curator

Hi all. New here and out of the sport for a while (~20+ years), and never had the heart to dispose of my gear. Had fantasies about starting a club or DZ, and did some collecting, all of which has been in storage. I now need to make it go away. The museum includes a paracommander, cross-bow, delta II, small (original) paraplane, 26' navy con, and various 24' and 28' rounds. I suppose I could cut the lines off and ebay, but it just feels wrong. Suggestions anyone?

Responding to your signature (What's the worst that could happen), this one's close -- Jump #75, 4th of July, 1969, homemade smoke bracket (metal standoff, hose clamp) on boot, smoke in freefall, nice flat stable pull (pre-hand deploy), pilot chute hesitation and pilot chute snags on smoke bracket, canopy (PC) deploys horseshoed, pilot chute breaks free, goes through lines and fuses, 1/2 the suspension lines slack and waving all over the place with a wad of nylon in the middle going ~100 mph. I got to tell you it didn't look like any malfunction that had been described to me in training. So, I spent about 5-8 seconds trying to figure it out (brain lock, wasn't prepared to scrap it). When I could see pinecones, cut away and got line stretch at ~200 feet. Got very lucky. Moral -- Bad things CAN happen, and the really bad ones are those you've never heard of.