wheeee! we jumped out of a c-47 at bittburg, seems like the fall was about 100'. our advisior was a psycho, so we daisy chained one jump and when our parents found out, no more jumps. so we started mountain climbing.
time, time, time, what will become of me?
come on guys, lets get an 8 ball and be high all weekend.
4 hours later.....someone said lets get an 8 ball and be high all weekend...-dennis leary
(hope that's not too obscure)
"Swim???...hell, the fall'll kill us"...
Jumping out of airplanes is safer.
I won't get any older now that angels want to wear my red shoes...
true. the best moutain climbers get killed by dumb shit like a boulder falling on them completely at random. i enjoyed jumping out of perfectly good ac.
time wounds all heels.
I've been 6' since I was eleven and made it a little taller eventually. Yes, I banged my head on the roof of several school buses over time. ~>:(
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Yeah, falling through air is easy. It's that last second that can hurt if you don't do it right.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Red/white/black. The green/white/green roundels lasted up to the inception of the United Arab Republic. UAR roundels were red/white/black with two green stars flanking the black center.
It looks to a Western eye as a squared-off figure 8 with a white diamond in the lower loop. Single point is at the top.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
yowch.
Not tomention that almost ALL jump-planes fall (if you will...) into the "margnially maintatined, reasonably airworthy" category...
our 47 was in decent shape. both enfines usually turned and there was tread on the tires. wish i knew the ac numbe and could find out the history. apparently every 47 made hit bittburg at least once during it's life. even the pacific birds......
I jumped out of a REALLY nice looking King Air once...new looking paint, mint interior...probably the newest and nicest jumpship I've ever been out of. I was the first one out...
... it crashed on the runway when after getting all jumpers away, the nosegear uplock failed to release and the pilot ran it out of gas and set it down on the mains only.
hope he was alright....bad way to land. shiny do not safe mechanical make.
Yeah - everybody was ok. He had one observer left onboard that said she wasn't jumping unless he was. The airplane is still in service, AFAIK.
good landing, then.
Rufus wrote The airplane is still in service,
As a taildragger? (c:
RobG
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