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    Agreed, it beats the balloon anyway with the same amount of lads jumping.
    Peter and others will remember the dulcet words " Up 800 five men jumping".
    Not my favourite pastime, as it left you no time to recitfy any issues that "could" occur like badly packed chutes at that height

    I preferred the Fort Bragg approach of parachute towers, but hey ho who am I???
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