Jayboz

I guess you mean Erie PA? http://www.erieskydivers.com/ They have a 182, and I think they jump during the winter months.

from http://www.blincmagazine.com/cms/article_18.shtml 1906 A British expatriate named Bobby Leach jumped from the Rainbow Bridge between Niagara Falls, Ontario and Niagara Falls, New York with a parachute in 1906, landing in the Niagara River. At that time the bridge was only about half the distance from the falls that it is now (original bridge was destroyed by ice in the '30's). Leach was a daredevil, twice swimming across the Whirlpool rapids as a stunt. He later jumped from a plane over Canada but was blown back and landed in New York.

I bought my first rig from him about a year ago. I got good equipment at a very reasonable price. I was a little weary at first being new to the sport and not really sure what was good equipment vs. crap. But a year and 300 jumps later I'm still very happy with what I bought. I'd highly recommend the guy. -Jason

I guess I'll wait for the 'Jesus on a 4-way' to come out. I'm sure they'll make 'Jesus going head down' for the freeflyers.

Diverdriver summed it up nicely. Here's way more than you're looking for: http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~sbrooks/book/nish.mit.edu/2006/Textbook/Nodes/chap05/node12.html#SECTION00241200000000000000 and http://filebox.vt.edu/eng/mech/scott/gasturbine.html Oh! and I found this program once that models turbine performance. I thought this was cool! http://www.gasturb.de/GasTurbMainPage/gasturbmainpage.html

Not your typical Whuffos: So I'm out working with a field crew not too long ago and word got out I skydive. One of the mechanics comes up to me and says: "So I hear your a skydiver" Me: "Yup" "Now, why would anyone jump from a perfectly good airplane?" I reminded him "You know, there's no such thing as a PERFECTLY good airplane" He really didn't say anything in reply. As a mechanic himself I think he understood. Being the smart crew they were for the rest of the job they kept saying "Why would anyone jump from a SAFE airplane?" I generally didn't have a good reply only "it's fun".

Ahhh, the story of my life http://www.thelissners.com/PICS/COMEDYPCIS/TheNack.wav

Interesting. A 200lb person being shot up 15000 ft would require 3,000,000 ft*lbs of energy Say you were to compress a spring 50 feet for the catapult, it would have a spring constant of 2400 lbs/ft. (1/2 KX^2) A spring compressed 50 foot with this spring constant will put 120,000 lbs of foce on a person (F=KX) A 200 lb person with this amount of force exerted on them for 50 feet will accelerate at a rate of 19320 ft/sec^2 (F=MA) or about 600 G’s give or take. Though I shot this estimate from the hip, I'd have to say No. By the way, I don't wonder why I can't get chicks

Yup, That was cool! Wooooosh...there goes Mark.

And they plan on making money how? or are they hop + pops from 3000?

Is it just me or haven't they updated the onion.com in about a month? Anyone know why?

Found this kicking around my lower left hand desk drawer too. only goes up to 6,000 ft. The non-linearity becomes more apparent as altitude increases. alti vs atmos pressure.pdf

For what it's worth... Alti and Pressure.pdf

No doubt. View from altitude in Northern Cal includes water and green grass. Southern Cal, brown desert. Northern Cal: Windy (at least when I was there) Southern Cal: Dust Devils. Northern Cal: King Airs and Caravans and Cessnas Oh My! Southern Cal: Hey, What's a 'Cessna' People are just as friendly wherever you go. I haven't came across any of those 'cliquie' dropzones people write about in Parachutist.

Don't forget about Hollister, Davis and Lodi. I spent a few weeks up there and did 5 dropzones in 2 days. Byron, Lodi and Davis on day 1 then Monterey Bay and Hollister the next. Wanted to hit more but the weather crapped out and I had work. I ended up spending the rest of my time at Davis anyhow. It's good jumping up there in Norcal. I'll be sure to return sometime.