FIREFLYR 0 #1 April 23, 2004 I got a handout today in one of my Fire Science classes- 100 World Trade Center facts.... 67. Three men sucessfully parachuted from the top of the towers. ~(I won't tell ,if you won't ) 69. In 1975 a jobless construction worker parachuted from the south tower to publicize the plight of the un-employed. ~Does anyone know who this was? 70.The most famous person to climb the building was George willig-who was arrested at the top. Willig was fined one penney for each of the 110 floors he scaled. ~This sounds fair! Maby BASE jumpers should be fined one penney for each floor they jump from? I found this amusing,I hope you do too.~J"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #2 April 23, 2004 #41 Thor Alex Kappfjell, July 7, 1999 Age: 32 Cliff Jump Norway Cliff Strike Thor is reported to have jumped into a fog bank and may have lost his bearings once under canopy and hit the wall. Thor is a popular BASE jumper and is one of six known people to jump from the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. (The other five are Owen Quinn, Van Refuse, Nick Feteris and John Vincent. The sixth is a jumper who chooses to remain anonymous). There will never be a WTC Towers #7. http://www.basefatalities.info/ Nick BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FIREFLYR 0 #3 April 23, 2004 in 1975 he was 8 years old? I don't get the no tower #7 part there was a #7...? ~J"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #4 April 23, 2004 There will never be a WTC Towers #7. Owen Quinn, WTC #1 Van Refuse, WTC #2 Nic Feteris, WTC #3 Thor Alex, WTC # 4 John Vincent, WTC# 5 I know who it is, but I can't I tell you, WTC #6 If there is ever a Number 7, it'll have an asterisk after it . . . Nick BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FIREFLYR 0 #5 April 23, 2004 OK ....got the #7 part...I was reading Building #7 not WTC#7. I'm still fuzzy about the 1975 construction worker's jump part though, your post said he was 32 years old at the time of his death in 1999? ? sorry Nick, I'm confused."One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #6 April 23, 2004 Okay Bex, I'm going out to dinner, we'll figure this out when I come back . . . Nick BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FIREFLYR 0 #7 April 23, 2004 UH...I'm Jamie...Bex (batbex) is the girl that got me into skydiving! enjoy your dinner,thanks.~J"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ManBird 0 #8 April 23, 2004 Owen Quinn was the first person to flik it in 1975. Nick's post wasn't trying to state that Thor was. He was simply stating that six, not three, people jumped the WTC."¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #9 April 23, 2004 QuoteOwen Quinn was the first person to flik it in 1975... Interesting spelling of "flick"... I guess you're a BR guy, then?-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ManBird 0 #10 April 23, 2004 I'm just being gangsta. You know how we do. You... you do, right?"¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zennie 0 #11 April 23, 2004 I have my suspicions as to who the mysterious Jumper X is and my bet is he's #5, with JV being #6 sequentially. - Z "Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base283 0 #12 April 23, 2004 Why do you give JV #5 and TAK #4? JV did it in `90, TAK in year 2000, jes wondering, Thanks for your ongoing work. take care, space Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #13 April 23, 2004 You're right Space, I wasn't trying to be sequential, but now I realize that's the way I made it look . . . Nick BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ManBird 0 #14 April 23, 2004 QuoteInteresting spelling of "flick"... I guess you're a BR guy, then?Check out my want ad. I know we aren't supposed to do the classifieds thingy here, but I'm pretty proud of the picture attached to the ad. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/detail_page.cgi?ID=9703&d=1"¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FIREFLYR 0 #15 April 27, 2004 I believe I've found it!I was looking at an old thread..."Baddest BASE jumps" Bill Eustace ~J"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FIREFLYR 0 #16 April 27, 2004 ~~Actually it says he jumped from a crane attached to the tower...."One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #17 April 27, 2004 >>Actually it says he jumped from a crane attached to the tower<< >>Bex<< Owen Quinn made his jump from World Trade Center Tower #1 on July 22, 1975. This was three months before I made my first skydive, and I recall everyone was still talking about it. At the time it was considered nothing more than a stunt, and a stupid one by most skydivers, and I suppose they can be forgiven as the thought of repeatable fixed object jumping is still a few years away. Owen is a construction worker and he helped build both tower #1 and tower #2. He is also a skydiving instructor although not very experienced by today’s standards. At some point, as the towers grew, Owen realized they are high enough to jump. He enlists the aid of another jumper from the DZ named Mike Sergio. (Mike is the jumper who later does the bandit jump into Shea Stadium during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.) http://longislandpress.com/v01/i28030724/arts_01.asp Owen and Mike waited until construction was sufficiently completed around the base of the buildings in order to afford an unobstructed landing area and dressed as construction workers they entered the building, oddly, on a Monday at 4:00 in the afternoon. I recently saw a piece of video by a friend who’s making a BASE history film containing an interview with a now much older Owen Quinn. http://www.scissorkickfilms.com/ He explained his was worried and filled with apprehension for days prior to the jump. Nonetheless, with Mike Sergio taking pictures, he stepped over the side of northwest corner of tower #1. What he said next is what every BASE jumper still feels today. “Once I went all the fear vanished and I was overjoyed and just wanted to keep going and going.” While Mike escaped from the building after the jump, Owen is caught and arrested. The mentality of the day branded Owen a nut job and he’s ordered to take a battery of psychiatric tests. Finally, he is charged with creating a public nuisance. I realize when you are new to jumping its hard to get a perspective on all this but Owen’s is not the first building jump made in New York City. Fredrick Law, has that title, when he jumped from the Banker’s Trust building on Wall Street in 1912. Law’s jumps (he also jumped from the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge) began the chain of historic fixed object jumps that concluded with Carl Boenish’s El Capitain expeditions in 1978 which ushered in the era of modern BASE jumping we know today. I’ve uploaded the photo Mike took of Owen’s jump in the DZcom personal photo galleries under NickDG Nick BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
