Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achievements long enough to take them for granted, he passes the experience down to his lesser numbers to let them inculcate it into his culture. Anybody, even the little beggar boy who scrapes up his $40, can go out to a town called Orange, Massachusetts and three hours later jump into the middle...
Therefore you start out, when you are about to take your first jump, with your basic fear of death. Even though in 102,000 jumps at the Orange Parachuting Center they've never had anyone killed, you have to be thinking you're about to die (or at least could die) in order to make sure it won't happen...
...JUMPING from the height beginners jump from, 2500 feet, you can free fall for just 17 seconds before you reach the ground. From 2500 feet you can see a couple of hundred miles in all directions. We could see the mountains in three states. We could see the farms, and rivers, and railroad tracks mostly covered with snow which had fallen over the weekend...
When you first jump, your parachute is automatically opened by something clipped onto the airplane called a Static Line Device. The parachute opens and slows you down into the regular descent four seconds later. You count for six seconds. If at the end of that time your parachute hasn't opened, you look over your right shoulder to see what's happened...
People say they can jump without being afraid, which is quite true for them. If you were counting and think- ing the preplanned thoughts, you would probably be tensely exhilarted. But if you were aware of your environment, you would have to know that everything, including you, was unknown...