From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!hamilton Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Title: Re: One more sweep - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.769 Posted: Sun Sep 26 23:29:36 1982 Received: Thu Sep 30 08:15:35 1982 #R:utcsrgv:-56400:uicsovax:12200008:000:1052 uicsovax!hamilton Sep 26 22:36:00 1982 aha!... there ARE people out there after all! i've received 6 replies (so far) from interested non-jumpers. there are 2 programmer-jumpers at our site (a third left for a new job last week), and about a dozen active jumpers in town (champaign-urbana, il). we don't have our own dz anymore (we used to be known as the first church of skydiving), so we have to travel to "nearby" (~90+miles) dz's: illinois valley spc near peoria, hillsboro, kankakee, and various places in the chicago area. we do most of our jumping from 182's, with occasional dc-3/twin otter rides at boogies. several of us have pretty much adopted the illinois valley club despite the travel time; the $4 to 7500' jump rates can't be beat around here. have any of you in the toronto area heard of angus rupert? he was our "pastor" for several years (he was my instructor) until he went back to toronto for med school. since he owned the plane and most of the student gear, that was the end of the local club. jw ({decvax,ucbvax,harpo}!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!)hamilton