Zing

With a clue like that, the FBI is sure to catch him now.

"What, me worry?" Alfred E. Neumann

This is the third forum I've seen this posted on. All I get when I click the link is a blank, pale blue screen.

Must be all the No-Ho-Ho Santa Claus and elf repellant I've been spraying. Bah humbug!

Give em time, son, give em time.

I never knew whether to be proud or insulted when Wal-Mart declined to hire me because I was "over qualified."

A few of them are at my place.

Yeah, but that was a long time ago in Florida.

Cheaper to pay them off than to fight a lawsuit that should be contested by Cessna.

Well, a couple people have opined that my lifetime membership to USPA which expired 12 months later was a good thing.

I'd go a bit further and take odds that this case never sees the inside of a courtroom and settles out of court. Cheaper to pay them off than fight a lawsuit that should be.

Neither news story gives that information. Obviously, Cessna is the deep pocket, but no doubt, others will be named by the plaintiffs' attorneys, depending on the lawyers' opinion of their ability to recover monies.

I'm gonna keep hoping that comment was for comedic relief, maybe sarcasm.




You can't be serious?

"Don't worry lady, just tell your boyfriend that lemur jizz is fresh boobie smell."

Looks like some lawfirm has found employment. Here's the first news I've seen about lawsuits over the Caravan crash.

http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/global/story.asp?s=7436508

Parents of skydiver killed in plane crash file suit
Associated Press - December 1, 2007 1:45 PM ET

SEATTLE (AP) - The parents of a skydiver killed in a plane crash in October have filed a lawsuit saying the plane was defective and shouldn't have been flying in icy weather.

The 34-year-old Microsoft engineer, Bryan Jones, was 1 of 9 skydivers from a Snohomish County jump club who were aboard the Cessna Caravan when it plunged into a mountainside above White Pass, killing all 10 aboard on Oct. 7. Also killed was the plane's pilot.

The plane had been flying from Star, Idaho, to Shelton, Mason County.

The lawsuit was filed Friday by Jones' parents, Daniel and Terrie Jones, and seeks damages for the pain and suffering their son experienced and their loss of companionship.

Attempts to reach Cessna for comment were unsuccessful.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

And this one.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/11996826.html

By KOMO TV Staff & News Services
SEATTLE (AP) - The parents of a skydiver killed in a plane crash in October have filed a lawsuit saying the plane was defective and shouldn't have been flying in icy weather.

The 34-year-old Microsoft engineer, Bryan Jones, was one of nine skydivers from a Snohomish County jump club who were aboard the Cessna Caravan when it plunged into a mountainside above White Pass, killing all 10 aboard on Oct. 7. Also killed was the plane's pilot.

The plane crashed into thick timber at 4,300 feet, about 45 miles west of Yakima near the Goat Rocks Wilderness Area during a flight from Star, Idaho, near Boise, to Shelton, Wash.

The lawsuit was filed Friday by Jones' parents, Daniel and Terrie Jones, and seeks damages for the pain and suffering their son experienced and their loss of companionship.

At a memorial for the ten victims, friends and family members remembered Jones as a quiet and shy guy on the job, but known to hop on his motorcycle after work to head to Harvey Field to skydive.

"He was pretty dedicated," said Shawn Starr, a Skydive Snohomish instructor. "He would sit in traffic for hours just to make one jump at sunset."

Jones had made more than 1,000 jumps and helped lead the Seattle Skydivers club. He recently began "canopy piloting," a more specialized skydiving sport, said skydiver Dave Correia.

"He knew what he was doing and he did it well," said Ryan Shipley, another skydiver and friend.

Attempts to reach Cessna for comment were unsuccessful.

Hells bells Skratch, it STILL seems to make sense, even though I'm not doing it anymore.

Well, you just have to ask yourself ... do ya feel lucky?

Not much ... all it takes is all your money and the rest of your life.

"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."
attributed to Free Wheelin' Franklin following the Great Marijuana Drought of 1968

If your going to dream of a better life, dream big. There's no point in settling for small disappointments in life.

Yep, no booties. Lots of velcro on the cuffs and wide rubberized footstrap.
I seem to recall the stolen suits were a blue and yellow one and the other may have been red and blue.
There was a tan Racer with a Unit main and maybe a Wonderhog and some other gear. Did that stuff ever get home to right people?

I think I might have been about the only one in the southwest with a Shoobi Suit. Two guys showed up at Ghoulidge one weekend with a whole trunk full of gear, including two Shoobi Suits. It was the height of the wing-wars.
It looked like a fun suit to play with, but neither one really fit me, so I looked on the suit's label, found a phone number and called to order one.
I don't remember who I talked to, but after I described the two suits and a couple of the rigs those guys had at Ghoulidge, it was obvious the gear was stolen.
Cops were called, and all the gear was taken into police custody for return to the owners (don't know how long that took), but Sheriff Dave couldn't arrest the guys because their was no evidence they had stolen the gear and Illinois would not extradite a prisoner for the crime of possession of stolen property.
Amazingly, after the cops left, those two came back to the dropzone, insisting that they didn't know the gear was stolen when they bought it just before coming to Arizona. They hung around for about 10 days, seemed friendly enough, even helped out with a few dropzone chores, but the first time everybody else was gone from the dropzone, tents were ransacked, the gear room, manifest and my place were all broken into and a lot of stuff disappeared. No rigs or jumpsuits, they'd learned their lesson on that, but altimeters were scarce for a few weeks in the desert. Never heard or saw of either of those guys again.
I did get a custom-colored and fitted Shoobi Suit for $125, and it was a fun suit. I could go as fast as anyone and out float anything and anybody. The worst thing about it was it was heavy, multi-layered cotton duck, with foam paddles in the lower legs and arms and velcro closed cuffs top and bottom. In summertime in Arizona it was a sauna,
It would also track real good and mine later suffered a bunch of hare-brained psuedo-wing suit mods that lead to a couple really fun tracking dives and a couple others that were seriously scary ... probably would of killed a normal man.

Yeppers ... one "Oh Shit!" takes out a whole raft of "Attaboys."

I always wondered what all that broken stuff behind the inop stickers was supposed to be fore back when the old airplanes I flew were brandy new and everything worked.

I couldn't find a picture of both airplanes side-by-side, but here is a Grumman Avenger (blue) and a North American RCAF T-6 variant.
The Avenger is a much larger airplane and other than both aircraft are taildraggers, both are powered by radial engines, though not the same engine, and the birdcage canopies look somewhat alike, the similiarities just about end there.

Mine might be, but I covered the clock with black electrical tape years ago.

Look at again. At some point, he appears to get control of the loose bag too. Looked to me like he gets the bag trapped with his left hand and arm, pulls the pilot chute down and holds on to them with his left hand, and fires the spare with his right hand.
You can see the bag and one yellow toggle just before and during the reserve pull.
After the spare is open, he tucks the bag and pilot chute away sort of on his lap, and finally unstows the steering toggles on the reserve.
Even after all that, it looks like he's open above a grand.
Pretty good story to tell around the campfire.