Skydiving video – Fun Saturday including uncle’s tandem
Great jump, uncle And the usual dose of fun
Great jump, uncle And the usual dose of fun
Free flying is hard work, i’ll tell you that. It’s always very easy to watch guys like the Skywalkers, Omar Alhegelan, Tim Porter, and other skydiving idols and think: “hey, i could do that”. But what we tend to forget is that, like most things in life that are worth doing, it takes time, dedication, [...]
My last Saturday consisted of the following… Catching the bullet man from Pedro Assunção on Vimeo.
NASA is investigating how to use Kevlar to soften helicopter crashes. If you consider that, since 2001, the accident rate for civilian helicopter use per 100.000 flight hours has been 40% higher than for general aviation fixed wing aircraft (1), then I hope this will eventually help mitigate some of the fatalities in those crashes. [...]
I woke up today at around 9 am and proceeded to call my buddy Ricardo to see if he had talked to our big master Mario Pardo about the DZ’s weather forecast for today. He had. Mario told him that the clouds were ok and, although there was a bit of wind, we should go [...]
That’s right, the Portuguese Parachuting Association just issued and mailed my A license. In a couple of weeks I will be able to start jumping with my dear friend Ricardo, in Portugal. Also, in another note, thinking of buying some freeflying pants. Anyone knows a nice price/quality ratio brand and online store? Currently considering these.
Technical problems with the airplane on its way from Amsterdam to Lisbon prevented my departure today at 15.35 to the city of sin. I now have to wait until 8am tomorrow to be able to get there and, as usual, spend the day at work feeling like a zombie (because I’ll have to get up [...]
Millions of years of evolution against you; that is the feeling that travels through your body, when you reach for that airplane door and look down from 12.000 feet of altitude. And it does not go away – after more jumps – either, though I have been told that it gets a little better. But [...]
Just checked the weather report for this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: 22 degrees C max and clear skies. All set to go to Portugal and do the skydiving course. It’s going to be awesomeness
I’ve always been curious about experimenting with different seats inside airplanes so, in this entry, I will try to sum up my conclusions about traveling on the 30th (the last) row of a Boeing 737-800, from Amsterdam to Lisbon with KLM Airlines (now AirFrance). I would assume I was going to get less stress and [...]