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The attorney found his expert….no one else need to reply or contact him. Thanks

Non-skydiving related. Posting for a friend. Former FAA Manager/attorney seeking expert witness in Seattle area. Master Rigger preferred This is a wing walking incident and the attorney is battling the FAA on the need for air show wing walkers to wear a rig….really bad idea The attorneys number is 562-682-6686 Mods, please delete if this is not appropriate

I was a jump pilot at Hinckley back then and I politely refused to fly that load. The DZ owned said that he would fly and make sure that they were over an open area......didn't quite work out so well. It made the front page of USA Today if I recall.

Boeing Model 40C recently restored by the Pembertons up in the Northwest US.

Off topic, but was Alan's nightclub on the "wrong side of the tracks" down in New Orleans called the Dream Palace? I remember being there during Mardi Gras and seeing some verrrrrry strange things.

Back in the late 1970's Tony Fugit would bring his teenage daughter, Tempest, (Tempus Fugit.... latin for time flies) to the DZ. She was absolutely drop dead beautiful, but Tony was not a small guy and he made it clear that she was off limits to all of us 20 year old low life drop zone rats.

I was a pilot rated passenger in the right seat of a Twin Beech that buzzed the airport at the Couch Freaks boogie in Iowa in the early 80's as we departed with a full load of jumpers going back to Illinois. At mid field the pilot executed an unannounced pitch up and barrel roll. During the initial pull-up the jumpers in back ended up against the rear bulkhead, drastically altering the CG. I will never forget the panic in his voice as the pilot screamed at me to help him on the yoke to get the nose back down (up) in the middle of the roll. We recovered with the stall horn screaming and the belly dragging through the corn. That pilot disappeared somewhere south of the border a few years later.

Fairchild 71?

"Back in the day" I docked 10th on a womens 9 way (I am a guy) and submitted my WSCR application. Several weeks later I received WSCR #1000 in the mail and a small write-up in Parachutist magazine. Someone out there has D-1000 and SCR #888.... or better yet, anything with #666. Anyone else have anything like that? My lowest number is CCS 41, received on a world record stack.

Its terrible, but after 22 years I cannot remember her name. Attached is a photo of us in Xenia.

In July 1985 I went down to Xenia from Chicago to jump the Caravan. I made 10 jumps that weekend and also sort of hooked up with a young blond college girl who was traveling with the Caravan and running the maiifest. I spoke to her several times over the phone over the next month and made tentative plans to get together again in Georgia. Someone from the DZ called me in Chicago the night of the crash to tell me that she was on board.

Too easy..... Boeing XB-15 Only one was Built the other guy beat me to it!

An acquaintance of mine in N. California who restores D-18/C-45's as a full time business is looking for a copy of the air to air movie clip showing a full load of jumpers on the wing and one photographer above the cockpit (who then runs down the entire fuselage and goes over the tail). He collects Twin Beech trivia. Anyone know where to find it?

I don't know about this time that it was broken but I was there when Mark landed Mr. D down wind in the rain on the short grass runway (2500 ft) at Sandwich Il around 1985. There was a small tree at the end of the runway that ended up about 3 feet into the nose of the airplane. A new nose cone and some sheet metal work and it was in the air for the next weekend.

1972 olympics, Munich? Just a guess