jackwallace

Tuna, you remember one winter we jumped at Bong. Made Pirate hold the card board up for the door on the beach with his wooden leg and packed in the terminal at Kenosha airport?

Aeropark
I think you are thinking of Gabor. What a guy.
The pig farm was full of good people. Hank Asutto and Jake Cramer, NASA, Joe Dog and his dog: Dog. I think Stoya's jumped there and Conny O'rourk.
THen the place closed and most of them moved over to the place on Q (I think) then that place closed and became a untra light field.
THis could all be wrong though, the 70 were hard on my brain.

"Dropest"
I read it in a news paper once. Seemed to drescribe all the crap that falls out of the sky.
I figure its how drunk you are, Can't say skydiver when you are really hammered. Jumper comes out even when you're baffin your guts.

To be a skygod: First you need a cool nickname, fang, death something, fog, wiild sonethin, etc.
Second you need to be good enough jumper people will give you stuff, canopies, rigs, sun glasses, free jumps.
Third you need to be able to skydive, any kind, any time with anybody.and be able to teach it to people.
Finally and most important you need a lot of cool t-shirts.

Roullard, Jimmy Davis, and I can't remember the third guy (it'll come to me in the middle of the night) got thrown out for landing on the stage.
Roger Wolford jumped a lot of years there.
I think the guys name was Bill Burnner that jumper the first square in. It was hilarious, the closer he got to the chicken shack on the beech the bigger his eyes got. Ron Ziess use to jump a Delta II in. When it would open.
Side note: two years ago the dam broke and the lake emptied in a couple hours. Taking some fancy houses with it an the main road to the Dells. It became the Tommy Bartlett mud show.

In the movie you buy do they have the truck jump?

If the trees were swaying with no leaves on them we stopped.
Hook it, backward somersault, plant your feet. Run like hell.
I watched Dirty Billy Bishop running across a plowed field at Hinckley once chaseing his cheapo in 20+ and he would have gone past Carl Lewis, Hussein Bolt or a good horse he was going so fast.
We bought spares!

4 way at least two maybe three points. Never pull your reserve abouve 300 feet. If it don't work at least you won't have to worry. "Jim Bour"

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As he lifts the nose up, boom it falls on the ground and explods. Poof the guy shoots out through the canopy and plops on the ground.

Wildman, is that you??

Hey, was that at the Provo, Utah airshow back in '81, maybe '82? We saw the show on Friday, the day before the incident. Damn, I miss all the excitement.

Yeah its me. It was at Michell field, Milwaukee's Municiple airport.
And we got freebies out of a DC3 to jump in.

are those ages or IQ's

And the best air show I ever saw. When they first came out the pilots were kind of one their own. I think they sent them to fighter school and helo school, then turned them loose.
They flew the shit out of them. THis guy would take the thing off the airport and coming screaming back then stand it on its tail and hit the thusters. Tool it to altitude dove it at the ground yanked it up and jacked the thusters. You could hear the thing whoop, whoop, whoop as the bottom of the plane bonced on the aero braking. At the end of the show he brings in in front of the crowd. Faces the audience at about 20 feet and bows it like a helicopter. As he lifts the nose up, boom it falls on the ground and explods. Poof the guy shoots out through the canopy and plops on the ground. I think all it did was break his nose, but what a finally. 4.2 million bucks boom.
A few years later I met some harrier pilots at another air show. Man did their show look mundane, compared to the old one. I asked one of them what happened to that pilot. They got quiet and serious: "He's flying C-130s."
They said he had the sleaves of his flight suit rolled up and when he reached for the nozzle control he caught the throttle and boom. He didn't eject. The bail out bottle exploded of impact and spit him threw the canopy. That's what broke his nose.

I have to agree with the soft opening, reliable, soft landing. But I think the thing was a Strato-cloud that got the 10 dead center. And from what I remeber the same year someone got 10 DC's of a PCII. How come people didn't rush out and buy them?
Has anyone mentioned that Paraflite originally thought they could sell them for around $300. Then found out they had to have such tight QC it jacked up the price.

Cause baseball, football, tennis, bowling, soccer only take one ball.

If I remember right, we use to knock that little tit off the end. THinking it would clear the slide better. I think we just stood the male part on end and hit that tit with a hammer and it sheared off the rivet. But we did a lot of stuff in those days, people would have a heart attack now. I looked at the half dozen riser sets I have around and none of them have it. Put it together on a hanging harness and try it. Cut one riser away, twist one and both up to see if it still works.

You drive in Chicago and you're worried about some crap ass mountain stuff? 70 mph on the Edens at rush hour through those tunnels between two semi's. PLEASE. That mountain crap is sissy stuff. Just watch for the 50 ton boulder that falls off the cliff and squashes ya like the leutenant govenor.

That's easy: Its shoveling money out the door of an aircraft as fast as you can.

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Wildman...all you would need to do is install a diaper. Nice openings after that.

Nope. THe one I have has the diaper I built for it. Still bite ya. I use to jump one as a main too. Had a pull down center, french lip and a couple extra drive holes. In a bag and finally with a wrap on it like a Delta 2. Ask Cabone about the time I lent it to him but undid the wrap, cause I knew he was going to hum it. You could hear him grunt from the ground when it bit him. Ask Hank where he got the idea for the Piglet. We were on the Godfrogs together. I even turned the main inside out on opening a couple times, but still landed it.

Super pro reserve containers totaled. I had a line tied from the handle to the top flap to yank it open. The 26 foot lopo still the best round reserve. I have a tri-conical I sell ya cheap. They opened and then you got to the end of the lines.

How long have you been injured? Electric or manual chair? Breathe on your own? Can you get your doctor to give you meds to "STOP" the spasms, long enough to jump.
I'm a T6 complete. I made 5000 jumps before my injury and 2 since. I saw what a hassle and how dangerous it was to jump. The biggset danger is breaking your leg/legs. Then you get to spend 6 weeks to 6 months in bed while they heal.
That's only the danger to yourself. The spasms could put the tandem master in danger, like death.
Got to do something about the spasm.
Have you tried flying in a wind tunnel? More controlled environment. Get to fly.
How about the Richard Petty experience? Ride in a race car 150 mph.
Sail plane? Tie you feet back to the seat so you don;t get n the rudders. You could probably learn to fly one.
There are an endless amount of things you can do and do them yourself.

Got that right Hoop. Not just SoCal, but the Hinckley gang. I sat and signed hunderds of jumps to get guys liscenses to go to the 10 man nationals. Some of those people had to have more than 2000 jumps and never had a log book. And once they had been to the nationals cared less about the liscense or how many jumps they had.
wildman

Sitting around with another old has-been and wondering what happened to all those one sixes. Always thought they were the prettiest canopies. When the PC appeared they disapeared. So who's got one and what pattern.