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  3. jrbirdmen

    Hey Spooky52, I don't do facebook, but if by chance you are on, would you please say HI to Perry for me! He & my dad knew each other since the 60's when both were doing their thing out of Oakland. My dad (Dick aka DDD) piloted all the planes EVERY weekend for years at Antioch. I spent most of those yrs being the harness leaner. I had the priveledge of growing up with the innovators & true pioneers of the sport (& Perry was the #1 stud). I don't think very many people realize how many designs he had and his emphatic refusal to let anyone test pilot a new design. The ongoing "joke" was, "Perry only broke/sprained ___ this time. Curious if you recognize the painted jumper picture?




    I grew up on the Antioch dz my mom ran it for Perry Stevens for many yrs
    73 thru 80
    How are you jrbirdman
    Lile gene ballard

  12. Eric Anderson
    What a great person and skydiver he was the first square parachute jumper at Livermore he had a gold and black para plane late 1969.
    He did not drink so at bar/pizza place he would spend time explaining math problems to my.
    My son name is Eric in honor of this great man.
    The night we lost him was one of the worst days of my life.
    Blue skies my friend

  13. Over the many year of being on the drope zone I've seen and learned so much. I've lost a few close friends and have made so many new ones.
    Only if they had cell phone when I was a kid the things I could have recorded
    EFS

    If your not on the edge your taking up to much space!

  14. 377
    My dad pass in Oct 2013 died in his sleep.
    My mom is doing great she hasn't jump sense early 90's.
    We will be at the old friend reunion in Oct up in Jackson ca. There will be a good group of old cal club an other northern cal skydiver there.
    Blur skies

  17. I was just young kid in the early 70's having fun playing in the pool. My dad was jumping and my mom was training to be national judge.
    My dad went up on a rw load. As I always did when my parents were in the air I watched the jump. It was a 8 person rw jump. I watched the free fall part and did my usual count canopies there were only 7 and my dad's wasn't any of them.
    It turns out it his main never left the container and when he pulled his reserve his main came free at the same time. Now both canopies are entangled together and he is screaming towards the earth. But as luck would have it the streamer snagged a limb of a oak tree .The only tree in the area. He came to a stop with his feet about 6 inch off the ground. Then the branch he snagged broke and landed at his feet it was about 8 inch in diameter. Prefect stand up.
    As any good skydiver would do he borrowed a rig and was on the next plane to altitude