Here is what I did for my 40th B-day!

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Hey guys,

Well, I guess I am now over the hill! I turned 40 today. I know, I know, I am still younger than most of you old farts!

Anyway, this is what I did to make sure I was still alive.

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Obviously I am the one in the orange jump suit! What a rush! If I wasn't alive before that, I sure as heck am now!

We jumped from 10,600 feet and free fell for 46 seconds at a max speed of 129 mph! This is my first time to do it and I would do it again and recommend it to everyone!
 
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Happy Birthday!!! You know I never did that yet... although I used to ride ejection seats off aircraft carriers for a living. Guess my next opportunity for a milestone birthday will be the big 60. I might just have to try that. Still got a few years to think about it...
 
Looks brilliant, Happy Birthday! Never tried that myself but I used to drive fire engines/ fire trucks for 13 years, thats enough excitement for my lifetime![:D]
 
Happy Birthday! I used to do that for a living but it was always with a static line and as low as 800ft. and no higher than 1500ft. and usually with a whole bunch of other maniacs in the air at the same time. Airborne!
 
Curtis,Happy birthday and it seems you had a great day. Next month I will have my 66th and am planing to do the same, only I forget what in the hell are we talking about and who are you. I get so confused now-a-days.
 
That's just AWESOME!!!
That is definantly on my list to do when <b>I</b> get old as well! [;)]
Gonna try scuba diving next spring, but that will be the very next "wild hair" thing that I do!!!
Happy Birhtday!
 
Happy Birthday, Curtis!

I did the same tandem jump from the same altitude about two years ago. My daughter jumped solo seconds after I did and she "flew" circles around me as we descended. You are absolutely right about feeling alive during the free fall and then the slower ride under canopy. My daughter has now jumped solo 400 times. She can't get enough of it.

For those of you who haven't jumped yet I highly recommend it.
 
Way to go Curtis. I turn 47 in a couple weeks. The wife and I started working out a few months ago, mostly for the grandkids and because we stopped smoking new years. I haven't felt this good in years. Amazing what a little jump start can do for the body and soul.
 
Happy Birthday Curtis!


Like Bruce; I have done many, many jumps. Quite a few static lines and then I graduated to free falls and HALO (High Altitude Low Opening)jumps, many of which were at night and in unfamiliar places. It is a rush that cannot be explained. I'm glad you had the opportunity to experience that and from now on you are no longer a "leg" as you have soared with the birds; if only for a few moments. Now you have me reminiscing, Perhaps I'll try it again next spring, don't want to chance getting hurt before my vacation to Hawaii.
 
Thanks a bunch for the birthday wishes, everyone! I ended up having a really good day. After jumping I came back home and spent most of the afternoon in the shop. Then LOML cooked a really nice steak dinner and had a cake that almost caught the house on fire! Then I spent from 10:00 pm until 3:30 am Sunday morning bowfishing on a local lake!
 
i too have taken the plunge.....although two static jumps in one day.....what a rush!
and to those who can't understand jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.....the one i was in wasn't a perfectly good one! LOL
 
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