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I guess the left thinks free speech only applies to flag burning, gay rights groups. Such a shame Nonsense. I'm a leftist, as as far as I'm concerned you can say what you like. That doesn't however absolve you from critiscism of the content of your speech. I personally think that the guy is a superstitous moron. It's his right to spout crap, and my right to call him on it. It's got nothing to do with the endless left vs right tedious debate.

I don't beleive regulation will work for this. There is enough education and peer review as is needed right now. I've seen a lot of very nasty accidents under high performance canopies, and quite frankly, every single one could have been avoided if the person involved had shown better judgement of their abilities as a canopy pilot. The problem that we deal with is that we forget that we draw from the same population pool that likes to drink and drive, alligator wrestle, etc. Basically, if someone is set on pushing their personal envelope far further than they should, there is a limit to what the general skydiving communiy can do. I've seen people who are pig headed enough to move drop zones and falsify logbooks to get what they deem is their right to jump a canopy they have no business being under. Simply put, there's a limit to what we can do. This sport is all about personal responsibility and sensible risk management. If people can't aquire those skills, then they're always going to be a liablity to themselves and other in whatever they decide to do. Regulations won't help, education might.

Snip. Forget it. You want to play at skydiver and do USPA sanctioned courses to hand out USPA ratings, using a USPA course director and examiners ? Join USPA, or pay up, or quit whining.

It's a Focke Wulf. They are designed to work off unpaved and rough strips as well as normal runways. The engines are mounted above the wings to reduce particulate and foreign object damage on take off. I know a pilot who has folwn one, and says it flies like it looks, a bit of a pig. If you go to the Hercules Boogie in Sweden, there a local airline that flies them out of Lidkoping.

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Then the acid wore off, and people realised that he was just recycling Albert King licks. And badly at that. I think the list should have included Malcolm Young or Johnny Ramone, or Jimmie Vaughan, but I'm funny like that. Anyone who invents a whole new way of filling in the time when the guitar isn't being used as a lead instrument like those three for example, deserves some props. They rarely if ever do though. I've always thought it wrong to regard technical proficiency over innovation. If we did that for literature, we'd give Booker prizes to the writers who could type the fastest.

And he doesn't have an ounce of soul in his whole body.

He was the bass guitarist...Lok for him in the 100 greatest bassplayers poll.

Dang! Having been on the recieving end of many-a-Holder insult You mispelled "professional coaching". bulb-headed shitbarge.

You gotta love a company firewall that queues up stuff and then resends it for you. Oh well, if my pearls of wisdom were good the first time, they're three times better now.

QuoteA liberal with a gas-guzzling upper-crusty Mercedes? Does he feel any guilt about having such a vehicle, Deuce? How many books could that car buy for inner city schools? How many soldiers have to die to fuel it? How many dolphins must get caught in the ship's screws to transport it here? Who cares ? I'm doing my bit for the economy by recklessly consuming. Of course if I can cause some disconnect by painting a Mercedes Kompressor with anti Busgh slogans, it's all the better. You wouldn't believe how many nice people wave at me on the freeway. Poor things don't seem to be using the whole hand all the time though. Best money I every spent for amusement value I have to say.

QuoteA liberal with a gas-guzzling upper-crusty Mercedes? Does he feel any guilt about having such a vehicle, Deuce? How many books could that car buy for inner city schools? How many soldiers have to die to fuel it? How many dolphins must get caught in the ship's screws to transport it here? Who cares ? I'm doing my bit for the economy by recklessly consuming. Of course if I can cause some disconnect by painting a Mercedes Kompressor with anti Busgh slogans, it's all the better. You wouldn't believe how many nice people wave at me on the freeway. Poor things don't seem to be using the whole hand all the time though. Best money I every spent for amusement value I have to say.

QuoteA liberal with a gas-guzzling upper-crusty Mercedes? Does he feel any guilt about having such a vehicle, Deuce? How many books could that car buy for inner city schools? How many soldiers have to die to fuel it? How many dolphins must get caught in the ship's screws to transport it here? Who cares ? I'm doing my bit for the economy by recklessly consuming. Of course if I can cause some disconnect by painting a Mercedes Kompressor with anti Busgh slogans, it's all the better. You wouldn't believe how many nice people wave at me on the freeway. Poor things don't seem to be using the whole hand all the time though. Best money I every spent for amusement value I have to say.

Dang! Having been on the recieving end of many-a-Holder insult, I was truly looking forward to witnessing one. BillV, you'd get along great with GH, he's got a sticker on his Mercedes coupe that says something like "Bush, the other-other white meat", or something. It actually says - "BUSH - The only dope worth shooting" Anyway, it wasn't really an insult, more of an observation about the nature of relationships between the early native americans, the buffalo, and the resultant genetic makeup of Texas conservatives. Very astute, even if I do say so myself.

