SkydiveJack

I'm taking steps to slowly purge as much from my system as possible for now, unfortunately there are no recognized treatments...only voodoo stuff like chicken feathers & boiled monkey feet. A beer IV might help thin your blood out! A beer enema might help you purge! Or you can just drink some beer and feel better!

I found this one story- http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/swedish-pilot-prevents-tragedy

I'm impressed that the Wilga made it up to 9'000 AGL towing the glider! I used to jump one at a small DZ I worked at in Denmark. It was a slow climber.

Thanks for clearing that up Jack. I know Paul and his E team. My buddy George and I groundcrewed a couple of his demos here in Vegas after we had quit being Elvis. Paul puts on quite a show with all the pyro , I was impressed. Im guessing we did at least 75 or 80 demos coast to coast after the movie. I would have to look in my logbook , which I aint gonna do. It was a ball until we got sued and that really sucked. Cost us 80 grand. Paul ran a class act. We did almost all the demos at night and the pyro was kick ass! They were some of the most fun and most challenging demos I have ever done. The spectators loved it and it was fun after the jump to walk around as Elvis and interact with the people. Sorry to hear you got sued. I guess all good things must come to an end.

the guy whos lites kept going out was Pat Hemenway. They had trouble with his lites the whole filming. How does Jack Gregory know about the jumps , he wasnt there nor did he participate. He must have gotten second hand info. Larry is mixing things up a little. I used to jump with Paul McGowan’s “E Team” in the early to mid 1990’s. Paul was licensed from Elvis Presley Enterprises. It was a completely different group and had nothing to do with the movie Honeymoon in Vegas. In fact Paul, who has been doing demos on the air show circuit for decades, only started doing Elvis jumps after people kept asking him for that type of show. It was the movie that started it all. So to clear this up, I had nothing to do with the jumps for the movie. And I don't understand what Larry means about singing some of the words. Jack Gregory

Wim, I don't remember a 56 way Night attempt but I do remember daytime formation loads with the Silver Bullet & Southern Cross. That was so strange going out of a right hand DC-3 door! Jérôme, You bet I remember the 60 way Big O!!!!

Your right Wim, I'm not on that jump. If Bob's date is correct, January 28, 1983, I was in Otay California at the time helping run an AFF Certification Course (checked my log books).

Hi Wim, Great photos. Brings back some nice memories. I'm in some of the 40 way stuff. And I'm glad you posted the Night 40 way. I lost my copy years ago. Jack Gregory

Naw, more like my Stiletto . . . What's all this talk about "a Member" and "my Stiletto"? It's SO HARD to keep up with this thread.

I would like to hear more about your jump from the World Trade Center. How you got up there, who else might have been with you and jumped, etc. Thanks!

He might have said it, but do you know if he really did it?

I think he already answered - post #14 (One of Jalbert's early contraptions...looks like it has proto-cells and flares. This could be like the "growing-legs-and-crawling-up-on-the-beach" stage of evolution of ram-air, cell-type canopies

OK Howard. Your having way too much fun with this one. So... we give up. What is this canopy?

Did anyone notice the user comment at the bottom of the Fox5 webpage? Someone posted the following- “Cary Quattrocchi also lost a domestic abuse case November 30, 2009 in Fulton County courts. Court transcripts were recorded as requested by Mr. Quattrocchi. “ Anybody know what this is about?

I have always beleived that we in the USA have the best legal system that money can buy.

Did you forget about the 15 people killed last March in Winnenden? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7936817.stm The whole world can be a dangerious place at times.

Wonderful photo!!!

Here's my pack chillin' out. All are rescue dogs.

Not sure if it was 1PM or 203E that lost the port side (I think it was the port side) emergency exit (window) years back. That got found and put back on too. We had a similar thing happen a little over ten years ago here in Michigan with N100AP. On jump run a tandem student grabbed the window release handle and off it went. Not too long later a couple of drunk good ol' boys pulled up to the DZ with the window and asked if it was ours. They were with a bunch of friends having a BBQ and the window landed near them. It went right back in and off we went! Sometimes you just get lucky!

It's in a time slot competing with "NCIS", the #1 show on TV. I'm a fan of NCIS, but it's been getting too predictably monotonous lately. Maybe I'll switch over and see what "V" is all about... Get a DVR. It's been great since we got ours. Generally we now record what we want to watch one night and watch it the next day or later. Depending on the system you get, you can record four shows at the same time. You can fast forward through all the commercials and save about 15 minutes per each one hour show. You can use the extra time you have to surf DZ.com or drunk dial someone!

You can order it on Amazon.com. That's where I got my copy. It really is a great read!

Hey! I know the guy in blue. Used to catch 'gators with his bare hands and jump out of planes. Bear Grillis ain't got nuttin on him! Looks like his BOW is up a bit from those days but it's a tough life in the left seat what with all them clocks and dials (and catering) to keepa track of. jon AFTER TAKE-OFF CHECKLIST- Gear Up Flaps Up Pass me the Shrimp Platter

I’m sorry to disagree with you Nick, I always respect what you say here, AND it is a bit of semantics on my part, AND I understand what you mean with your post, but…. The brick has been laid, it is not gone and it will always support us as we rise higher. Loy was one of the foundation stones of our sport that brought us to where we are today. In fact he was one of the quiet cornerstones of our sport. I don’t think I ever met him but I sure as hell knew who he was after I started jumping in 1974. Back in his day there were no “Professional Skydivers” with manufacturer support and DZ sponsorship. It was just a bunch of Army guys trying to push their beliefs and love of the sport through the military bureaucracy. Loy and his fellow USAPT members made the mold. I remember seeing a Golden Knight demo in 1969 (Jumping PC’s) and it influenced me so much that I said to myself, from that day at age 13, that I wanted to do that, I wanted to be a skydiver! I ended up devoting 20+ years of my life to our sport fulltime and it was the most incredible life I could have ever lived! Thank you Loy! The brick has been laid, it is not gone and it will always support us. The foundation is strong! .

Here's another one from that flight.

Here are some pictures my wife and I took of her. They were taken at Oshkosh in 2007. It was hard to believe this was the same old girl! The owner from Florida did a beautiful job with the restoration.