More from Duffy Fainer.. "After all we had gone through as the "World Team", I wasn’t willing to accept the concept that we’d be weathered out, on our last day, without even a shot at the record jump. It seemed inconceivable to me that we had come all this distance, to end up at an air force base in central Thailand, a million miles from home, without even the opportunity to succeed. Here I was, about to celebrate my 30th year of jumping and the Queen of Thailands 72nd birthday, and we were 400 skydivers, stuck and grounded in the hotel lobby at 7am on this Friday, February 6, 2004. The clouds were thick and low on this 11th jump day together. The afterburners from the F-16s practicing touch and go’s, reflected off the low cloud base, accentuating the conditions that grounded us. We killed time by napping, stretching, and tossing the softball around on the tarmac. At 10am, we were told that a turbine DC-3 would venture out towards an eastbound airbase, in search of clearer...