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Old 12-12-2007, 06:50 PM   #1
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Default This is amazing: flying suits

like a flying squirrel, you use nylon webbing to glide through the air.

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Old 12-12-2007, 06:58 PM   #2
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This was just on the local news last night. there is a guy who is going to set the world record by jumping without a parachute. He is having a special landing strip constructed for him that costs about 2MM bucks.

Some of his trial footage includes him jumping past the Christ of the Andes statue and navigating right underneath one of the outstretched arms and cruising down the mountain in this crazy suit.
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Old 12-12-2007, 07:00 PM   #3
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Yes, this is the guy. he lives in Malibu.

The footage of him jumping in Rio is pretty impressive.
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His life insurance agent just got fired.
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FYI, you know that Chuck Henry, the reporter in that video, is LDS - so I've been told.
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His life insurance agent just got fired.
What me? I don't parachute.
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FYI, you know that Chuck Henry, the reporter in that video, is LDS - so I've been told.
This is correct. He is LDS. not sure if he is active. He always seems to report at least once each December from the LA Temple to show off the lights.

Carlos Amezcua, the long-time Channel 5 anchor, is also LDS and active. He is always throwing in the score for "my BYU Cougars" at the end of every broadcast....almost as though he has specifically been told NOT to do that but he gets it in under the radar before they can edit it out. Carlos is now at another channel...maybe Channel 9?

For my tastes, i enjoy watching Jackie Johnson, weather, channel 9. 10PM......yowza.
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This is correct. He is LDS. not sure if he is active. He always seems to report at least once each December from the LA Temple to show off the lights.

Carlos Amezcua, the long-time Channel 5 anchor, is also LDS and active. He is always throwing in the score for "my BYU Cougars" at the end of every broadcast....almost as though he has specifically been told NOT to do that but he gets it in under the radar before they can edit it out. Carlos is now at another channel...maybe Channel 9?

For my tastes, i enjoy watching Jackie Johnson, weather, channel 9. 10PM......yowza.
I'll have to watch the weather more:



(That's her on the left)
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