Al Ripley arrived at Outbound Air on a Monday. The teamwork posters arrived the Friday before. He ordered them from Chicago, in the period when Outbound Air was simply the next assignment. One poster showed fifty people jumping out of an airplane holding hands. He used this poster before. It communicated, in a single image, the two things Ripley needed the organization to believe simultaneously, that everyone was in this together, and that they were all in freefall.

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