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Hi Spark, This is getting scary!!!!! Too many of my/our friends are getting their ticket punched by Gregg Reynolds aka the "Grim Reaper!!" Whoz next?????? 'Remember Steve from our old Skydivin' daze at old Smell-some-more and Scare-us-valley!! Fly on Steve. That Star up there just got one bigger. Say hi to Gary, Kevin, Dirty Ed and the rest of our friends for us. Blue skyz bud. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Nige', "Undertaker," "Widowmaker," and or "Cratermaker" I'm sure the names have been used. 'remember Scare-us-valley's ol' DC-3 N157U was affectionately referred to as "57Undertaker" and also "57Ugly" either or, they fit, especially the day it spit the blade on the port engine on takeoff roll!!!!!!!!! As for the "bad name thing' well, jest' wants ya' to be "real careful" when ya' fly it!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Deis, Well, maybe not if all yer electronic stuff holds up. Besides the log book, got a couple of "video logs" too. The hard paper logs are still a good reference, just depends on how much you care. I like to detail a lot, names, dive diagrams, etc. Got a shoebox full of old logbooks. 'Interesting to just grab one and open it to some page and read the notes,,, from 30 years ago!!! Time sure flyz SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Bill Congrats you all earned it. What was the the total tunnel time for your group K-RIP Tunnels???? We don't need no steeeeenking tunnels!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Chile, Ans. to Q1 depends on what State yer in. Ans. to Q2 probably anything more than one round!!!!! 'remember in the NRA rag a few yrs. ago, 'had an article on Charlie Hestons' hse and photos of his "Gun Room!!" Nice!! Lotsa' guns 'and' AMMO! I'm sure those photos' caused a few heart attacks in a few libs! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi t-sal, FYI the Union Special Machine Co. in Huntley Ill. has a good 4 day class on sewing machine operation and repair!! Went to the class when I worked for Sunpath a few years ago. contact info, Doug Kanies should get you some info. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi K-rip, #431 23DEC72, Otay,Ca., Jim McDonalds' Borderlands Air Sports Center, Twin Beech, P.C. main, 26'NAVCON res., 12,500' 60SD R/W, BEER!!! That was the SCR! Prior on #424 19 NOV got a nice 8-MAN but the late Brady Sanders "INTENTIONALLY!!Let Go and broke it to a line before 5 seconds!!!!*" That would have been my SCR had he not let go!AND! a case of BEER!!! &^*^%%(($#@**!! Almost only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades, not SCR's!!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi N-T, Thanks for discovering a really great"NON-PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!" Next, re-read what John Sherman said. Got that?!!?? As for the "Round/Square" thing, I again refer you to what John said!! 'Made my first hop in '64, Navy Rigger '67-70, FAA senior rigger '71, Master '75 and throw in a couple of ejection seats and a few Aero-Space chutes to boot. From Rounds to squares, been there-done that, got the T-shirt and wore it out!!!! For your edification, there "WAS" a "Special training requirement" for Ram-airs back when they first came out as "Reserves" ala the "Safety-Flyer!!' and USPA took on the certification program in the beginning. (Got my card signed off by Sandy Reed back at Perris some eons ago!!) Then Ram air reserves started popping up like spring time daisys!! The cert. is no longer required and USPA dropped it many years ago. FYI just wonder if you remember the "Hobbit 7-cell Ram Air Reserve" by B. Gargano & Company, Inc.?? 'Am looking at a copy of the proceedure, the cover shot is of the late Paul "Wog" Stromberg under a Hobbit in brakes getting ready to step down at Perris. The year was 1981, (were you born yet??) The manual was authored by Joe Morgan D-1544, SCS-10. I will leave you with the first pargraph of the "Rigger Qualifications" from the "Assembly instructions." [be advised that Joe and I mean no disrespect to our "guys in Green"] "We strongly recommend that the rigger packing the Hobbit Reseve be completely familiar with ram air gliding type parachutes. Although we are requiring no special rating, the owner/jumper should be sure that the rigger does understand, (and by this we mean jump) a ram air parachute. In other words, a non-jumping military rigger with hundreds of round reserve repacks and who has seen two Golden Knight demos does not qualify and should not learn on your reserve." SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Funny how these riots/protests are popping up at the same time,,, Makes you wonder... Hi BG, 'Not really, the "riots/protests" are rather recent however the "Gunwalker/Fast and Furious Fiasco" has been going on for a couple of years. Brian Terry was killed in DEC2010 and Gunwalker was going on way before then. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Full story: Ammoland Hi JR, Disney probably gave the gun to Elmer Fudd!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Full story: CBS News Hi JR, 'How do you like yer "Shrooms" scrambled in an omlett or on a burger??? Take a gander at Mike Vanderboeghs' blog for today 12OCT11 currently the third post from the top "Issa drops the big one on Holder Ridge, secondary legal explosions seen in the direction of the White House!!" Sure Holder is gonna' stonewall but the document is written and posted for you, me and everyone to see. Lotsa questions, Got Answers?? PS Hop over to Dave Codreas' "War on Guns" blog (in the side bar on Sipsey Street) Dave covers it too. Pal, this is just the tip of the iceberg and it ain't like the "Reaper-Cussions" of a 3rd rate burglary!