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From: al@infoswx.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 00:44:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  4 00:44:00 1986
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Nf-From: infoswx.UUCP!al    Jan  3 23:44:00 1986


This talk reminds me of one old jump story (no sh*t, there I was).  When in the
Army, we used to jump out of huey's almost every weekend.  One extremely
good pilot would play a game with the jumpers.  When he would hear the ready
of "Ready, Set , Go", he would pull back on the cyclic, and bring the huey
to near a hover by the time "go" was yelled.  

I can remember leaving the the Helicopter, hearing the "wop, wop, wop" of the
blades, thinking I have never heard that before, usually I hear only wind.

From there, the tumbling starting.  The really amusing part of the jump
was the Air Force Combat Control Team guy.  Having ~100 jumps, he was fairly
new.  Since he never felt this strange on exit, he decided do do a full
military-style jumpmaster check on himself during the first 5 or so seconds
of the jump.  As I tumbled, I saw him go through the "Capewells, check, reserve,
check, etc, etc"

Al Gettier
D 5850