skybill

Hi bo-bob, So, now what?? Ya' gonna jump again?? Only two broke feet, broken bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is only temporary and Glory is forever. Did you buy beer yet??...First outacontrol spin, first blackout, first cypres fire, first broke bones (2) ea. adds up to 4 cases for starters. Didja' see the Reaper swing at ya' on the way down? Ya' musth've really pissed him off real bad cuz he didn't get ya'....well almost?? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Pat, Congrats!! Time sure flys when yer' havin fun!! It was 45 years for me back in May!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi A-D, Got a 14' Carolina strip boat and a 9.9 Merc, license? don't need no stinkin' license, just tags for the boat!! "Bareboat" tags?? Hmmm... Just hoist the Jolly Roger and load a keg of Rum. Did 3 years 1 month and 1day of "Sea Duty" time in the Nav!! Sailed from "Dago" to DaNang, Auckland to Amchitka!! Fartherest we ever got away from land was 5 miles.......straight DOWN!!!! Didn't need no stinkin' license!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Howard, Ken Vos, what a trip!! Yup the "mid air!!, with Ken was Tako Bill "Willie" Manbo and they went thru Roger Rutherfords' canopy!! All three lived! Willie said in a flash he tried to turn and track and canopy and lines sliced his fore arm and wrist. Nice scars!! Those were the daze!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Jay, I think Charlie is in San Diego?? Some old fart Perris people or Air Trash may know for sure?? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi JR, So the big deal is "Military Style" semi-auto's. So, what delineates a "Military Style" from a "Non-Military Style???" Is there a "Civilian Style" Class of weapons?? Very interesting?? Hmmmmm.....? Maybe if you put lipstick on yer' .45 cal 1911-A1.....? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi M45, Like Jan said,"Dental work doesn't suck, not having teeth is what sucks!!" I concur. 'Got a few crowns, a couple of fillings and one bridge. Love em'!! Don't even notice the difference and have had several crowns for 10+ years!!!! I do try to stay away from sweets and "soft drinks!!!" I see my dentist every 6 mos.!!! What gets me is I've heard people say they want to have their "Good Teeth pulled and get Dentures!!!" WTF!!!??! If you gotem' FLOSS EM'!!! GOT TEETH!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Rob, A Big Thanks!! Remember "Trash Packin'" forerunner to "PRO Packin'??" 2 much FUN!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi bod, Personally I like the old hook in the doorway method from daze gone by. Ya' had both hands free, ya' could walk around the canopy, drink beer, walk away and come back and the canopy was still there!! Just shake it 3 times, wrap the tail around the nose and stuff it in the bag,... It'll open!! Got to Elsinore in time for Harry Leicher's Birthday dive sunset load big way outa the Carribu and was "unpacked!!" Marty Klett yelled,"Hey Deli, yeronna' 10 minute call, GET PACKED!!" Pretty much shook it 3 times wrapped the tail around the nose and stuffed it, made the dirt dive, made the dive and just knew I was in for a hell of an opening if an opening at all!!!!!!!!!!!!.......Breakoff, track, dump.........the cleanest opening I ever had on any canopy bar none!! That was my old Blue and white Stiletto 170!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi DSE, Very interesting! An old proceedure for water ldgs "used" to be to un hook from your harness and drop into the water from a few feet above. Are you good at judging your height above the ground/water?? A long time ago some paratroops were doing a night jump and some of them saw what they thought was a river or streem but was a runway, dropped out of their harness and crunch!@! Afterward, their procedure got changed to wait till you hit the water!! Like I said, this was a long time ago. As for a requirement for a license?? At this point, who cares?? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Dan, 4!!! 4!!!! lets go for 4!!!!! what the hell! 'Jez wonderin' if all the troops doin' all the bitchin' have any night jumps and or their D!! 'Did night jumps before I got my D, after I got my D, at midnight, cold as hell and no moon, night jumps with some to a full moon (the boogiemen were out!!) yadda' yadda' and etc. Next thing these troops will probably bitch about is having to make parachute jumps, with and without freefall, to be a Skydiver!!!!! Lets just give everyone a trophy so they can all feel good!!!! Oh Yeah, Well they can all go soak their socks in gasoline .....................so the ants won't crawl up their legs and eat their candy ass SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

You mean this past Saturday!?..... or some Saturday way back in 1965?

