steve1 5 #26 November 9, 2006 QuoteHey, that's me! It was 1973, in Star, Idaho. reply] Yep, that looks like the place. I dug out some of my old photos, from back in 1973, and they match up perfectly. Houses are all over many of those same hills today. We played pass the pumpkin lately (over the prairies of North Dakota), and ended up chasin a couple. We never came close to keeping up with them....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kallend 1,635 #27 November 9, 2006 QuoteHey, that's me! It was 1973, in Star, Idaho. That watermelon wanted to fall way faster than us. I'd recommend a smaller melon if you try it. We were in a very clear area, so no threat to people/property. Photo by Crazy Ed Pancoast (May he rest in peace). I note that you, 460, are a physicist too, like me. I reckon that for 120mph you need about 6" diameter. Maybe a canteloupe would be better.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites 460 0 #28 November 9, 2006 QuoteHey, that's me! *** Now thats funny. wonder where he found the photo. 460 where did you come across the photo? http://www.cofc.edu/~wraggj/skydive_hist.html I googled "skydive watermelon" and Jeff Wragg's website came up. I got the photo by searching the webpage for watermelon, dive #69, or as said in Chinese "tu kan chu."Looks like a death sandwich without the bread - Steve Deadman Morrell, BASE 174 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites stratostar 5 #29 November 9, 2006 internet,you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Andy9o8 0 #30 November 9, 2006 QuoteJust his jumpsuit. Probably a white block on the knee for contrast. You'll notice that there's also a contrasting knee on the white leg; it's just dark. The white strips running under the boots are just elastics to hold the bottoms down. Wendy W. Yep, notice the French para-boots on the holder, too. Looks like at least Darkwing's got a belly-wart. We could put a thought balloon over the holder's head: "Oh, shit, I forgot to hook up my reserve." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites darkwing 4 #31 November 10, 2006 I am holding the melon. We were trying to pass it, but it was too fast for us. I am wearing French paraboots, which many of us old guys wish were still available. I am also wearing a piggyback rig. It was my first jump on a Paracommander, but not my first on a piggyback. Pete Hill, still a skydiver of some notoriety in the northwest (and elsewhere) is closest to me. He is wearing a conventional rig, but then he was always slow to catch on to innovation. The photo (and others) are availabile from my ego stroking, self-serving, skydiving history page I put together one day when I decided to look through all of my log books. -- Jeff My Skydiving History Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites steve1 5 #32 November 10, 2006 The photo (and others) are availabile from my ego stroking, self-serving, skydiving history page I put together one day when I decided to look through all of my log books. There's nothing wrong with a little ego stroking. I figure that, how in the hell will anyone find out how famous I really am, unless I tell them... Thanks for the photos....They bring back a ton of memories. I need to get to know Pete Hill better. I heard that he can tell the best Wally Benton stories....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 1,635 #27 November 9, 2006 QuoteHey, that's me! It was 1973, in Star, Idaho. That watermelon wanted to fall way faster than us. I'd recommend a smaller melon if you try it. We were in a very clear area, so no threat to people/property. Photo by Crazy Ed Pancoast (May he rest in peace). I note that you, 460, are a physicist too, like me. I reckon that for 120mph you need about 6" diameter. Maybe a canteloupe would be better.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
460 0 #28 November 9, 2006 QuoteHey, that's me! *** Now thats funny. wonder where he found the photo. 460 where did you come across the photo? http://www.cofc.edu/~wraggj/skydive_hist.html I googled "skydive watermelon" and Jeff Wragg's website came up. I got the photo by searching the webpage for watermelon, dive #69, or as said in Chinese "tu kan chu."Looks like a death sandwich without the bread - Steve Deadman Morrell, BASE 174 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stratostar 5 #29 November 9, 2006 internet,you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 0 #30 November 9, 2006 QuoteJust his jumpsuit. Probably a white block on the knee for contrast. You'll notice that there's also a contrasting knee on the white leg; it's just dark. The white strips running under the boots are just elastics to hold the bottoms down. Wendy W. Yep, notice the French para-boots on the holder, too. Looks like at least Darkwing's got a belly-wart. We could put a thought balloon over the holder's head: "Oh, shit, I forgot to hook up my reserve." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
darkwing 4 #31 November 10, 2006 I am holding the melon. We were trying to pass it, but it was too fast for us. I am wearing French paraboots, which many of us old guys wish were still available. I am also wearing a piggyback rig. It was my first jump on a Paracommander, but not my first on a piggyback. Pete Hill, still a skydiver of some notoriety in the northwest (and elsewhere) is closest to me. He is wearing a conventional rig, but then he was always slow to catch on to innovation. The photo (and others) are availabile from my ego stroking, self-serving, skydiving history page I put together one day when I decided to look through all of my log books. -- Jeff My Skydiving History Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #32 November 10, 2006 The photo (and others) are availabile from my ego stroking, self-serving, skydiving history page I put together one day when I decided to look through all of my log books. There's nothing wrong with a little ego stroking. I figure that, how in the hell will anyone find out how famous I really am, unless I tell them... Thanks for the photos....They bring back a ton of memories. I need to get to know Pete Hill better. I heard that he can tell the best Wally Benton stories....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
llkenziell 0 #33 November 10, 2006 haha that sounds like fun. Don't know how much the DZ I jump at would appreciate it though.... "Living like fallen angels who lost their halos" - Unknown Prophets -Love Life- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #34 November 11, 2006 QuoteI think you might be dating yourself there dear. My profile shows 29 years in the sport. I'm already dated like a carton of bad milk. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jurgencamps 0 #35 November 11, 2006 Quotehaha that sounds like fun. Don't know how much the DZ I jump at would appreciate it though.... Lot's of DZ's will not allow it. Ask first. Jurgen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #36 November 11, 2006 Jurgen? Dave Jurgen? Is that you? ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jurgencamps 0 #37 November 12, 2006 QuoteJurgen? Dave Jurgen? Is that you? ltdiver Jurgen Camps (Belgium) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zappman 0 #38 November 12, 2006 Quote Jurgen Camps (Belgium) Belgium...the country were you cannot throw watermellons, bowlingballs, televisions or cats out of the plane only people Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #39 November 12, 2006 QuoteQuoteJurgen? Dave Jurgen? Is that you? ltdiver Jurgen Camps (Belgium) Sorry. Thought you might be a long lost skydiver I met YEARS ago in California. > ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thijs 0 #40 November 12, 2006 QuoteQuote Jurgen Camps (Belgium) Belgium...the country were you cannot throw watermellons, bowlingballs, televisions or cats out of the plane only people I heared someone talk at our dz that some guy once threw a chicken out of the plane, and it survived! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,129 #41 November 12, 2006 QuoteI heared someone talk at our dz that some guy once threw a chicken out of the plane, and it survived! I heared someone talk at our dz that some guy once threw a chicken out of the plane, and it survived!(warning: American old TV reference here). But Arthur Carlson of WKRP of Cincinnati said, "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." Quote“It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!” Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bch7773 0 #42 November 13, 2006 I've jumped with a pumpkin, oranges, onions. Onions reallllly floated. The oranges went at sitfly speeds. The pumpkin went at headdown speeds. MB 3528, RB 1182 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougH 270 #43 November 13, 2006 Do onions fall at belly speeds lol.. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
