Levin 0 #26 November 22, 2004 i bet that was a hell of a sight for ya. i may be mistaken but didn't a copy of that video given to the airforce get them to divert the rest of their wildfire water flights around yalls dz? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crewkeith 0 #27 November 22, 2004 it was forest service. we yelled they didnt listen. had slurry bombers all season .The skies are no longer safe I'm back Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cloudseeker2001 0 #28 November 22, 2004 Quoteit was forest service. we yelled they didnt listen. had slurry bombers all season . Was that the same B-26 that lost it wings a few weeks later? I saw the video here. "Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance, others mean and rueful of the western dream" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jose 0 #29 November 22, 2004 You mean you actually do altitude jumps? And all this time, I thought all you could do was h&p's and couldn't freefly....... Sup meow..... CHICKENFUCKER! Oh yeah, heres the Slurry Bomber video..... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Video_Vault&image=Bomberflyby.mpg&img=&tt=mpg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #30 November 22, 2004 http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=241 Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pa2themd 0 #31 November 22, 2004 Quotehappened this summer in France click for the video the Alpha Jet (french air force trainer) was doing some training and apparently got lost... It wont allow me to open???? Am I being stupid?? Is this in another format?? "Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else!" Ivern Ball Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #32 November 22, 2004 try http://kraka.free.fr/wuza/JetPeronne.mov or http://www.para-net.org/paramag/archives/photos/concours/images/jet2.MOVscissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
larsrulz 0 #33 November 22, 2004 QuoteI'm surprised the wake turbulence didn't collapse their canopy There are a couple reasons this didn't happen: a) It was going fast; the slower a plane, the larger the vortices. b) It wasn't very heavy; the heavier a plane, the larger the vortices. c) Trailing vortices (wake turbulence) occur at the wing tips and move straight down, so as long as the jumper didn't move over to the flight path of the fighter, then he wouldn't have come in contact with the vorticity downwash. Had he been that close to a 747 coming in to land, then he certainly could have been effected at that distance, but collapse from a small aircraft is very, very unlikely unless you actually get in its wake. I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #34 November 22, 2004 Whoa. That must have been awesome... mh . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crewkeith 0 #35 November 22, 2004 funny fucker aint ya .The skies are no longer safe I'm back Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mcrocker 0 #36 November 22, 2004 Quotehttp://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=241 Dave Dave, you didn't read your own agreement? Though shall not link directly to a video from another website Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fast 0 #37 November 22, 2004 QuoteQuotehttp://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=241 Dave Dave, you didn't read your own agreement? Though shall not link directly to a video from another website Thats not a direct link. Its a link to a page to DL it from.~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #38 November 23, 2004 In the AFF instructor course, we got to see a great clip of a 757 passing about 2000' under a Cattegory A or B.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #39 November 23, 2004 where is that vid... wanna see it scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Levin 0 #40 November 23, 2004 QuoteIn the AFF instructor course, we got to see a great clip of a 757 passing about 2000' under a Cattegory A or B. you should try going to skydive dallas and spotting a few loads. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #41 November 23, 2004 Quoteyou should try going to skydive dallas and spotting a few loads. Like this? Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #42 November 23, 2004 I seem to recall being told they were actually trying to get that shot with the Southwest jet in the background. Any of the Texas oldtimers remember the actual story?I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kong 0 #43 November 23, 2004 Bill Parsons took the Southwest pic, gave me a copy for my wall. Bill told me that the jumpers did not see the plane. He is still running around Dallas/Ft Worth somewhere??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Levin 0 #44 November 23, 2004 that's a cool pic. old looking though. doesn't look like anybody noticed the jet but the camera guy. actually i was talking about spotting loads at the DZ and watching out for jets. if ya don't see one from the door below ya, you may still get to see one above ya under canopy. lots of big jet traffic there but they seem to have it figured out. close calls seem to be pretty rare. i remember one that made the newspaper about 5 years ago. their caravan came arounda cloud and flew within 500' horizontal of an airliner. the newspaper called it a near miss. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dorbie 0 #45 November 24, 2004 Recently when I was jumping at Skydive Dallas, DFW approach was from another direction most of the time but if the weather forced DFW approach anywhere near the DZ then ATC imposed a ceiling on the drop planes. It keeps you under their traffic, but you get out at 9000 instead of 13500. Quotethat's a cool pic. old looking though. doesn't look like anybody noticed the jet but the camera guy. actually i was talking about spotting loads at the DZ and watching out for jets. if ya don't see one from the door below ya, you may still get to see one above ya under canopy. lots of big jet traffic there but they seem to have it figured out. close calls seem to be pretty rare. i remember one that made the newspaper about 5 years ago. their caravan came arounda cloud and flew within 500' horizontal of an airliner. the newspaper called it a near miss. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usedtajump 1 #46 December 8, 2005 Douva, there never was an intent to get the Southwest aircraft in the shot. All we were trying to do was to get a picture of a round with the ball of Reunion Tower centered in the middle, the aircraft was a lucky accident. That's me in the lower right hand "5 o'clock" position, white jumpsuit with the Wonderhog container. Along with an original of the picture under discussion, I still have two others in the series, the one Upindownshop refered to and one after the aircraft departed the area. In the picture with the aircraft in it, you can see that it is just starting a right turn to the west and he continued turning west to get out of the area. At the time, I was a dispatcher for a jet charter airline and one of our clients was Herb Kellerher, CEO of Southwest. I gave him a copy of the photo shortly after it happened and he was truly amazed. A friend, who worked for Southwest as a captain at the time, told me Herb had a large mural of the photo made for his office wall. Oh yeah Upndownshop, Diane Senkow used to refer to Bob's loft, "The Upndown Shop" as the "Down and Out Shop". The older I get the less I care who I piss off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StreetScooby 5 #47 December 8, 2005 Your clickies have died, again. FYI. Would love to see it.We are all engines of karma Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
upndownshop 0 #48 December 8, 2005 QuoteOh yeah Upndownshop, Diane Senkow used to refer to Bob's loft, "The Upndown Shop" as the "Down and Out Shop". Jerry, thats great, sometimes I feel that way. How is Diane? Do you know where she is? That jet shot will be around forever wont it? Am i correct that there is another shot that is actually closer? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #49 December 8, 2005 Here This thread is a year old...that's why the sick Click... There's a current one , same subject in the skydive forum. Here's the 'close call' ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaoskitty 0 #50 December 8, 2005 I would have crapped myself. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
