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Jim Vallendar and I have been busy creating 3 new websites for old skydiving magazine like PARACHUTE, Sky Diver, DZ-USA, and upgrading the PARACHUTIST cover web site.

If you want to check it out: http://manifestmaster.com/magazine/

Enjoy!

its on Netflix too. Look for "The Angry Sky"

BTW, there's a movie about Nick called Angry Skies, currently available on Netflix

and now its on Netflix.

Could it be this?

Wanted to watch the video but you tube says its blocked

any idea why?

Very sad news. Doc Doug jumped with us at Couch Freaks every year since the early 1990's. Great guy.

also something about Jay having a hard landing. Reports say's he'll be ok but the event is over.

Sorry Jay

Awesome effort! You and your team rock!!

Looks like its over.

just short of 300 I think. Looks like bad weather

clipboard on stream just showed #223 @ 4:28 PM (central time)

I wish the video would show what jump # he is on.

Jay Stokes is attempting 700 jumps in 24 hours to break his own record.

Its going on now (Sept 5th)

Live stream here:


http://citylinktv.com/channel/frankfort-kaspar-media/

Cedar Falls, Iowa, December 31st, 1999. 4 of us exited a 182 about 10 seconds before midnight. Cold and windy but well worth it. With Don Briggs, Mike Hoy, and Jeff Eaton. Will never forget that one.

Netflix now has a documentary about Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos project. Look for "Mission to the edge of deep space"

Ok, here's the cheesy music version. (I warned you)

http://youtu.be/aGp77KGXtuY

I found a 1 minute 16mm skydiving movie on eBay, just uploaded it to you tube

http://youtu.be/sBytVNkowcM

Apparently it was made for the VA. Looks like late 1970's based on the hockey helmets, R2's, belly band pilot chute, and Strato Star.

Anybody recognize any of these guys?

(the movie has music but it was so cheesy that I edited it out)

Just found it on You Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b_9z741JIo

Enjoy!

Yup, I got it. What do you need?

I'm currently reading Melissa Nelson's book "Sugar Alpha" (manditory read for all skydivers, get it!), my question is: why wasn't it called Sierra Alpha? (N85SA)

Ok, I'm a picky bastard but Sugar?

Alamo Skydivers run by Larry Van Horne, Pleasanton Texas and Lockhart Texas in the mid 70's. Richard Castillo, Gary Potter, Steve Petto. Where are you guys?

Unless you go Blu-ray, there's no HD on playable DVDs. You could create an HD mp4 and burn it as a data DVD.

I've been giving tandem customers flash drives with HD video for the past 2 years. Faster, easier, but costs more than a DVD disk. Customers love them and its HD.,

I bought this for my cx-150 for shooting tandems.

Century Precision Optics
DS-55WA-37 0.55x Wide Angle Adapter (37mm)

It'll run you $100 from B&H photo.

If you want to protect it (recommended), for $38 you can get a UV filter (43mm UV Haze 010 F-Pro MRC Filter)

I love B&H photo for buying this stuff. Highly recommended.


Hope this helps

Yeah the GoPro movement pisses me off because of 20+ years of shooting video/stills with heavy camcorders and film cameras. But times are changing. We're going to have to live with it. The GoPro quality is certainly better than the VHS tapes I used to hand to customers.

As far as still photos go, the customers don't know what they're missing. Its what the market will bear.

I'm not happy with it but welcome to 2012.

We are considering giving tandem customers their video on a usb flash drive instead of a DVD disk, or at least making it an option for them.

8 GB drives are available for under $10. The flash drive can contain an MP4 of their edited video, a folder containing their authored DVD files (ie. VIDEO_TS) so they can burn their own DVDs, a folder with jpegs, and even a folder with raw footage.

We've been debating the pros and cons of doing this. We are considering it at least as an option.

Has any DZ tried this?

the CX-150 works great. Has EIS. it is out of production and you'll have to get one off ebay. got a new in box one for $269

the only gripe about it is the card access is on the bottom.