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Very good article, would love to see the comparison with the GoPro3 added!

Nice! No big changes planned for now, but feels like coming home anyway! Ramon Rainman

Looks like a book I'd love to read! Any chance of a digital version so that I can read it on my Kindle (epub, mobi, pretty much anything except pdf)? Rainman

:3:0 Finally got around to taking the test for my B license on Friday, and made three very nice FS-3 jumps on Sunday!

Me too... Rainman

I used to have a (foreign) 'magazine only' subscription for about five years until the USPA discontinued that type of subscription last year. The only way to keep receiving Parachutist was to become a full USPA member. Ramon Rainman

You don't see many chinchilla's here in The Netherlands , but according to Wikipedia: HTH, Ramon

FYI: The cartoon you attached is in Dutch Ramon Rainman

Or: http://tinyurl.com/27ebx7 Ramon

I only know Tonto from his direct, no-nonsense, kind and insightful postings on dropzone.com, but he will be sorely missed. My thoughts are with his family, friends, and everyone who knew him. Ramon

I am pretty sure that he did not do those jumps with any kind of record in mind, he might have his logbook or something but I'm not sure *I* would count a logbook as backed evidence!.... I'll let him know about this thread and he might 'jump' in! Ramon Rainman

A colleague of mine was a volunteer in the British Armed Forces in the eighties(?). He told me that their group was given a couple of hundred freshly packed parachutes and a tethered balloon to train with for a day. A lot of them didn't really fancy the jumps from 300 ft. and they were 'left' with many many packed rigs begging to be jumped. According to his story, he did over 50 jumps from a balloon in a day. I wasn't there, but the guy is trustworthy and he showed me some pictures (that I currently can't find). Ramon PS: I may have posted something along those lines in January as well... Rainman

Just thought I'd put the link in here, since noone mentioned it yet: Wikipedia on Fulton Recovery System Ramon Rainman

I am very much a newbie here, but on our DZ in the Netherlands we had the opportunity to jump from a 1944 DC3 (Fifi Kate, N47FK). Because the runway at the DZ is not long enough, we took off from a nearby military base, and flew a long climb to arrive over the DZ at about 10000 ft. This long climb gave us a good view of the area where these heroes jumped all those years ago to save our little country. I spent most of the time gazing out of the hole where the door was supposed to be and thinking what it must be like at night, round parachutes, lots of equipment, low altitude and people trying their best to kill you before you land... Your photograph reminds me very much of those jumps. On one of the two jumps I made from Fifi Kate we had an actual veteran accompanying us as an observer. Ramon

From the Ryanair website: [NSFW?] http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/notices.php?notice=060822-ASP-EN I couldn't resist....they posted it, I just link to it Ramon