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Pilot survived fall from pitching plane (Aggie)
Houston Chronicle ^ | July 31, 2005 | CHRIS VAUGHN

Posted on 07/31/2005 1:33:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

figures! ; )


21 posted on 07/31/2005 7:14:09 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Rightly Biased

Yeah. . .an Aggie can't even fall out of an airplane.

;-)


22 posted on 07/31/2005 8:20:50 AM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: Drew68

The freefall site was especially interesting to me because in 1963 I knew a skydiver whose shutes failed at 5,000 feet near the NASA center at Clear Lake. We were expecting him for a backyard bar-b-que and he didn't show up.

His wife called and we went to the hospital the next day. Virtually every bone from his feet through his hips were broken--but he landed in proper form which saved his life--along with the spongy ground.


23 posted on 07/31/2005 9:30:22 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Whoop!


24 posted on 07/31/2005 11:34:22 AM PDT by secret garden (Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime)
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