Worldwide Beekeeping
General Discussion => Any and Every Thing => Topic started by: skydiver on January 31, 2014, 09:51:24 am
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Just thought I would share a couple of pictures from my old hobby. Below is my best friend Craig we are doing a biplane pic taken by myself
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An other friend doing a down plane I am on the left pic taken from the ground by wife, we are under 1000 feet above the ground.
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This is a tandem instructional jump I am on top the guy on bottom it is his first jump pic taken by video jumper
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This is called a drag plane my brother is on top I am in the middle and friend Dave is upside down. Picture taken by wife, from the ground we are about 1200 feet when taken.
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Another biplane done by my brother and I Pic taken by myself
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:photos: wow! great photos! i like the 2nd one, so you don't do any skydiving anymore?
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Not in the past 11 years, still have the gear, wanted to last summer. But I developed a hernia that required surgery, then my bunions got done because my deductible was met. Still on the mends, may be will need one more surgery do to bones not wanting to heal find out in 9 days if things are improving, or if I go back on the table.
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Ohh... my god... I looked..
and it sent terror rushing up my spine....
I still have a BRAND spanking new Parachute I ordered in 1983. I have never even opened it.. I got it, two days after the friend that wanted me to jump with him was killed. I was living in Oxnard California at the time.
7 years later in Maine, I held my wife while they put her brother in the ground. He left behind a BEAUTIFUL young wife and even more beautiful little girl, when his chute tangled during a HALO.. No Sir, not for me unless the aircraft is on FIRE and in danger of exploding.. otherwise I'll ride it in yellin encouragement to the pilot the whole way!! 8)
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NOT A CHANCE! Not in this lifetime. :o
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When I was in the Army, I was told that there were only two things that fall out of the sky. 8)
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What airport you folks loading out of?
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Lazy So sorry to hear of your loss. It is a risk I have excepted. Just like riding in a car, it can take you just as quickly and you may not have done anything wrong. I take my training very seriously, do proper gear checks before each jump review emergency procedure in my head all the time, even during my hiatus from the sport. I have logged 550+ fun jumps, 500 plus tandem jumps with no injuries.
Perry Give it a try and then you may understand why the birds sing :laugh: :laugh:
tefer2 I started off in Grant Mi. now closed. Then move on to Marshall Mi. where I did all my tandem jumps
Slowmodem Not true. Are you calling me bird----- ? :o :laugh:
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If you were destined to drown, you wont be killed in the fire
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If you were destined to drown, you wont be killed in the fire
:agree:
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I think the local club is at Allegan now, was at Plainwell. You guys make me nervous when flyin out of there. Would hate to run into ya with the propeller! :o
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I used to use static line (Never got qualified to fall without one) when my slider did not come down all the way. It was an adventure. I probably had a lot more time as I was jerking the crap out of the lines until it came down but I figured I would try the drowning route.
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Looks fun, but not sure I could do it. Always wanted to try, but just not sure I could do it. Used to do a lot of rope work and caving, but just not sure I could do that. Been in some tight squeezes in caves, laying on my back and having to turn your head with hard hat on sideways just to slide through.
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I've played with the steering wheel at 200 MPH plus, but skydiving, NO.
I've pulled full grown wildcats and 'coons out of hollow trees and taken them home alive, but caving, NO.
I've pulled catfish out of holes under the river bank bare handed, but some things are just not my style.
To each his own suicide route, I guess.
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I did a tandem jump with the Boeing skydiving club from 10,000 years ago. Loved it. They crashed the plane 3 weeks later and never got to go again. I knew something wasn't right when I got on the plane and pilot was setting in a seat that wasn't bolted down and wearing a parachute
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I think the local club is at Allegan now, was at Plainwell. You guys make me nervous when flyin out of there. Would hate to run into ya with the propeller!
That could always be a possible, but experienced jumpers should fly back to the airport in a way that should keep them out of the pattern for in coming aircraft. But not all pilots as well as jumpers always play by the rules. That's why we need to talk to each other if one isn't behaving to prevent a bad mishap. I used to use static line (Never got qualified to fall without one) when my slider did not come down all the way. It was an adventure. I probably had a lot more time as I was jerking the crap out of the lines until it came down but I figured I would try the drowning route.
Slider not coming down all the way happens more when the jumper is a bit lighter side. It is sized on the big side for softer opening at maximum exit weight. You did right in pumping you brakes (steering lines) to work it down. Sounds like you are now into scuba, that's cool, and can be just as dangerous if you fail to keep your head on straight if things go wrong.Looks fun, but not sure I could do it. Always wanted to try, but just not sure I could do it. Used to do a lot of rope work and caving, but just not sure I could do that. Been in some tight squeezes in caves, laying on my back and having to turn your head with hard hat on sideways just to slide through.
