How many Aggies we got on here?

[Rotorhead]

Gig 'em! Class of 1990.

Just remember when you read the posts from the insecure idiots; we fear what we don't understand. If they had half as much pride about their own school, maybe they would understand. Instead all they can do is lash out and make fun of a tragedy that took the lives of our fellow Ags. Real mature.

 

[squeeze]

I see...
when we make fun of Aggies, it's "insecure idiots with no pride lashing out and making fun of tragedy" but when Aggies poke fun at other schools, it's "you just wouldn't understand because we have school pride." Riiiiiiiight.

Lighten up Francis. It's always been a friendly rivalry in my opinion, but A&M always seems to take it a little serious. Maybe it's the fact that at Texas, we just don't pay much attention to a school we've wailed on for several years in a row OU's our main rival these days. A&M is just the 'traditional rival' or somesuch.

 

[ben]

Does any of you Aggies skydive at Aggies Over Texas (AOT)?

Never done that, but if it's the group that goes up over Coulter Field, I hear about them all the time. ATIS usually has something like "caution, skydiving near Coulter Field up to 14,000 ft." I've yet to see anyone falling through the sky, but I always keep my eyes open...

 

[Sabre170]

Ben,
I am not sure which airfield AOT uses but its always good to adhear to the warrnings of skydivers in the area. Here is a clip of a guy opening at 4000' and when he turns to look a plane flies by. This happened in Colorado when the planes were helping to put out the forest fires. You will have to Unzip this file since I can't upload Mpeg format.

 

[contrail_dash]

HOLY SH*T! That privateer barely missed that dude!

 

[Sabre170]

The video looks as if the plane is not too close, but remember the skydiver just opened and most main chutes take about 600'-1000' to open so at one point they were almost next to eachother. The scary thing is the plane was told he was flying through skydiving airspace, and skydivers were in the air.

 

[ghost_ttu]

Rotorhead,

I do agree with you on this one, I did not agree with the post that made mention to that tragedy. I can still remember the day that I went to work, how horrible I felt, and wanting to do what I could for my aggie friends. Fun is fun, but bad juju to trample on graves. I respected Texas that year for their performance during half time.


Go Tech

 

[VetteMuscle427]

Hey Sabre... If you're ever in the DC Metro area, get ahold of me. We have a nice DZ with a King Air that can get us to 15 in 7 and a half. Our school club gets pretty good deals for up-jumpers.

 

[P_Durnin]

Just wanted to give a shout out to all of you fellow ags out there. Going to OCS in October, and am looking forward to getting my sorry a$$ into the cockpit as soon as possible. One question to all of you old ags out there. What's the biggest piece of advice I need to take with me going into OCS?

Gig Em
Class of '03

 

[rayj]

one more here. class of 03. at ocs right now. class 16-04. about to enter 9th week.