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Base objects were originally assessed on basis of geometry and wind interference. If the wind blew through it, A; if the wind blew over it, E; if the wind blew around it, B; and lastly, if the wind blew above and below it, S. I would say, in the intention of the old-time Baser's that set up the database, yes, your cable jump is an S just like an actual cable-car would be an S.... And I would urge you to apply for your BASE number, not so much for what you get out of it, but to make the history of BASE that the numbers represent that much more detailed and complete. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Quote Link doesn't work. Just worked for me, but I amended the post to add author's name, Michael Abrams. If redirected to Amazon's home page, put Michael Abrams into their search program, I found the book listed about half way down the page and brought it up that way. Hope this helps. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400054915/sr=8-9/qid=1142181211/ref=sr_1_9/104-0167321-0251972?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Birdmen, Batmen and Skyflyers: pioneers who flew them fell in them and perfected them. by Michael Abrams If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Some pictures of the first guy to survive a landing would be nice ...even if he did die a short while after as reported. If this is true we already have our hero ...a guy who attempted a landing all that time ago... in wooden wings. We can still feel the shockwave from his landing. _________________________________________________ He didn't plan to land the wings, on exit one of them smashed into the side of the dc-3 and broke, leaving him in an uncontrollable spin. He dumped his parachute, but it entangled with the wings.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Birdmen, Batmen and Skyflyers: Pioneers who flew them and fell in them and perfected them. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400054915/sr=8-9/qid=1142181211/ref=sr_1_9/104-0167321-0251972?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Just worked for me, but I amended the post to add author's name, Michael Abrams. If redirected to Amazon's home page, put "Michael Abrams" into their search program, I found the book listed about half way down the page and brought it up that way. Hope this helps. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers: Pioneers who flew them and fell in them and perfected them. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400054915/sr=8-9/qid=1142181211/ref=sr_1_9/104-0167321-0251972?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Just worked for me, but I amended the post to add author's name, Michael Abrams. If redirected to Amazon's home page, put "Michael Abrams" into their search program, I found the book listed about half way down the page and brought it up that way. Hope this helps. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Yup. Just putting some old videos onto dvd yesterday and found this.... 18 years ago. About november 1988. Off work for a couple of weeks, back at it again, then rebroke over the Xmas holidays. off work for 4 months, wearing a funny thing on my leg for a year. Had to sign a paper at work saying I wouldn't throw myself out of or off of anything while on light duty, which lasted about 6-8 months longer. (I'd lied about that, I guess). eventually started to walk straight again. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

French If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I think you're gonna like it! If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Wow! Are you kidding? That sounds pretty cheap! Drop zone wars out west? They're $279 Cdn at Skydive Toronto (right now we have a special -- $30 off, so $249) If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I think Russell went out of business in the '30's after a law suit with Irvin over the rights to freefall type parachutes.... John Tranum originally was a test jumper for the Russell Lobe, then switched over to the Irvin chute. He preferred the way the Irvin chute deployed -- the Russell chute didn't have a pilot chute. You can see the different shapes in the ads.... Note the early Irvin parachute ads -- Irvin air chutes made by the Irving Parachute company.... When Leslie Irvin filed his paperwork in 1920 or so to make the parachutes, there was a typo which added the 'g' to the company name, and he couldn't afford to file new paperwork to change it. I believe Hoffman (of Triangle Parachutes) actually did most of the design for the Irvin parachute, they were part of a team at McCook field, but Irvin was the one who got to do the first live drop test of a freefall rig, and was the first one with the most complete proposal to supply the chutes for the military, so he became a millionaire.... The new Cirrus Sr-20 and Sr-22 come standard with a rocket-deployed whole-plane emergency chute -- for a little more than $300,000. They can be retro-fitted onto cessnas for about $20,000, but the whole system, with some reinforcing, also weighs about 80 lbs.... Edited to ad cover pic from Dec 04 Flying Magazine (Cirrus whole-plane parachute) If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

