And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I was a volunteer firefighter for a number of years, and part of a team that located a young woman who died on her first solo jump. She fell 1300 feet and landed beside a big hemlock tree, shearing off 3" limbs at the trunk on her way down. She was 22 years old. life is too precious to risk for a cheap thrill...
to leap voluntarily(done that three times) from a perfectly good aircraft is...practice for when you must scream and pull the ejection seat handle from a burn mindless bit of twisted wreckage that is trying to take you with it on it's death spiral into the ground. you only do it as a confidence builder for the chute so you won't hesitate to pull the handle and get out above the hard deck. ejection systems have time constraints; it may seem like it happens instantly, but it doesn't. Do that again? No.
If my chute don't open wide,
ReplyDeleteI got another one by my side.
If that one don't blossom 'round
DeleteI'll be the lead man on the ground!
If that one should fail me too,
DeleteLook out below, I’m a’comin’ through!
Gravity. Its the law.
ReplyDeleteSudden stops from 126 mph are a bitch.
ReplyDelete"You don't need a parachute to jump out of a plane once.....you need it to jump out of it the second time"....
ReplyDeleteIf everything else fails to work, flap your arms.
ReplyDeleteIt can't hurt at that point, and it'll be funny as hell on video at your wake.
I was a volunteer firefighter for a number of years, and part of a team that located a young woman who died on her first solo jump. She fell 1300 feet and landed beside a big hemlock tree, shearing off 3" limbs at the trunk on her way down. She was 22 years old.
ReplyDeletelife is too precious to risk for a cheap thrill...
Skydivers are good to the last drop.
ReplyDeleteto leap voluntarily(done that three times) from a perfectly good aircraft is...practice for when you must scream and pull the ejection seat handle from a burn mindless bit of twisted wreckage that is trying to take you with it on it's death spiral into the ground. you only do it as a confidence builder for the chute so you won't hesitate to pull the handle and get out above the hard deck. ejection systems have time constraints; it may seem like it happens instantly, but it doesn't.
ReplyDeleteDo that again? No.
Blue Sky
ReplyDeleteBlack Death