howardwhite 5 #1 October 10, 2007 And who are those people and where are they jumping? This is very obscure. HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zing 2 #2 October 10, 2007 I'm guessing wildly, but that airplane looks like something like an Aeronca, later Bellanca, Scout. A second guess would be that its a jump for the tv show Ripcord. Seems I recall reading somewhere about an airplane modified for camera work used around Hollywierd ... might have belonged to TallMantz Aviation. Frank Tallman and Paul Mantz had a hand in a lot of film/television stuff utilizing a number of airplanes. Mantz was killed flying the homebuilt that appears in the end of the original "Flight of the Phoenix" starring Jimmy Stewart. Tallman was in his 80s when his airplane flew into the side of a mountain in California some years ago.Zing Lurks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
howardwhite 5 #3 October 10, 2007 I'm happy to report that, for once, Zing is wildly wrong.HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jonstark 8 #4 October 10, 2007 It's a morphodite! jon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
poppenhager 1 #5 October 10, 2007 Howard,Kinda looks like the canadian bush plane that tried to replace the old c-180 but did'nt.I think it was a FOUND FBA-2C.I jumped one and it was a dog (slow climber).Pop Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimp 1 #6 October 10, 2007 It looks like Pop has scooped me on this one! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
howardwhite 5 #7 October 10, 2007 If this were an accuracy jump, Pop and jimp would get about 1 cm, not a dead center but impressively close. It's actually a Found Centennial 100, an improved version of the FBA-2. According to that usually reliable source, Wikipedia, only three prototypes and two production aircraft were built in 1967-68 and the company folded. This one was tested at the Air Force Academy in 1968, and as Pop noted about the FBA-2, it was found severely limited in climb ability, especially at Colorado Springs altitudes. It was later tried at Applegarth, NJ by Bill Ottley and Lenny Potts, et. al. It had a Lycoming IO-540. The one in the picture (from an article in the Sept.'68 Parachutist) was CF-WFO. CF-WFN can be seen here: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0300328/L/ In the magazines of this period, there are many articles about airplanes brought to PCA/USPA DZs by their manufacturers specifically to demonstrate their suitability as jump aircraft. And manufacturers such as Cessna and Fairchild-Hiller actually provided aircraft for the Nationals and other events. Times have changed. HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mccurley 0 #8 October 10, 2007 The Canadian one was used at Baldwin Ontario, where it somehow ended up on the bottom of a lake, and was hence forth refered to as the Lost. I think it went through the ice?Watch my video Fat Women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRWkEky8GoI Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrBrant 0 #9 October 11, 2007 Quote If thisThe one in the picture (from an article in the Sept.'68 Parachutist) was CF-WFO. CF-WFN can be seen here: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0300328/L/ Man, with landing gear that tall, you'd think he wouldn't have even been able to bend that prop! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
