SWIMDOC 0 #1 November 12, 2015 Several posts here about people burning in at Antioch back in the day. Found this article about Jim Barnhill's malfunction. I was there. It was funny after-when he was "OK" but not at the time. He cut away his main and got is reserve barely open when he hit the side of Sugarloaf or the Materhorn. I asked him what he was thinking as he was riding that streamer down and he said, "All I could think about was.....PLF Like a mother fucker...just PLF man. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdobleman 0 #2 November 16, 2015 Yeah, so much for "free stowing" your lines after that. The Altitude Shop had a highspeed video/movie of free stowed lines coming out of the container that was one of the scariest things I'd ever seen. madjohn Main goals in life: Be on the "Jumpers Over Eighty" (JOE) World Record and attend the Lost Prairie Boogie once after I'm gone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 558 #3 November 16, 2015 "Spaghetti mess!" After that Para-Flite started giving out free main deployment bags with new canopies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 20 #4 November 16, 2015 QuoteThe Altitude Shop had a highspeed video/movie of free stowed lines coming out of the container that was one of the scariest things I'd ever seen. Wonder if that film is still around somewhere? Lots of good films have disappeared. I recall seeing one made by the govt using high speed cameras to document structural failure in C9 canopies that were deployed way above speed and weight specs. It was fascinating but cant find it anymore. I remember how cool it was to have a skydive store with onsite rigging in downtown Vallejo. As I recall the Altitude Shop had climbing gear too. Got my MK I PC shortlined there. Really reasonable prices. Good guys. Bought my PC with a Top Secret rig for $125 from a fellow Pope Valley jumper. As squares took over, PCs became dirt cheap. Nobody wanted them. The canopy and rig had only 120 jumps. I was still in school so funds were tight. I was always a gen behind everyone else in gear which allowed be to get super cheap stuff. Speaking of free stowing lines, I saw a guy at Livermore jump a cheapo stuffed into a paper grocery bag with no line stowage. He did it on a bet. No prob, it opened fine, but I didn't see the process on high speed film. 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
JerryBaumchen 1,041 #5 November 16, 2015 Hi Maark, QuoteGood guys. Jerry Myers & Ron Tavalero. The last time I saw Ron was at their shop on the Antioch dz. He was leaving the company & going back to school. The last time I saw Jerry was at a boogie up at the old Kapowsin dz; about 20 yrs ago. Jerry Baumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 20 #6 November 17, 2015 I heard Ron Tavalero settled in the Santa Rosa area. This may be his writing. Letter to editor in Santa Rosa paper. 377 Flawed and deceptive EDITOR: The June 8 commentary about guns (“A real problem with 3-D printers and guns”) was flawed and deceptive. To start with, the subject was computer-numerical-controlled machining, not 3-D printing. The fabricator didn’t start with a “chunk of aluminum.” He started with a pre-machined lower receiver, 80 percent complete. What he did was drill holes in this assembly, which can be done with a $69.99 drill press. He wasted $1,500 for the machinery. In the 1930s, England designed a sub-machine gun capable of manufacture in any European bicycle shop of that day. From 1950 on, the tools and machinery to build a STEN would fit in one corner of a garage. Today the material and tooling can be found at Home Depot and is present in the average person’s garage. Why, if home manufacturing of guns is worth a half page of The Press Democrat, were we not flooded with actual machine guns for the past 80 years? No one wanted to make them? They didn’t go out and commit crimes with them?The other three-quarters of the column was philosophy and how the author believes we should behave. Why didn’t you research this before printing? It would not have made it past an English 1A instructor. RONALD E. TAVALERO2018 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
JerryBaumchen 1,041 #7 November 17, 2015 Hi Mark, QuoteThis may be his writing. That just might be Ron. Santa Rosa is in the Bay area. And he said that he was going back to school for Mech. Engr. Jerry Baumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackwallace 3 #8 November 18, 2015 377QuoteThe Altitude Shop had a highspeed video/movie of free stowed lines coming out of the container that was one of the scariest things I'd ever seen. Wonder if that film is still around somewhere? Lots of good films have disappeared. I recall seeing one made by the govt using high speed cameras to document structural failure in C9 canopies that were deployed way above speed and weight specs. It was fascinating but cant find it anymore. I remember how cool it was to have a skydive store with onsite rigging in downtown Vallejo. As I recall the Altitude Shop had climbing gear too. Got my MK I PC shortlined there. Really reasonable prices. Good guys. Bought my PC with a Top Secret rig for $125 from a fellow Pope Valley jumper. As squares took over, PCs became dirt cheap. Nobody wanted them. The canopy and rig had only 120 jumps. I was still in school so funds were tight. I was always a gen behind everyone else in gear which allowed be to get super cheap stuff. Speaking of free stowing lines, I saw a guy at Livermore jump a cheapo stuffed into a paper grocery bag with no line stowage. He did it on a bet. No prob, it opened fine, but I didn't see the process on high speed film. 377 Might get hold of the Jump Shack. 40 years ago John let me watch a bunch of opening movies by of cheepos. Taken in high speed. I think they were from Hughes. I learned a lot about opening sequence from them. Most of it translated to squares then the time came.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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 20 #9 November 18, 2015 Might be the same videos. I saw them when I was a Hughes employee back in the 70s. THANKS Jack! 377 Mark2018 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
accumack 13 #10 November 19, 2015 Para-Flite had Randy Deluca film quite few jumps with free stowed lines. i don't know what happened to those films though. It was real ugly! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdobleman 0 #11 December 5, 2015 I remember Paul Landry once jumped a cheapo stuffed in a Safeway bag, maybe thats who you saw. madjohn Main goals in life: Be on the "Jumpers Over Eighty" (JOE) World Record and attend the Lost Prairie Boogie once after I'm gone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 20 #12 December 5, 2015 MadJohn, It was a Safeway bag. I remember that clearly. Just can't recall who the jumper was. Bet we saw the same jump. I remember Eric Anderson and Paul LaPut watching it too, at the Cal Club DZ out by Jensen's farm off N Livermore Rd. 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