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Re: Parachute Noise

To: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>,
Subject: Re: Parachute Noise
From: pork.pie@t-online.de (Pork Pie)
Date: 23 Jan 2005 19:37 GMT
Yeap, thats right and I stand at the 6 with the camera and the long lens

See ya

Pork Pie


"John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net> schrieb:
> Parachutes are noisy but you normaly cant hear them - In the morning from the
> long course time slip stand with the temperature inversion bending the sound
> downward you hear a boom and then a roar like a distant jet - It takes 6
> second for the sound to travel and the chutes are easier to hear than see so
> it seems everybody waits till the 5 1/2 to lift their foot and pull the handle
> .






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