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Scott, Broke right tib, fib MAR73 got 3 screws installed for the fix. Could have got back in the air sooner but held off till Jan. That was during the day of PC's and French Boots. Went on to RamAirs and never looked back. Screws still in place today. 'buggs me some in the winter when the weather changes but otherwise , no problem. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi jw, Yup, ol' Clyde Blinco ran "Skydive Instead" till as mentioned above, got shut down. He used to have the old base paraloft behind the tower then the powers that be booted him out and he got a building just outside the north gate by the hanger they put the formula one and biplane class racers in. There was a big open field across the road from his building all the way to Red Rock Rd.!! When the Races were over, we'd go to Clydes and put up a couple of loads and land right there by the building. Great Fun, till he got shut down, a Drag! That was several years ago, don't remember exactly when, late 90's. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

As I expect you know, "Grenade" is French for pomegranate. Hi John, SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Billy, Ya' know, some nutter could take a pomegranate, pump it up with pyrotechnics, put it in a plausable place and proceed to play havoc with people, places and things!! He or she or whatever don't need no model airplane to deliver the device!! Funny thing about this thread. The concept of what the nutter wanted to do is "Science Reality!" Yesterday it was "Science Fiction" and a few decades of years before that it was "SCIENCE FANTASY!!!!!!!!!!!" Oh Brother!! When I was 5 years old, in 1950, Pumpy Jones , the kid next door who's family had the only TV set on the block was quite a popular guy. We'd watch "Sky King" "Roy Rogers" "The Cisco Kid," "Boston Blackie," "Howdy Doody," and "SUPERMAN!!!!!!" on his TV!! On one episode of Superman, some nutter called Perry White at the Daily Planet newspaper and said he was going to blowup some building, they got on it, staked it out for any lurkers but the building got blown up any way. He caled back, threatened several more venues and inspite of everyone's efforts, he blew them up anyway. Finally, our Buddy Superman who was really Clark Kent, a mild manered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, (Not the WaPo) was flying in the sky and "Intercepted" this small model airplane packed with explosives capeable of blowing up tall buildings, bridges, locomotives and etc ad naseum!! That was 1950!!! The state of R/C airplane technology was "Nothing" like it is today but the "Science Fantasy" was real GOOD!!! Now we have some nutter that wants to do what was fantasized in a Superman episode of 1950 and as you can read in the first posts on this thread, "The posters want to'BAN ALL MODEL AVIATION'!!!!!" or something close!! OH BROTHER!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi John, Good followup. 5 will get ya' 10 from now on that "Park" will be more like an "Armed Camp" with 24/7 survailance!! 30 seconds from doors open, hell now I wouldn't even give him 10! Yeah the technology is there, in more ways than one! Remember terrorists are using good old cell phones as triggering devices for their road side bombs etc!! Meanwhile back at the ranch, got a "Stick E" 48" span electric powered Ugly Stick that I'm workin on. Should be fun to fly at the DZ when the celing is too low to jump. Chuck "Skymonkey 1" Blue and Tim Tennant and a few others got the Model airplane bug out at Raeford and when we aren't jumpin' we can still rip up the sky!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

It doesn't have to be fast - just deliver the payload. So, can one of those RC aircraft carry 5 lbs. of C-4 explosive as he planned? Hi John, Not one of those foamie F-4's or F-86's that they used for examples. There are "Big Birds" 8' to 12' wingspan models e.g. a "Nosen" "Big Stick" about a 10' span take off on Phil Krafts' original Ugly Stick. He could use one of those but even then with the 5 extra pounds the C.G. would have to be right on and the structure would need extra beef to keep from folding because of the "G's". There's lots of ARF's from Extra 300's to Super Cubs, P-51's to XR-71's in the 80" to 180"range, engines to 200cc's. The fun part is this radio-"CONTROL!!" thing! Even a 10' span model a hundred yards away (One football field lengh) is gonna look like a postage stamp....is it going left, right, away from or twords me??? Think fast dumb thumbs! Highly unlikely that he's gonna find some kinda GPS controlled auto pilot(add in the weight and C.G. of the black boxes!) to hook into his radio to get any range outa' his project!! Think about this, lets' say this turkey had all his "Stuff" in a van ready to go, he'd have about 30 seconds from when he opened the doors to get the plane out, fire it up, get the radios working, take off, fly to and engage his target, at second 31 he'd be in handcuffs. End of story. We're talkin Washington and I doubt he'll take off from somewhere outside of the "Beltway!!" Maybe some of the jokers who cook up the "Devices" for the "James Bond" movies have some ideas, but ya' gotta' remember all the things that James pulls off in those movies as Tom Bosley would say,"That's Hollywood!!" Bill "skybill" Deli AMA-87838 PS, BTW John, get a copy of the current, OCT 2011 edition of "Model Aviation" from the AMA and check it out. Lotsa' great "Big Planes," gas engines to 200cc's all kinds of "Stuff" our hot head can choose from, but it's not the hobby/sport model aircraft that are the real issue. On page 12 "AMA in action" read Drones vs. Model Airplanes by Rich Hanson. Unmanned Aircraft Systems, (UAS's) are here!