Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject: Skydiver Scott Palmer is unhinged
A so called friend emailed me this and suggested if I had balls would I try something like this... and he has invited me for dinner... which this will likely be a topic: Extremists.
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject: Re: Skydiver Scott Palmer is unhinged
Edmund Onward James wrote:
A so called friend emailed me this and suggested if I had balls would I try something like this... and he has invited me for dinner... which this will likely be a topic: Extremists.
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:58 am Post subject: R.A.Z.L. Dazzle Munro
My old friend, Raymond Zebulon Munro (passed away) the most decorated man in Canadian history, that few know about, was the first licensed vulcoonist in Canada, and he also parachuted.
For the military he tested parachutiing in the arctic. However, his goggles fogged up and he took them off... a damn mistake... his eyes froze. Hence he had to count when to release. He could have landed somewhere where the plane couldn't land or on an iceflow. Worse, freezing water.
He broke every hot-air record at the time, altitude, distance etc. He even cossed the dangerous Irish Sea, and was eventually honoured as Baron Corebeg of Ireland for several reasons.
Ray gave me a few flying lessons in his single engine Piper and... sadly cancer brought him down. He lived more than nine lives, actually 22 where he could have died.
I suppose if he had taught me I would've tried to skydive.
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: R.A.Z.L. Dazzle Munro
Edmund Onward James wrote:
My old friend, Raymond Zebulon Munro (passed away) the most decorated man in Canadian history, that few know about, was the first licensed vulcoonist in Canada, and he also parachuted.
For the military he tested parachutiing in the arctic. However, his goggles fogged up and he took them off... a damn mistake... his eyes froze. Hence he had to count when to release. He could have landed somewhere where the plane couldn't land or on an iceflow. Worse, freezing water.
He broke every hot-air record at the time, altitude, distance etc. He even cossed the dangerous Irish Sea, and was eventually honoured as Baron Corebeg of Ireland for several reasons.
Ray gave me a few flying lessons in his single engine Piper and... sadly cancer brought him down. He lived more than nine lives, actually 22 where he could have died.
I suppose if he had taught me I would've tried to skydive.
Wow, thanks for the info on Raymond Zebulon Munro.
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For the military he tested parachutiing in the arctic. However, his goggles fogged up and he took them off... a damn mistake... his eyes froze. Hence he had to count when to release. He could have landed somewhere where the plane couldn't land or on an iceflow. Worse, freezing water.
RAYMOND ZEBULON MUNRO: A KNIGHT-ERRANT (or MAN ALONE) is based on his autobiography "The Sky's No Limit" by Raymond Z. Munro. He was a 20th Century knight-errant someone searching for chivalrous adventures, and one of the most decorated men in the world during his time (1921-1994). Munro was a spitfire pilot, record-breaking parachutist, a life saver, and a licensed, gun-toting reporter who brought down the Chief Of Police in Vancouver. The movie (or mini-series) covers the five years in the crazy, post-war Vancouver fifties; our Chicago North, with gambling, drugs, gangsters and corrupt police; and when newsmen wore fedoras and chomped cigars and women were babes. No one except a certain branch of the RCMP and a rogue newspaper would back him against the corrupt chief and organized crime, druglords.
That sounds interesting. I can see why Hollywood would not pick it up(Not really American enough). But WTF is up with the Canadian production companies, :? . I guess they are to busy using my tax dollars to make lame movies I will never watch...
More links on dude please.... 8)
Thanks, I have never heard of this dude. But I am going to look into him, he seems very interesting... 8)
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For the military he tested parachutiing in the arctic. However, his goggles fogged up and he took them off... a damn mistake... his eyes froze. Hence he had to count when to release. He could have landed somewhere where the plane couldn't land or on an iceflow. Worse, freezing water.
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:06 am Post subject: The Sky's No Limit
I have the rights to his out of print autobiography, "The Sky's No Limit", but you might find a copy at the library or some second-hand bookstore.
Key Porter books, before it was sold, published it and cut the manuscript virtually in half with other fantastic true stories. They thought it would be too much for their readers.
Yet Pierre Berton's memoirs, by another publisher, was twice as thick. Berton and Munro were once freindly with each other and worked at the same newspaper, however, Ray was king, he was Clark Gable when he entered the newsroom, reporters stopped typing and gawked, women swooned.
Berton did not include much of that period in Vancouver because Munro was the Man, whereas berton was still a pretender, just a writer who thought he was grand.
Munro was the first gun licensed investigative reporter, and he found out his buddy, the Chief of Police, was corrupt. Vancouver, then, was Chicago north, the gangster faction... and to this day is a drug haven.
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