highspeeddirt

gotta save up my lunch money and git me one

because para flite required it in the packing instructions. if you packed one without the ram air reserve rating, you were violating the manufacturerers instructions and therefore the faa regulations as well.

it is true tho.

NOT TRUE! the strato flyer was in fact the reserve design that para flite came up with. it was released as a main canopy to get statistical data on performance, openings,and malfunctions.in fact each strato flyer main was shipped with a questionnaire to be filled out by the purchaser.and para flite released the saftey flyer only after accummilating something like 20 000 documented jumps. i know i was working there at the time and Dick Morgan and i came up with the d-brake lanyards.back then they were being conservative . it was hard to get the FAA (and the general jumping population)to accept a ram air reserve.also, paraflite required EVERYONE involved with the design and production of the safety flyer to get their riggers license. it very much landed like a piece of sh** tho.

it happened at the herd labor day boogie in 1978.para flite had started to ship the safety flyer that week.Richard"Fang"Fenimore hand delivered the canopy to Jim D'aleria(a ford dealer from the pittsburgh area)jim installed it and promptly had some sort of 'function' requiring him to deploy his safety flyer.

lets see...jackwilson 10 jumps in 2 years. boy i guess that makes you some sort of expert (at least in your own mind)

i made my first jump december 7th 1970 at ripcord paracenter in lumberton new jersey . it was about 32 degrees on the ground. pretty f***ing cold at altitude with the prop blast. while jumping slows down during winter, it rarely stopped.

thats cool. anyone ever hear of a rw(rigging whore)?

"supposedly you keep it until you die".... when i worked for what used to be the worlds largest manufacturer of ram air parachutes,we had a guy who died.yet for some inexplicable reason he was still packing and sealing parachutes long after his death.....

Lets see....ours was at Ripcord para centert in new jersey. Scotty Carbone, i believe it was, put everyone out 8 miles from the dz through cloud cover.

how about Red White and Blue beer?

Bobby Letbetter(former usapt golden knight ,member 1966 US Parachute Team ), KIA Nov.1966 Vietnam

My first car was named "La Bomba"(yes after cheech and chongs car)Paid $100 bucks for her(61 ford falcon).Burned a quart of oil every 50 miles,looked like James Bonds smokescreen goin down the road.Gas was 35 cents a gallon and you could fill her up for about 5 bucks.

a few years ago , at an unnamed dz, we had an incident that i have never seen addressed in these forums.after cutting away a spinning main mal, TM deployed reserve on a strong dual hawk system .upon releasing the d brakes, one brake loop caught on the corner of the reserve connector link(standard L type seperable link),resulting in a spin. TM quickly realized what had happened and managed to free it.has anyone else ever had this happen??

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AHHH MAD DOG 20/20.label used to say one of the fine wines of the century...too bad it wasnt this one.

what happened to jimmy franklin?

she was the first woman to get her gold wings(officially). jump was made at steve snyders dz in oct 1967 from a hot air balloon . i was there. skydiver magazine published the story.

try warren eichhorn at parachute equipment corp .he may be able to help.(www.paraequip.com)

interestingly enough, no one ever died over it.

Yellow presents aproblem on a hazy day also. Elek Puskas (former ParaFlite pres.) had an encounter with a piper cherokee at something like 1500' on his 2000th jump. He was jumping a yellow Swift main and apparently was not seen by the aircraft as he descended in front of it . The propeller struck Eleks pilotchute as it passed over his canopy.

I once had someone bring in a reserve that had a hotknife dropped into it during its last repack.The container was undamaged and sealed when it arrived in the loft.So it had to have been packed with all the damage.

You are laboring under a misconception about flat packing the has persisted for years. Just like the one about canopies "weathervaning"

What is a Strong SET 10 DELTA?

Someone I knew years ago, tied an M18 to a 20 foot tether nade of 550 nylon. .The tether melted and the smoke bomb landed near an old lady.She had a heart attack and sued this guy.