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July 8th, 2002 That guy is cool......
He sure knows his gear.....
July 9th, 2002 OMG, I used to work at the Gavin plant, before I started jumping, and they told tales of someone jumping their big stack there, and promptly being arrested.
Alas, the big stack is no more, but they have two smaller stacks, each to 700' or so. They put in a huge flue gas desulfurization project that required the demolition of that big stack, so greenpeace should be happy. For reference, the cooling tower in the background is ~500'.
July 9th, 2002 As usual, another snide comment from the seemingly endless supply of punk-a$$es on the board. When Robin was doing this in support of a good cause (something you doubtfully know anything about as you are soooo full of yourself) you were still what, crapping your diapers or maybe learning long division?
Like him or not (his attitude gets to everyone at times), Robin was a pioneer in the sport; something you'll never be. And he has spent countless hours over the years trying to gain access for all of us. His latest congressional contact may yet bear fruit . . .
July 9th, 2002 Whatever Mr. Hyde may seem to have been, he is now just a kooky geek. "Perspective" supports the bat-boy, but only anonymously. Supporters and foes alike choose to remain anonymous when Robin comes up, I wonder why.....
Whatever Robin does bears fruitiness.
July 9th, 2002 Ask Dennis McGlynn What he thinks of Mr. Hyde
July 9th, 2002 Anyway respect for the times past, that's something we never will come back to, the good old times, when basejumping still was something unexplored.
Most of us want understand or neither will understand.
July 9th, 2002 Better yet, ask Robin Heid what he thinks of "Mr." McGlynn.
July 10th, 2002
> maybe learning long division?
I have heard of long division. What I really want to learn about is Mince Division. Whats THAT all about.
I was not good at math anyway -- I need a calculator to figure out scope clicks.
:9
July 10th, 2002 I noticed retrospect or whoever, takes a jab at "Perspective" for posting anonymously, and then does so him/herself. COWARD! back your words with a first name or alias at least.
That is what Robin always has DONE, and continues to do. Backs his POSTS with HIS NAME!! regardless of who likes him, or what people think. learn from him, and post your name. and he was a pioneer in the early days, when people got together at bars and DZ's and talked about what's working, and what's killed who. why their close friend died last week, and how they can prevent it.
now days, BASE seems like all the jumpers want recommendations and guidelines.
oh, boo hoo....you are going against the manufacturer's recommendations....
THAT"S called using your OWN judgement. I suggest more sheep try it. and jumpers too. It's fun for both.
baaaaaaaahhhhh baaaahhhhhh,
back to rec.skydiving, to hear why I am not allowed this and that anymore.
Thomas :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
July 11th, 2002 Actually, that guy really does know his gear.
Back in 1984, there were no BASE-specific rigs and the Racer was perhaps the best choice out there.
Why?
Because its main container had no sewn-up corners, so the flaps all opened completely and let the canopy out without restriction, thus improving deployment speed and reducing the chance of off-heading openings.
The Racer reserve also gets out faster than any other rig, and from 1100 feet with a four-second delay, there was time to use it if necessary.
The deployment system was a pull-out, meaning the pin was pulled and the container opened when the pilot chute handle was pulled, thereby eliminating the possibility of a towed pilot chute.
For this particular jump, there were three modifications:
1) The normal 3-foot pull-out bridle was replaced with a 9-foot bridle and the pud handle placed on the top instead of the bottom of the pilot chute.
2) note the top-flap tabs flapping in the breeze. The velcro had been covered with duct tape to keep it from sticking and thereby confining the canopy in any way
3) the d-bag was removed, and (because there were no tail pockets in action then either), the lines were stowed the way Carl Boenish pioneered, taken from Air Force emergency rigs; the lines stowed in the pack tray itself.
RH
July 11th, 2002 > learn from him, and post your
>name. and he was a pioneer in the early days,
>when people got together at bars and DZ's and
>talked about what's working, and what's killed
>who. why their close friend died last week, and
>how they can prevent it.
Then why don't you learn from the parameters that the pioneers discovered with guts and blood Mr. I'll just slam this pack job since it's slider-up?
Scott
July 11th, 2002 The neat thing about that jump was the canopy... I seem to remember a custom main with "GREENPEACE" across the bottom skin...
I remember they showed the opening of the parachute in a segment of 60 Minutes about the whole Greenpeace movement...
Of course the whole point of this jump was to gain publicity, not to avoid as now... It was covered in Skydiving.... I believe they let down a Greenpeace banner on the side of the stack...
The reason Robin didn't make as big a headline as he and Greenpeace had hoped was something about Reagan getting shot or something that week.
Robin was good enuf to offer the canopy to some of us up here in the great white north if we were planning to jump the superstack in Northern Ontario.
Like someone said, 1984 was a whole different ball game....
Skypuppy BASE92
July 11th, 2002 Reagan was shot in '81. Must have been "or something."
July 11th, 2002 What actually happened was that Commerce Secretary Ray Donovan that same day became the first sitting Cabinet secretary ever to be indicted for a crime -- and with Reagan was so far ahead of Mondale in the presidential race that year the media was doing everything it could to make it a horse race, so all three networks (CNN was a pipsqueak then) devoted almost 15 of their 22 minutes of air time to that story.
Eventually, however, the footage ended up on all three network news shows, all three network news magazines and NOVA. It also appeared in a 1990 Greepeace video on MTV set to a Grateful Dead song. Still photos showed up on more than 200 newspapers and magazines worldwide, making it the most widely distributed BASE jumping shot ever.
The canopy is still available should anyone need it for some other "direct action."
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