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08-12-2018, 09:03 PM
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Re: Skydiver Dies when Crashing into a Pole of Airfield Administrative Building
terminal velocity
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#12
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08-13-2018, 12:27 AM
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Re: Skydiver Dies when Crashing into a Pole of Airfield Administrative Building
It's really easy to screw up the landing any time you jump out of a plane. I am no expert, but I completed the Basic Airborne Course at the US Army Airborne School as a 2LT, so I was qualified to serve in an airborne unit and do combat jumps. I say that because last year my wife and I went skydiving and I nearly killed myself, She was on a static line, but when I told the owner of the busin.ss we used that I was former Army Airborne he told me I could jump how I saw fit. Well, apparently what I saw fit was to end up nearly strangling myself in a tree, because that's what I did. I had to cut myself free in a hurry. and ended up free-falling 30 feet. Thankfully, I was able to hide what transpired because no one saw me.I walked back to the company's office - I was lucky enough to land in a bush, so I didn't break anything - and told them I had stopped by my car and dropped off my parachute, because I wanted to keep it. As we were headed home, my wife asked where it was, and I told her I changed my mind and gave it back to them. I was so very relieved that I managed to successfully hide it from her, because she would have made fun of me for fucking decades. It would have been worse than hanging myself in a tree. Someone had to eventually notice the parachute in the tree, heh. But it never got back to me. |
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08-13-2018, 08:15 AM
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 My Rank: SECOND LIEUTENANT Poster Rank:256 I pee standing up Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 5,468 Mentioned: 28 Post(s) Quoted: 2321 Post(s)
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Re: Skydiver Dies when Crashing into a Pole of Airfield Administrative Building
I bet he was a hell of a golfer, because hes shooting right at the pin...  |
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08-13-2018, 01:59 PM
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Re: Skydiver Dies when Crashing into a Pole of Airfield Administrative Building
Must have been one expensive plant to get it's own camera... My guess is basal skull fracture... |
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08-13-2018, 05:43 PM
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 My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:3226 Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 116 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 20 Post(s)
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Re: Skydiver Dies when Crashing into a Pole of Airfield Administrative Building
Great Story! Glad you still came out on top.
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08-13-2018, 06:31 PM
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Re: Skydiver Dies when Crashing into a Pole of Airfield Administrative Building
Unfortunately Sergi realized to late that his newly invented sport combining skydiving and pole dancing " polediving " was a very bad idea  |
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08-13-2018, 09:53 PM
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Re: Skydiver Dies when Crashing into a Pole of Airfield Administrative Building
You guys making Russia jokes reminded me of one of the best articles to ever appear in National Geographic, Russian Smokejumpers. It is rather dated now (August 2002), but still worth reading. It is great for a number of reasons; the subject matter is interesting to start with, but the resourcefulness and tenacity of those guys, their senses of humor, the way they interact with the land and rural Russians, their crappy pay and lack of equipment - it all paints a compelling portrait of a small, but representative, example of the "real Russia." Which I think it is especially important today, as in the West we get so much propaganda, counter-propaganda, and double-dog-dare-aganda about the country and its people that we tend to forget that it's just like anywhere else in the world: 95% of people just want to peacefully get by and live their lives, and 5% ruin it for everyone else. I work with two Russian guys regularly. They are dependable, honest, upbeat, will help others any way they can, etc. It is good to remember, on occasion, that people like them are the majority. As an aside, I just realized I am almost always sunshine, butterflies, and rainbows on this site. It's sort of fucked if you think about it. It's like, "here's a picture of some kids who were tortured and thrown off a cliff" and I'm down in the comment section talking about how that cliff offers great views of striations in the constituent rock layers, and how I bet sunsets would be really pretty there. |
