Stuuu 0
DSE 5
Folx already arriving, air is perfect for wingsuits (some humidity for thickness, some smoke from the California fires for great pix) expecting nice weather. this weekend. Locals are coming out, nice FFC's happening Friday.
Only thing missing is a bigger aircraft, but there's always next time.
Only thing missing is a bigger aircraft, but there's always next time.
sdctlc 0
Sounds great, why am I stuck at this luxury resort in a meeting till Sat early AM... Then the flockings begin, for me at least.. I do agree though that the weather has been fantastic the last 2 days in Utah.. Cant wait for theweekend..
Scott C.
Scott C.
"He who Hesitates Shall Inherit the Earth!"
DSE 5
Most folks are arriving tonight, but we are getting some small flocks together. We're exiting over the Great Salt Lake, flying about 3 miles to the DZ. Air is dense due to smoke from California fires, but it is a blast.
Here's a screengrab of the first jump today.
Here's a screengrab of the first jump today.
sdctlc 0
YEAH, that will be me tomorrow!
"He who Hesitates Shall Inherit the Earth!"
lurch 0
Have fun, guys... weathers perfect here now but no skydivin for me this weekend... Busy pulling the cylinder head off my jeep. Sometimes I hate being right, sucker's got a bad exhaust valve lifter, getting the valve cover off confirmed 1 slack pushrod. Actually getting the head off looks like about a 10 hour ordeal, last thing left keeping me from lifting off the head and getting at that pesky lifter is the head bolts and of course my 400 lb 14 year collection of tools turns out to be inadequate and the only possible tool is a 12 pt 1/2" deepwell 1/2" drive impact socket. The 3/8 drive version I've got just shears off. Someone at Jeep figured it'd be a great idea to use head bolts with tiny heads and tighten em right to the edge of the failure limits of the steel. Engines are SO much fun.
-B
-B
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Sounds like you need to make one of your handy dandy super lasers to transmongerfy the steel of the bolt into another alloy that is stronger. Should take less time than finding the proper socket.
50 donations so far. Give it a try.
You know you want to spank it
Jump an Infinity
You know you want to spank it
Jump an Infinity
lurch 0
You know the rules for cyberpunk don't you? Johnny Mnemonic said it best... when they expect crude, go subtle. When they expect tech, go crude. In this case I went crude, enlisted the help of a friend for the heavy lifting, ran around and bought tools and stuff...
Turns out once we got the engine apart the lifter was bad but for obscure reasons associated with synthetic oil. In certain cases synthetic is actually TOO good and here it inhibited friction enough to stop lifter spin causing the lifter to get self-machined down to a wedge shape. Sucks.... engine went together ok but #3 cylinders got cam wear and the engine may be of limited lifespan, but it'll run great for awhile anyway till I know for sure if its gonna go bad again.
Nuts.
Howd the flying go? I expected SOME kinda "we're killin' it out here" post by now... What'd you get weathered out or something? Come on, gimme some details here, just cause I can't always be on the WS circuit don't mean I don't wanna know how its going. You guys fly or just stand talkin about it or what?
Besides, its a bitch trying to heat-treat a bolt while its still in the engine. Couldn't I just use the right socket for the job instead? I can't ALWAYS do the technoninja thing, it'd be out of character.
They wouldn't let me borrow the laser from work anyway.
-B
Live and learn... or die, and teach by example.
DSE 5
Weather was PERFECT...Eagles were flying, hawks chasing Joey Allred's pilot chute, we got in LOTS of great jumps, too busy jumping to say much during the event.
Perhaps one of the highlights of the event was Justin Shorb intentionally burbling Purple Mike on national television.
Some vertical flocks, the high altitude jump over Farnsworth Peak, Scott Callantine's ridiculously long ride (in a Raptor, no less), then there was the jump where Stuu, Brian, Justin, and myself did docks, barrel rolls, and Brian's sweet forward rolls.
Oh, can't forget Scotty's pix of the 9 way and 10way diamonds, open diamonds. Avery kicked ass as well.
Hmmm.....all in all, we had two groups, both filling the plane. Even though it was a King Air, we floated three on every jump.
Shawn kicked ass on a couple of two way and nine-way dives, John B. kept in the air as well.
If Justin seems loopy next time you see him, it's because his oxygen supply somehow disconnected, and he didn't get clean oxygen until around 19K. I don't recommend buddy breathing with him, he hogs the supply.
I hope everyone made it home safely, and thanks to Flock University, Justin Shorb, Rick Hough, Scott Callantine, hell...the list is long.
Thanks to all both local and not-local that made this a super fun, succeessful event.
at this point the fact that they randomly chose the shot of me burbling purple mike to use,....... Is One of the best moments of my wingsuit career.
Thank you soooooo much Spot. Being a part of this and helping you organize this was my honor. I will carry those feathers with me for the rest of my life. No bs. I will ALWAYS fly better now having that with me. I have a part of your soul now and we are soul brothers.
