kas@hp-pcd.UUCP (kas) (04/02/85)
It seems that one of the "regulars" on the net came in one morning and
found his plug pulled. Dane Meyer sent me the following messages recently:
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To: rice!hp-pcd!hpcvlo!kas
Subject: Re: Yes, there IS life in Oregon
Ken,
Unfortunately, our facility has removed miscellaneous notes files from our
system because of a disk space shortage -- net.rec.skydive has been clobbered.
So I won't be posting or reading it at least for a while. If you notice
some interesting stuff coming across that net, pass it on to me. Thanks.
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Dane Meyer (Texas Instruments, Dallas site)
ARPA: ==> Meyer%waltz%TI-CSL@CSNET-Relay
CSNET: ==> Meyer@TI-CSL
USENET: ==> {convex!smu, ut-sally, texsun, rice}!waltz!meyer
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To: rice!hp-pcd!hpcvlo!kas
Subject: Re: New Gear Jump
Ken,
Thanks for passing on your jump story -- sounds like you're hooked on the
new gear. I haven't been willing to jump the new stuff because I'm afraid
that I would have to buy it. Will stick with my ole' blue light-weight
strato-cloud.
Interesting that you had a hard time staying down with the other jumpers.
I'm suprised that your flight suit has a tendency to make you float. Maybe
your buddies are wearing comparably "tighter" suits. You may want to have
a bit of your wing cut back to help you out -- that is after you are
convinced that you really have a floating problem. If you have to constantly
struggle to stay down, you won't be doing the formation any favors once you
get in -- as most people have a tendency to relax a touch -- or get stretched
out causing you to float the formation making it tougher on everyone else
behind you. You really want to find a fall rate that is close to the
majority of other jumpers when you are in a very comfortable RW stable
position.
As far as getting a good dive going, it sounded like you knew all the right
things to do -- can't believe that you couldn't get head down. I would have
to say that maybe you didn't bend at the waist as much as you thought. On
your next attempt, get into the 45 degree angle that you had last time -- and
then keep bending at the waist until you go down. Hell, eventually you will
front loop.
Again, thanks for the posting. I enjoy reading about any skydiving topic.
Feel free to put this on the net if you want -- so few people post stuff,
anything would be entertaining. Thanks.
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Dane Meyer D-8076, CCR-735
ARPA: ==> Meyer%waltz%TI-CSL@CSNET-Relay
CSNET: ==> Meyer@TI-CSL
USENET: ==> {convex!smu, ut-sally, texsun, rice}!waltz!meyer
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Ken Scofield C-9355
Hewlett-Packard PCD
Corvallis, OR
{ucbvax!hplabs, harpo, ogcvax}!hp-pcd!kas