Rickendiver

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About Rickendiver

  • Birthday 06/03/1956

Gear

  • Container Other
    Infinity
  • Main Canopy Size
    150
  • Main Canopy Other
    Pilot
  • Reserve Canopy Size
    176
  • Reserve Canopy Other
    PD
  • AAD
    Vigil 2

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  • Home DZ
    Bay Area Skydiving, Skydive California
  • License
    C
  • License Number
    42646
  • Licensing Organization
    USPA
  • Number of Jumps
    900
  • Years in Sport
    10
  • First Choice Discipline
    Formation Skydiving
  • Freefall Photographer
    No

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  1. You could try a self-burble technique. Bring your hands to the center of your chest a few inches off of it. Join the hands in a fist, or clasped together in a kind of praying position. This will increase your fall rate without driving you forward. It will reduce your stability, so you'll have to be ready for and compensate for that.
  2. The essential mission of the National Ignition Facility is to study the physics of fusion as part the stockpile stewardship program that replaced the underground nuclear testing program at Nevada Test Site. Since the last US test was conducted in 1992, and we no longer have that capability, the success of NIF is critical to ensuring the safety of our nuclear arsenal. But it also is used for much, much more- to enable further understanding of our universe and for continued research into fusion reactor power development. This link is more explanatory, (and less blatantly pandering for congressional funding) https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/what-is-nif
  3. FWIW, I did not particularly like the way the article was written, either. I was more focused on the accomplishment from my alma mater. Did not intend this to become a political grenade. Mods, please move this to Speakers Corner, if appropriate.
  4. Practical fusion energy is still a long ways off, but this is a significant accomplishment. https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition
  5. Rickendiver

    N4980V

    Yolo County Airport, sometime in the early 1980's
  6. Exactly- Besides being VERY easy to track, there’s the problem of what happens if it gets shot down, or blows up on the launch pad. Nevada Test Site back in the 1980’s & 1990’s was like a time capsule of forgotten Cold War projects just lying around in the desert. Pluto, Plowshare, MX train system, etc. I worked there occasionally on the underground nuclear test program, and the subcritical tests after the Cold War ended.
  7. Sorta been done before. A bit before my time, but I knew people that worked on this project. REALLY stupid things require government funding. I've visited the remnants of this project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
  8. Bay Area Skydiving in Byron is also a good option. Great aircraft and great vibe. I've jumped at all 3 and you really can't go wrong at any of those 3 DZ's,
  9. Pacific Skydiving Center ( the one in the middle). Two Supervans, good operation. No FBO’s on the field that I could tell. Army still owns the airfield so no alcohol allowed🤨 Numerous vacation rentals across the road, but not sure about camping facilities.
  10. Give it a shot! I started at age 55, and am nearly 700 jumps in. You'll have tons of fun
  11. We do them every year at Byron, too. Normal jump run at 13k offset by an "average" tracking distance. No tracking suits allowed, everyone under an open canopy by 3k (IIRC), novice class & open class. We draw exit order by lot, and jumpmaster sends us out 1 at a time with a couple of seconds in between. Judges are positioned on the ground to spot. It helps to note canopy colors prior to contest.
  12. That album is "Bloodshot". Still have mine! Peter Wolf vocals, Magic Dick on harp
  13. From this link, it looks like there were 2 DC-3's used in the movie. The one painted white is clearly not Southern Cross. Southern Cross has Wright R-1820 engines & not the P&W R-1830's that the one in the movie has. The pictures of the one in camo aren't clear enough for me to tell http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Drop_Zone
  14. I loved watching his "Energy Management" routine in the Shrike. Dead stick aerobatics followed by landing and taxi up to the announcer stand without using power or brakes.
  15. Flying legend has flown west today http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2016/10/bob-hoover-one-of-nations-greatest-pilots-dead-at-94/