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[Hammer Down]

skydiving

Really..?

 

[Penguin Fart Racing]

Really..?

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.

 

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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.

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.

 

[WVNed]

Back 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.

Salt

about 650 gallons run by this stuff I glommed together from Home Depot and Tractor Supply.

 

[Penguin Fart Racing]

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.

I can accept that. To each his own ! What did you fly ?

Salt

about 650 gallons run by this stuff I glommed together from Home Depot and Tractor Supply.

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC !!!

 

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I can accept that. To each his own ! What did you fly ?

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC !!!

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.

 

[Maximum_Quake_Pro.com]

if the general population hadnt lost it's mind, I'd be building gassers, street freaks, as i once did.