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Long Jumpers

Interesting article on long jumping where athletes are not only not breaking records like in sprints but getting steadily worse..

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^skinnydaddy1:
FAA is going to freak if they find this video and incident has not been reported. o.0

I'm right there with you, that may in fact be one hell of a major no-no and I hope they were over empty lands.
I wonder under normal regulations if they are actually even supposed to continue operating in an event like that, considering all the regulations put on flying (there are a lot). I know it looks like some guy's dumpy car just lost a side door, no biggy, but in flying they breath fire down your neck for missing certain bolts or those said bolts even being remotely loose... I'll have to look and see if a pilot can make a judgment call concerning no mandatory operation machinery attached to the craft coming off (that may be part of the main fuselage!)
I did look and see that the national statistic on flights that should have remained grounded getting fixed (some problems not so big, some big enough that when the plane landed emergency crews were needed to put out fires, not including MANY of the emergency landings at the wrong airport before the plane truly does CRASH) that number comes in at around 65000 flights over six years... This is from the FAA, so we're talking about mostly small business's up to large airlines like Delta. BUT, it must always be remembered that they do a better job than your average driver and their car by far; they just have much more "flashier" endings I guess you could say. Which makes the media frenzy about it like a feeding pool that CNN & FOX News ALIKE, engorge until nothing is left but the tasteless morsels that just reiterate everything we have been told by them before this...it is unfortunate that not only we are exposed to this media circus, but also that 'flying' is being dragged through the toxin-filled-sludge created by our media-hype-elite...
I'd figure the ONE group of people that might actually take great care of their machinery is the smaller business and solo-flyer's. I know one of my grandfather's brother spent hours on end with his plane making sure it was in tip-top shape and making sure his flight plans were exacting (he was kinda a bush-pilot, so that was important to him, if you know what I mean). A small off-topic element to this: I remember going through his flight plans and maps that went up through the Western U.S., into Western Canada, then into lower Alaska...it was amazing to see what detail he went into to get the job done; I would feel very safe flying with him if I ever did, because of the extreme measures he went to to get everything right...
I wonder if the pilot had to worry about anything when they landed, it's impossible to see from the clip, but you don't see if it goes up at all and hits the plane--but, I'd assume since everyone is acting basically happy and fine (no panic at all) I assume that the rest of that flight went normally, except for that and the large amounts of paperwork that wold follow it... (Assuming they weren't idiotic and DID report it...)


Found a little blurp about it here.

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Nah it wasn't our fault. There were ten 'other' jumpers before us. Some were new and didn't know how to operate it. On takeoff they failed to close it properly and then in the back from held it down with there feet till 2500 where two of them stood up to close it properly. When they stood on it it was pushed below the stops on either side (the angle iron shaped things) and then turned the handle. I am assuming the locking pin went below the frame of the door. At height they stood to open the door - stepping on the door and turning the handle. The door didn't rise. They then stood on it harder with no change to the result. They then stood on it harder and pushed it down into the wind and it caught air and took off. One of the coolest things I have ever seen. The door landed in the quarry and has been recovered - it needs about $100 in repairs and will be back in action this weekend (or so i have been told).

Was looking for more on it but so far zip.

Is it Quadruple Dutch if the jumper has four legs?

It's parents like that, turning kids into adrenaline junkies that the kids grow up to be base jumpers and shit. That kid is going to need to jump off a skyscrapper by the time he's 14 to ever get an adrenaline high ever again lol.

This story on Yahoo suggests you would win your bet.

"That's so cute, hahaha," Corliss laughed when asked if he was now going to quit jumping.

>> ^Jinx:

I wonder if this guy clips his wings after this...I bet against it.

>> ^TheSluiceGate:

I saw a documentary on base jumpers a while back. It seems that for most of the base jumping community that when you decide to buy a wingsuit you're pretty much going to lose a lot of your basejumping friends because they now things are approaching an end for you...
Just like folks that buy motorcycles, that's the best time to become a great friend! ...And call dibs on their choice goods.

>> ^TheSluiceGate:

I saw a documentary on base jumpers a while back. It seems that for most of the base jumping community that when you decide to buy a wingsuit you're pretty much going to lose a lot of your basejumping friends because they now things are approaching an end for you...

Its true that often times people live before they die.

No but srsly, I saw that documentary too. I'd love to wingsuit once but I fear I'd be trapped in the obsessive pursuit of lower and faster, a trend where altitude and velocity approach 0 and terminal. I wonder if this guy clips his wings after this...I bet against it. It wasn't good enough, if it had been he'd be dead.

I saw a documentary on base jumpers a while back. It seems that for most of the base jumping community that when you decide to buy a wingsuit you're pretty much going to lose a lot of your basejumping friends because they now things are approaching an end for you...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Cute, Babies, Johnny Cash, Folsom' to 'Cute, Babies, Johnny Cash, Folsom, Jolly Jumper' - edited by calvados

Looks like a very well rigged system actually. They have two ropes on the jumper and two ropes on the swing system. Hard to tell how many places they have the ropes anchored... but the title and description are misleading.

>> ^poolcleaner:

And that's the way shit should work when it really comes down to it. He's lucky we're a relatively peaceful society now. Anyone who thinks getting physical is never the answer needs to get a clue, not just about human nature, but the nature of the universe and the laws that govern it. We invented non-violence but that doesn't mean it can always be the way to achieve a proper society.


i love that such a comment has a picture of dr strangelove next to it.

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That was violent. I don't care if he didn't do any of the things on a particular list of violent acts that you hold, but picking someone out of a chair by the collar is violent, and so are throwing him to the ground and then off a train. And, he did hit him when he tried to get back on the train.

Non-violent solutions include what the ticket checker guy was doing from the start, using social pressure to get him to leave. Another is contacting the police, as @Yogi has suggested. Your personal judgements of this fare-dodger and what you believe he "deserves" aside, getting passengers home a minute or two earlier doesn't warrant this kind of vigilante violence. I hope the big guy gets charged with the assault which he clearly committed.>> ^Quboid:

I think you had a reasonable point in there somewhere - people who resort to violence aren't necessarily good, salt of the earth people. However, the "big man" doesn't hit this entitled little shit. He is physical, but he's not violent.

>> ^longde:

There are people who have cars who are homeless.

Maybe, but that dosen't mean their priorities aren't fucked. I'd file that along with people who put a $10K sound system in a $500 car.

I probably would have been inclined to pay his fare, but his bad mouthing the ticket-checker would have buried that notion. A contrite attitude from him would have gone much further, at least with me.>> ^shinyblurry:

Yeah, he was no model of human behavior, but who knows what his situation was. It was at night and he was going about 50 miles. Maybe he had to spend a night under a bridge. I can relate to being stuck somewhere with no money and no options. I would have paid his fare for him if I was there.