Rick, scotty, phil, jack,avery, jack, debbie, linda, Anne, manny all you guys. Thanks for the help. Thanks purple mike for being base. And giving me such a great target to fuck with.
I love all you matherfackers!!!
Justin
Thank you soooooo much Spot. Being a part of this and helping you organize this was my honor. I will carry those feathers with me for the rest of my life. No bs. I will ALWAYS fly better now having that with me. I have a part of your soul now and we are soul brothers.
Rick, scotty, phil, jack,avery, jack, debbie, linda, Anne, manny all you guys. Thanks for the help. Thanks purple mike for being base. And giving me such a great target to fuck with.
I love all you matherfackers!!!
Justin
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Where's the video? I heard it made the News tonight
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DSE 5
sdctlc 0
I want to give a huge thanks to Spot! The event went off with out a hitch I would say and he put alot of work into it. The event was pulled off as a great event in a very short time from concept to the weekend. WOW is all I can say as I have seen events take much longer to get together with less! Now you have to make next year better! Cool Shirt, lots of food, Plenty of Altitude on every jump and even a really HIGH altitude opportunity. Hard to forget the need for lots and lots of water, it was hot and very dry... Lots of fun and the flocks kept getting better and better.
Overall I had a great time, but the Farnsworth Run was something I will smile about for a long time. It was very unique and it was interesting thinking about the landing elevation being 1000 to 1500' higher then I and a number of the peoples normal "opening" altitude (ground is 4200'). I want to say Thank You to Spot for the opportunity to go on the run and very much so for passing along something important to you to us..
Thanks for the video link.. Also let us know if anything else comes out from the media that you were able to get interested in the weekend..
Thanks also goes to lots of people but big thanks also go to Justin and Scotty for the organizing & pics.
Scott C.
edited to change the video request to a thanks for the link
Overall I had a great time, but the Farnsworth Run was something I will smile about for a long time. It was very unique and it was interesting thinking about the landing elevation being 1000 to 1500' higher then I and a number of the peoples normal "opening" altitude (ground is 4200'). I want to say Thank You to Spot for the opportunity to go on the run and very much so for passing along something important to you to us..
Thanks for the video link.. Also let us know if anything else comes out from the media that you were able to get interested in the weekend..
Thanks also goes to lots of people but big thanks also go to Justin and Scotty for the organizing & pics.
Scott C.
edited to change the video request to a thanks for the link
"He who Hesitates Shall Inherit the Earth!"
Ahhhhh I love MEN in dresses! Looks like you had a great turnout.
Thanks for the link!
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Scott
Thanks for being here this weekend. You KILLED it. Its always a pleasure flying with you.
Thanks for being here this weekend. You KILLED it. Its always a pleasure flying with you.
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Hmm...
"They're skydivers who wear special suits that allow them to go faster than free falling, at nearly 120 miles per hour. "
HW
"They're skydivers who wear special suits that allow them to go faster than free falling, at nearly 120 miles per hour. "
HW
"...faster than 120mph..."
Waaaaaait.... I wasn't there!
The joke: I end up doing more than 120mph every time I try to backfly...
Great job, guys. Sorry I missed it.
Waaaaaait.... I wasn't there!
The joke: I end up doing more than 120mph every time I try to backfly...
Great job, guys. Sorry I missed it.
DSE 5
Quote"...faster than 120mph..."
Waaaaaait.... I wasn't there!
The joke: I end up doing more than 120mph every time I try to backfly...
Great job, guys. Sorry I missed it.
There's always next year.
You were missed. We even talked about you. A LOT. HERE is the link to the story that Howard screengrabbed. It wasn't available last night.
We're hoping to get a TRACON transcript; they kept referring to us as "batmen" and had multiple radar signatures that claimed on one of the high-altitude jumps, that they had a return of 150 mph. I wanna see that in writing.
Buried 0
ah, got to love the media. 120mph and 'world champion wingsuit'..
Next time I want them to refer to people as wingsuit champions of the universe!
like scotty's landing tidbit too.
anywho, anything is nice i suppose. good job guys
Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?
Next time I want them to refer to people as wingsuit champions of the universe!
like scotty's landing tidbit too.
anywho, anything is nice i suppose. good job guys
Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?
lurch 0
Justin, you look all serious and shit like you're about to throw him a beatin'.
Wicked.
-B
Wicked.
-B
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mccordia 74
Though burbling Mike is probably good fun, wouldnt seperating 'over' the base-flyer be a better plan?
Someone in the (lower) back suddenly getting a bunch of spinning Nylon (or parapak these days) in his face sounds like less of a good idea..?
Someone in the (lower) back suddenly getting a bunch of spinning Nylon (or parapak these days) in his face sounds like less of a good idea..?
JC
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I'm an Athlete?
FlyLikeBrick
I'm an Athlete?
of course breaking off above is a "better plan". It was a planned event, Broken off early to make sure there was no collision. all in good fun.
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