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Yeah, I've got an idea. Call her and tell her pretty much the same thing you said in this post. Then listen to her. There's not really much you can say, but she will be glad to know you're there.

I wasn't paying attention. Let me try again. Mahatma Ghandi - Mahatma Rice - buttered rice - buttered buns ( as in Last Tango in Paris ) - anal bleaching ... I win !! Show me some boobies.

Mahatma Ghandi - Mahatma Rice - salmon over lightly buttered rice - Grue - skydiver - we're all skydivers ........ Done ! Do I win ???

Paris Hilton has to drive her own car ??? I thought she was rich.

That was supposed to challenge, infuriate, and motivate the Nun. With any luck, she's off writing her paper and isn't even reading this stuff any more.

Centralized data ???? Online assessment ???? What a bunch of bull. The only thing that matters is subjective evaluation and personal contact with a knowledgeable, caring teacher. If you can convince me otherwise in a mere 50 pages I'll ........( you fill in the blank).

Jeff Foxworthy on his best day can't make this shit up. You're such a good friend for saving Peanut after you got Lucky.

Then I guess I wouldn't be doing you any favors by mentioning Brown Recluse spiders --- the way they lurk in dark places, quiet, unseen, waiting to pounce on their helpless victims - places like the underside of a desk ....... Naw, no need to mention that. There's probably not one there.

My Spectre with dacron lines takes about 1000 feet to open. ( I think the dacron lines slow the slider down a bit compared to micro-line, but I haven't tested that in any detail ). The fastest opening canopy I've jumped is a Falcon, which opens in about 500 feet.

A guy at our DZ did 37 on his 37th. He did hop and pops from a c-182 from about 3 - 4000 feet. He had about 4 rigs and packers. From what I saw, I doubt if two will be enough. It's an endurance contest, so treat it that way - Gatorade, snacks, etc. Might help to have two pilots on hand so they can take turns and not get too exhausted. He finished with plenty of daylight left. Have fun.

Do you come to the family reunion every year ?

Bad news Turtle. I just used the winning paraphenalia information you supplied to contact my accredited international banking agent in Nigeria. He's going to put the money in my secret account in Haiti and notify me when the transfer is complete. Won't be long before I'm enjoying the sun and surf in beautiful downtown Port-au-Prince. Woo-hoo - paradise here I come.

Something like this was discussed in a thread a few years back. I don't know how to make the other thread clicky, but search "wingsuit flying landings". Here's another one: what about attaching 4 eyelets to the top of a car, then attaching a wingsuit flyer to the car with a tandem passenger harness. Let the straps out and the wingsuit could "fly" a foot above the car while it is being driven fast. I'm sure that with enough beer, you could do some really crazy things with a wingsuit.

There aren't enough skydivers to impress local government, even if SDLI is the main buyer of jet fuel at the airport. The implied threat to take your business elsewhere might be just what the town council wants. I think you'll have more luck if you get AOPA interested in resisting the precedent set by a town council telling pilots how to operate. It complicates things that the guy pushing this is a pilot. One thing general aviation doesn't need right now is a civil war between different factions of the aviation community. Just as a matter of interest, I jump at an airport with a 5500 foot runway using a King Air. There is also an aerial photo operation using Caravans at the same airport. A takeoff from the end of our runway equals an intersection takeoff at your runway.

I'm not clear on the whole "save the pine barrens" thing. Have you had a rash of airplanes crashing off the end of the runway? The last incident I found for Calverton in the NTSB database was a close encounter of the pilot not looking out the window kind at 13,000 feet over Calverton in 1986.

1990 Volvo 740 Turbo - 335,000 miles including about 70,000 by a teenager in high school. I've had to reline the clutch and brakes a few times, but the biggest repair was replacing some bearings in the manual transmission. Right now my lowest mileage car is a 1983 Jeep J-20 truck with only about 95,000 miles.

So what I'm getting from this is that The Farm is closing in April because Kitty and Hippie are opening a DZ in Dublin. Do their SO's know about this new partnership? Will they be flying an AN-2? Is Beezy supplying free demo rigs for everybody? Will Spence be offering discounted balloon jumps to draw people to his competing DZ at the other end of the Dublin airport? Will Stitch show up and do something nasty, resulting in a spanking from Skymama? C'mon guys - now that they've buried Anna Nicole, I need drama.

I use the liquid seam sealer from Campmor (www.campmor.com) on tents.

Why is this an "or" question?

I don't know if it's a black thing or what, but I watched it last night and there were four black girls that took off and left the rest. Melinda and Lakesha are like professionals in a group of amatuers. Don't remember their names, but the girl from Savannah, Ga. whose parents made her audition is really good, and the girl who looks like Gloria Estefan is too. I think I'll watch it again in a few weeks after they're the only ones left.

What is the largest single engine biplane ever produced ?

The classic example is " Leaves fall off trees, then it snows." Both are caused by the coming of cold weather due to the earth's tilt on its axis, etc., but the trees don't cause the snow. You might want to Google cause and effect relationships examples, or something like that.

Glad you brought this up. I would like to encourage all skydivers to do two things: 1. Go to an airport near you and take a flying lesson. Even if you have no intention of becoming a pilot, it will only cost a couple of jump tickets and you'll get an introduction to what the person in the front of the plane is doing. You might like it enough to keep going. 2. Join AOPA. [url]www.aopa.org[url] If you aren't a pilot or aircraft owner you'll be a non-voting member, but AOPA is the organization that does the most to lobby Congress on behalf of general aviation. Your dues will help, and you get a neat magazine. Again, only costs about as much per year as a couple of jump tickets.

46. Damn, Skymama beat me by 1 point. Damn. I'm going to spend the rest of the day trying to appreciate higher scoring colors.

Two guys walking in bear country. First guy stops to tighten the laces on his shoes. 2nd guy asks "What are you doing?" 1st guy: "If a bear attacks us I'm going to run." 2nd guy: "Can you outrun a bear?" 1st guy: "No, I can outrun you."