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What does a long sloping forehead with deepset eyes, knuckles dragging and lots of hair all over indicate? Not ready for CRW?

Hey, Welcome back, looking forward to jumping with you somewhere. MH

Get a hotel at Daytona Beach for your wife and then drive the 12 miles to Deland for your skydiving. That is as good as it gets. MH

Lost my first logbook in a flood back in 98. Any chance anybody here was instructing at Titusville in Dec of 75? While home on leave for Christmas my step-father gave me 50$ for a gift. That was how much the first jump course cost. I thanked him, turned around and went straight to the airport to sign up for the course. When I got home he wasn't very excited that I'd wasted that money on a jump. Would love to know who it was that put me out. Great Thread!! MH

This picture cracks me up. Congrats to everyone involved with the new world record. You guys rock! How much bigger can it get? Between this and the 400 way, whats next?

I loved watching those two go at it. They were so opposite, yet the same. Brutally honest, fun loving, dependable, awesome guys that all of us loved hanging out with. I miss them both. Mo

I like Aviation Week and Space Technology. Lots of pictures, which is good for a guy like me. I can only read for about 20 minutes before my lips get tired. Mo

If you turn and face the landing traffic there is no hurry. They have a really big landing area and if you take a few extra seconds to pick up, chances are good no one will notice. Have Fun

Tom Haydon could do it easy

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It is a sad day when things like this happen and there isn't universal outrage. My very limited experience with lawyers is that they have a very different sense of what is right and wrong. Actually, I'd say they care less less about what is right or wrong. They present evidence that can easily be manufactored and say, "Based on the evidence" I'd love to kill this thread by saying a sincere, "Happy Thanksgiving to all" MH

Allah Aqbar

There is hope. The judge in the 54million $ pants law suit lost his job. It would be a lovely thing to see this judge and the attorney wife get fucked over for what they are doing. A horrilbe use of the public trust. It scares me badly to think that we have judges and lawyers who do shit like this and there is no accountability. Sadly, it happens every day. My attorney told me, "it's got nothing to do with the law, it's about who has the money." Sickening.

after 320 jumps on my Spectre, I got whacked for the first time yesterday. The guy next to me asked me about it on the ground. He said it looked like a long snivel followed by an almost instant opening. It was hard for sure. Not sure about the pack job, my normal packer did it for me, so I assume it was close to all the other pack jobs he's done for me. I felt like my position and other variables were near standard. No idea why it was so hard. MH

BAD COW

BAD DOG!!

Excellent. No worries if we don't reach the magic FREE BEER number of registrants. I'm bringing a case, and it sounds like a couple others are too. Yahooey!!

I'm going to hit 400 on Friday. Any chance of me getting in with you guys on a hybrid of some kind? MH

I had 16 of the best jumps ever. Still in disbelief in how much fun it was!! No beerable firsts and no humps, so in that regard it wasn't much of a weekend. This weekend is the HOGFLOP, should be another fantastic weekend. Is there such a thing as "Too Much Fun" ? I've always thought of it as merely, "Enough' MH

I'm up to 9466 unviewed posts in SC. Can't wait to make 10,000! Life is too short. MH

My Warning Story, Driving to Deland a while back, on a country road I see flashing lights out ahead of me so I start to slow down. When I get there it's a motorcycle cop standing in the road waving me to the side. He comes to the window and asks if I know why he's stopping me. I said "No Idea". He said I was doing 67 in a 55. I replied that I wasn't doing 57. He said, OK, I'll give you a warning this time. I almost said, FOR WHAT???? but then realized that it was only going to cost me a couple minutes in time and nothing more so I kept the mouth shut. (Major accomplishment!!) I think he was fishing for something else. Why bother with the warning? If I wasn't drunk or hauling a load, why not just let me go?

My grandfather passed away the night before a scheduled family reunion. He had 12 children who all grew up to have big families. If you weren't a direct blood relative you didn't get in the church for the funeral. The procession to the cemetary was over a mile long. I was one of the pall bearers in the limosime leading the way. Well, the six of us and the preacher were laughing pretty hard all the way out to the cemetary, telling grandpa stories. The driver got distracted and missed the turn to the cemetary, so the limosime and the hearse go off on a road trip while the uncle leading the remainder of the procession makes the turn and all those hundreds of people go straight to the cemetary. After a while one of us realizes that we are "alone". We turn around and head for the cemetary. We had to weave through quite a large crowd while working very hard to not giggle or smirk. MH

Hey Joe, Love "Good Stuff". The reason I started is quite different from why I keep doing it. My earliest memories are from Edwards AFB in the late 50s and early 60s. Test Pilots, Sonic Booms, etc. My dad and uncle were working out there on different projects and I remember being just tall enough to stand next to the kitchen table and hear the stories about all those FANTASTIC airplanes, B-70, X-15, F-104, etc. Somehow those stories got off course a little and brought in those crazy people who jumped from planes for fun. In my little mind test pilots and skydivers were the same kind of people and that was what I wanted to be. Imagine flying faster than the speed of sound or passing a baton in midair!! Fast forward a couple decades and I'm a 49 year old pilot who was lucky enough to fly some pretty cool jets, the one thing I hadn't done was skydive. I gave myself AFF for my 50th birthday. My plan was to graduate from AFF, do a couple solo jumps and put an X in that square and move on to the next adventure. I had to work through some fear things, but by the time I walked through the door of the school for my first jump course, I was feeling pretty excited. In hind sight, I was already addicted. My reason to jump was to conquer the fear and fulfill a longtime dream of flying my body. The reason I got hooked is the people I jump with. It seems that everywhere I jump there are some pretty cool people that really enjoy life and all it has to offer. All of these people influence me in the very best way. That is the main reason I kept jumping, the people. I've found that I love all the little rituals of jumping too. Hanging around at the airport, the packing area, pies for milestones, beers for debriefing the day... Being a competitive type A person another attraction is the sporting side of it. If I can go out with 3 other skydivers of similar ability and we can get 6 points on skydive, why can't we get 10? Perfect the exit, work on levels and proximity, avoid mental mistakes and keep improving. A few weeks ago I went out with 3 people of considerable ability and we got a 17 point skydive. I am still buzzing from that and would love to rise to that level. I could go on for a while longer but will close here with an answer to your last question, "Why should someone try skydiving?" You might find something you weren't originally looking for. I've found a bunch of slightly crazy friends who challenge me on several levels, and I'm grateful for it. Mo (no picture readily available)

Man, He's got a case against the stereo company. They should be sued for a couple million for the damages they caused him. Could be a class action lawsuit. Every bozo who installed one of these things is being damaged at this moment. Call in the lawyers

WOW, all that money and no brains (say goodbye to hearing too)