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cute

Niiice. Gigantic balls (and tiny pilot chutes)

So how many optics/IR lasers do you think you had on you while taking those pix?

If only

Does Ray like to jump without using his legstraps?

was less than 10 years ago that it was covered in scaffolding

mmmm. dunno about that. is that what people mean by "ground launch"?

june 1999 i believe....

No site naming!!!

 

Hmmmmm .good question.

So how many optics/IR lasers do you think you had on you while taking those pix?

I WAS a cool thing to do. And no.

THAT'S GREAT. GO AND DAY BLAZE OUR BEST OBJECT AND PLASTER PICTURES ALL OVER THE NET. ETHICS BE DAMNED. GUESS WE WON'T BE HITTING THAT AGAIN ANY TIME SOON.

on a serious note, who has jumped that object? i bet access is a motherfucker... terrorism cahrges and the like...

 

If I remember correctly someone jumped it many years ago. I think I saw a picture of it in Skydiving Magazine before I even started skydiving. Is it something on the order of 570 some odd feet tall? If so then yes it's been jumped before by someone.

Bill L. did the San Jacinto Monument in Texas and the picture looks a lot like the other thing. That may have been what you saw. In 1991 I was being driven around D.C. at night by Bill Ottley (then executive director of the USPA) and I was sitting on the trunk lid of his flaming (red or yellow?) Cadillac convertible drinking a beer. When we passed the Washington Monument he caught me eyeballing it and said, "Don't even fucking think about it."

If the Washington Monument has been done, it was done right, as I've never heard about it from anyone . . .

NickD
BASE 194

Are you sure? I'd bet money I saw a picture of it and the caption said it was the Washington monument. A guy jumped from some window up at the top of something. 575' rings a bell. I'll see if I can find that magazine.

 

Oops I didn't read your post properly the first time. The San Jacinto Monument IS 570' tall so maybe that was what I read about. Now I'm curious.
I'm guessing you're right thoguh. Oh well.

The Washington Monument is (apprx.) 555' 5" tall and 55' wide at the base.

The Windows . . .

NickD
BASE 194

Heh. The first thing that went through my mind was "Cool! Kiting on NPS Land!".

So did anyone hassle you about it?

 

Something about ankles on that trip of yours.........

You think his ankle hurts? Think about how he injures it every time and then start worrying about Ray's ass...