Some skydivers are real dummies

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

[JohnRich 4]

How come these dummies have both a dual parachute rig, and a belly wart chute?

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

Ask Sparky.

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Some are just a "tub" o' lard too. Fun work.

http://www.pcprg.com/bagontub.jpg
http://www.pcprg.com/dropeqp2.jpg
http://www.pcprg.com/xdropac5.jpg

Of course there are some issues doing this in the Midwest.

http://www.pcprg.com/tubcorn.jpg

There is a reason our logo looks like this-

http://www.pcprg.com/testdrop.htm

[IanHarrop 37]

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How come these dummies have both a dual parachute rig, and a belly wart chute?

If you're planning on using your reserve, you have to wear a third parachute.

Who knows what these dummies have planned ;-)

"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

[AggieDave 6]

TSO testing?

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

Basically, yes. Hopefully Sparky will wander by and splain things. I can't remember all of what AERO was up to on these test drops and I don't see an Aurora in there. I was just hangin' around the DZ that day.

[monkycndo 0]

In the corn? I thought you were supposed to spot for the reserve.

50 donations so far. Give it a try.

You know you want to spank it
Jump an Infinity

[JerryBaumchen 1,053]

Hi Zig,

Here is my guy.

Back in '79, when we were doing the testing, my daughter, who was 7 then, said that he looked just like Darth Vador. Hence, his 'name.'

JerryBaumchen

[rapter 0]

the mains are for the contaiers, the belly mounts open a in 5 tp 10 secs. after the whole thing is out the door, if the main falls apart it will come down on the wart.

Only the good die young, so I have found immortality,

[jackwallace 3]

We borrowed the Jump Shacks once, It was a crash test dummie from one of the car companies.
I was takeing it back. Had it sitting in the passenger seat of my International Travelall. Going from Milwaukee to Michigan. Went by a bunch of bikers. All of a sudden they come roaring up around me all looking in the windows. Big smiles when they saw what it really was,
So I put a hat and sun glasses on it. So it would be a little less conspicuous. I get stopped by the Chicago cops for speeding. I get out of the truck and the cop says tell the passenger to get out too. Turns into a Marx brothers movie, with me telling them "its a dummy" and them screaming things like, they don't care get out of the car. Went on for 10 minutes before they understood.

U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
scr 316

[AggieDave 6]

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I get stopped by the Chicago cops for speeding. I get out of the truck and the cop says tell the passenger to get out too. Turns into a Marx brothers movie, with me telling them "its a dummy" and them screaming things like, they don't care get out of the car. Went on for 10 minutes before they understood.

That is out-freaking-standing!

Too bad that was probably before dash cams, since that would be an excellent video! Oh man, I wish there was video and that I could see it.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

Thanks Elvis!

[JerryBaumchen 1,053]

Hi jack,

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So I put a hat and sun glasses on it.

Sometimes you have to dress right to jump.

JerryBaumchen

[mjosparky 3]

There can be up to $25,000 worth of telemetry in the test vehicle and it the test item fails you want to be able to save the equipment. When the chest pack is closed the inside flaps are stitched 3 cord without the pilot chute. The outer flaps are closed over the pilot chute with 550 and a cutter activated on exit and it fires 1 to 5 sec. latter. This releases the pilot chute only. If the test item fails the pilot chute with catch air and 3 cord tacking and deploy the canopy.

Sparky

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zigzagmarquis/sets/72157625701764898/

[councilman24 36]

One I saw was a pyramid of either gas tanks or scuba bottles welded together to be filled with water. Seems there were some metal milk crates involved also.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[mjosparky 3]

We didn’t use just torso dummies. Here are a couple of CTV’s.

Sparky

http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp55/mjosparky/Skydiving/CTV.jpg

http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp55/mjosparky/Skydiving/00000037.jpg

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

Yeah! Remember this guy??

[JerryBaumchen 1,053]

Hi Sparky,

The engineer in me is very envious. That just looks like a lot of fun.

JerryBaumchen

[rapter 0]

There is the Instrumentation dummy, Articulated dummy and Living dummy to test parachutes........

Only the good die young, so I have found immortality,

[mjosparky 3]

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There is the Instrumentation dummy, Articulated dummy and Living dummy to test parachutes........

Instrumentation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53825637@N06/5314409125/

Live dummy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53825637@N06/5002892782/in/set-72157624878106281/

Jerry,

It was fun.

Sparky

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

Lots of duct-tape is always a nice touch...

[popsjumper 2]

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How come these dummies have both a dual parachute rig, and a belly wart chute?

Intentional breakaways?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[Fallndown 0]

The Jumpmasters...
;-)