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Hi steve, Know what you mean about downwind-PC-accuracy-don't miss the pit!!! Brady didn't do the downwind thing all the time, just sometimes. But when he did it was quite the show!! These downwinders of Brady's were NOT accuracy!! He'd hookturn and pick up as much horizontal speed as you could with a PC and power the landing with 2 or 3 rolls!! How he never broke any bones I'll never know!! Like I said at Otay in front of Jim and Nina McDonald's manifest shed on the hard dirt!! Too much fun!! If the people that jump at Otay now only knew???!!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Steve, "Downwind Brady!!" Brady Sanders used to jump So. Cal. and Otay back in the old Round Canopy Round Star daze, early 70's, PC's were the staple canopy. Unless you were doing comp. accuracy in the pit most people landed PC's into the wind for the max easy landing. Not always for Brady!! He'd come screaming "downwind!" over the hard ground in front of the manifest shed at Otay, give out a yahoo!, hit the ground, do about 3 or 4 PLF's get up and collapse his canopy while everyone looked on in disbelief with their jaws down to their knees!!!! After ya' seen him do it a couple of times it got to be old hat. Still, no broke legs!!! Brady was one of the jumpers that got killed in Spike's Beech when it crashed on takeoff at Taft in '82. Fly on Brady. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Lucky, Congrats and great job!! Keep it up. One thing I felt when I quit was that from that day forward, smoking was part of my "PAST!" It's a line drawn in the sand that you step over and never look back! When I was in the Navy on the USS Princeton LPH-5 in Nam '68 I decided that when we got back from that cruise, I'd quit smoking. When we pulled into Long Beach and I was in line to get off the ship, I asked the guy behind me if he smoked, he said yes and I said here, have this 1/2 pack of smokes. I walked off the afterbrow and when I set foot on CONUS, no more cigarettes!! That was in DEC of '68. Still not smoking!! Good Luck!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Ry, Interesting? Got sinus problems? Clear sinuses and eustation tubes are preferred! You'll know you have a major problem when you rupture a sinus and besides the nose bleed you have a splitting headache and you can't see because a bone fragment from the rupture punctured your optic nerve!! Not a very likely senario but .... SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Br, Really cute! You got one hell of a great dad!!! Have you invited him to go skydiving with you yet?? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi gup, Because they are insecure and have a very low opinion of theirself..(period!) The person may be outwardly secure but on the inside, lookout. Anyone or anything outside of their own little life space that appears to them to be "in control of their life" or this person thinks the other has assets that transend theirs, they feel.. you guessed it.. "Intimidated!!" With them, they have to be "L-numro-uno!" get it?, so guess what, to make theirself feel "better" best way is to "eliminate the threat or at least diminish it to below their 'level'." Be very careful with these people for they are the fodder that great movies and dead people are made of. This person is not your "first" and won't be your "last" just keep your eyes open, your mind clear and definitely keep them beyond arms length from your life! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Pat, Thinking back over the years, 1969-70 I was in the Navy, Westpac 7th Fleet. Got to Subic in the Philippines and headed over to the Paraloft at Cubi Pt. Hey guys any jumping going on?? Got a couple in with the Cubi Pt. Sport Parachute Club, good fun. 1976, Najafabad Iran (near Isfahan) working for Grumman Aero, and a friend from Bell Heli. we wrangled some helo time for 11 practice jumps and a "4th of July demo for the Grumman/Bell 4th of July Party." Whenever a couple of skydivers can get a plane and some place to jump..Fly out to the desert, a place on the River or to a beach in Mexico, camp out, go fishing, surfing, make a few jumps, drink some beer. (don't know about Mexico these daze?!!!) Short lived DZ's but DZ's none the less. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi wayne and all, "Coming to a Dropzone near you soon!!!" I can't wait!! Used to be that when I turned off the main road to the DZ I was "Home" I was in my "Sanctuary." Not any more man. Oh for the simple joys of a wild, gyrating spinning, nasty high-speed malfunction at 1500'!!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Who exactly has dies to protect your right to own guns? It started with these men, in Lexington, 1775: ROBERT MUNROE JONAS PARKER SAMUEL HADLEY JOHN BROWN ISAAC MUZZEY CALEB HARRINGTON. JONATHAN HARRINGTON JEDEDIAH MUNROE JOHN RAYMOND NATHANIEL WYMAN "Lay down your arms, you damned rebels, and disperse!" "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they want to have a war, let it begin here." Every serviceman swears an oath to uphold the Constitution, which includes the 2nd Amendment. Even Barack Obama had to swear this oath. Thanks John for "Tellin' it!!" Least we forget, hell, they didn't forget, they never got it!! "God, Guns and Guts Keep America Free!!!" For now. BTW Fayetteville NC (C&E Gun Show) this weekend 7-8 feb C-U-there. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi -lude, Doesn't matter. Either you/me will die before the "walls come tumblin' down" or they will tumble on top of us and that's that. All I want to know is how much are drinks at the Bar on the other side and do they play country, Rock and Blues Music on the Jukebox? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Skit, Broke tib-fib 31MAR73 at OTAY lousy PC LDG. Got 3 screws (rt leg 2 screws outside bone one screw in the lip that hangs to the inside) NO PLATES (Maybe the VA Hosp at UC Lojolla was cheap?? or they couldn't steal any hub caps to cut up??) Anyway, they are still there and they ache when the weather gets cold or I run around on them too much. Not bad for thirty plus years!