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Re: Guy Jumps Out of Plane With NO Parachute!!

Well I guess I have to eat my holier than though attitude. Sorry. I have never been in the freefall community but I always thought this happened. Another of my urban legends trashed.
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Re: Guy Jumps Out of Plane With NO Parachute!!

Jump out of an airplane without a chute and depend on your buddies to hook you up and get you down safely.....What possibly could go wrong??
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Re: Guy Jumps Out of Plane With NO Parachute!!

Every time I see the name of this thread, I'm reminded of a joke....
There's 4 guys on board an airplane when the engine craps out over, but only 3 parachutes. One guy tells the others "I'm the smartes man in the world, so I deserve one of the parachutes", then straps one on real quick and leaps out the door before anyone else can say or do anything. One of the remaining guys says "well, I guess we can draw straws", but another one tells him "naw, we're good-- the smartest man in the world just jumped out of the airplane with my backpack".
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It seems like a lot of skydivers end up owning and flying airplanes. How many of us are there?
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Re: Guy Jumps Out of Plane With NO Parachute!!

i got one for you sky diver historians: I seem to remember Dave Kilbourne, stone age era hang glider pilot, telling me about a guy who was going to, or had, jumped off the Cow Palace in the Bay area, this was '72 or so. The guy was Carl Boenish, one of the very first base jumpers and a buddy of Dave's. Though I know now that Boenish was indeed a very early base jumper, the Cow Palace thing just doesn't sound right, too damn low, right?
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