Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!cynic!ireta!rob From: rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Prior) Newsgroups: rec.skydiving Subject: Bungee from aircraft Message-ID: Date: 28 Jan 91 07:56:09 GMT Organization: Federation of Sentient Planets, Burnaby BC Lines: 10 Someone recently mentioned the prospect of bungeeing out of a high flying aircraft and then cutting away fron that to a traditional freefall and canopy ride... I can't help but conjur up visions in my mind of an accidental dump at leap time... Parachute opens, bungee stretches, then something gives... and I bet the bungee and the 'chute are _both_ stronger than the human body... Rob