dicksog

Whoa! Let's get back to the subject matter, the Bodyflight tunnel. We can poke fun at each other elsewhere. At the moment we're like kids locked in a sweetie (candy) shop and we've just realised we're stuck in here for the WHOLE of the Christmas holidays! It's a really good tunnel and I don't think the people that have been in it yet have come close to what can be done in it. It's only been testing for a week! Ron, if you do come over give us a shout and I'm sure I could try and introduce to the delights of warm beer, whilst we discuss our differences. Even prepared to take you to the original Boston and buy you a cup of tea but I have to admit to preferring your Boston!

But is Ft Bragg available to the general public? Anyone else ever seen sit and flat doing formations in a tunnel before. Then there was the Knee Flying, Flat, and that "dark side" thing where they've got arms out to either side, bent over with a leg going backwards and one straight down (i like fs ok), all together in the tunnel at the same time!!!! AND he's only running on half power! As for photos, Paul put some up here http://bodyflight.co.uk/fly.jpg http://bodyflight.co.uk/fly2.jpg http://bodyflight.co.uk/fly3.jpg http://bodyflight.co.uk/fly4.jpg WANT ANOTHER GO! Ooops, forgot, Bodyflight 16ft

Ok, first things first, I've got about 2-3 hrs in the Orlando tunnel but none since they've upgraded the motors. The Bodyflight tunnel just north of Bedford in the UK is absolutely awesome. The air is consistently smooth, non of the dropouts or sudden updraughts I got in Orlando. This maybe a feature of re-circulating tunnels, but until there's another no way to tell. I went with three other people, we're a team next year, and have done several jumps together over the summer. They let us fly together, after individual checkout dives and I wouldn't expect anything less(!), the sixteen foot diameter allowed even a relatively tunnel inexperienced (50% tunnel virgins!!!) team to fly together without constantly banging the walls, unless we were doing something wrong. The front of our Sidebody (P) floats!! All four of us came out with grins The Cheshire Cat would envy. We were doing Sattelite-Sidebody-Star with relative ease (see above for the P) and the added diameter highlighted something immediately, that we wouldn't have spotted in 12 feet. I have tried a bipole-540-bipole in Orlando and my knees still flinch at the memory. Again I haven't been in the Orlando tunnel with the new motors, but it struggled with a four way on the old ones, in the Bedford one we asked them to turn it down!!! There's a lot of GO in that tunnel and plenty of room as well. I couldn't be happier if I was a pig in S**t. Well done to Paul and the team even though they're not open AND it was Staff training night, they were professional, courteous, safety conscious and on the ball. Go buy time NOW, you won't regret it, and to our friends across the pond, Yours may have been first but for once Ours is bigger AND better. dicksog (with big grin) p.s. off to see bank manager in the morning

Had a look round the Bodyflight tunnel yesterday. Oh boy, oh boy, is it big! We actually got to stand in the middle of the flight chamber and I can't wait for it to open, it's massive. Easily get a four way in there and do ALL formations. They're busily working on all sorts of stuff but the key bits (prop and motor) are in, I've seen them. They can't be far off flying in it and I really, really want to have a play!!

Carefull the one in Bedford is NOT Skyventure. Check out this forum Soo many tunnels, so little time

Never mind the buses, two tunnels, one of which is 16ft in diameter, which 4-way formations won't you be able to do and spoilt for choice as well. Something to do on a rainy weekend