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Really..?skydiving
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Really..?skydiving
Yeah, at the time; taking flying lessons was becoming familiar with a CESSNA 152, helped the flight engineer work on the cowl flaps of a B-17G and had one ride on a B-25 . I wanted my college Chemistry students to learn how to minimize risks, be safe, yet TOTALLY COMMIT to Learning soas to increase their chance of success in engineering. Soooo, I tandem Jumped, then made arrangements for the whole class to do the same at PARADISE SKYDIVES in Vinton, IA. https://www.skydivecsc.com/paradise-skydives-closed . We all had fun and became members of USPA https://uspa.org/ . I Jumped afterwards, but PARADISE closed in 2015. A tight-knit group; some of those students went on to Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and even one who did some class work at Imperial https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ They vividly remember the experience years later. On my last Jump, landed bad in a cross-wind and twisted my left ankle. Still feel it today, No more Jumps; can't seem to get the courage to part with my 'chute though.Really..?
I’ve spent over 10,000 hours up in the sky, and never once thought to myself that it would be a good idea to jump out.Yeah, at the time; taking flying lessons was becoming familiar with a CESSNA 152, helped the flight engineer work on the cowl flaps of a B-17G and had one ride on a B-25 . I wanted my college Chemistry students to learn how to minimize risks, be safe, yet TOTALLY COMMIT to Learning soas to increase their chance of success in engineering. Soooo, I tandem Jumped, then made arrangements for the whole class to do the same at PARADISE SKYDIVES in Vinton, IA. https://www.skydivecsc.com/paradise-skydives-closed . We all had fun and became members of USPA https://uspa.org/ . I Jumped afterwards, but PARADISE closed in 2015. A tight-knit group; some of those students went on to Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and even one who did some class work at Imperial https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ They vividly remember the experience years later. On my last Jump, landed bad in a cross-wind and twisted my left ankle. Still feel it today, No more Jumps; can't seem to get the courage to part with my 'chute though.
SaltBack when I was teaching sciences and computer basics at DULL KNIFE MEMORIAL COLLEGE in Lame Deer, MT I got a COWBELL from a thrift shoppe in Billings. Trouble was that it needed an ASTM TUNER and all I had was a METRIC one Great school; some of the most rewarding teaching I ever did.
TRAINS ! What Gauge do you model in? Your lay-out looks impressive; tell me a bit about it. Almost forty years ago in grad school I started building a a Z-Gauge layout into a glass-topped coffee table. Never finished it though :-( Thrift stores for me again lately. I picked up a BACHMANN steam engine and some rolling stock in N-Gauge. Still musing about a layout; am thinking about a fictional pair of 1920's very small mid-Iowa farming towns; one with a rail-yard and a Doodlebug Interurban running between the two. Joke- How 'bout T-Gauge LIVE STEAM
Fresh or Salt ? I am impressed by your Aquaria. Tell me a bit about your Tanks.
I can accept that. To each his own ! What did you fly ?I’ve spent over 10,000 hours up in the sky, and never once thought to myself that it would be a good idea to jump out.
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC !!!Salt
about 650 gallons run by this stuff I glommed together from Home Depot and Tractor Supply.
Currently in the A320 family. I always say that about not wanting to jump out as a joke. Lol. Or, only 2 things fall from the sky. Bird crap and idiots. Haha. I’d probably skydive if the opportunity was there, but it’s not something I’m going out of me way to do.I can accept that. To each his own ! What did you fly ?
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC !!!