[ I was waiting for a left-winger to bring this up but I didn't think it would be you. I was going to compose a long and thought out reply to this, but then I decided to go the easy route and just mix a short reply with an nice insult. Limbaugh is a well read cretin. He knew exactly what he was saying. Like most other liberal baiters, he makes his money serving up the same tired pabulum that a particular brand of conservative likes to hear. If you like it, please feel free to consume that drivel in promotional quantities in lieu of actually thinkng. insult deleted. Cut it out.

Gareth too. But some folks just embody the Byron love. Love for his fellow man and woman ? Sefless above all else ? That would be me wouldn't it ?

I thought I recognized that jumpsuit and canopy.. Is that a very comfortable but unfortunately deploying in the cameraman's face Wings container? If it had been any other rig than the the superior fit and comfort of my Wings container, I would have hit JP. That's how good they are. Besides which, I was so hungover at that point, I was actually doing well to remember to deploy. You'll notice that the picture is of a video capture. This is becuase JP was too busy screaming like a little girl to actuate his mouth switch and get a good picture. Big wuss. I'll try to get closer next time.

This normally is not the policy at the Byron Boogie, but this year the organization was different. The boogie was not put on by the drop zone for the first time in it's history, but by Gravity Gear. Byron essentially hosted the event and the manifestors donated their time free. Because of this, Gravity Gear had the arrangement with Skydive Arizona for the aircraft, and was responsible for the fees. Byron's manifest was separate essentially from this arrangement. Therefore they had to use different tickets for the Arizona airccraft, and didn't have the ability to refund. They would however, honor those tickets for their own plane, the King Air, which was nice, considering that they were not obliged to do so. If you have a complaint about that non refund polcicy, it's probably better directed at Gravity Gear for a full explanation. That's how I understand it anyway. I would imagine that there will be plenty of Byron jumpers here that will take the tickets off your hands though, so I wouldn't worry too much. You could also just sav them until next year and use them again.

OK, here's how I see it. We have a good bunch of people here, but the jump numbers are sort of low to attempt anything as ambitious as a 40 way. It would be nice, but we have to consider timing, safety, and the fact that 50% of you will be lying face down in a puddle of your own excrement calling for a priest on Sunday morning, (if you've been boogieing properly that is). If we can keep this thing to one Skyvan or Otter load, that would be better. We'll be able to have a much wider window of opportunity to do the jump as we can do it just about any time, and we have a greater chance of success. We can also repeat the whole process again if we need to. Let me know what your thoughts are..

Your reserve is never out of date as long as you still own a pen.......

OK, here's how this will have to work if it's going to try to be a formation load. It's not really possible to do these during the jumping day at a googie, because we'll wind up having to sit 30 or more people down for hours to get everybody on the same rotation, and then wait longer to get planes together, brief pilots, dirt dive etc. The best way to do these dives is to take all the tickets one day, and manifest the jump as the first (or last) load of the day. The first is much better, as you're not rushing for planes, and everybody can cut loose afterwards and do their own thing. I'd say take the tickets Saturday, and get load one for Sunday. I know that might not please everyone, but it's about the best way to ensure that we have people, planes and time to dirt dive before we go up. If this is going to be some people's first attempt at a large formation load, we don't want to have extra pressures put on the group by rushing it.

Heh. I used to own a Delta II parawing. It was the most scary thing to see, pack and jump. It had two sprung glider pilot chutes and four pins and cones. it had a long webbing wrap that wound around the colored lines in a very exacting sequence. If you wrapped the wrong lines up, it wouldn't open at all. Once open, it was a trip though. It flew forward like a PC but spun like a square. I also have a Paradactyl that I still jump from time to time, because I can fit it normal sport gear. I never take it to terminal though, as the openings are brutal. If anyone wants to jump it, just drop me a line, and I'll bring it out to Byron Boogie, if it hasn't rotted away in my cupboard by now...

Well, if enough people are interested, I can organize a dropzone.com dive somewhere in those three days.....

Considering I'm still active duty after 22 years, I'd be proud to have him use me in an ad........He is the CinC, has the right to use assets under his control, and it was a nice touch to show off his troops the way he did....Let's give the guy credit, best fucking commander we've had in a long time.......HooAh! Lets hope your active duties include painting Quonset huts instead of anything vital then, if your opinion of this draft dodging chickenhawk CinC is any better than your opinion of the last draft dodging chickenhawk CinC.

There's never a firey crash when you really need one is there ?