1969912 0 #1 July 10, 2011 My nephew is a rigger at Ft. Benning and attached to an Airborne group. He tries to make at least one jump per month. Turns out he's a pretty good photographer. "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #2 July 10, 2011 Quote My nephew is a rigger at Ft. Benning and attached to an Airborne group. He tries to make at least one jump per month. Turns out he's a pretty good photographer. 1st pic......COOOOOL.... CReW... Ft Benning style Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #3 July 10, 2011 I looked a a hundred or so of his pics today. Quite a few were scary looking. One guy landed right on his butt with legs straight out horizontal to the ground - he walked away. Lots of entanglements. I liked the series where the canopy went over the pickup truck; when it was all over, the truck was perfectly covered like a car cover had been put on. Another pic attached - reserve fire... "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dks13827 2 #4 July 10, 2011 So that's a hand deploy reserve with a pilot chute ? Things have changed since 30 years ago I guess. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 38 #5 July 10, 2011 Quote So that's a hand deploy reserve with a pilot chute ? Things have changed since 30 years ago I guess. I guess they have. The one hand deploy reserve ride i have (30+yrs ago) there was no p.c. just reach in and throw it in the directon of the spin. These are some cool pics lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #6 July 10, 2011 Another couple pics... "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fendor1369 0 #7 July 11, 2011 Nice pictures, makes Benning look like fun. But its not, I hated every day there. Back when I was there we jumped the MC1-E. You fell out of the sky very fast.John - D.S 1313 "I'll jump it, Np. It's all good" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amstalder 0 #8 July 12, 2011 Thanks for sharing! I love IMG3220. For some reason, the round canopies are really reminding me of jellyfish right now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abedy 0 #9 July 12, 2011 Reminds me of my first jumps in 2001. Not with the army, with a civil parachuting sports club here in town. The canopy (3rd pic) is an RS 4/3c which is steerable (though it turns pretty slowly). The rigs (2nd pic) were uncomfortable but at least we could sit in that old fashioned AN-2 (1st pic) ;-) After 5 jumps with tough landings I decided to change to the dark side of skydiving (and hence to the other parachuting sports club I hadn't known before) and give "them dangerous square thingies" a try The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
