SkydiveJack

Check out the team photo of the Ukraine Female 4way team at the World Meet. Scroll to the bottom. Someone, a little help with a clicky please. http://www.worldmeet2006.com/galeries/nations/ukraine/4way_female/ukr_4way_female.htm

Thanks for the confirmation. It was really weird to sit in a car drinking beer and talking to the cops. The only thing better was doing over 100 mph on the Autobahn in Germany and passing a police car!

Yeah, go ahead and come to Texas and try that one and see what happens. In Texas during the early 80's it was legal to have an open container in your vehicle, at least thats what my brother-in-law told me way back then. To prove it he grabbed a couple of beers when we were driving back from his work. He pulled up to a cop car on the side of the road and asked for directions somewhere. Drinking his beer and talking to the cops. I was waiting for the cuffs to come out but they just gave him directions and didn't do a thing about the beers. He explained it to me that as long as you weren't drunk it was legal for a good'ol Texas boy to have a cold one after a hot day at work. Of course, in this politically correct day and age the law has been changed. Can anyone from Texas confirm what I am talking about. This really happened with the cops and the beer, and I've believed it was legal ever since.

Hi Jerry, No we didn't make it to Ralphs on that road trip. I passed through there years later. Quite an amazing amount of gear he has there! Couldn't fine any ladies to suck my toes so I moved on! Take Care Buddy!

No. I think I can live with this .

The first time I had my toes sucked was in Issaquah, WA around 1983. I was traveling around the USA as Mike Johnston's assistant teaching the first year of AFF I/JM certification courses. As happens in the northwest, we had a rain day and ended up in a bar. After a few hours of festivities, four of the DZ ladies approached me and asked me if I wanted my toes sucked. I resisted their advances (a little) but they still took off my shoes and socks, poured two shot of Yukon Jack over the toes on each foot and then well....all four began sucking them at the same time. It was a life changing moment. I have been into toe sucking ever since. Or maybe I should say.. I like good head AND toe!

Hi Kate, Sorry I missed the party and seeing you and many good friends from over the years. Duty calls! I really hate flying that nasty old GIV. I was on the 81 way as well. I remember we combined the top two teams from the Z-hills 40 way competition and got it on the second try. Roger & Roger (Nelson & Ponce) decided to use the diamond formation on the next world record attempt. The 144 was the only world record ever that didn't use a round base. It really was a magic carpet ride. That thing wasn't just falling, it was alive! I remember Michigan doing a "T" on his tip once we completed. I still have great visual memories from the dive and the gaggle of airplanes we used to get everybody upstairs. Best to you, Jack Gregory

I just realized that 18 years ago today we set the new official world record for largest freefall formation with the 144 Way Diamond at Quincy. It was a special day. The date was 8/8/88 and it was held for 8.8 seconds. How many of you here at DZ.com were on it?

Plan carefully. You know the old saying. If you want to make a little money out of skydiving, start with a lot! Good Luck. Follow your dreams!!! Jack

Are you saying that Piper Cubs, which do not have functioning flaps, are not safe to fly? No. And you as a pilot as well as a Professor of Engineering/Professor of Physics should know that your comparing apples and oranges.

NO. It is not safe to do it. And if I was at a DZ where this is happening I would put my gear in the car, drive off and never go back. With enough runway the C-182 can take off and land without them BUT, in an emergency off field landing situation your airspeed needs to be higher to prevent a stall. Plus your ground speed will be faster and increase the chances of a bad outcome for people on board when you land. The flaps must be operable for the aircraft to be considered airworthy for commercial operations. If someone tells you differently they are a liar and a fool.

Interesting that the Middle East is in the crack of the ass.

I used to sell plasma when I started jumping in 1974 while at the University of Missouri. I seem to recall $7 a time, two times a week. That paid for three jumps. That's how I made my (almost) first hundred jumps. Whatever works!

That commercial gives me a headache. Gee... I wonder what I should take?

Sounds cool. I would like to hear more about jumping the Bear.

Hey PC Plod! I had a great laugh reading your post. Great job confirming that the client is "well train". You might want to find out if the client needs a BPA (Butt Plug Assn.) approved vibro stick that is inserted into the packing box to help get the stilleto deeper inside.

Don't swallow.

Isn't that called a motorcycle? It's a British thing, you wouldn't understand.

I jumped a single tail Beech at Pilot Country Estates, on old DZ north of Tampa, FL. I don't know who owned it. Was it called a Westwind Beech?

Not as long as she has mine!

Is A-Style in the bakery goods distribution business? I only ask this because it looks like they are packing fudge.

There were a shit load of D-18 versions made over the years. Scrool down about 1/3 of the page. Quote I used to fly that exact Volpar Turboliner Tri-cycle gear in the photo you posted. I can't tell what exact N number it is but the CK at the end stands for Connie Kalitta. We had around 10 of them when I started flying there and I flew every one of them. I flew there almost 7 years and these were the first company planes I flew. They really flew nice. The conversion included extending the fusalage a few feet fore & aft of the wing spar, re-engining them with Garrett TPE331-1's, tricycle gear and limiting the rudder movement to 13 degrees either side of center so you didn't torque off that longer tail. They carried ice really well and got me through some days and nights of flying in shitty weather that I would like to forget. About four years ago I believe a DZ in Arkansas bought one from my company but I never heard anything about it from the Skydiving community. It would make a really good jump plane. Jack

I once had an Amish student back at Z-hills in the late 1980's. He went through AFF, bought gear and kept skydiving. Many times he would have family members in tow to watch the goings on. He was really a great guy and got along with everyone at the DZ. The sad part is that when he had around 100 jumps he went in just getting line stretch when everyone on a small low experienced load he was on somehow lost altitude awareness. I think two other people on the load were open well below a grand. We never got anymore Amish skydivers after that.

What's the story on the Emmy?

Hey Jerry!!! Nice to hear from you. In spite of all the drain bamage I remember that trip. We jumped the Cotton Bowl. I think we all lived and were legends in our own minds! I was flying Lear Jets for Kalitta Charters here in Michigan from 1999 till last year. Now I have a corporate job for a local company flying a GIV. Jumping less and enjoying it more. Hope y'all down in Texxas are doing well. Blue Sky, Jack