehehe! Chris Shame 'em into getting suits and perfecting it before I do it... the airshow in Tullahoma is June 21 and 22... Chuck, Let 'em know my plans to upstage 'em if they don't get to work on it right away... Bwahahaha.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #20 May 21, 2003 wooo hoo... thanks chuck!!! maybe i iwll have a birdman to jump with now... oh wait the GK dont jump on weekends...Leroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cpoxon 0 #21 May 21, 2003 QuoteThere was actually talk some time ago about getting wingsuits for the demo teams. This, in order to get an even more dramatic separation during "the diamond track." As the new team commander is a pretty good friend of mine, I think I might have to put that bug back in his ear. They still do the Diamond Track after Dana and Jose? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #22 May 21, 2003 Of course they do. That was a very-unfortunate freak accident. Doing otherwise would be like having them stop flying in planes altogether after the DC-3 disaster so long ago. By the way, Dana is a good friend of mine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cpoxon 0 #23 May 21, 2003 Yeah, sounds kind of stupid when you put it like that. I was under the mistaken impression that they'd ceased to perform that manoeuvre after the accident. Apologies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GroundZero 0 #24 May 21, 2003 Early news accounts of the collision made comments that they were going to stop doing the diamond track... then even more recently I've heard the press report that they have stopped doing them... Blame it on the sensationalistic press... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
