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From: bob@atari.UUCP (Robert F. Hutson)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Arch problems
Message-ID: <2938@atari.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 91 11:03:44 GMT
References: <28390@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991May7.134409.5340@eng.ufl.edu> <3333@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Reply-To: bob@atari.UUCP (Robert F. Hutson)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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>>In article <28390@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> dth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower) writes:
>>>I have a problem that maybe some of you have encountered.  I took up
>>>skydiving in the Spring of '89, and immediately fell in love with it.
>>>Only problem was, I could not arch enough to remain stable; as soon as I
>>>started my free-falls I lost control on every jump and had to time my
>>>pulls with when I had the ground in sight.
>

Yeah, I had the same problem.

One day, the local diving club came up with this great new
(money-making) idea.  They tie-wrapped a 35mm camera to the strut.
'For $10.00 we'll take your picture!'

After spending the ten dollars, nothing was more important to me than
staring into the camera!  Do you know how much arch it take to follow
the plane after release?  Best jump of my life!

To be serious for just a moment, looking into that camera forced me into
the right arch and the trip was great!  If you can't mount a camera on
your plane, pretend anyway.

BTW, the picture shows me as either screaming for my life or having the
time of my life.  It is one of my most prized possessions.


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