Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site phoenix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!phoenix!brent From: brent@phoenix.UUCP (Brent P. Callahan) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: Freak Flying - (nf) Message-ID: <1008@phoenix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 09:17:12 EST Article-I.D.: phoenix.1008 Posted: Mon Feb 4 09:17:12 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 19:44:26 EST References: <36200006@waltz.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 25 I organised a Freak dive once. We put together a quick 6 star and then on my nod, we all did a half backloop onto our backs. In theory we were all supposed to fly back together into a no-contact star feet first. None of us had ever seriously attempted freak flying, except while linked into a formation (dock with arms crossed then uncross). The result was complete chaos. I guess we were asking for it. The sky was full of laughing bodies zipping here, there and everywhere, completely out of control. It was a zoo. In the inverted position, the legs have a lot more drag. I couldn't get enough drag off my arms, or pull my legs in enough to fly forwards. Most of us zipped around in backwards tracks. I guess we all have a lot to learn ! -- Made in New Zealand --> Brent Callaghan AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ {ihnp4|ahuta|pegasus}!phoenix!brent (201) 576-3475