Give it a try it took me 25 jumps to know if was right for me, had to get the confidence in the equipment I guess. Glad I stuck with it. There's no describing steeping out into 10,000 foot of nothing if going tandem or AFF. have been wild caving just two times both times in the same cave 3 years apart. Down in WV after BASE jumping the new river gorge bridge on bridge day. The cave was named saltpeter cave 30 minutes outside of Hinton if I recall right may be another town (burg) closer call Sulfur Springs. Have you heard of it?
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Not heard of that cave, but have been across the bridge a couple of times.
My caving days were mostly in middle Tennessee, around Cookeville area. Johnson cave was the one I was talking about, takes about ten hours to go to the end and back out. Pretty nice, has a thirty foot rappel and then the tight squeeze for about 50 feet, there is a hole in the ceiling of the tight squeeze just big enough to stand up in and put a harness on, lay back down and wiggle to the edge of the second rappel, about 50 foot into a room so big we could not light up the ceiling, has a small waterfall in the back of it.
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It would take someone with a sharp stick to get me out the door I think. I have done a fair bit of climbing and rigging but I am no "natural" at it like some ironworkers I have worked with.
I think though that I would jump from a plane a way ahead of bungee jumping!
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Dad was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne, AA, in WW2. Said there was noting like it and loved to jump.
No way in Hattie's would I ever bungee jump, just ain't no way!!
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Dad was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne, AA, in WW2. Said there was noting like it and loved to jump.
No way in Hattie's would I ever bungee jump, just ain't no way!!
Them ole boys paratrooping are tough as nails. Been told them old round chutes had them ole boys hitting the ground about as hard as getting hit by a moving truck
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Them ole boys paratrooping are tough as nails. Been told them old round chutes had them ole boys hitting the ground about as hard as getting hit by a moving truck
Yes they did but there was a reason for that they used small chutes for there exit weight because a larger chute would allow them more time in the air and more time to be shot at. I would rather hit the ground hard than be hit harder by lead. I learned on the old military surplus equipment 32 foot round mains with the belly mount reserves. If I remember right they used 28 foot mains.
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Bumgee jump :o, not for me ??? after that first plunge there would be so much crap in the air that there would be no way for me to dodge it all on my way back up, >:( Jack
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Bumgee jump :o, not for me ??? after that first plunge there would be so much crap in the air that there would be no way for me to dodge it all on my way back up, >:( Jack
That reminds me of the accident report:
http://www.worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/index.php/topic,721.msg8970.html#msg8970
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I did a paragliding course about 10 years ago in the Swiss Alps. Not exactly free fall, but flying under canopy is amazing. I got to do a few solo flights and to be perfectly honest it scared the crap out of me. I've pursued a lot of "extreme" sports: Rock climbing, white water kayaking, scuba diving, spear fishing, mountain biking, marriage, etc. and you're right about the perceived level of risk. Most of the time the drive to the site is more dangerous than the activity. Any one of these sports can be done safely or on the bleeding edge of survivable. That proximity flying with wing suits sure looks suicidal to me.
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http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Classmates-Rally-as-Sky-Diving-Teen-Returns-Home-to-North-Texas-242965271.html
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I got to spend some time with my Brother in Law when he recovered from getting hit by a prop on a zodiac during recovery training. A wave pushed the boat sideways as they prepared to do an emergency recovery. I guess they hooked his arm as they zoomed past and quite literally ripped him from the water into the boat.. the boat shifted, and he got a couple good gashes across his shoulder and arm from the prop as it passed.
He loved jumping. Had gone from the 101'st Airborn to the Rangers etc.. I cant imagine anyone being better trained. They jumped all over the world, even going to Switzerland to jump, and SKI from where they landed to specific targets with full gear. I loved hearing the stories. He even spent time in Russia living with a family there, learning to speak the language...
Luck, was just not with him on the day we lost him. His primary tangled during a HALO. He got out of it, and deployed the secondary, and it also tangled. He fought it all the way, and managed to get it to blossom a few feet from the ground. Too little too late.
HALO is High Altitude Low opening.. which means he didnt have a lot of time to begin with.
LUCK in my opinion has a LOT to do with the things a person can get away with, and even accomplish in life.
I have NO luck, and dread the times Luck kicks into my life, because it is ALL bad when it happens. That fact alone tells me that I REALLY don't need to do anything to tempt LUCK. Because if I need it, it will NOT be there for me. I used up every bit of luck I had when I married my wife, and delivered my twins.