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Para-FLite, along with their other meteorologically inspired names for canopies.

OK.....this type of stuff happens too often in movies, etc. to be an accident. I think they probably did go to the skydiving community for research and they probably got a bunch of jumpers pulling their legs with the cornball lines like the "leghole" thing. I bet you skydivers out in CA do this a lot and make bets on whose lines actually get used on tv shows and movies. Now, tell me.......which one of you guys came up with the 3 minute freefall from 4 grand in Point Break?

But you are admitting to being a crotchety old man!!! I am not admitting to it and I'm not not admitting to it.....now GET OFF MY BACK!!! ...................

Um....Yeah....me too! I hope I don't look 10 yrs younger than my real age. If I did I'd look like an old fart. Actually, except for the gray(ing) hair, beginnings of some wrinkles, some aches and pains in places I didn't know existed, and general crotchetyness I still look and act quite young.

NETFLIX DOT COM !!

I just assumed you meant other than "Get Smart".

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Dr. Strangelove Run Silent, Run Deep King Solomon's Mines (the first one with Stewart Granger, Not the Richard Chamberlain version) Mars Attacks

Sooooo....... is "Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg" the Indian word for "Webster"?

Here's me and my boat in 1979. Also, this picture was taken about 2 or 3 miles from where that plane landed.

"Wee Willie Winkie" (Just kidding........No!..Seriously!!)

I believe this T.O. was at Phoenix/Z-Hills around 1994. This was during the time that Skydive City and Phoenix/Z-Hills coexisted peacefully side-by-side, simultaneously at the same time.

yes, many tears (

Local news story here: http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/nature_coast/skydiving_fundraiser_041509 be sure to check out the blog at the end of the story.

Don't you mean "These don't SEE too bad." ?

I went to college near the beach (east coast of Florida). My first year I spent a lot of my spare time at the beach. My second year I scheduled all my classes for afternoon and evening so I could be surfing at sun-up. My third year I was out on my ass. Of course your son may not be as weak-willed as I am.

?!?WTF?!?........I guess you had to be there!?!

or The web is a wondrous place. HW Wouldn't a big pile of old mattresses be considerably less expensive than eveyrone having to buy their own equipment? Maybe the bugs can be worked out someday.

That really is a nice airplane. Here's another shot of one of the old ones.

Here's a couple of REAL T-6's from "back in the day" at Bartow Air Base, Florida. My dad worked there in the 50's for a civilian contractor.

Hmmm... I had just the opposite impression......that it was a male with short legs.

I made a few jumps on a AR-11 back in the early-mid 90's. That was an 11-cell made by Aerodyne. As I recall, it was a decent canopy with a pretty good glide ratio. Great for those nice long Zhills spots.

"I wish Acme Electric Cooperative would buy a bucket truck. This shiit's gettin' old!"

Huh? I can't imagine a bunch of college students sitting around a dorm room laughing... "Dude, we stole a wooden fish. It was awesome. Yeah, man. Extreme." I think that a state that has something called a "sacred cod" would also spawn college students that would think it would be cool to steal it.

Red touches yellow, so kill a fellow! Red doesn't touch black on TK's snake so no joy for Jack.