airtwardo 6 #26 March 8, 2004 Quote I last saw Clark in 1998 at the Oshkosh Fly-in. *** Next time you're there...(AirVenture) look me up, I'm the one with the Red-White & Blue Parachute... ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites LoneStarRigger 0 #27 January 21, 2016 Hi Everyone, I've just started Rigging & been given a pdf copy of the LoneStar Parachute manual. It looks like a great project to get experience with parachute construction. From doing some research it looks like the manual came with the fabric parts pre-cut as well as four cassette tapes which talk you through the building process. Does anybody still have an original kit hidden away in a cupboard somewhere? I would vey much like to make templates of the originals & also make digital copies of the cassettes to preserve them for the future. If anyone can help or offer any suggestions or information it would be greatly appreciated. Martin :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites 377 20 #28 January 21, 2016 http://nypost.com/2000/05/26/plane-bandit-chutes-self-to-death/ 3772018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites LoneStarRigger 0 #29 March 18, 2016 markbaur"Lone Star Parachutes" is correct; late 70's or early 80's as I remember. One of the Minneapolis-area riggers has one, in original (not yet sewn) condition, which he has declined to sell. I don't recall any ad, but perhaps there was a classified in a Parachutist of the time. Mark Do you have the contact details for this guy? I'm looking to archive this project for the future & would like to make templates of the parts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites johnhking1 68 #30 March 19, 2016 When it first came out, I bought the manual and tapes but did not buy the kit. I was cleaning out a bunch of stuff and gave it away last month. I listened to all the tapes back in the 80's while driving to the Nationals in Muskogee, OK. I also know a guy who built the parachute and jumped it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites LoneStarRigger 0 #31 March 22, 2016 Thanks John, could you ask if the person you gave the manual & tapes to would be able to make digital copies of them. I'm very interested to listen to the tapes. Getting an account of what the kit was like to build from someone who actually made & jumped one would be great too. If anyone knows someone with an unbuilt kit somewhere which I can copy the patterns from, that would be a great help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites pchapman 261 #32 March 22, 2016 LoneStarRiggerThanks John, could you ask if the person you gave the manual & tapes to would be able to make digital copies of them. I'm very interested to listen to the tapes. That's Beatnik who has added John King's kindly donated stuff to his historical collection. He'll digitize them but he's pretty busy with work these days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Beatnik 2 #33 March 22, 2016 I am planning on making copies of the manual and tapes most likely in May. Work is tying me up a lot these days and don't have the time I used to. If this is for the archives with the BPA don't worry. I am friends with Andrew and we have discussed this previously. He will be one of the first to get a digital copy of the manual and tapes. Send me a PM if you want to talk about this more outside an open forum. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Beatnik 2 #34 July 6, 2016 It has been a couple of months since I was last on dz.com but I do have some news about this. Right now I have the audio tapes converted to MP3 and the manual scanned. I just have some cleaning up of the scans and the conversion before I share them. But progress has been made and it is really close to being finished and available. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites LoneStarRigger 0 #35 July 18, 2016 That's brilliant. I've also been in touch with Leona & she has some other artefacts from Lone Star that she's putting together. I'm also emailing Clark to see if he has the original measurements for the airfoil cross sections & line lengths. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites captain1976 0 #36 August 14, 2016 A little off the subject of this thread, but I was fascinated by parachutes since I was about 7 and jumped with a knapsack off my porch. Made my own parachute about 1963 when I was 10. I took our round pool cover and since we lived in a horse ranching community in upstate New York, I used bailing twine for the suspension lines. I inflated it on the ground near the road and a guy riding his horse got knocked off when the horse got scared and reared up. I remember it actually looked like a real parachute though the only ones I had ever seen were on the TV series Ripcord. Ironically the first real parachute I ever saw was mine on my first jump. I trained in the winter and 3 weeks after waiting for good weather I was the first one out on the first load.You live more in the few minutes of skydiving than many people live in their lifetime Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 2 of 2 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. 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LoneStarRigger 0 #27 January 21, 2016 Hi Everyone, I've just started Rigging & been given a pdf copy of the LoneStar Parachute manual. It looks like a great project to get experience with parachute construction. From doing some research it looks like the manual came with the fabric parts pre-cut as well as four cassette tapes which talk you through the building process. Does anybody still have an original kit hidden away in a cupboard somewhere? I would vey much like to make templates of the originals & also make digital copies of the cassettes to preserve them for the future. If anyone can help or offer any suggestions or information it would be greatly appreciated. Martin :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 20 #28 January 21, 2016 http://nypost.com/2000/05/26/plane-bandit-chutes-self-to-death/ 3772018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LoneStarRigger 0 #29 March 18, 2016 markbaur"Lone Star Parachutes" is correct; late 70's or early 80's as I remember. One of the Minneapolis-area riggers has one, in original (not yet sewn) condition, which he has declined to sell. I don't recall any ad, but perhaps there was a classified in a Parachutist of the time. Mark Do you have the contact details for this guy? I'm looking to archive this project for the future & would like to make templates of the parts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnhking1 68 #30 March 19, 2016 When it first came out, I bought the manual and tapes but did not buy the kit. I was cleaning out a bunch of stuff and gave it away last month. I listened to all the tapes back in the 80's while driving to the Nationals in Muskogee, OK. I also know a guy who built the parachute and jumped it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LoneStarRigger 0 #31 March 22, 2016 Thanks John, could you ask if the person you gave the manual & tapes to would be able to make digital copies of them. I'm very interested to listen to the tapes. Getting an account of what the kit was like to build from someone who actually made & jumped one would be great too. If anyone knows someone with an unbuilt kit somewhere which I can copy the patterns from, that would be a great help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pchapman 261 #32 March 22, 2016 LoneStarRiggerThanks John, could you ask if the person you gave the manual & tapes to would be able to make digital copies of them. I'm very interested to listen to the tapes. That's Beatnik who has added John King's kindly donated stuff to his historical collection. He'll digitize them but he's pretty busy with work these days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beatnik 2 #33 March 22, 2016 I am planning on making copies of the manual and tapes most likely in May. Work is tying me up a lot these days and don't have the time I used to. If this is for the archives with the BPA don't worry. I am friends with Andrew and we have discussed this previously. He will be one of the first to get a digital copy of the manual and tapes. Send me a PM if you want to talk about this more outside an open forum. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beatnik 2 #34 July 6, 2016 It has been a couple of months since I was last on dz.com but I do have some news about this. Right now I have the audio tapes converted to MP3 and the manual scanned. I just have some cleaning up of the scans and the conversion before I share them. But progress has been made and it is really close to being finished and available. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LoneStarRigger 0 #35 July 18, 2016 That's brilliant. I've also been in touch with Leona & she has some other artefacts from Lone Star that she's putting together. I'm also emailing Clark to see if he has the original measurements for the airfoil cross sections & line lengths. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
captain1976 0 #36 August 14, 2016 A little off the subject of this thread, but I was fascinated by parachutes since I was about 7 and jumped with a knapsack off my porch. Made my own parachute about 1963 when I was 10. I took our round pool cover and since we lived in a horse ranching community in upstate New York, I used bailing twine for the suspension lines. I inflated it on the ground near the road and a guy riding his horse got knocked off when the horse got scared and reared up. I remember it actually looked like a real parachute though the only ones I had ever seen were on the TV series Ripcord. Ironically the first real parachute I ever saw was mine on my first jump. I trained in the winter and 3 weeks after waiting for good weather I was the first one out on the first load.You live more in the few minutes of skydiving than many people live in their lifetime Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
