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Although I chuckled at your story, for some strange reason my palms started sweating.
The airship was at our base as a trial for bushfire spotting/command evaluation (this failed due low forward speed and typically high winds). We, a PJ team of around eight, had been asking for a jump the moment it arrived but were told no, no, No! This is not a toy... or words to that effect.
On the last day of the evaluation I just happened to be in the right place at the right time and my boss said, "wanna go for a leap?" 20min later we were geared up walking past other team members who were reasonably pissed that they had missed out.
My gloating remark of "too bad boys" as we climbed aboard the airship would come back to bite me. As my canopy flapped in the breeze during deployment they pissed themselves laughing and were not shy in taking the piss afterwards.
Happy days...
