SkydiveJack

Last summer I was in Oshkosh again for the EAA Fly-in. Bill is still operating in Omro and jumping daily at the EAA airshow.

I started jumping in 1974 at a little DZ in Fulton, Missouri. I moved away after a year and a while later I heard it was closed. Anybody here ever heard of it or why it closed?

Good one TK. Now stay away from the mock-up and don't listen to anybody!!!

Me 2!

It's an early sleeve, used to help reduce opening shock on rounds. When they first came out they wern't attached to the canopy. You had to go chase it down every jump.

But Rev...Faith is a red-head, and having Faith is often a test, in and of itself! My Son, When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Or else they freeze their dick off! Have Faith! The Rev

Starship Troopers A true classic!!!

Bless you my dear son. The Lord works in mysterious ways. This 60 degree cold you are suffering is merely a test he has placed before you. However, if you have Faith, then you will endure. For it is in Faith that you will find warmth and comfort. Reverend Jack

...all depends of which end of the whip your on! Which end are you on?

Make sure you partially open some taps before you heat the pipes. As the heat expands the ice/water you have to give it somewhere to go. Otherwise you can burst the pipe. It was -12F here in SW Michigan when I checked the thermometer on my back deck at 7:15 this morning.

Okay, go back up and read my post again.

Well at least my Clicky works Billy!!! So does mine. You have a url link that works. But where it says Clicky on your post, that doesn't work! So you got the fastest link but not the fastest Clicky. Cut to the sound of a hair screaming as it is being split in half while still alive.........

Well at least my Clicky works Billy!!!

Does anybody know this guy Marcus Schrenker? Clicky The pilot who signaled air traffic controllers that his windshield had imploded and that he was bleeding before his plane crashed faked the call and later checked into a hotel using a false name Monday, authorities said. The Piper PA-36 aircraft crashed Sunday night near Milton, Florida, authorities say. Authorities identified the pilot as Marcus Schrenker, 38, from Indiana. Authorities say they are looking for him. "All indications now are that he made some type of false emergency call [and] abandoned the plane by parachute," said Sgt. Scott Haines of the Santa Rosa County, Florida, Sheriff's Office. Haines said the pilot checked into a hotel in the Harpersville, Alabama, area under a false name. Harpersville is 30 minutes east of Birmingham, Alabama, and about 223 miles north of Milton, Florida, near where the wrecked plane was found. Haines did not know the whereabouts of the pilot. "I do not believe they have him in custody," he said. Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office got a call at 2:26 a.m. from the Childersburg Police Department in Alabama saying that a white male, identified as Schrenker by his Indiana driver's license, approached a Childersburg officer at a store. Schrenker, who was wet from the knees down and had no injuries, told the officer that he had been in a canoeing accident with friends, the Santa Rosa Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Schrenker had goggles that looked like they were made for "flying," according to the release. The Childersburg police didn't know about the plane crash, so they took Schrenker to a nearby hotel, authorities said. When police found out about the crash, they went back to the hotel and entered Schrenker's room. He was not there, they said. According to Santa Rosa authorities, Schrenker had checked in under a fake name, paid for his room in cash and "put on a black toboggan cap and ran into the woods located next to the hotel." CNN could not immediately reach a representative for Schrenker. The phone number listed for his business address was disconnected. He does not have a home phone number listed. He is listed online as president of an Indianapolis agency called Heritage Wealth Management, but no contact information for that agency was available. The address of the business is the same as the address associated with Schrenker's aircraft in aviation records. Police in Harpersville told CNN they had no immediate comment. Federal investigators were helping in the probe. Earlier Monday, federal investigators said they believed the pilot may have parachuted out of the Piper PA-36 aircraft before it crashed at 9:15 p.m. CT Sunday in a swampy area of Blackwater River in East Milton, Florida. Military jets found the aircraft Sunday. The plane was lying upside down, its door open and the cockpit empty, according to Haines. Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said a "detailed review of radar data" and the fact that the plane had switched to autopilot suggested that the pilot might have parachuted. The pilot was the only person aboard, authorities said. On Sunday evening, the pilot contacted air traffic controllers and told them the plane's windshield had imploded and that he was bleeding profusely, Haines said. That call came in when the aircraft was about 35 miles southwest of Birmingham, Alabama. Controllers tried to tell the pilot to divert the flight to Pell City, Alabama, but he did not respond. The plane appeared to have been put on autopilot around 2,000 feet, Haines said. The plane was scheduled to land in Destin, Florida, authorities said. Military jets that first spotted the wreckage described the cockpit as empty. Bergen said the cockpit was mostly intact and the door to the aircraft was open. The corporate plane does not have an ejection feature, and the pilot did not have a parachute when he took off Sunday from Anderson Municipal Airport in Anderson, Indiana, airport manager Steve Darlington told CNN. Darlington described the pilot as "accomplished" and said he owns "a couple of airplanes" and flies regularly. Helicopters, planes, boats, and dogs and rescue crews were involved in searching the area.

Trying to explain the sensation of skydiving to a non-jumper is kind of like trying to explain vision to a blind person. Words don’t do it justice. But it’s fun!!!!

To answer the question in your subject line- Stupid Dave

No Jerry, I have no memory about who was first. Maybe a search or post in BASE Jumper.com can clear that up. And don't say HiJack to a pilot!!!

Hey Eric, don't be confused anymore! I remember seeing that movie at Z-hills as well. I teased Bird because he almost did an unintentional front loop right after exit. But what I don’t remember is Bird or the group he was with being the very first people to jump Angle Falls. They might have been on Tom Sanders first trip down there, but I’m pretty sure it had been jumped previously.

I don't have a name for it but I bet it was an old military HALO canopy.

I have drank my way around the world at Epcot many a time. If we could just get these world leaders to try it a few times, maybe things would get better!

I'm really digging through the dead (KIA) brain cells here. Could that pattern be something they called the Black Widow?

DO-228 Please note the lack of a question mark this time. Is that the one that flew under the bridge?

DO-228? I might have gotten the number wrong.

Before takeoff or after takeoff, it don't matter. When I'm flying jumpers I always abide by "tits for 'tude".

I made a few jumps out of a Buffalo at the Paris Airshow in 1983. Each time we took off the pilot made it a short takeoff demonstration. That thing just jumped off the runway with about 30 jumpers aboard. Way cool.