{"id":2104,"date":"2008-01-29T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2015-01-28T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:27:26","slug":"99-skydiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/99-skydiving\/","title":{"rendered":"99 Skydiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"42\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/99-non-build-topic\/\">99 - Non-Build Topic<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">About 100 yards from the hangar is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skydiveseb.com\/index.html\">Skydive Sebastian<\/a> that uses a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airliners.net\/info\/stats.main?id=181\">DeHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter<\/a> as a jump plane. Every day we hear the plane take off and about 15 minutes later it lands about the same time as all the skydivers. Yesterday I stopped by and asked if I could ride along in the right seat. So once the spar was in, I grabbed a spare headset and rode one of the bikes down to the skydiving center. There were about 12 lunatics&#8230; er, I mean skydivers in the back. We climbed up to 13,500 feet and then:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5889.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5889-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2008-01-29 IMG_5889\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5890.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5890-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2008-01-29 IMG_5890\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5891-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2008-01-29 IMG_5891\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5892.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5892-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2008-01-29 IMG_5892\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5893.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5893-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2008-01-29 IMG_5893\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the last one was out, I turned to face forward and directly in front of me was this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5894.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2008-01-29-IMG_5894-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2008-01-29 IMG_5894\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"42\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/99-non-build-topic\/\">99 - Non-Build Topic<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>About 100 yards from the hangar is Skydive Sebastian that uses a DeHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter as a jump plane. Every day we hear the plane take off and about 15 minutes later it lands about the same time as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/99-skydiving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[42],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","series-99-non-build-topic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}