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HECTOP
June 10th 04, 01:25 AM
The emergency: http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe.avi

The lucky fellow after landing:
http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe2.avi

Looks like he was just shot at at!

You ain't draggin' me upthere to jump from the sky with that stringed
napkin! :-))


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Maule Driver
June 10th 04, 03:41 AM
Great stuff! Thought the jumper put on a pretty good macho imitation.

Give it a few months and it will be a great story. He'll be wondering why
he's embellishing it. Listeners will think he's nuts.


"HECTOP" > wrote in message
...
> The emergency: http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe.avi
>
> The lucky fellow after landing:
> http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe2.avi
>
> Looks like he was just shot at at!
>
> You ain't draggin' me upthere to jump from the sky with that stringed
> napkin! :-))
>
>
> HECTOP
> A Certified Wuffo!
> PP-ASEL-IA
> http://www.maxho.com
> maxho_at_maxho.com
>
>

eric hall
June 10th 04, 09:21 AM
Just in case anyone hasn't jumped a round before.......from what I saw he
was right to deploy his reserve. The round reserve is designed to fly with
the main. There is no need to cut away as you do with a square.
Everyone should jump a round at least once... :-)


"Maule Driver" > wrote in message
. com...
> Great stuff! Thought the jumper put on a pretty good macho imitation.
>
> Give it a few months and it will be a great story. He'll be wondering why
> he's embellishing it. Listeners will think he's nuts.
>
>
> "HECTOP" > wrote in message
> ...
> > The emergency: http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe.avi
> >
> > The lucky fellow after landing:
> > http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe2.avi
> >
> > Looks like he was just shot at at!
> >
> > You ain't draggin' me upthere to jump from the sky with that stringed
> > napkin! :-))
> >
> >
> > HECTOP
> > A Certified Wuffo!
> > PP-ASEL-IA
> > http://www.maxho.com
> > maxho_at_maxho.com
> >
> >
>
>

Jay Honeck
June 10th 04, 05:50 PM
> The lucky fellow after landing:
> http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe2.avi

Won't play in Quicktime. I wonder why?
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HECTOP
June 10th 04, 06:04 PM
"Jay Honeck" > wrote:
> Won't play in Quicktime. I wonder why?

Try Windows Media Player, I'm on dial-up right now so can't download the
file to tell you the codec it's in.

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Martin Hotze
June 10th 04, 06:10 PM
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:50:17 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:

>> http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe2.avi
^^^^
>Won't play in Quicktime. I wonder why?

<big computer magic knowledge> because it is a .avi file. </>

find a player that can play your .avi files.
no, I don't know one, but google does.

#m

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PeterD
June 10th 04, 09:33 PM
HECTOP > wrote:

> "Jay Honeck" > wrote:
> > Won't play in Quicktime. I wonder why?
>
> Try Windows Media Player, I'm on dial-up right now so can't download the
> file to tell you the codec it's in.

DivX. VLC plays it no problems.

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HECTOP
June 10th 04, 09:52 PM
"PeterD" > wrote:
> DivX. VLC plays it no problems.

Yeah, then he won't be able to play it in Quicktime, just download DivX
codec from http://www.divx.com/divx and play it any other video player.

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