December 10, 2009
Topics: flying, technology
NASA is investigating how to use Kevlar to soften helicopter crashes. If you consider that, since 2001, the accident rate for civilian helicopter use per 100.000 flight hours has been 40% higher than for general aviation fixed wing aircraft (1), then I hope this will eventually help mitigate some (…)
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November 15, 2009
Topics: flying, skydiving, sports
I woke up today at around 9 am and proceeded to call my buddy Ricardo to see if he had talked to our big master Mario Pardo about the DZ’s weather forecast for today. He had. Mario told him that the clouds were ok and, although there was a (…)
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October 28, 2009
Topics: flying, skydiving, sports
That’s right, the Portuguese Parachuting Association just issued and mailed my A license. In a couple of weeks I will be able to start jumping with my dear friend Ricardo, in Portugal.
Also, in another note, thinking of buying some freeflying pants. Anyone knows a nice price/quality ratio brand (…)
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August 2, 2009
Topics: flying, trips, wtf
Technical problems with the airplane on its way from Amsterdam to Lisbon prevented my departure today at 15.35 to the city of sin. I now have to wait until 8am tomorrow to be able to get there and, as usual, spend the day at work feeling like a zombie (…)
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March 15, 2009
Topics: flying, revelations, skydiving, trips
Millions of years of evolution against you; that is the feeling that travels through your body, when you reach for that airplane door and look down from 12.000 feet of altitude. And it does not go away – after more jumps – either, though I have been told that (…)
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