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Entries from November 2008

Where's my container?

November 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments · skydiving

Thinking the next time I see my skydiving rig would be in a few weeks – all nice and repaired I forgot about it after leaving at the Swansea Staples store. It turns out it is not going to be that straightforward. At least not for the moment. As I sent it through a specialised [...]

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Ooops, or how I ripped my container on a Cessna 206, part 2

November 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · skydiving, Uncategorized

I have now managed to send off the container to the manufacturer Aerodyne in Florida. I have just driven back from Swansea where I send off the container through a DHL ServicePoint location in the Parc Tawe Staples shop. Great service, if you ask me, as you don’t have to pay a high price to [...]

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Ooops, or how I ripped my container on a Cessna 206, part 1

November 8th, 2008 · No Comments · skydiving

My recent visit to the motherland gave me the opportunity for yet another skydiving session, I joined my instructor and mentor Aleš Debeljak from the Paranoia skydiving school. All went well and on the third jump of the second day just as I exited the Cessna 206 I apparently managed to hook my rig on [...]

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