jimp

Still widely in use at small aeroclubs throughout the former Soviet Union.

Peter Chapman should love this clip.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AD02qtlws&feature=related

Woodcock British Columbia.

This, from 1982.

An amazing archive!

I am amazed to find myself in it.

Jim Patterson

Just the thing for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2v9UKdnd8&feature=related

Love that radial engine (Alvis Leonides) rumble!

A jumper in Oz back in the '60s jumped a silk twill TU.

Jimmy Dolan, originally from Scotland, and a marine architect, by the way. Jumped at the old Camden dz near Sydney.

Now, my memory may not be 100% accurate; I'm open to being corrected, if anyone was around at the time...

Contact info for you:

And now I know where Beaverton Oregon is....

jimp

Two Sled jumps in 1973.

Jump 1 at Yolo. The date on the back of the snap shot is 21 Jan '73. Just who owned it and how I talked him into letting me jump it is a long lost memory. Log book notes, "very impressed - stand-up in the peas" Signed off by Lyn Beckhorn, the 182 pilot.

Jump 2 at the old Grindale dropzone in Yorkshire, 12 Aug '73. This one belonged to John Halley.

The coated nylon felt and looked like wax paper.

A few of our collectors and "museum curators" (beatnik) have much more recent experience.

A few adjustments this way and that way:

Curt Curtis, black helmet, white twin-zip.

A couple more.

(Saw Ron Bodine at Lodi a few weeks ago)

I met Ned Luker in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia a few years ago when he was still with PISA. He hadn't changed much since the '70s.

Doesn't really qualify, since these are from '71, but somebody has to do it.

Antioch 1, it's me second from right

Antioch 5, Skip Stephenson under the Para Plane

At one busy Czech dz for me last summer the formalities were "normal":
fill out the form, pay for the jump ticket and within half an hour I was at altitude. I can't remember whether they checked any documents or not. Anyway, dz staff was very courteous, friendly, minimum BS.

We didn't have electricity in those days, never mind TV.

A dozen years ago I could have sold you this old beauty!

+1

In 1977 Rosamel Gomez and I flew to the dropzone at Las Flores from Buenos Aires in this Argentine airforce Broussard.

The pilot kept a holstered pistol with him at all times during the ferry flights and while we were jumping from the aircraft.

Try out this one:

Penzion Alberta
Drozdovice 1066/64

Tel +420-582-330-505

Much cheaper, nice bar, good meals. English speaking staff.

Here is my Flickr site:

www.flickr.com/photos/in_the_wind

Lately I've been using a Canon G10 for just about everything. The Nikon SLR and all the big lenses stay home. The Canon is a joy for street shots, especially when traveling to places where big "professional" cameras can really draw unwanted attention to you. Just how the shots stand up to "professional" scrutiny I don't know, but for my purposes (sharing with family and friends) they are just fine. Now might be the time to look at the little Sony Alpha nex5.

"a jungle gym to climb all over"

Yeah , I know what you mean.

So, here we are in the summer of '82 on one of our " Chisel Charter Flightseeing Tours" of Prince Rupert BC.

Our pilot had just the right combination of pitch, throttle and mixture to maintain heading and level flight for us to climb-out.. well, it was a breeze. I used an Olympus OM1 with a 16mm lens handheld and manual film advance for the shots. After everyone had gone I ran down the full length of the float and dove off.

Ralph Goddard is our super-hero; Peter Irvin is the happy jumper

We've used them a number of times over the years for demos, always on floats.

Here's a photo from 1971, Vancouver Island jumpers at Nanaimo Harbour ready for a demo jump at the annual Cassidy airshow.

Hey guys,

Best wishes on your new venture, and for a great year.

Jim P

( some pix from last summer )

Dennis Croukamp's book is called "The Bush War in Rhodesia: The Extraordinary Combat Memoir of a Rhodesian Reconnaissance Specialist"

You might also be interested in Dick Gledhill's "One Commando: Rhodesian Light Infantry". This is a "semi-autobiographical" historical novel.

Both are available through Amazon, as are other titles dealing with the same subject.

At major accuracy meets in Europe, every jump is a demo jump - into a "sheep pen" about 60 feet across.

Thirty to forty teams of five jumpers each, an eight jump competition, non-stop action for three days.

At this comp. in Thalgau, east of Saltzburg Austria the locals go all out to make it really special.

Don't like them Chinooks.

Too damn noisy.

Mi8's much better.

(Hey Dude, good to see ya again!!)