Hi #528, No kidding!! The movie (Beach Blanket Bingo) was at the Ritz Theater and after jumping on Saturday, we (Southland Skydivers) all went to the flick! First canopy opening and it was a "Cheapo!!" Leon Riche yells out,"What No P-C's!!!" (Para Commander) I think the year was 1965. Frankie and Annette hitting the surf and silk!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi cheese, "Back in the day," at the old Daily Planet we were packin' Parachutes, drinkin' coffee and someone told a joke. So Ronny says," This guy is sittin' in a bar and this woman 2 seats down says,"My vibrator can do anything a Man can do!" The guy says,"Yeah, let's see it pay for that drink!!" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi V-B!!, Ya' shudda" bin dere!! Back when! At Old Elsinore before video all there waz is 16mm!! One night after jumpin' at the old covered packin' tables. Carl set up the projector at one end, a screen at the other and us jumpers packed the middle, Frenchies still on, and cold beers in our grubby fists!! Someone turns off the lights, Carl clicks the switch on the projector and tictictictic---3-2-1-#$%@ and,"you can be--Masters-of-the SKY!!!!!" there were others "Skycapers, Skydive! and whattall!! That was "Modern Gear back then!!! How you talk dude!! 20 years from now people will say the same about today!! Can you imagine?? SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Jerry, I concur. As for the Parker 51, see my post above, I was drinkin beer one night with my old sky bud James Goode at The Aviators Grill and Pub here at Raeford and the subject of P-51's came up. We laughed over the Parker 51 stories and for Christmas, he found a Parker 51 fountain pen on E-bay for me!! Ball point or fountan model, I guess that would be the P-51BP and P-51F models!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi GLIDE, Yup, everybody pretty much covered it all the way down to the Kurt and Amanda show !! Just a side note for ya', at my old Hammond Airport, La., where I was a Jr. High School kid Airport bum. My buddies and I would try to lurk rides from pilots flying their J-3's and Airknockers on Sundays, 'would hear pilots talk about logging "P-51" time and then smirk!! They weren't talking about the North American Avia. P-51 "Mustang" either, it was the fabulous "Parker 51" Fountain Pen!!!! "Make all your log book entries neat and in ink!!" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Annie, When I was a kid there was a TV show about a Western Rancher with a twin engine airplane that was always helpin out the Sheriff catch the bad guys. A couple of times while waiting for the sheriff he donned a seat pack parachute and while his niece flew the plane, he climbed out and did a 10 second delay, landed in the sage brush by the bad guys hideout and with the Sheriff, brought the bad guys to justice!!!! That was the cats meow back then. Well,"Outta' the Blue of the Western Sky comes 'Sky King!!!" So if Kirby Grant can be Sky King, then Out of the Blue of the Southern Sky comes "ME!!" SkyBill!!!!!! Sky King was played by Kirby Grant, his plane the "Songbird" was a Cessna T-50 Bobcat twin engine later updated to a Cessna 310. The show was originally sponsered by NABISCO and that was on B&W TV circa early 50's. PS, I've packed a few emergency type seat packs but I prefer my Mirage to jump with!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Karen, Sorry to hear about your dad. You and your dad will be in our thoughts and prayers. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi K-T-O, Your "Skyfantasy" to you is fantasy, to some a reality and others just some mindless musing. Hmmmm. Army Paratroops exit at 1200' on training jumps, geez, got 200' to go!! How fast can you think, how low can you go?? Dis ain't no Limbo dance!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Bertt, Used ta' work for Paranettics, Inc. and Scurvyirvy Scare-O-Space some time ago and a lot of the chutes we packed required some serious x-rays to check for bent cutters, misplaced screwdrivers and whatall!. This is an industry wide practice. I don't know how myuch "X-ray" you'd have to expose nylon to to fry it, but unlike the human body, I doubt that your parachute will get cancer from it!!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Alligator Gar...'cause they're mean, ugly and really hard to kill! Hi Jim, Yup, dem is gar, regular ol' gar, alligator gar who cares dey is still ugly mean and hard to kill!! Caught a nice ol' 3 footer down at Melvins bridge an' soaked his head in a jug of clorox, got a nice skull to hang up above the bar!! When we usta fish off the old Manchac bridge we'd see schools of gar 5 foot + swimmin out into lake Maurepas!! After we're all dead an' gone, Gar fish, cockroaches and aligators will rule the earth!! Oh and I left out the Blackfish (bowfins) they look like a gar but have a short head kinda like a catfish but with really nasty sharp teeth!! SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Sara, "Wish I waz a 256 and a' half pound Catfish, Swimmin' in da deep blue sea, So all you pretty women, 'Come fishin' after me......" from an old Blues song. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Mc, Got ta thinkin' bout it and did a search, nuttin' showed up so here goes. Any old farts from South Louisiana Cottonbelt Sport Parachute Council daze remember "Frank Goodman" aka Major Goodies' Parachute Team. He used ta drive Ben Seal, our CSO at Hammond Airport, crazy!! One day he was gettin on the Howard and Ben noticed a 45 cal 1911-A1 strapped by his reserve (belly wart daze) and pulled it off him. "Oh it's loaded with tracers so if I land off DZ I can signal where I'm at with them!!" said Frank!! Short story, Ben didn't let him jump with it!! (Can you imagine shit like that happening in todays' anti-Gun climate??)!! Frank had an old "sensative" "2-Needle" altimiter on his reserve. Only problem was the adjuster knob had broken off and it was stuck at 6700' (at Hammond Airport 40 feet ASL anyway)!! So howz it work?? "Oh just add 2500' for pull alt!!" says Frank. Frank was quite a guy and there's lotz of great stories about him. One of the best I heard was he tried to make some "Napalm" in his apartment!! He tried to heat up a cooking pot full of gasoline on a stove and add some laundry soap powder to it (the heated gasoline was suppose to disolve the soap!!!) well he never got there as the pot of gasoline caught on fire and bout burned down the building!! BTW Frank's OK!! If anyone else remembers Frank, ya' gotta have some good stories about him!! I'll add a few more later. SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out

Hi Hammer, "We have a winner!!" Only one rig, back in the 70's and it was at O-Die (Borderlands Air Sports Center, Otay Lakes, CA aka McDonaldland, "He's dead Jim") From this incident at Otay came the colorful chant,"Blue Skys, Black Death, Green Star Reserves!!" SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out