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Record-seeking skydiver makes 13-mile test jump
Associated Press ^
| 3/15/2012
| Marcia Dunn
Posted on 03/15/2012 8:15:58 PM PDT by U-238
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To: gortklattu
. You have to catch up to the other jumpers and to do so would go into a dive that would speed you past 200 mph. It was the biggest rush imaginable
Dude, there are jumps where the incoming fire pretty much eliminates about half of those other jumpers and getting to the ground alive becomes the numero uno object in your head...your definition of fun sucks!!!
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03/16/2012 12:01:14 AM PDT
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crazyhorse691
(Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
To: Ronaldus Magnus
If you can find it, the best account of the balloon experiments of the 50s is Kittinger’s Book, “The Long, Lonely Leap”.
I still find it now and then on eBay, I have 2 copies in my library.
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03/16/2012 3:28:18 AM PDT
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hattend
(Jesus wants me to make churches pay for abortions. - Barack Obama)
To: U-238
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03/16/2012 6:24:00 AM PDT
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Daffynition
(On Andrew Breitbart: In his honor, I'll fight harder...He'll be back and he'll be millions.)
To: scripter
I instructed for about four years. Only one student chickened out - but that was before the tandem days. The students went out alone.
If you jump again, try to get another jumper to swoop down to you.
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03/16/2012 6:34:02 AM PDT
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gortklattu
(God knows who is best, everybody else is making guesses - Tony Snow)
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