Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvia!kas
From: kas@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (ken_scofield)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Fish Story
Message-ID: <42640009@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 10 May 91 15:50:01 GMT
References: <6730093@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
Lines: 39

From: artb@hplsla.HP.COM (Art Bori)
Message-ID: <6730093@hplsla.HP.COM>

>From alt.folklore.urban:
>
>> In article <17459@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> pastor@PRC.Unisys.COM (Jon Pastor) writes:
>>
  [...story from an incredibly ignorant/gullible/joker person deleted...]
>>
>>The fact that the co-pilot identified reclined seatbacks as the cause without
>>actually seeing the cabin suggests to me that this is a fairly common occurrence.

  I wonder if this was A) actually done on April Fools day, or B) just posted
  on April Fools day.

  Geeze... some people are sooooooo gullible!
  It does, however, make a good 'party story' for when you want to yank 
  someones' chain.  :-)

>This reminds me of a trick that a jump pilot once pulled on some relatively
>new skydivers.  On the climb to altitude he talked about how aerodynamically
>balanced the plane was.  He especially emphasized how any change on the 
>outer surface can cause major control variances.  To illustrate this he
>popped open his window and stuck his hand out.  By supposedly varying 
>the angle of his hand, the plane would alter its course.  What the jumpers 
>didn't realize was that while they were watching his hand, the pilot was
>playing with the rudder pedals.  Needless to say, the other pilots and
>more experienced jumpers had a good laugh at their naivete. 

  I like it!  I gotta git my pilot to do this someday.  Lessee, I need a
  good guinea pig or two...

                 Ken Scofield           C-9355  SSI #453890085
      ^          Hewlett-Packard, ICO   Phone:  (503)750-2426
|----/-\----|    1020 NE Circle Blvd.   (kas@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM)
|   Gone    |    Corvallis, OR  97330   (ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!kas)
| Divin' or |                          
|  Jumpin'  |	 Cute Disclaimer:  Nobody ever listened to me before,
|-----------|                      so why start now?