Meux

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  1. Three years ago I had S1, L5, L4 fused. Prior to the surgery I spent every day managing pain. Since the surgery I've enjoyed zero pain. I have had to give up running at more than about a 10 min/mile pace and not more than two miles. I've replaced that with weight lifting and core strength exercises.

    You are a couple decades younger than I, so your doctor may not be keen on doing this surgery on you yet.

    The things that worked for me in the pain management era were yoga, walking (get a dog, they love it), minor weight lifting, avoiding things that caused pain and using every legal over the counter helper I could get.

    I wish you the best as you find ways to deal with it.

  2. I bumped into Bill a few weeks ago at Sebastian, he was as warm and generous as ever. That will always be my memory of him, large, infectious smile, kind hearted and ready to share a laugh and a skydive.

    Blue Skies My Friend.

  4. Later this year I plan on celebrating my 60th birthday by making 60 jumps on that day.

    Many people have done it before, I'm wondering what kind of stuff do I need to consider?

    How many packers, how many rigs, etc.

    Does anyone know of a 60/60 club? I know POPS did their SOS 60 way, which I hope to be a part of in the future. What of jumpers who've made that many jumps in one day.

    Thanks for your constructive ideas.

  6. Thanks for sharing, great story.

    When I got my Silver Wings from the Air Force we promptly took those wings off our uniform and broke them in half. The idea was that the first time we crossed an ocean we'd throw one half of the broken wings in the ocean and keep the other half. The saying at the time was, "May these be the only wings you ever break".

    I've been lucky so far, and hope to never break another set of wings.

    No offense intended to anyone, but I think USAF Pilot Wings are the best looking of any institution, military or civilian. Just my opinion.

    I can't imagine the courage it took to take a jet straight in.

  9. Scroll down a little from Fitch's story and read about "The Man Who Rode Thunder". Wow, what a story!!

    THanks for posting, great website.

  11. Tebow is so awesome!! It would take more people than would fit on the plane to throw him off. Even if you did manage to throw him out, he'd land on his feet and walk away. Actually, he'd walk up to manifest and ask to go on the next load.

    Tebow is so awesome that if you did throw him out he'd be in a perfect arch with no chipping or turning or sliding.

    Tebow is so awesome that Airspeed called him when they were considering their lineup change, they thought he should get an A license first.

    :)

  23. This was a couple weeks ago. Just landed in the main landing area. To my right, about 20' away was a teammate. A guy from the group ahead of us was about 20' away from me in the other direction. We were laughing and yakking about our jump when I heard a short shreek, and a sick thud, thud. Turned around to see the guy from the other group laying on the ground knocked out cold and a jumper from the group behind us on the ground screaming. It seems that this jumper hit the fella square in the head, knee to knoggin contact. I was the first person to him, he was out cold, not even breathing, eyes wide open. I thought he might be dead. He started breathing again and in a minute was up and staggering around.

    Lesson learned for me; keep your head on a swivel ALL the time. Heck, it could've been me. On landing I automatically turn to face landing direction to make sure no one is coming at me. The problem is that I then go about my business of toggles and such. My new practice is to keep looking all around and check every direction. (ever see people landing in more than one direction?)

    One more observation. The guy who got hit still had his full face helmet on with the face shield taped shut. The velcro release strap was on the ground side. I was very reluctant to move his head to remove his helmet. Thankfully, he woke up and took it off himself. The point is, I open my face shield under canopy, not sure I like the thing about leaving it closed (and taped shut). To each his own.

  24. I flew NWA 727s for 14 years. One day I timed a takeoff from brake release to flap retraction at 1,000' and on that day it took 2:15. Once the plane is cleaned up I'm sure you could easily maintain a 3,000 fpm rate to 10,000' so my estimate is 5:15ish.

    My best ever (civilian) time to climb was in an empty 757-300 where we went from brake release to level at FL 390 in 13 minutes. That was fun.