Krip 2 #1 October 1, 2009 Hi Just a WAG how many jumps you figure you got from 7500' I'm guessing 450 out of my first 500. Turbines are sweet and there's no reason to turn the clock back, but just wondering. Before I forget what seven fiive means.One Jump Wonder Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mbranch202 1 #2 October 2, 2009 My guess would be around 300. In '74 the Himalayan Rope Company practiced speed ten mans from seven five out a twin beech.Mike Branch NSCSA #7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
councilman24 36 #3 October 2, 2009 I've got more from 3000' and 3500' throwing static line students. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #4 October 2, 2009 QuoteMy guess would be around 300. In '74 the Himalayan Rope Company practiced speed ten mans from seven five out a twin beech. Mike, A twin Beech? Where was this happening at? I have a few twin Beech jumps in Ill, but none in Fl and never saw a twin Beech at Z-Hills or Deland (except maybe for meets). ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DavidB 0 #5 October 2, 2009 Probably about half my jumps were from 7.5 or there-abouts.When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim_Hooper 3 #6 October 2, 2009 Rog - cut Mike some slack, he's getting on in years, and his memory isn't what it once was. I'm sure he's talking about the L10E. Two engines, two propellers, two wings, two rudders - they do look similar. Of course, maybe Crispy thought it was a Twin Beech all along. I don't know about you, but calling something as classy as Amelia a Twin Beech is downright disrespectful. Hoop PS (Oh, hi, Mike, how ya doin'? No, no, Rog and I were just hanging out, shooting the shit. Nuthin' about you. Right, Rog?) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #7 October 2, 2009 Right Hoop Mike's just such an easy target... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drjump 0 #8 October 2, 2009 ACCORDING TO MY OLD "BLUE" LOG BOOKS THAT HAS A JUMP SUMMARY PAGE IN THE BACK--572 PLUS WHAT EVER THE NEW STYLE BOOKS HAVE LOGGED . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skypuppy 1 #9 October 2, 2009 Didn't Eustis have a twin beech?If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lgossler 0 #10 October 3, 2009 Hoop, Actually Mike is correct; the “Himalayan Rope” team had made arrangements with one of Bobby Wilson’s, Georgia Friend who owned a Twin Beach. Gerry Deprew (SP) allowed us to practice at Deland (Jeff was not as kind!) and we practiced from Seven Five. The Beach followed us to Oklahoma where we practiced at a small crop dusting strip. Larry Gossler Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crustySCSA69 0 #11 October 3, 2009 QuoteQuoteMy guess would be around 300. In '74 the Himalayan Rope Company practiced speed ten mans from seven five out a twin beech. Mike, A twin Beech? Where was this happening at? I have a few twin Beech jumps in Ill, but none in Fl and never saw a twin Beech at Z-Hills or Deland (except maybe for meets). somewhere in the late 70's, a twin beech was at Z-hills... not enough folks to fly Tango and the twin B had lost an engine ... Frasier found one in some air-rag .. it was in Kansas City, Missouri .. Mitch Decoteau and I left in the old green DZ pickup Wed at noon and arrived back Fri at noon (with the engine) ... days of 55 on the highway... mapquest it... we averaged 62 miles per hr IF WE HAD NEVER STOPPED ... we stopped for 2 meals a day (Frasier was paying) ... 5 hrs at the place to load and have dinner ... a detour into back roads of Kentucky on the way back, so Mitch could call an old girlfriend (she didn't want to talk to him) ... and we still averaged 62 (Mitch averaged about 90-95 and I was doing 80, even with the engine in back ... don't know how we never got arrested) so yes... there was a beech at Z-hills ... at least for that winter ... and on that Kentucky detour we stopped in some little rat hole town at a 1 pump gas station ... late... and all these 'bubbas' start appearing around the corners... I was hearing the Deliverance soundtrack in my head (Mitch and i both looked pretty long-haired scruffy and these were all very big dudes, short hair and in coveralls) ...they were looking at us none too friendly and suddenly they saw the engine ... 'WHOT Th' hell is that ??' ... so Mitch does a big song and dance ' RJ whatever blah blah 1350 horsepower blah blah' ... and they go "whooah.. you cud really get your truck goin' with that under the hood"... suddenly, we're great guys... they get us gas ... direct us to bar (for previously mentioned phone call) and all is flowers and sunshine .... instead of death and dismemberment in the midnight gloom, with banjos plunkin in mountain air ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim_Hooper 3 #12 October 3, 2009 Hmmm - looks like my memory ain't what it useta be. You gonna cut me some slack, Mike? I'm just gonna pretend that Larry and Crusty didn't add their two cents' worth. Damn! Hoop PS Was that Rick Haglund's D-18? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mbranch202 1 #13 October 3, 2009 At least now I know who my real friends are.... Thanks for sticking up for me Larry!! Never did say where!! I guess I should have mentioned that we had to travel to Deland. I flew out to OK on that Twin Beech. Drank coors beer all the back from. 1 year before my 21st bday!! The rope taught me well!Mike Branch NSCSA #7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piper17 1 #14 October 3, 2009 There was a Beech 18 at Eustis in the late 70s or early 80s> I know that because I did some drop tests for Pioneer using it. It Had to be in a dive to get the airspeed we needed to achieve the load on the canopy we wanted. Silly was helping me but my memory doesn't provide me any more details at the moment. I don't remember ever jumping it there, however....just the C-180."A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mbranch202 1 #15 October 3, 2009 No way would I ever be disrespectful to the L10 E. I have a lot of memories jumping from that plane.. I thought the subject was "seven five"?Mike Branch NSCSA #7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim_Hooper 3 #16 October 3, 2009 Still the same smartass you were when you were twenty, aintcha? Hoop Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mbranch202 1 #17 October 3, 2009 Quote Still the same smartass you were when you were twenty, aintcha? Hoop yep!!Mike Branch NSCSA #7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rdufokker 6 #18 October 4, 2009 Jimmy Godwin had the D-18. Jumped it a few times. It lost a tailwheel on one takeoff. Also, the Lockheed 10E was in Raeford. BurkeIrony: "the History and Trivia section hijacked by the D.B. Cooper thread" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JumpUpMyAss 0 #19 November 18, 2009 7,200 or 7,500 was a 'high' jump back then. