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Our qualifying date was 28.8.2003, and time was about 20:00 local time (Norway), 19:00UTC. "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

I have #845 and my friend #844. We both jumped the very same objects for the letters and in the same order S, B, E, A. I jumped all other objects first (with few minutes time difference) except the A which he jumped first. So his number is one lower than mine. "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

So jealous, it's snowing here in Finland "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Awesome, you tracking trolls "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

I had the same problem with both my 79 and 70 FX and it was cured by changing a bigger slider. The old original FX slider was really tiny. After a change they opened perfectly, even for wingsuit jumping. This is what Simon from Icarus replied when I asked about the sizes of the old sliders: The slider measurement may be that of an old size slider. The slidershould measure approx 54cm (21"1/4 ) chord x 68cm (26"3/4) span. Please check if your slider measures the same. If not we can build one for you or you can simply use one close to the size listed above. If you need the span measurement to be even bigger, let me know. Blue skies Simon "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Happy happy joy joy Even more belated... "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Or doing a nice kneeling pose :) I have somewhere a vdo of Andy Ford doing a rodeo exit from Herc. I'll try to find and post it. "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Ah, I thought that the V-1 name came from the German Flying Bomb of the WWII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V1_Flying_Bomb "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

[troll warning] "Vampire bats do not actually suck blood. ... To begin feeding, the bat first must prick the animal with its two large front teeth, often in the foot or leg of a sleeping mammal or bird." from: http://www.batcon.org/discover/foffaq.html Vampire, what a clever name indeed. I think Blade is just as well justified [/troll warning] "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Just a small detail, but the SFFF plane was An-26b, a twin turboprop cargo/passenger plane. Not resembling too much C-130 except having a tailgate. The Russian "C-130" is the An-10/12 series with 4 engines and looking quite much like a Hercules but with a sharper nose. Vesa "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Photo (c) Hans Berggren "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

FX70, 2.2-2.5 lbs/sqft "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Nice you liked it, and the beer and whisky back then "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

http://www.dropzone.com/photography/photographers/JussiLaine.shtml Would that be counted as an evidence or not? "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Entirely different canopies. Coe-D is a traditional "rectangular" canopy, while the Hornet is semi-elliptic like Sabre2. "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

At my DZ there is one Coe-D 150 which really is ZP. The side panel says "PISA Coe-D by Performance Designs" so I assume that it's made in PD factory, but marketed by PISA. The canopy looks like a Sabre, but has partially covered nose (one third of the cell noses) and a huge slider to ease with openings, which still seem to be quite hard. "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

I have about 50 agressive over the tail exits from C-130, which flyes about 150kts. I have noticed no excess wear or tear with my suit. I have two wingsuit exits from a russian An-26 (twin turboprop, 50-60 skydivers) which was flying about 200kts and blowing up all freefly formations at exit. Nice exits high above the plane, but I think that repeated too many times that could start destroying the suit. Go and check http://www.flybirdman.com/learn/exits.html and tailgate exits there. I think that for starters one should not go over 150, as with that speed there is plenty of power to rise high above the plane if done correctly. Also the dangers with unstable exits grow all the time when you increse the speed. "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Thanks to maretus for disc space, Funet (Finnish University and Research Network) rules "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

To celebrate FBA's two years of active jumping, a short video of the best jumps 2003 - 2004. (8 min, 126Mb avi, DivX 5.2.1). Thanks to all jumpers and vigeographers. C'ya 2005. http://cs.helsinki.fi/u/masaari/base/ "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Opening in efficient track is by no means problem. Opening a canopy in a dive is. With wingsuits, and in efficient tracking people normally open with lots of forward speed and slower vertical speed and get nice openings, while people who think they're tracking and in fact are diving tend to get hard openings. just my opinion. "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

In fact the ground effect comes from reducing induced drag by interaction of ground surface and wing tip vortex. The ground effect begins (10% less induced drag) at about altitude of half wingspan. So with a wingsuit it would be less than one meter (3ft). And in case of good tracking at about 30cm (1ft). So you have to be quite accurate in the approach to use it "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

I'd go with 0.45 or 0.5 for normal flocking video. Vesa "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

My bad. But that only makes it clearer that I do not know them But I invite them to join the channel as well as you Tom

Sorry Tom. But I do not personally know most of the base jumpers in the world. Not even the world famous Miles D. And I am very ashamed of that. "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)

Getting international. The channel has been visited by finns, frenchman, belgian, romanian and a welchman. Who's going to be first from the states? Please set you realname (the one given to you in birth) when connecting :) "Fear is the path to the Dark side" (Master Yoda)