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Seventies...Greg King and Vernon Melanceon were on a road trip,and picked up a bunch of flattened toads off the road.A grommet was put through them and a parachute cord neclace was applied....Talk about a fashon statement! The gnats and flies followed you everywhere.I still have mine.I remember at a party somewhere we were required to eat a leg off our toad.Wasnt youth wonderful

How bout the old LSU Tiger's DC3 that John Cutts flew?It still had the tiger stripes on it.We "borrowed "it at Covington and did some state records one weekend!

Herby Graves lent me a dactyl for a water demo at False River.He put it in a nb8 container with a belly wart.It had a strap/velcro affair wrapped around it.Surprised the shit out of me watching it openMy God...How am I still alive.....Just strap anything on and jump

We had one kinda like that in Covington too.He cut away right over a class in session..and did a backloop...screaming "sport death"before pulling his reserve!He was kicked off for a while!I thought it was super cool at the time.This fella bucked EVERY rule you could imagine.

You are exactly right Wendy....60's gettin to my memory!Happy Fourth

Got one in 75 from a guy that needed quick cash for an abortion!300.00! Had the mod to a slider and all! yall remember the five cell firefly?It was smaller than the strato star and faster.....brutal landings Had over five hundred on the star with only two chops.I was very light,so it landed great for me.

hey,Thanks....I will call him tonight!

No...He didnt live....Anybody remember Charlie Berteau? I may be getting him mixed up with Hunley Dufour.....rough sixties! >>>>on the bounce thing...a guy from la. Tech was the one.....I wasnt there that day.We did have a first jumper,who had his apex catch on the tail wheel...and they had to land with him in tow....he walked away with a broke finger and road rash!

I believe he committed suicide I may be wrong,but I seem to remembering this.I olny met him twice out at the DZ,and he had quit jumping just as I was starting....Sept 72.If this is incorrect...somebody may know better.

Yea Leon is into Bikes and camping-traveling...Last time I talked to him he was in florida on a round up of cattle in the everglades!I sent him some T shirts I had made of the original Southern Parachute and logo.We had a reunion at Kerry Steele's home in N.O. and Leon was there ...got some great pics.We planned to party our asses off...but Leon and Kevin McCarron were the only ones unprone at sunup!!Dont know about Huntley.Yes,Leon's address is in Chatanooga still.

Hi...Dwayne is living in De Quincy La and still working at CITCO as a chemical engineer.Last I visited him,he was happily married ,golden retriever,into running sports.He left his Skydive Hawawii visor at my house20 yesrs ago,and would not allow me to send it to him....He insists to come knock at my door,NAKED,to get it back!!Thats Dwayne!!

Dats da one!! 524 Frenchmen Street.We sound pretty close in numbers....SCR 7713,SCS 3934....missed SCSA ...on grips at 1400ft in Covington.....would have had#23.Greg King and Greg Smith were holding the hoop!Awesome dive for its day.

Langhoff...AKA French Quarter Allen,Grand Master of the Krewe of the Cosmic Debris.

Sorry...This goes back to the seventies.Kewel try though.Think Dream Palace ......

Where the _uck is TUT??????? Do you know the reply????Lets have it!!!

broke my second finger (six places) ....had gloces on and it was cold.....I forced the finger out of the brake line...which I think made the injury worse.My hands were kinda numb.....UNTIL I LANDED!!!! Had some elastic material sewed on for stowing excess.

Rememger the un-PC saying"cutaway and track for the peas"?

I started in 73 also.In Covington,La.We had an annual Mardi Gras Parachute Meet...which started out as accuracy.....Then we had three man scrambles......three man...backloop....three man.When Greene County took over it changes to 10 way speed scrambles.At that time the name changed to boogie to draw people that didnt want to compete...but just have fun....or boogie.Also...Man changes to Way.....PC

I had a Paradactyl for a while....No honking down on toggle pleaseThat will give you about 3or4 more seconds of freefall

Oh yea...The loop was elastic.....you would pinch togeather the bridle and stick it about 1 inch through the loop.We had a friend go in with a twisted bellyband...so shortly after that Hrebie Graves developed the Herbie Hog....pilotchute pouch on the riser.The handle was right next to your head in freefall.It was a great idea at the time...but at first glance it looked scarry and different.

When they first came out the pouch was on a soft belly band.....twist the belly band....throw out and you have a pilot chute in tow.

The Lafayette crew used to jump there in the late 70s early 80s.Ill never forget the guy(Dennis I think) that could SNORT a raw oyster up his nose...cough it up into his mouth and spit it out! He did this for us at a resturant one night....Dwayne Brouette grabbed the spit out ,snorted oyster....and ate it!! That cleared the table of about thirty jumpers.

Condolences to Roger's Family.He was such a nice fellow.Didnt know a stranger.......I consider myself privleged to talk to him at length during the bad weather at Mardi Gras.I had been following his career since the seventies.If heaven can get any better....It will be with him there.

As you drop away ....You scream OH NO Mr Bill....Therefore you are sluggo.

28TU that someone had put in yellow dye......Therefore it was yellow and orange with yellow lines........Envy of the DZ! had it in a NB8 .