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Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
However, if you think you are going to frighten me with your hankerchief, you are mistaken. I should have been dead by '92 at the latest. As I have been living on borrowed time for ever a decade anyway, I'm not afraid of shit.
Except clowns, women with big hands and Adam's apples.
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Hell NDD, I never expected to see 1972 !!!! And then I made close to 900 Sport jumps on everything from 28' 7TUs to Delta II Parawings with a few early '70s Para-Planes and Clouds thrown in. My regular canopy of choice was a Para-Commander with a Tri-Con reserve.
That reserve saved my ass twice. Once, a streamered main (the deployment broke my collarbone) and once from the door of a Cessna 195 at around 100 FEET when the engine quit and I departed the aircraft. We found the reserve ripcord handle inside the wreckage.
Jumping is relative. It is far safer than the drive any of us make to work every day !!!
Later
Martin