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  2. popenhager can back me up on this one....
    back in the early80's a certain parachute mfr had an aerial delivery system that used a ramair canopy and homed in on the intended landing area.
    this company had just recently acquired new facilities,raised their prices and were met with a total lack of orders/cashflow.they were copntacted by a woman who said she was from wyoming or something and that she owned a ranch .she wanted one of these aerial delivery systems to deliver hay/food to her cattle when it snowed and ground access was limited.
    shewas sold a unit and trained how to operate and pack it.she paid her 18000 bucks and left with the unit. interestingly enough, her car had florida plates.
    some few months later we got a call from the FBI . seems they had found the canopy in the florida everglades. attached to the parachute was the guidance unit and the remnants of a duffle bags cloth handle.(it appears that the duffle and its cargo was just attached to and not actually placed in the cargo sling.)
    they called popenhager because he was the nearest dropzone. to find out more about what the fbi had found.

  5. CKRET, you are missing my point! the FBI should have released those serial numbers to the rigging public. you could have had all those riggers looking for the gear if it came back into use as either a reserve (26' navy conicals were VERY much in use in the sport in the 60's and 70's)or as a pilot bail out rig.riggers keep track of what they have packed including names NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF THE OWNER. IF COOPER HAD SURVIVED THE JUMP, MAYBE HE SOLD THE GEAR TO SOMEONE WHO THEN PLACED IT BACK IN SERVICE. ok, so fbi has the serial numbers.they didnt do you a bit of good cause you sat on them.doesnt matter who you got the chutes from,share the serial numbers,and mfr. so that if the equipment shows up in someone elses hands , it can be traced back to whoever it was bought from(paper trail ya know!)that trail could lead you to cooper.riggers keep their records for years ( i stuill have ALL my logbooks dating back to 1973).

  11. HMMMM... could this harness have been constructed using needle woven webbing instead of shuttle woven? rite off the roll i have seen needle woven webbing exhibit this curved "feature". to determine if you have needle or shuttle woven webbing, ,fold the webbing in half,lengthwise,so that the edges are next to each other.are they identical,or does one edge look like its daisy chained?if the edges are identical,you have shuttle woven webbing.if one edge is daisy chained its needle woven.

  13. one geat thing about stick shifts is that if your battery ever goes dead on you, you can still get your vehicle started by pushing it and popping the clutch.also because there are fewer parts, they are more reliable and not as likely to to stop working.

  14. what came out of that fatality was that para flite developed the safety stow,which was then released to the industry.. after extensive windtunnel testing ,paraflite could not reproduce the situation that caused the fatality.(Manley butler did the work on this project.) at the time, paraflite square reserves were shipped with "o " rings made of buna n rubber on the locking stows(working in qc i was able to break some of these o rings at maybe 5 to 10 pounds of tension).bowing to pressure to "fix the problem" (even tho they couldn't duplicate it)the safety stow was born.interesting enough, at the time paraflite claimed to have final say on what containers were "compatible" with their sqaure reserves. the racer was not at that time approved by para flite for sqaure reserves. (sherman claimed the rig manufacturer was the one who was responsible for determining compatability) it was one of the great arguments in the industry for many years to come.