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Matt!!!!, How well I remember Tuesday night "Tacos and Hobbits!!" Your mom's Taco Tuesdays were great! Not many people remember Willie's TSO'ed Diaper on the hobbit. You could use the diaper or stow it in a freebag if you wanted. I believe Willy was one of the first people to use a semisemetrical airfoil instead of the typical flatbottom that other ramairs had. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi John and the rest o ya'll, 'Just wonderin' how many of you Skydivers that posted on this thread have any discernable experience flying model aircraft???...this for starters...... Interesting that this nutter came up with this plan and the Feds played him along. Now all you troops want to ban model airplanes from the face of the earth. R-I-G-H-T!!!!!! Over on www.rcuniverse.com in the forums section in the "clubhouse" (their version of the Bonfire) there's a thread about this incident. Lots of concern and of course we modelers laugh at this geek wantin' to take a F-4 or F-86 foamie and pack it with "Explosives!!" Kinda like watchin some geek take a Para-foil and think he's gonna' win a pond swoopin' comp. !!!! Good fun ya'll!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Full story: CNN What a surprise - he wasn't a christian! And it's a good thing there weren't any model rocket motors involved in this plot. Hi JR and ya'll, 'Been flyin' model planes since I was old enough to slide the wing into the fuse of a dime store hand toss glider!! 'Built and flown; gum-band stick and tissue, free-flight, control line 1/2A thru class D and lots of R/C both power and gliders!! Reading the replies to this thread would be hilarious if you people are joking?? Are You??? Bill "skybill" Deli AMA-87838 SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

You are old enough to remember doing 10 way speed stars from 4,500/5,000 feet out a beech. And most of the time everyone would be open by 2,000. Well most of the time. Sparky Hi Mike, I shoulda' known!!! Yup, those were the daze. and ya' were there too!! Why did we do it??? Because we could!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi JMT, Why???? Yer jez doin' a hop-n-pop! Yer first 1 second off the step or door ya' only fall 16', #2 second 32' for a total of 46'. 'Ya ain't gonna drop that far before yer chute opens! Ya' got stable out the door before and you'll do it again, and from 3500' sheesh!! Did all my statics from 2500' outa Milt Nobles Cessna 170A and this was before someone came up with the static line assist (end of S/L to P/C lanyard with velcro!!) Don't open too high, ya'll get a nosebleed from the high alt!! Say wuh? Hi Whatyabeensmokin?, 'Never ceases to amaze me how since we started the AFF thing, students freak out over hop and pops!! The exit way up there and pull at a lower alt. then to do a "Hop and Pop" from their pull altitude, they freak! Just one of those things I guess.. From daze gone by, we started low and worked up altitude wise, now it's opposite. 'Ya notice the red arc on yer alti starts at 2500' (well they used to anyway!) Uncork at 2.5K never bothered me, Rounds, ramairs F-111 or z-p, doesn't matter. 'Love it when people talk about the thousands of feet it takes their canopies to open so they "Have" to pull high! They still open way up there with all kinds of good freefall alt "Below them!" Back years ago at Scare-us-Valley we'd get the AFF stu under canoppy by 4K and once he's settled, me, the other AFFJM and the cameraman would toss a couple of points, round, donut,round, or donut, round donut or what ever. generally get about 3 points, track dump and get open by 2.5/2.0 K, no problem GI!! Why?? Because we can!! If yer still goin' "Duh, I don't get it??" I got a crater I'll sell ya' real cheap!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi JMT, Why???? Yer jez doin' a hop-n-pop! Yer first 1 second off the step or door ya' only fall 16', #2 second 32' for a total of 46'. 'Ya ain't gonna drop that far before yer chute opens! Ya' got stable out the door before and you'll do it again, and from 3500' sheesh!! Did all my statics from 2500' outa Milt Nobles Cessna 170A and this was before someone came up with the static line assist (end of S/L to P/C lanyard with velcro!!) Don't open too high, ya'll get a nosebleed from the high alt!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi air-d, 'Been watchin this thread, hmmmm?? Interesting. So what if the guy was a muzzie instead of a Christian and said,"In the name of alluah your gun wont fire!!"??? Would it "not" have gone off?? Doesn't matter. In times of trouble we, no matter who we are, will call upon the Diety at hand to hopefully get our ass out of the crack!! 'Only one liner I can come up with for this situation is,"Praise the Lord and pass the Ammunition!!" As far as getting into harms' way whether intentional or unintenionally I'll leave you with what my good friend and fellow instructor John Brasher used to tell our first jump classes back in the day about that period of time in their lives between the A/C Door and TerraFirma,"When you leave that door, there are only two entities that can help you, that's 'God' and 'Yourself,' and we all know that 'God' only helps' those that help 'themselves'!!" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi s-a, Read "all" 48 pages of Steve1's "Scary stories from the old days" over in the hist. and trivia forum for starters, ya' might learn something 'bout culture!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out