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I jumped from balloon 4 times in Eloy and all times it was climbing as jumpers were exiting. Typically, they would start at 5K and by the time 4-5 jumpers are gone the baloon rises to 5.5K. I know because I jumped last :)

Adrenaline Rush Looks fake, and sounds like Animal Planet

Ranch is the best dz in the world and perhaps in the whole universe.

Since roads are unpassable, the air delivery looks almost legal now.

As a poet said, "There are women in Russian villages..."

It means "cool girl" in Russian.

Please do. Ya nemnogo govorit' po-russki

What's that supposed to mean?

For consumer GPS's, with their accuracy 3-10ft, data recorded in such small intervals will be too "noisy".

What are compatible GPS's?

I'm curious about possibility of using variometers (devices used by para/hanggliders) to measure true airspeed. Recorded airspeed, integrated over time, with combination of altitude data from GPS can give the true track trajectory as if the air was still. Another way to correct GPS data for wind speed is to throw some kind of wind indicator (small round parachute, for example, or a pillow

I wonder if there are BASE jumpers in Taliban. Imagine Osama flying a Birdman.

Saying "I'm going to exit the plane without a parachute and land with no injuries" -- and doing it. Accidental survivals of parachuteless landings don't count.

I'm moving to Italy immediately. C ya!

How about accuracy? Is it enough to accurately determine glide ratio? Is Vista more accurate?

Is it only in their catalog? Their website lists Vista (not Vista C) for @270 (Vista C is $400).

I thought the law of conservation of angular momentum would prevent the body from doing 180 in dead air, unless you have a tail, which you can rotate to make your body rotate in opposite direction, like cats do. When air is not so dead after a couple of seconds, you can flip, but that's not a true cat flip. Saying this not to teach you, but just in case, so you don't find yourself in dead air thinking, "Jeez, physics does work!"

I figure landing wingsuit without a parachute in Yosemite would be perfectly legal. Just put tubes with small holes in Merced river and pump compressed air through them to make water very soft. Who needs a parachute these days??? Right, Jeb?

I'm prepared!

Who cares, jumping out of an airplane without a parachute is definitely a serious fun!!!

Why not? Imagine George Bush Sr. jumping with two Golden Knights.......

Or bungee cord simply attached to the bridle, so pulls the chute at the start of the stretch and stops the fall at full stretch. Why not teach students this way?

How about combining bungee and BASE? Deploy before bungee cord stretches, have a couple of seconds under a canopy, then a few minutes above the canopy.

Draw a rope between the diameter points and make sure there's a truck waiting for you at the bottom, as a walk along the spiral is a few miles easily.

Hey, you stole my idea! (Or maybe I stole yours.) Its because water is not compressible the impact is hard. Water with fine bubbles is compressible and can have any density between air and water, thus making smooth slowdown possible. The key is to make water "bubbled" homogeniously over large volume (say 300x100x30ft), without any lumps of water which would hit hard. Hmmm........... Jeb, are you going to land in a pond filled with BEER FOAM?????? (or maybe GoFast drink?)