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Up north of him at Lodi check with D. Mike Spurgeon. He is in this months parachutist for 18000 jumps. I am guessing 15 or 16 thousand of them are tandems. He had an article a fews years ago for 14000.Check hia age and size and that continues to make it more remarkable. Nicest guy you will ever meet to.

Always remember the FAA rules the air part . The land owners permission doesnt count if local laws prohibit it. You may be able to jump and not land. You may WOW the whuffos while your pilot is being arrested.

White, orange olive drab and a brownish color were the quarter panels . Mostly for hiding in any terrain also for signaling. If you had only white showing and tapering , you were ok and heading in the direction the pointy end was facing. If you had orange ans white showing you needed medical attention. The minimum survival kit that came in the little pouch was a book . It showed how to make a black-jack out of the main lift web , fishing hooks a knife ,a broken arm or leg sling, hammock clothes etc. If you got lucky the guy from the government surplus sales left in the flare gun. Lower on the list of subjects was "C9 canopies in bulk the picture of the canopy over the tail feathers of that plane looks like a Lo-Po

I will go along with that. The cloth had three designations. 1 . the number of threads in a square inch, usually 200 on rip stop 2. the amount of air to pass through a square foot 3. as you stated the weight per square yard, lo-po at 1.6 a rag was 1.1 PS rip stop got the little squares look by using thicker thread at those places in the loom. PSS the landings on a lo-po were like jumping off a four foot ladder on to concrete instead of a five foot one

We usually had a good collection ar the Richmond Boogies and the Boggy.We were climbing to altitude and someone asked the rate of climb. Before nerd technology you would look at the second hand on you watch wait for an even 1000 feet to come up and time one minute. The guy then asked "Is that Indiana time or Ohio time?" We got 700 feet easy meaning it was faster than a C-206 and most C-182's.To bad for the Yuppies jumping today .Make a jump go to the indoor tennis place then the Sushi bar.

Tom Collins Master Rigger for the Para-Hawks @ Marine city and for the Jump Shack had a comment about that. "In the piston engine DZ's you make your money last all weekend Turbine DZ's your broke by 11:00 AM Saturday. Now what are you going to do? Hope somebody has to buy beer later?

I have even with the co-pilot seat in and a passenger. Push the door open enough to put your left foot on the step. your facing the tail that way wiggle your head and shoulders increasing the opening. A little extra umph and your gone now problem.

I got to jump it there with the lovely young lady that helped fly it there. Fun jump and a great plane too. I walked around smiling after it but dont remember her name

I stayed in that building in 1968or69. There was a shower that had a sign on the door that said "If you are a jumper this water is not cold ". It had tendency to make me believe otherwise.After Jeff took over a wet t-shirt contest was held out back. Scotty Bill booth and a few others got arrested. Seems a local preacher was enjoying the view until a few parishoners caught him. Now he has to make a statement about the lewdness and vulgarity going on . That might have been the first time out of a few hundred Scotty was permnantly thrown off the DZ. The second place girl was absolutely beautiful. Number one gave a few BJ's and won

AT Gregory MI then on to Tecumseh a set up was made that recorded exits for static liners. It had a pressure switch on the step and took the picture a few seconds after leaving. Dont remember his name right now. Thwe pilot had a tape recorder and would ask their name and city to send the right pictures. Good smiles tail feathers and DZ back ground shots all in one.

You could look up the "C" lincense number on the sleeve on USPA's list .Then you might get to ask the guy himself. I think the Beaver Valley was the one south of Pittsburgh, if that helps. That DZ was discussed on another post just below this one on lost DZ's

The name of the DZ was Kiski. Does anyone know what happened to "Fast Harry Grigget " . I think that was his last name . I think he was from the DZ on the south side of Pittsburgh

Cant think of the name of the DZ on the east side of Pittsburgh. The state took over part of the airport as a park . You took off going downhill with a ski jump bottom in a Howard ,then the plane landed going up hill.The owner always wanted us to stop at Put-in-bay for wine on our way from Detroit. He had warm Iron City Beers waiting for us. It tasted like it was strained through a bucket of rusty nails. Howards are fun to jump. And as always I wouldnt trade the good times for anything.

Hi Jack I can say that we are on the ground.I found it easiest to tell a 12 from a 10E was count windows on the side . The Electra Jr. only had three while the 10e had more. In the "Amelia" movie of a few months ago they used both kinds painted the same.We actually had a 12 at the last days of Salem and first ones at Marine City with the Ppara-hawks. It was shortly after the Beech 18 crashed in Hawaii. Doug got a phone call from the insurance company "No show exits only". It had a B-18 type small round top door not a C-45. Really killed exits

You dont remember "The hunka hunka burning love" rendition. You were flying the Otter at Napoleon then I think

Whos lights didnt work ? You can see a gap and the jumper's shape go by. Then the next guy. I heard the jumpsuits were around $10 G's . Jack Gregory lives in Michigan now and told me about some of the jumps. He also sang some of the words. I cant hear any more after pouring acid in my ears.

When it first came out inthe early "70,s" .I made a few sets then and still have templates. I seemed to me it had station locations. The rears went at the bulkhead behind the cargo door. Right and left were not interchangable. the big one behind the fuel selector didnt need the square bottomed notch as it cleared the rear seat attachment . It was to put the seat back in as needed, and could be a radius notch.The main stipulation was the grade of stainless steel higher than normal type.

Most intentional cutaways on a third canopy. seperable D-ringa are attached on your main lift webs. You jump deploy the canopy from the deployment bag cutaway Then after freefall open your normal canopy. Its mostly for demos not a training device. As stated PD comes to demo rigs at a boogie they have reserves set up as mains . It is a good time to try what your potential reserves fly like. The canopies have bridle and bag attaching rings on top

You grab one wrist for a one way , then left hand on your right shoulder gripper right hand on you right knee gripper for a right side body both hands back to both legs grippers for a cat, left hand to left knee gripper right hand to left shoulder grip for left side body back to grabbing your wrist 5 points. Repeat for the rest of the jump. Let the guys that won the world meet with 42. You could have 829 easy and still pull legal

I go with Lynda Carter especially after she just got done running.

It was a 28ft Lo-Po. It landed as hard as cheapo's. There is one scene where her 1&1/2-s were covered over with tape. The Pretender does a tandem with no main risers and no top connecters out of the left side of a C-177

I would go wonder-hog. It has the full round harness ring making it a pre 81. Some of the early ones had the blast handles. I had a 77 or 78 with R-3s, and belly band piolt chute, converted to BOC for my Eddy Mosher "Swing -Wing".Does the pilot chute bridle fold to become the closing pin for a shock cord loop?

I first met Roger and Carl at Hinckley in1972 when Jim had Otters come from St. Louis. I thought they might have started there. Learn something every day.

The Style-master had a semi split saddle when you got it.It was a split saddle with a cross strap you could easily hot knife off. It couldnt be re-attached without major master rigger involvement.Most people did the cut to make you un-surplus as possible. I agree with Cross-bow as the first sport syle rig. It also unbeknownst to USPA in all their wisdom had an RSL not in 1980? as they claim the start. It worked well even if only attached to one riser with "One-shots" John Shermans SST also had one that kept the reserve housing with the rig

There was an old saying in the 70's "If its to windy to pack it's to windy to jump". We found the obvious solution was pack inside. My buddy Norm Hill and I were the only ones to jump on frozen Lake St.Clair for a party. We both did land and slides backwards. I asked him how many "Aw Shits" it was for him under canopy ? He smugly said "None All his were Mother fu**ers"