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QuoteHow was Oshkosh this year?
***Fun!
Got weathered a couple of times, but a great time!
This was our 20th year opening there!
I did a few candycanes on your old canopy!
~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~
RonD1120 60
I did a few candycanes on your old canopy!
I believe that was SN006. I still have her older sister, SN002. Who knows she may fly again.
Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.
Found another one...
from the real early 80's
~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~
from the real early 80's
~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~
RonD1120 60
QuoteFound another one...
from the real early 80's
WOW JT with brown hair. I almost didn't recognize him.
Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.
QuoteQuoteFound another one...
from the real early 80's
WOW JT with brown hair. I almost didn't recognize him.
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I said it was an OLD picture!!!
~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~
Smitty was living and well at Oshkosh, 1986.
Perfect speed is being there at the goat roast.
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I brought Smitty to Perris Valley Skydiving Center December 15th, 1985 where he made a tandem jump joined by the Mirror Image World Champion 8 way team sponsored by Coors beer.
The Coors team was formerly known as Visions before they got the sponsorship. Visions/Coors was the world champion 8 way team at the 1985 meet in Yugoslavia. Visions had also won the 1983 world meet in South Africa, but all of the other heavyweight contenders like France, the Soviets, and China had stayed away because of the apartheid regime, so the "competition" was mostly a bunch of cream puff teams. At the Yugoslavia meet Coors won the old fashioned way, by beating the real competitors. Mirror Image was still around in '85, but had not been to a world championship since their win at Z-Hills in '81.
Intereestingly enough, getting back to the 1983 So. African meet, FAI sanctioned a "protest" meet with Worl Cup status at Abbotsford, BC, Canada in '83. Mirror Image did represent the US at the Abbotsford Cup meet, where I think they finished second behind the French (?). Also the U.S. Army 4 way team won the Nationals that year, but were not permitted to go to So. Africa, but went to the Abbotsford meet and I don't remember whether they won or placed. With the Army not going to So. Africa, one of the Visions 4 way teams, either "Fire" or "Ice", which had finished second at the Nationals, went as the US 4 way team.
Sorry, this wasn't meant to detract from the Smitty story, but the confusion about Mirror Image and Coors stirred up some memories about some interesting times for two really great teams.
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Hope you enjoy the PICS
Tony
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