csa18@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R.J. Husmo) (04/25/91)
It may just be my perverted sense of humour, but am I the only one who has considered doing the following: Drive to an unknown DZ, park your car ~2km away from the drop-area. Sign up for an AFF course, using any name of your fancy. Make sure your instructors don't have a heart condition. At 11,500 feet, grab the reserve handles of your instructors, pull, and go straight into a tumble. At 7-8000 feet go into a track towards your car. Land, and LEAVE. Ok, I never did AFF, so I don't know whether it would be possible, but the thought of those two instructors hanging up there.... ------------ And NO! I would NOT do this in real life, so please keep all those flames for the next BurgerKing advert. Do anybody out there know of good DZs in the Midlands area? Or any DZs at all? Is it at all possible to do a bungee jump in the UK? Radar.
ryoder@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert W Yoder) (04/25/91)
In article <1108@keele.keele.ac.uk>, csa18@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R.J. Husmo) writes:
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OK, since you shared your perverted sense of humor, here is mine:
Find a DZ located adjacent to a cornfield with corn at least seven
feet tall. Get the cooperation of a first jump static-line student.
Make sure no one in his family who will be watching, has a heart
condition, (or a gun).
Load up the student and taxi to the far end of the runway where you
can unload the student out of sight, and replace him with a dummy,
(probably just a jumpsuit stuffed full of rags).
As the jump-plane climbs to altitude, the student hides in the cornfield.
On jump-run, the jumpmaster spots the dummy for the cornfield, and
the dummy has a total and bounces in the field close to the DZ, but
not so close that anyone can see the impact. Immediately after impact,
the student comes out of the cornfield, brushing himself off and
remarking, "Damn! That was a hard landing!"
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