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- From: mmh2941@rigel.tamu.edu (Mary Haskett)
- Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
- Subject: skyblazin 92
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:49 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University
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- Scott Smith (freestylist in SkyBlazin 92 whose rig deployed without
- his hands moving) describes his trick as the "spiral death trap" or
- something like that. His cameraman had a remote control with two
- buttons. They left the plane with their feet connected by a strap and
- pressing one button released their feet. Pressing the second button
- opened Scott's main remotely. It's a device he made himself, from an
- old A.A.D and some parts from Radio Shack (I think). He had lots of
- flour in his rig, so what you see is a puff a white smoke and a
- deploying canopy (look, ma, no hands). Think of what would have happened
- if the cameraman pressed the buttons in the wrong order!
-
- Mary Haskett
- Texas A&M University
- E-mail at MMH2941@RIGEL.TAMU.EDU
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