SkydiveJack

Seems nobody heard me the first time. That is a very young Dawn English.

Is her first name Dawn?

So the moral of the story is that skydivers have to get a pig drunk before it will let them fuck it?

Sheila?

Wasn’t there a Santa jump in the 60’s where the jumper went in?

I got news for ya. Back in those days we didn't have 911. You used to dial "0" for the operator.

I pulled this KAP-3 out of the attic the other day. It was given to me by the class of an AFF Instructor Course I was teaching in Denmark in the mid 1980's. It's been slightly modified! The blue color you see is tape that covers some of the displays used for jumping but are irrelevant for our purposes. We were playing this game of KAP-3 during the evenings at the bar. It’s basically a game of Time Bomb. You put your foot in the red loop that is attached to the metal loop (that normally went around the top ripcord pin) and pull on the unit to cock it. The yellow lanyard is attached to the flexible pin that is normally pulled as a jumper leaves the aircraft and either starts the 5 second timer or the altitude firing function. For the game, you pull the pin out, let the timer click away a tiny bit, put the pin back in and pass it to the next person. The timer is very loud. When it finally fires, that person has to do a shot. It can get pretty crazy in the bar. And it’s not so easy to put the pin back in! I find it ironic that a device that has certainly saved many lives over the years has been converted to put many people into the dirt!

900 Oh the humanity!

I'm not so sure about the bolded part of that. When it was at the Sod Farm, Cliff and Patty Dobson were running it (at least while I was jumping there). I know that Cliff moved to near Mulberry where he still is and it's still called Tampa Bay Skydivers. Not saying it might have been Mac's for a while, just don't remember that... ==================== Edited to add: Different name. I just looked up Cliff's place and it's called Skydive Tampa Bay. Maybe Tampa Skydivers moved to Mac's and Cliff took over the Sod Farm? Cliff & Patty Dobson left Z-hills and opened an operation at the Sod Farm around 1979. From what I understand there used to be a DZ there in the past. A group of us that were into CRW at the time (me, Cilff, Ferd Boger, Frank Cater, Mike Lewis) moved there, did students, got involved with AFF and ended up winning the 4 Man Gold & 8 Man Silver at the First World Cup of CRW that Hooper hosted at Z-hills. Then after I drove my motorcycle through fresh plowed and planted sod at the Sod Farm, we ended up having to move to Riverview, which I think was the original Tampa Bay Parachute Ranch. Mac McGraw did some of the flying there for us. Roger, I'm trying to remember, did we met at Sod Farm or somewhere else? Then later I moved back to Z-hills and became a proud grunger!

You pull your cutaway handle, then move on. If you know it will never work, then it won't.

Re: [tetra316] 100 Ways to Die Oh is this a new show? I've seen a show called "1000 ways to Die". Are they similar?

Hey I was serious. Don't jerk me around!

Hey, I have put in a ton of votes for your brother, and I feel very gay. See my mouth? What is the story on this contest? Is there somewhere you can track votes? When does voting for each step end? Please reply before my ass starts hurting.

One day...someday.....someone's gonna drag their mains through that crowd. Won't be pretty! I have landed there a few times flying a LearJet. Each time I was down and dirty. It's so strange to glance out the window and see people waving at you from such close range.

A pig won't stay out all night trying to fuck a skydiver!

Me too..I just love 'window shopping' there! I hear they have really good coffee over there too! But Nataly, give the job first priority. If you and he can make it work out from there, then it was meant to be.

Billy you are corect. I used to jump at Roy E. Ray when I was stationed at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS. John Cutts(sp?) started operating there in September 1976. Prior to that we were jumping out of Grandpa's Pecan Orchard near St. Elmo, AL. It was a great group of people with the Mobile jumpers, the Coonass Skydivers from Louisiana and some of the Pensacola Florida folks. They operated a C-180 and a Twin Beech. Looking through my log book I see that I even made one Lodestar jump there. I learned a lot from those people.

After the ZTA video is over on the link provided above you can scroll through a bar that appears and find the AKA video. Both the videos have their own quality problems. You be the judge.

Fear not GrassHooper Your Aircraft Sensei is here! I think Muff528 hit the nail on the head. I think it is a Lockheed 12A Electra Junior in Mike Swain's photo. I found a great picture of the underside of one in Australia taken last October. Everything seems to fit. Lockheed made two Electra models, the 10 and the 12. I don't have time right now to look up all the differences. They are quite similar but one is longer and the engine nacelles on the 12 extend back further on the wing than on the 10. People often mix them up. I do know that in the movie "Amelia" that came out last year the producers couldn’t find an airworthy Lockheed 10 and had to use a Lockheed 12.

So after seeing three of their frinds get injured the other two go up and do it again! That's hard core!!! I guess this proves the old saying- "If your going to be stupid you better be tough."

I stuck the link on my Favorites Bar. So when I boot up each day, I see it, click it and vote. I’ve seen the Flying Circus Airshow and they do a great job. Hope you guys win. How’s it look so far?

Duh! Just go to the Campus Longue!

I don't know anything about the circumstances are over Larry Bagley being fired, re-hired and given $1000 for legal expenses. Sounds like another USPA boondoggle. But I do know about having a wife who works for a major airline and me getting pass riding privileges (free flights on a space available basis). It is a privilege that is supposed to be used for personal use, not for profit. Look at it this way; it is stealing from the airline. Let’s say you had a company that makes some product. As a benefit to your employees you give them and their spouses a certain amount of this product free every year for their personal use. You gain from having employees that enjoy working for you because of their pay and benefits. Now you find out that an employees spouse is taking this free product and selling it to someone for normal retail cost. You are now losing a retail sale and the associated profit that would have been paid to your company. And to top it off, the employees spouse is making a 100% profit. Now if you ran this company and you found out that an employees spouse was doing this, what would you do? If a Delta Airlines employees spouse was doing this, and the company found out about it and had proof, they would cut off the spouses pass ride privileges so fast it would make your head spin. .

Wait a second. Are you saying that when Larry Bagley travels on USPA business, he will fly for free when possible on his wife's airline, then charge USPA for what the cost of the flight would have been? Are you saying that he is profiting by his pass riding privilege and putting our membership money in his pocket?

It's OK. They’re all pink on the inside.