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi shot 1/2, "Cardinal PUFF!!!!" Got the issue ol LC's SkyDiver mag with the article about the Cardinal games and they start off with "IronClad" at the old "Rumbleseat" bar in Hermosa Bch. There's a photo of the Iron Clad Mug on the bar and a young kid holding it!! Yup those were the daze! No one has mentioned "BAT CARDINAL" yet, another side game?? Waz at Dicky and Marilyn's Rumbleseat bar at Elsinore and asked Gary Douris for a Demo. Got one and went for it. Got all the words and motions right "BUT" he called me because I wasn't boisterous enough and didn't "slosh any beer!!" Did make Cardinal Puff and Kamakazi Cardinal still got the cards in my archives. Somebody has to have that "Iron Clad MUG!!!" Who has it, who remembers the last time they saw it and where? It started at Frank Carpenter's Rumnleseat and where did it go from there? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi JD, Funny thing you should mention that! Quite a few cases of beer ago a bunch of jumpers came down from a jump one Sat morn at OLD ELSINORE. Someone took out the base and usually the fingerpointing and yelling would start. Instead, Richard Haden said,"Man, that dive was Air Trash!!" A bunch of guys just laughed and someone suggested getting a case of Coronas and drinking a few. The rest is history. Go to www.airtrash.com and see for your self. memememmeme!! OHHH we're a bunch of dirty Bastards.... Got yer Air Trash hat yet?? Fun Jumping, "That's" what it's all about!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Lynrd, Yup, Arava. Jumped it at perris and O-die! Cute plane, better have yer' frap hat on when ya' break ground cuz it got up there quick!! Floating was wierd cuz of the shape of the door on the fuse., hell, just jump out!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi quade, Sorry about that. Glad I left the place back in 96'. Don't miss the BS but I do miss all the good Dives and Good times at Scare-Us_Valley and Old Elsinore!! Never mind the milk, GOT GUNS?? BTW The C&E Gun Show will be in Fayetteville NC weekend after next. Get'em while they last! CU There SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi pat, Got a good thread goin'!! Nobody mentioned SE Louisiana yet, so here goes. Today ya' got a DZ at Slidel, LA. Times gone go to Hammond Airport in the 60's. Started out with Louisiana Skydivers fron Baton Rouge, Delta Skydivers from N.O. and then Southland Skydivers from Hammond. Eventually "Southern Parchute Center" ran by Ben Seal Jr. then Leon Riche. Small town politics and it moved to Covington. The airport at Hammond would be a really great DZ but for Hammond Politics!! There was a couple of "cow pasture" DZ's around Baton Rouge that Louisiana Skydivers used but would have to take off from Ryan Airport or Downtown airport. One was called "Blacks" and I recall the "Perkins' Street Pea Patch!" I remember that Herb Golden was a big hit for the whuffs that would watch at the fence line, short light weight guy would consistently do "stand up landings" under a cheapo 7-TU! The Cajuns had one around Abbeville I believe and there were a few others. As I recall, it all started when someone put an add in the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate saying that anyone interested in starting a "Skydiving Club" please meet at the Natl. Guard Armoury on Tuesday night. That's another thread and the rest is history! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi katz, Trek on over to Skydive Chicago at Ottawa IL. Forget the pretzl treatment of a 182 0r 206, they have an Otter!! It's time you check out some new turf!! And if you ever make it to Raeford as '03 said, plenty of good troops to jump with. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Annie, Digit, Mardi Gras is 24FEB!!!!!!!!! A good place to camp out, Skydive and "Party" is Gold Coast in south Mississippi (exit 69 on the I-10 and go nawth a few miles I think) 'Ya kin Skydive and do your thing and trek to New Orleans and "Strut 'yo Stuff!!! in the French Quarter!!" on some off daze!! Gold Coast may???? have a Mardi Gras Boogie?? 'Ya can go there for the first part of your vacation and trek down to Fla or wherever you go. Finding a ride should NOT post a problem! If you go, meet you at Pat O's in the piano bar and lets have a Hurricane!! "Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!!!" "Let the Good Times Roll!!!" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi fly, What a trip, the USS Okinawa LPH-3!!! You were on it, what rate/div.??? I was on the Okiboat 11/69-11-70. PR-2 Paraloft, V-6 div. a few years before you. Good Story!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Madi and all, What a drag!! Well after 30 years, wow!! Hopefully someone will "pick up the torch" and carry on. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Rov, So with the mandatory AAD rule, is NZ now "Bounceproof!!!!?????" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi np, "Check Dive??" Sounds like a Private pilot's course!! Ah for the old daze, do 10 jumps and send off your forms and 2 boxtops to PCA and wala!! ya' get yer' A-license wings!! Congrats on the "A"!!!!! Did you buy BEER??? That's what it's really all about!! If yer' still at Elsinore tomorrow, take a moment and look around that valley... if it could only talk!! Look at the "slab" where the old hanger used to be, across the runway from it was the original "Ghetto", the dives, the partys, the 'Stumbles, the vibes... you skydive over hallowed ground!! Oh well it's a few daze later and yer' gone, but ...you'll be back. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi speed, Ya' gotta love it. The Civil War was supposed to have ended in 1865, some 145 years ago! There was a clamoring for retribution back then,"I wants mah 40 acres of ol' massa's land an' a mule!!" There ain't no 40 acres and' ther' ain't no mule!! Wasn't then and there ain't none now!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi nam-g, Vibes and prayers sent. Know what ya' mean. My wifes' old business partner is dying from the same thing. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi pops, SAT, time flys when yer hanin' fun. I guess that was back in the old 7-TU daze!! 'Havn't been involved in the JM/I thing in a few years. A bud of mine went thru AFF 2 years ago and I did some "post-pablum course" dives with him and was amazed at how the regs have changed since I was an AFF-I in the 80's!! SIM,G,2, Students and A lic 3000' 3, B lic 2500' 4, C & D lic 2000' So they kick the Stus. and A's up 500', most won't pull below 5K anyway!! My friend would dump at 5.5K because he felt "Safer!!" Oh well? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out