There's a neat picture in Dan Poynter's Parachuting, the skydivers' handbook, of a jumper AND the airplane all descending under the jumpers round parachute after the plane stalled when the parachute deployed as the jumper was caught on the undercarriage. (They DID live!) Of course the other possibility is the pilot chute or parachute deploys over the rear stabilizer and pulls the jumper off into it, breaking his head/neck/scapula/whatever. or maybe just hanging up the jumper under the stabilizer by the canopy caught up on it (hope it wasn't his reserve he dumped!). What if it isn't the booty that's caught, but the guy's foot has slipped and gotten caught in there somewhere? Maybe his foot'll come off and he's left in midair spouting arterial blood? Oh, I forgot, in a stretching injury like that the veins and arteries would narrow as they stretched, so there might not be so much blood right away.... Anyways, dumping in that situation would just be plain dumb.... A buddy of mine ended up in a situation like that too. Scary thing is the pilot didn't even know till the rest of the team landed and radioed up to him. The best thing is the plane circles till it's almost out of gas, giving the hung-up jumper AND the pilot as much time as possible to get him unhung, then you just gotta land with it, man. I understand you can backfly pretty smooth till they put the flaps down.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

__________________________________________________ I believe the pond was filled with gators, back then.... definitely those prices are from the 70's, not the 80's. Low jumps in 79-80 in Canada were $10-12, we had a university club that subsidized your first ten jumps a bit, I think we ended up paying like $6 per jump, (low jumps) If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Yea, right. Ever hear of AEROSTAT? AEROSTAT Sparky Wow! interesting, a 12,000 ft mooring cable. I see what they say about restricted zone 2 or 3 miles radius, but what about weekend pilots that don't read maps or use radios? Or are these located in areas where none of those exist? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

I don't know about the so called "Urban Myth" from the originator of this thread since he has ties to the UK. But the death camping which has occurred in the past has been at a span in Idaho (a bridge) which is legal to jump from 24 hours a day 365 days a year and at least initially the student was instructed to make water landings. Remember BASE is an acronym and it stands for Buildings, Antennas, Spans (bridges) and Earth (cliffs). It's a controversial topic to say the least, but it has been done. Gee, you guys are so young. 'The death camping that has occurred in the past...' I'll wait for Nick to hop in here, but Carl Boenish's teenaged neighbor did over 100 BASE jumps before jumping out of a plane, and they weren't all bridges. That would be in -- what -- '81? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Note: D = 200 jumps in Australia. An AAD is required until D licence, and between D & E (500 jumps), either an AAD or an RSL is required. What if you're doing CRW? I wouldn't want either in that case. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

What about if you're doing crw, not a good idea to have either, in my opinion, when doing crw? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

http://skydivehame.com/cf/index.php If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

As the deadline for the big aad debate at the CSPA AGM, I ask.... Are AADs mandatory in: France? Russia? Belgium? Denmark? Saudi Arabia? Spain (Empuriabrava?) Turkey? If so, are exceptions allowed? Like CRW? Swooping? Certain licence levels being exempt? Looking for NATIONAL ORGANIZATION POLICIES only, not specific 'my dropzone-only' info. Any other countries where AADs are mandated past student level? Please, try to only reply with CURRENT, and TRUE FACTS, not opinions from "When I was there in 1999...." I'm expecially looking for input from some of the nationals involved. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

For a moment you had me wondering what #92 meant.... Would have liked to have met Tom Skypuppy BASE 92 If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Alcohol is good for scars. It's antiseptic. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Bruce Robertson at Sun Path must have over 10,000 now? If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

Seems to me there's a whole range of wind-speeds between no wind and coming straight down, and once you throw in a hook turn, even higher wind speeds still give your body forward speed on landing. So in any of these lower wind speeds, it would help to pull down on the rear risers to bleed off forward speed (and slow rate of descent). In higher wind speeds where you're backing up, it was sort of a trade-off, if you timed it right, you could reduce your rate of descent WITHOUT too much of an increase in backwards ground speed -- if you held them down too long, your ground speed (backwards) picked up and you went ass over teakettle. If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

YTo answer your question, if there is a full moon in, say, Toronto, the rest of the world should be treated by a full moon as well. This is because, while the earth rotates once a day (as far as I remember), the moon revolves around the earth only once a moonth...I mean, month. __________________________________________________ You know, if it hadn't been for the last half of the 1980's, I might have been able to figure that out for myself.... Thanks.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

thanks I looked at the sites -- by angular differences, I guess you're talking about Northern or Southern Hemisphere (and how far north/south) although it looks like both hemispheres will still have the full moon on the same dates.... If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone