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Old 27th Sep 2010, 23:55
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Airborne Aircrew
 
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Hey, nobody forced them to jump. They could have steered away from the trees. Maybe that would have stopped them from bleating to the newspapers.
Not only has he never jumped, (assuming he's not a troll), but he has certainly never jumped at night. Even on the most "reasonable" of nights one is generally unaware of the ground until the last 50' or less. Put a 30' tree there at a rate of descent of about 20fps and you have a whole second before you are in the trees and, more importantly, 1/4 of a second before your container is entangled... But he wouldn't know that nor appreciate the difficulty.

He reminds me of where this is "aimed"...




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