Posted on 11/10/2007 6:35:44 PM PST by RDTF
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated the grand reopening of his presidential museum on Saturday with a surprise skydive.
It was the former president's sixth skydive and his first since 2004, when he jumped to celebrate his 80th birthday. On Saturday, Bush was strapped to an expert from the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team, as he was three years ago.
Bush, now 83, had hip replacement surgery in January. He said at the time he planned to skydive in 2009 for his 85th birthday.
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Amazing,83, and will he ever retire? On the other hand, I understand, being Bubba’s adoptive dad is a full time job!
My aunt got her hip replaced after sky diving.
I tried to warn her about jumping out of perfectly good aircraft.
“Yeah, if only he had applied himself he could have been a mean spirited Internet crank with a superiority complex sitting on his duff behind a keyboard taking snarky pot shots at others.”
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This rhetorical ‘body slam’ is so good it needed to be posted twice!
Dude, that was, like, another giant step for the mankind, doncha know?!
tired of being a thread spoiling jerk yet?
usmcobra, have you ever been inside a plane that is used for skydiving? I lost track of how many times I have heard that "perfectly good airplane" line. Let's just say, you aint never seen our planes.
Regards
Too bad he didn’t have that kind of courage when he was President.
Yeah. They are great buddies.
Respectfully, I don't understand.
The first Iraq war took immense courage and was an important victory. Yeah, getting s h would have been a good idea, but that's hindsight.
The new taxes thing is what torpedoed his presidency, and he would love to have a do-over on that.
Both Presidents Bush have demonstrated (thoughtful, but not reckless) courage. Clinton and Carter have demonstrated weakness and cowardice.
Oh, and as a skydiver (when I was a "bit" younger) I applaud Bush-the-elder's jumps. Exiting an airplane is a bona fide moment of truth that's not for the wobbly.
usmcobra, have you ever been inside a plane that is used for skydiving? I lost track of how many times I have heard that "perfectly good airplane" line. Let's just say, you aint never seen our planes.
Are you trying to say they are NOT Perfectly good airplanes?
And here I thought just the doors were missing?
A friend of mine was a pilot for jumpers. They were at altitude and had a real engine failure. Since the pilot would need to glide back and do a dead stick landing he turned around to tell the jumpers to jump. There were no jumpers, when the engine failed they jumped. Smart lads.
Roger that usmcobra. I remember a certain C180 that we had to hand prop to get it started then it conked out at 1200 feet on climb out. We hopped & popped and the Cessna still beat us down, dead stick.
By the way are you a snake doctor? I was. In the Army, 67Yankee20, AH-1G Cobra mechanic.
Regards
God Bless him.
6612/6632 all avionics systems all electric systems on all Marine Helicopters and OV-10’s.
I worked AH-1J’s as well as a host of others types, and I did try to bail out of a less than prefect aircraft with out a parachute once. We were over water in a CH-53 when it started to have multiple hydraulic systems failures, A fat crew chief sat on me until we hit the deck.
I figured I could survive the fall.
But, let's not forget that, but for Ross Perot's 19%, Bush would have won. My concern now is that people will look at 41's "No new taxes..." loss and take that as a sign that most Americans dislike more taxes, which is not at all clear from their re-election of Clinton and Hillary's polls.
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