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  1. kick him in the nuts! if you dont wanna do that, i know where you can get his legs broken..LOL
  2. well it aint ALL refineries and chemical plants like the northern end dude.
  3. actually the navy had a 32 foot flat circular, used by their rigger school (at lakehurst i believe) pioneer's 32 lopo was based on it.
  4. it is a T 10 with an ELIPTICAL tu 5 mod.i have only seen one other one in this color pattern (in a box at the the old CAPTAIN JOE'S SURPLUS in philadelphia circa 1967) Glen King who used to work at Switlik in the 70's ,had t 10 made in a custom orange and white pattern
  5. anyone know what he is doing these days?last saw him in 93 at rigging innovations working on a hidden base rig for a movie stunt..
  6. anyone in manufacturing have a source for 4-5 oz kevlar fabric,that isnt like 90 bucks a yard?
  7. IIRC, the caption says something like bulldoggin..shot over Lancaster Calif. Ralph White also shot quite a bit of the underwater fotage of the TITANIC.He passed away this past spring
  8. maybe they are just experiencing a " gravitational microburst"
  9. during the gas crisis of 1973/74 i chased a gas thief from my driveway with a shotgun and a german sheppard
  10. ok, ever hear of Alexander Graham Kowalski? he was the first telephone pole..... scientists in florida discovered that by feed ing dolphins a certain species of seagull,that the dolphins will live forever. this specifcic seagull is only found in georgia. one day while driving a truck load of seagulls to their facility in florida, the scientists were arrested.the charge was transporting gulls across state lines for immortal porpoises
  11. also in the errors department, they make it sound like PD had anything to do with the early development of ram air canopies, totally ignoring the efforts of jalbert, Steve Snyder ,Dick Morgan and Para Flite
  12. he supposedly jumps and lives in eastern tennessee/has anyone ever met him or jumped with him?
  13. yer lucky,we used to have farmers who either haad shotguns or had you arrested
  14. hope you offered to pay for repairs to the farmers equipment. it goes a long way towards building good will.......
  15. NO. they closed their doors back in the 80's.as i said it was a Big corporate dropzone ,one of 2(or 3) that they operated at the time
  16. actually the oval shaped (X section)ripcords were available in white for mains (80%polycarbonate,20% glass)and red (70%polycarbonate,30%glass) for reserves.they were made and sold by Steve Snyder's SSE Inc/Para Flite.the very first Strong enterprises plastic ripcord that we saw at SSE/PFI failed when we pulled it on our ripcord test bench(less than 200 lbs at room temp)FAA reqirement is 300lbs for 3seconds.
  17. Ed Callahan (of para flite/ airborne systems) was one of those students. we have heard quite a few "horror" stories over the years about this particular dz,some that were downrite criminal.
  18. if the "v " rings are on the side wings of the container,then they are just for anchoring the reserve belly band(it keeps the reserve from flopping around).can you post a pic? if they are om the main lift web, then youve got a problem if they are just hand tacked.
  19. i remember Billy reevis too. he had come up to Steve Snyders dropzone in new jersey to jump the para plane.for some reason , all the control lines ripped off the tail on one side and put him in a violent spin. rather than cut away, billy just fired his reserve off which cleared and opened. i took pictures of the whole sequence with a 400 mm lens ,came out pretty good. people crticized him ,quite severely as i recall, but the pitures show that the reserve never really stood a chance of entanglement because the main was diving.someday i will dig out my old negatives.........
  20. Can you say prostitution?..sure, i knew you could.