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Come on out to Perris the 1st Saturday of each month; it's AirTrash day Check out airtrash.com also. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

A little further back (late 60's?) there was a picture of an airplane hanging below a jumper in Russia or England. Check one of Poynter's books circa 70-80. Canopy hung up on the plane and the jumper deployed chest mounted reserve (no cutaway) and lowered the whole thing including a pilot and at least one other jumper (maybe 2). Only injury was to the pilot. Sometimes it is better to be lucky. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

Perris Valley used a FXC on the main and Cypres on the reserve for many years very successfully. Before that they had the FXC on the main and no AAD on the reserve until the reaper had a near miss.

Any time you want to learn how to break both legs the right way you just give me a call Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

I met Tiny Broadwick about 1976. She was in her early 80's and had suffered a heart attack a few years earlier. She was the guest of honor at an airshow in Chino, CA. She believe that jumpers should be paid to jump. She was still fiesty and full of life and got around with a walker. The demo jump that day was with Cunning Stunts an all women team and she met with all of them later in the day and shared her experiences with them. I have a copy of a picture of them as well as a signature in my logbook. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

I have a Sabre 150 w/ around 300-400 jumps on it. It wouls occasionally slam me so I've added a pocket to my slider and the opening are very nice. Good canopy in any case. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

20 way for Nude Beer around 09/82 at Elsinore. Photos by Tom Sanders and Ray Cottingham. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

S/L went by the book; C&P was another matter.

28' LL static line at 2,800' 28 7TU 1st freefall 3,000' first owned brand spanking new B4 conainer with a military surplus never been jumped sport modified orange and white 28' 7 TU. $150 from Para-Gear ; another $60 for a 24' unmodified flat. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

The problem with using the wrist strap is it can interfere with your operating you parachute. n any situation were a jumper is jumping with 'extra' equipment (something not related the safe flying/landing) of their parachute it would be detachable. i.e, helmet mounted cameras, smoke devices, flags, etc. The past fatality records are full of entanglement situations. Bottom line ask your instructor and/or an experienced jumper at your DZ.

I've been blind in on eye since birth and the only thing I have a problem with are the optical illusions that require you're brain to merge 2 pictures into one. I've been jumping for more than 30 years and done many night demos without any problems from depth perception; (the problems are usually from other things , but that's another story. I've heard that if our eyes were further apart are depth perception would be better but that once you get beyond about 6' you aren't using 'depth perception' so much as experience. Hence your discomfort, Bill. Maybe you need to do about 6 months worth of jumps with one eye. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

Chuck Norris' jump was really down at Otay Lakes when Don was running a tandem concession there, just before we moved to Hemet.

Take a look at Rigging Innovations Genera. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

Back in the mid 80's? whenever Van Halens Jump came out a couple of guys in (I think Dallas) made a really good music video using the song. At the time (Freak Brothers convention) I thought $15 was worth more as a jump. I'm sorry I passed it up because these 2 guys where load by Van Halens lawyers to stop and desist. Oh well, I also should have bought Norm Kents calendar sometime around '86, too! Regrets is what you get when you get older Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

a. beter than w/o, usually. b. around the early 8's sounds fine but I wounldn't put it past the Germans circa 1930-40's to have done it first. c. I've seen/heard of several that had problems, usually due to gross overloading or tumbling during deployment. I have also seen several rounds with blown gores landed and survived. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

You can also take a peice of wax chord and make a loop between the Dyter and the horizontal bars in the ear peice of the Pro-Tec. Make it long enough to be able to read/set and just set in in the ear hole. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

I met her in 1977 at an air show where she was the guest of honor. She signed my logbook

Maybe D-10 I forget. Jerry Bourguin is D-22

About 10 years ago I witnessed a fatality because of a failed mini-riser. Sounded like a 2X4 slapping concrete and resulted in a spinning malfunction that wasn't cutaway (don't remember if it was equipment related or opening shock confusion). The reserve was fired under 500' (manually) but the PC caught on the slider/main. This was when micro line first came out and we didn't understand line dump issues and this individual was on the wrong side of the weight chart for the risers (which had wear) at that tim. Since then packing procedures have help reduce this issue as well as some changes to riser manufacturing. There were other riser failures in the early/middle 90's. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

We are all responsible for our actions/jumps. You can't make an audible (or anyone else) responsible for your altitude awareness. I you depend on someone/thing else you WILL be disappointed eventually. That applies to your rigger/packer for your equipment and the pilot for your spot and the canopy manufacturer for your landing. You are responsible no matter what they do or don't do. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

I think it's the 'Skydivers' Hymn' Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

And she's running for National Director

Way to go girl. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

One hug and a bumch of those XOXOXOXO thingys. Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166

version I remember: A videographer (w/ chest mounted recorder and a separate harness to hold it) was videoing a tandem out of a D-18. They were the last ones out and the cameraman sat up against the bulkhead until their turn came. Tandem was busy doing what he needed doing and didn't notice anything. Cameraman had worked 3rd shift the night before (as was normal for him) and was probably a little tired. It was not his first jump of the day/weekend. I saw a portion of the tape on TV and they showed a normal tandem exit and jump until just after the tandem pull. The videorapher did a double take when (I assume) he tried to pull and found nothing, looked around some and then... (end of broadcast). This wasn't the first time he apparently had gotten on a plane (that week? weekend? month?) with out a rig but no one caught it this time. With the workload and equipment configuration this scenario wasn't unreasonable; many top videographers of the day (and many that are still jumping today) had this happen but caught their error before exit/usually takeoff. There was a story (urban legend) about a year or more later that a suicide note was found; I have no idea if this is true. People have forgotten to pull many times because they were distracted, it isn't beyond reason for this either. PS. He wasn't first (or probably the last) to leave a plane unintentionally without a rig (there are stories predating this one). Red, White and Blue Skies, John T. Brasher D-5166