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The most he ever put outside was 17. The plane had a 1' wide 8' long sidewalk under the door that was designed by a retired Beechcraft engineer.

Hey Guys, I will be oganizing the CReW portion of the Keys Boogie this year. The event runs Thursday to Sunday November 11-14, 2010. It will be a good chance to thaw out. The place is beautiful to skydive at. You can find it on google earth by entering Marathon Airport, FL The landing area is the green field at the lower left corner of the runway. Skydive Sebastian is hosting the event. You can find all the details at their websit www.skydiveseb.com Registration is $50 and it includes organizer, t-shirt. and dinner (with beer) Saturday night. Food will be provided by the Carbone Zone. It is worth the trip to the Keys just to hang out with Scotty (He used to be a CReW Dog). Total registration for the event including freefallers is limited to 200 people so don't snooze. The event hotel is the Coconut Cay Resort. It is nothing fancy but it is walking distance from the landing area. The hotel number is 305-289-7672. There will be beach jumps at sunset each day and a trip to Key West on Friday night. Let me know if you are going and I will get the list started. Happy Landing, Mike

We always tie a pullup cord to the wingsuiter's ankle in case he flies up one of our butts. It makes it easier to pull him out.

I'll do it. Someone needs to tell them how scary CReW is. It's not all beautiful diamonds in the sky. Sometimes you get a lineburn. Mike

There will be a CReW seminar at Z-hills Oct 15-17, 2010. The focus will be on newbies but everyone is welcome to attend. More posts will follow.

You bet your sweet ass I am! Perhaps we should notify PETA about all this toad sucking.

Guys, I don't know who started calling this event at Deland a "Demo" but they should be banned from USPA for saying something so ridiculous. I was there and I saw CReW Dogs laughing and having a good time while doing three-dimensional 25-way sequential. There is no-way that this could be a "Demo". We were there first and foremost to do CReW and have fun. Perhaps our jumps somehow managed to represent our part of this wonderful sport in honor of the first group of inductees to the Skydiving Hall of Fame. Maybe it was just a coincidence that the formation had a large American flag hanging on the bottom of it as well as smoke. Everyone was also trailing 300 foot ribbons and the people on the ground were hearing a live broadcast from the top of the formation, but that is just the way we do it sometimes. It was good that the leaders of our sport wanted CReW at this event and I am relieved and amazed that we didn't screw it up since the 30 of us only had an average of 3,800 jumps each for a total of more than 115,000 jumps and over 660 years of experience in both the sport and profession of skydiving. After all we are just a bunch of toadsucking canopy grabbers passing the time untill the beer lamp is lit. Our out-of-control (apparently un-professional) behavior has already attracted other rogues. Today I recieved an email from a new friend of our community who saw CReW for the first time this weekend. He was really impressed but I think he is either another rebel like us or just crazy. His name is Joe and he claims to have broken the speed of sound in freefall 50 years ago. Maybe he would make a good CReW Dog. Demonstration jumps are statistically the most dangerous type of legal skydiving mainly because they don't take place at a dropzone. This was at a dropzone so it was not a "Demo". Whoever labeled this a "Demo" was spreading dangerous mis-information that could get some whuffo injured. I have launched an investigation into this crime. When the no-good scoundrel is found he/she will be forced to do 4-way with Annie, Stanley and Chico at Nationals this year. Skydiving is an extreme sport but it is also and always must remain fun. Let us not take ourselves so seriously that we try to deny others the right to be skydivers. Love you guys, Mike

The F-111 Lightning will have less forward speed and this will cause it to fly down the slope at a slower rate. The result will be the appearence of having more float while being rather unforgiving if you get too far behind the formation. It would be good for a wing on a big formation if it was loaded heavy. Otherwise stay with the Zero-P Lightnings. Happy Landings