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Article #292Re: Skydive into the Rain Forest
From: kas
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1986 01:52
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1986 01:52
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I enjoyed the flick -- especially the freefall photography. The
photographers did a nice job, I thought.
One thing that puzzles me a little, though, was their plan to BASE
jump off that thing. Assuming they safely landed in a clearing below, and
not in some tree, how did they plan to get out? Walk? Call a taxi? What
about all their gear (other than the parachutes)? Leave it on top? Pick it
up later with a helicopter? What about the guy with the sprained ankles?
Obviously, he couldn't jump off. Leave him on top? Pick him up next year?
Oh, well. The Venezualan government took care of all their decisions for
them, when it forced them to evacuate via helicopter.
Anyway, this show kinda got my withdrawal pains flared up again. I
haven't been able to jump since last Summer, due to school and the negative
cash flow in my checkbook. Geeze, I gotta jump or I'll go crazy...
*
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|---/---\---| Ken Scofield C-9355
| Gone | Hewlett-Packard PCD
| Jumpin' | Corvallis, OR
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp 1.2 08/01/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!kas From: kas@hp-pcd.UUCP (kas) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: Skydive into the Rain Forest Message-ID: <41800064@hpcvlo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 20:52:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpcvlo.41800064 Posted: Fri Mar 7 20:52:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 06:17:00 EST References: <1420@poseidon.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:poseidon:-142000:hpcvlo:41800064:000:1159 Nf-From: hpcvlo!kas Mar 7 17:52:00 1986