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FlyinDawg

Any skydivers done like this?

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It was at least 2 years before that cover drawing came out that we tried a couple of rollerball dives at Ghoulidge.
We tried building a flat formation and then attempted to fold it under on itself to form the round shape. Those two dives ended up in many thousands of feet of assholes and armpits funneling.
We also tried rolling a formation out the door that grip-shifted into a round ball, but that failed too, and we went back to flat flying.
I still think it could be done, especially nowadays when more people have experience flying vertically and inverted. If a group like Arizona Airspeed decided to do it, it would get done in a few tries.

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After thinking about this a bit more, I recall a jumper named Matt Farmer, who organized a lot of dives at Ghoulidge back when I had just showed up there, tried to do the rollerball dive too. Seems his design had 12 to 15 jumpers in it. I was on one of the tries. It didn't work then either. We managed to build the basic flat formation, but when we tried to fold it around into a ball, it began to spin until the centripetal forces tore it apart.
Zing Lurks

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i think that would be cool as hell to see, but what about the burbles?? ever see the kids toy that would go from flat to planet like kinda like the picture looks...wonder if there's a way to start off flat and "expand" to make the planet formation?? what do i know, the most time i spend belly flying is doing a tandem videoB|

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Sorry JP... I thought you was right. But, Howard provided the inside of the cover. Sure looked like one of Pat's renderings to me.




Well we learn something new every day, don't we?B|
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What will it take to convince you? :P
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HW



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Don't F**** with Howard.:P


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We tried one like that in Houston, but after that came out. Same result; impressively massive funnel.

Wendy W.
There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Well, speaking of old...
The same issue of Parachutist had a feature on "Skydiving in the '80s," featuring little quotes from folks (some of them still around) looking to the future.
Some of the ideas are a little weird, some prescient.
Here are some samples. (More in next.)
HW

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