Utah Bob #35998 Posted May 1, 2020 Author Posted May 1, 2020 3 minutes ago, Trigger Mike said: That is fun for sure Mostly.
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted May 1, 2020 Posted May 1, 2020 Can't see why anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. My field first was a jumper. He tried to get a couple of us to try it, but had no takers.
Utah Bob #35998 Posted May 1, 2020 Author Posted May 1, 2020 13 minutes ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said: Can't see why anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. My field first was a jumper. He tried to get a couple of us to try it, but had no takers. Nothing’s perfect.
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted May 1, 2020 Posted May 1, 2020 I jumped off the top of my tank a couple of times. That was high enough for me. Imis
Texas Lizard Posted May 1, 2020 Posted May 1, 2020 6 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Nothing’s perfect. Even 68 lbs of parachute.....Being Air Force, not sure which I would go with....But given a choice, would go with the needed at the time.... Texas Lizard
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted May 2, 2020 Posted May 2, 2020 Nothing rivals the feeling of looking up and seeing a fully deployed canopy . . . unless it's looking up to see a Mae West (my first jump)
Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life Posted May 2, 2020 Posted May 2, 2020 As a good Marine, I was ordered to jump training. I hated it because of my acrophobia. The joke is I have "push wings". I loved everything else, especially the SCUBA. I have no idea why they sent me to that training. I never used any of it. There were only seven of us and the Corps wanted us to be completely trained but was never sure what to do with us. They never expanded our MOS. I left for more college, more degrees and an alphabet agency. All of us left fot the government. I next was a founder of an investment banking house and traveled to many crappy countries but never set foot in Europe. My son, Captain Bill, did several sky dive jumps mostly to piss me off. It worked!
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 2, 2020 Posted May 2, 2020 On 5/1/2020 at 8:19 AM, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said: Can't see why anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. My field first was a jumper. He tried to get a couple of us to try it, but had no takers. Kind of like submariners: Who in their right mind would want to get on a boat that sinks on purpose? (Sorry, Cliff. It just had to be said.)
Utah Bob #35998 Posted May 2, 2020 Author Posted May 2, 2020 18 hours ago, Palouse said: Corcorans and Vibram? Yup. When I was with the 10th in Germany we would take our boots onto Bad Tolz where a cobbler would refit them with nice thick lugged soles. A lot better for the field. We picked it up from the Fallschirmjaeger units
Palouse Posted May 2, 2020 Posted May 2, 2020 Ah. I get it. Thought maybe it was an "attention to detail" issue in the otherwise excellent drawing. German external modification. That didn't fly in some rules handbooks: out of uniform. We heard tell of German internal modifications; high $$$, comfortable, warm, waterproof boots built to look nearly identical to leg boots. Never found a pair. Should'a called White's to see if they would made some.
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 2, 2020 Posted May 2, 2020 On 5/1/2020 at 3:01 PM, Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 said: I jumped off the top of my tank a couple of times. That was high enough for me. Imis I've heard it said that you can only fall far enough to kill you and can't get any higher than that.
Utah Bob #35998 Posted May 3, 2020 Author Posted May 3, 2020 2 hours ago, Palouse said: Ah. I get it. Thought maybe it was an "attention to detail" issue in the otherwise excellent drawing. German external modification. That didn't fly in some rules handbooks: out of uniform. We heard tell of German internal modifications; high $$$, comfortable, warm, waterproof boots built to look nearly identical to leg boots. Never found a pair. Should'a called White's to see if they would made some. We could get away with stuff that conventional units couldn’t. Some guys wore Bundeswehr jump boots in the field.
Chuck Steak Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 On 5/1/2020 at 11:19 AM, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said: Can't see why anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane... I agree 100% but the ones we had to jump out of when I was a paratrooper all had the letters "USAF" painted on the side of them. Jumping was a lot safer than staying inside.
Ranger Dan Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 Only time I stayed in the airplane (didn't jump cuz my chute deployed accidently in the aircraft) the C-130 caught fire and we made an emergency landing. Would much rather have jumped.
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