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zoobrothertom 5 #20 November 18, 2009 Got at least a few (50-80) from 7.5 at Raeford in the early 80's and a few earlier at Lakewood, NJ. But then Gene Paul got the twin-bo and we were hot shit jumping from 11K when our military clubs were going to 10K. ____________________________________ I'm back in the USA!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
topdocker 0 #21 November 18, 2009 that turbo charged twin bo was the loudest plane! got to jump it at the nationals in muskogee. topJump more, post less! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkeenan 13 #22 November 23, 2009 7.5k was our normal jump altitude. Any higher, and you'd usually wear goggles.Kevin K. _____________________________________ Dude, you are so awesome... Can I be on your ash jump ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmytavino 16 #23 November 24, 2009 having started , by the static line method, and being part of a large group of enthusiastic jumpers, we seldom sent the plane above 5, Five...during the first year or two of my jumping history.. There were tooo many jumpers wanting to make one or two, and so the cessna(s) hopped up and down quickly, often just to 3 grand for 3 fast SL turns, and a JM doing a H & P. "those of us, who were freefalling" seemed content to do 20 seconds from 5,500 feet, so that the next load could get up... my log book shows my first jump at 7, 500 feet was my jump # 59, and when i hit 100 jumps only 7 of them had been to 7-Five.......LOTS of jumps @ 3 grand to 5 grand... Jumps # 101 to 500 saw me make 152 lifts, to Seven Five. # 501 to 600 added 71 more... 601 to 1,000 had 268 jumps to Seven Five or higher. I logged maybe a dozen jumps only,,,,which were above 11 grand, in all my first 1,000. First time i ever logged, a skydive @ 13,500 was in Limerick Pa, at the Herd Boogie/ Skyvan Boogie...it was jump # 853, in september of 1978... I hit a grand, in '79...and have stayed with the sport, primarily BECAUSE we now enjoy bigger planes, to higher altitudes, with MORE friends, than in the past... Seven Five had it's place, and It was great how we could stretch a twenty dollar bill to get FOUR Skydives , out of it... Todays comfortable and Safe aircraft, which take us higher , faster, and allow us to share the skies with anything from 12, to 100 pals,,should never be taken for granted.... since they are truly special..., and effectively demonstrate the continuing evolution of our Sport... jimmytavino A 3914 POPS 3935 nscr 1817 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Niki1 1 #24 November 24, 2009 Quote having started , by the static line method, and being part of a large group of enthusiastic jumpers, we seldom sent the plane above 5, Five...during the first year or two of my jumping history.. There were tooo many jumpers wanting to make one or two, and so the cessna(s) hopped up and down quickly, often just to 3 grand for 3 fast SL turns, and a JM doing a H & P. "those of us, who were freefalling" seemed content to do 20 seconds from 5,500 feet, so that the next load could get up... my log book shows my first jump at 7, 500 feet was my jump # 59, and when i hit 100 jumps only 7 of them had been to 7-Five.......LOTS of jumps @ 3 grand to 5 grand... Jumps # 101 to 500 saw me make 152 lifts, to Seven Five. # 501 to 600 added 71 more... 601 to 1,000 had 268 jumps to Seven Five or higher. I logged maybe a dozen jumps only,,,,which were above 11 grand, in all my first 1,000. First time i ever logged, a skydive @ 13,500 was in Limerick Pa, at the Herd Boogie/ Skyvan Boogie...it was jump # 853, in september of 1978... I hit a grand, in '79...and have stayed with the sport, primarily BECAUSE we now enjoy bigger planes, to higher altitudes, with MORE friends, than in the past... Seven Five had it's place, and It was great how we could stretch a twenty dollar bill to get FOUR Skydives , out of it... Todays comfortable and Safe aircraft, which take us higher , faster, and allow us to share the skies with anything from 12, to 100 pals,,should never be taken for granted.... since they are truly special..., and effectively demonstrate the continuing evolution of our Sport... jimmytavino A 3914 POPS 3935 nscr 1817 When I started in '70, a "high" jump was 7,200 or 7,500. I started with the Charlotte Skydivers while I was in the Army. When I got back to Jax. Fla. after I got out, I saw some canopies over Herlong Field. Bobby Tyer had a C-172. That was the jump plane for the jumpers in and around Jacksonville for 2 years. I can count 227 jumps out of that 172. Only about half of those were to 7.200". All the rest were only to 5,500. The "high" jumps only had 3 people plus the pilot. I just wanted to "jump out of an airplane."Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Niki1 1 #25 November 24, 2009 QuoteQuoteMy guess would be around 300. In '74 the Himalayan Rope Company practiced speed ten mans from seven five out a twin beech. Mike, A twin Beech? Where was this happening at? I have a few twin Beech jumps in Ill, but none in Fl and never saw a twin Beech at Z-Hills or Deland (except maybe for meets). Roger, of course Mike is correct. He was the one who was there. '74 was the summer that Gary, Jaybo, Bob Favreu (sp) and some one whose name I can't recall brought Mr. Douglas to DeLand. Himelayan Rope was practicing out of the Beech because that was to be the meet aircraft. I don't know where it came from but it seems like it was what I call a "mid model". It had a door that was round at the top and square at the bottom.Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
