Evel Knievel's first jump on wide world of sport

Youtube ^ | 1967 | Wide World of Sports

[Rebelbase]

53 years ago.

Video Here.

[Elsie]

I won’t say why because I don’t want to give up too much personal info on the internet.

Well, there cant be TOO many H3's in Illinois with those first five numbers on the license plate.

[Elsie]

thereby transferring angular momentum to the bike’s frame;

I think MORE frame lift would be generated with wheel TOUCHING the ground; not spinning freely in the air.

Perhaps some guys who paid more attention during physics class than I did, can shed more light on this.

[Elsie]

Yup!

The good ol’ FREE! days.

[cuban leaf]

We used to drive by Larsen AFB and you could not see the B-52’s, but you could see their tails. It was fascinating.

When I was a kid in the early 60’s, the B52’s were silver with white bottoms. By the mid-60’s they were green camo on top and black bottoms. They came in right over our house. To this day I am seriously impressed by those things.

BTW, FWIW, occasionally a B-36 would fly over at very high altitude. They literally looked like little silver crosses in the sky.

Oh, and I heard no small number of sonic booms back in those days. Interesting times. :)

[Elsie]

Well, certainly none of us were born Christian.

Some of our avid Catholic FReepers may disagree here.

[cuban leaf]

It was a rental out of Tennessee. :)

[cuban leaf]

I kept my facebook site because of all the pictures I had there and I discovered I could link there to show photos. I made it fully public.

I then unfriended every single one of my friends, manually, with a public message. The only thing I use it for these days is linking to photos. And I got rid of the “too personal” stuff.

[cuban leaf]

I was in first grade, watching the B-52’s land just over my house. :)

[cuban leaf]

My father actually worked at the base. You may have known him. He worked on the analogue tail gun computers on the B-52’s.

[daniel1212]

"Of course. We all BECAME Christians. I’m sure jumping cars, buses, and canyons on a motorcycle helped along those lines."

Well if you watch/listen to his story, it was the resultant infirmity and emptiness of that life near the end of his life which helped him see his need for salvation, and thus renounce the devil and receive Christ for real, as he bluntly states it and challenges all to do.

[Jim W N]

Well, as I said, all those crazy stunts probably heled him come to Christ.

I watched the link, nothing like that on it.

But I could swear I heard him talk about Christ earlier in his life - in the midst of his stunt life.