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It's not produced by Carl as such, but it's the best quality format you are going to get of his work: Gypsy Moths The documentary from the DVD featuring Carl is on ftp.skydivingmovies.com The Skydivers (110 MB)

I saw that video this weekend. I've asked Simon to encode it and upload it someone as testament to Lukas. Hearing him say, "I am the fastest motherfucker in the valley!" over the radio gave me goose-bumps. FastestMotherFuckerInTheValley.WMV Will probably move to FastestMotherFuckerInTheValley.WMV in the future

Vmax Pretty good?

Bump. Just to remind everyone that this is happening tomorrow. Any dropzone.com members going to be there?

full story on the BASE board edit: also a good example of the value of protective equipment

and have a system for identifying or remembering which rig is which (i.e. a pull-up tied somewhere (that won't interfere with the system) on the rig that is in a certain configuration) especially if you are forgetfull, have similar rigs or are not jumping frequently. You don't want to be taking your slider up, stuffed nose off a 200 footer! In a similar vein, if your rig is not in a jumpable configuration, one recommendation is to pack the pilot chute inside the rig (as I would hope you check your PC at some point before exit!) so that it cannot be jumped. A few years ago, a jumper with two very similar rigs mistakenly picked up the one that had been field packed (i.e. rigger rolled/daisy chained) and jumped it!! Luckily he lived.

Kerry, what's the Patent number?

Sorry to bump this, but I'm not much of a Talk-Back guy and only found this recently after a narcissistic search. Never kicked anyone in the nuts in my life so you've got no worries Willem. More likely to buy you a beer but looks like I've missed my chance in this country. Oh well, I'm sure it will happen at a dropzone somewhere, someday. I think the biggest compliment I can pay Willem is to use his forums, but I reserve the right pick holes when necessary!

Actually it's open canopy fatalities. :-P Okay, so the container has to be open for the canopy to be open but when I saw the title I thought it was going to be a pull-out vs. throw-out argument and put off reading it. Going to read it now...

See http://www.zct.co.uk/skydivemag/latestnews/jul02-jmsnewsround.html##bond Don't know who, but someone (wasn't me!) has uploaded a clip of this from the movie onto skydivingmovies.com bond20_skydive.mov (~7 MB)

Hello Everybody, It's been ages since we've had a piss-up, it's almost Christmas, people will be off to Christmas boogies (at least one of our gang is off to the 300way attempts in Arizona!) and lots of people have been hassling me for another so I hope you can join us. So, Wednesday 27th November 2002 7pm onwards Moon Under the Water, Charing Cross Road (half way between Tottenham Court Road and Leicester Square tube stations). For those not familiar with this concept, it's an occasional get togther for those interested in aerodynamic deccelerators. organised via email and newsgroups (and now web-based forums), so that many alcoholic drinks can be drunk and much bullshit talked about, which is especially popular at this time of year when people are less able to get their altitude fix. We met in the biggest pub in London which has a huge range of reasonably priced food and drinks, which doesn't play any music making it easier to talk. Dropzone.com members welcome! Willem, if you are still around (typical that I organise a piss-up a few days after you leave!), it would be great to see you there too.

This shot is now available "officially" (and in QuickTime format) in the Hercules Boogie 2002 preview on HeadDown.net

Buy the canopy!

Yes, but what were the constinuent components of the rig, that's the crucial information?! I suspect it was all "foreign" in their eyes. Deland have been proven (as in the uk.rec.skydiving thread) to be one of the sticklers when interpreting the FAA regulations when the container is US manufactured.

Just to add a bit more confusion to the honouring of foreign repack cycles, is the Parachutes de France Techno canopy "TSO'd" (whatever that means)? The manual refers to the TSO C23c CAT B maximum weight limit on page 6 but no literal approval under TSO. Since FAR 105.49(4) talks about "all foreign non-approved parachutes", if the Techno is approved, the fact that it is "foreign" (manufacturer, packed, owned, and used) is academic? The sooner the US moves to a 180 day repack cycle, the better.

Hey, I resemble that smart ass comment!

Cool! Is it the same letter as the scan above? I tried to get it on the website with little success.

Is it because your phone looks like this? :-)

About 6 foot. It was my best i.e. once! Usually average between 2 and 2.5 minutes Difficult to say, I'm not consistently gathering data on this stuff to know. GPS data can be pretty peaky too. I don't think I'm particularly fast. From the data I have access to at the moment, the max speed is just over 100 mph. Not nearly as fast as Robert or Lukas though. In my experience sounds reasonable to me. Fraser (who's taller and thinner than I), remember that jump we did at Weston where you were out of my sight because you were directly behind me and although you can better me on descent rate you were having a hard time catching up with me? I found Robert and Yuri's discussion interesting on the BLINC wingsuit forum. It's easy to say speed is important when you're already a minuteman :-). I'd like both. Once I've got the minute, I'll concentrate on speed. I saw that video this weekend. I've asked Simon to encode it and upload it someone as testament to Lukas. Hearing him say, "I am the fastest motherfucker in the valley!" over the radio gave me goose-bumps. I'm not sure and I wish I knew. Not enough consistency in jumping on my part I'm afraid. As with most things in our sport(s) body size plays and important factor but with a lot of skill it can be overcome and I think those of us who are "bigger boned" are disadvantaged. It's easier for smaller people to go faster than it is for bigger people to go slower?

How longs a piece of string? Adrian managed nearly five minutes from 30,000 feet. Ask a CRW jumper what's the delay from x,000 feet and the answer is always 2 seconds. Ask a wingsuit jumper with a ProTrack and it's always 119 seconds (as that's the maximum it will record :-P). What goes around, comes around, I'm back to timing my freefalls with stopwatch :-) although not like the olden days when they used one to see when to pull; I use it to see when I've pulled. Quite often I'll take my camera on a solo so I know how long I've been. Seriously though, I have at least a 225 lb exit weight on a Skyflyer and my best is about 2.5 minutes for 10,000 feet of freefall. Would like to improve on that.

Have you actually tried to get it from the BPA Bob? Anyway, it's available at: CAA Cypres letter

Not quite true. It's true to say that it may take a couple of seconds to decided you are in freefall rather than a descending plane, but during the climb the ProTrack is constantly buffering readings so that it can retrospectively determine when you exited. Have you noticed in the JumpTrack software how it actually charts from -2 seconds, and the altitude plot is usually flat for those 2 seconds until exit. example

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From Classic Heritage No mention of stabilisers though

As far as I am aware, unless you can think of anymore? In fact, there were too many because of a duplicate which I've merged but the number didn't decrease because I also added the student fatality in Oregon. BSBD.