BillyVance 34 #26 October 21, 2005 QuoteWho landed with that then? Nobody, unless they wanted to be shark bait! "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #27 October 21, 2005 QuoteYears ago, when I first started, some of the experienced jumpers took up a watermelon. The plan was to drop it and chase it. (They made sure they were over a corn field) Anyway, they said they chucked it out the door and chased it...............................but once it got out the door they said they never saw it again. I would have loved to see the thing hit The last two years at the Halloween boogie at West Tennessee, home of Mullin's King Air, we had pumpkin drop competitions from 800 feet AGL over a target out away from the hangar on the other side of the main LZ. Loads of fun! Especially the anticipation while you're in the plane watching your pumpkin fall closer and closer, and then watching the huge splatter effect! "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rasmack 0 #28 October 21, 2005 It is sort of the reverse situation to the one in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I can just picture a whale (or a shark for that matter) looking up and thinking "What is that round thing coming towards me? I wonder if it will be my friend..." HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227 “I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.” - Not quite Oscar Wilde... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HardCorr 0 #29 October 21, 2005 I want to take a casa and strip out the entire cabin and jump with the entire plane filled with tennis balls. That would be the coolest thing I would do in my entire lifeThe key to being a good teacher, is to be a good listener... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #30 October 21, 2005 QuoteI want to take a casa and strip out the entire cabin and jump with the entire plane filled with tennis balls. That would be the coolest thing I would do in my entire life As long as you jump first and get it all on video... It won't be as much fun going out in the middle of all the balls and getting hammered by them when gravity starts to take over... "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HardCorr 0 #31 October 21, 2005 As long as you jump first and get it all on video... It won't be as much fun going out in the middle of all the balls and getting hammered by them when gravity starts to take over... ------------------------------------------------------------ Jumping first would without a doubt be the smartest way to go!The key to being a good teacher, is to be a good listener... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShadowPenguin 0 #32 October 21, 2005 QuoteQuoteA nice cuddly kitten. We could start a new sport called "Cat Chasing." Oh, wait, I think I read about that once a few years ago. Never mind. . Yeah, I used to have the book "Bedtime Stories For Skydivers". Had a story about the Cat Chasing Championships. Fucking hilarious... Unfortunately, I lent the book to a friend who then a few days later cheated on his wife, got caught, kicked out and all his stuff, including my book, thrown in the garbage... http://www.aerostore.com/Shopping/ShowItem.asp?ItemID=B04518 whens your birthday i'll buy it for ya Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sfullerman 0 #33 October 21, 2005 Years ago, saw video from the early 80's... some of those central Mississippi nuts....attached handles to each end of a small log. Two jumpers flew w/the log while a third swooped them with a chainsaw. (thank GOD) because of rapid altitude change, they never could get the dang chainsaw started. (they did tweak the carb so it would start at altitude, but it wouldn't run for more than a few seconds.) Ohh, and I use the term Miss. "nuts" with a lot of love and respect. Those guys were the cats ass! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brains 2 #34 October 21, 2005 QuoteAs long as you jump first and get it all on video... It won't be as much fun going out in the middle of all the balls and getting hammered by them when gravity starts to take over... ------------------------------------------------------------ Jumping first would without a doubt be the smartest way to go! And track like hell!!! Could you imagine opening up, looking up while stowing slider and thinking, " What the fuck are all those yellow spots coming towards me?" Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goose491 0 #35 October 21, 2005 QuoteYears ago, saw video from the early 80's... some of those central Mississippi nuts....attached handles to each end of a small log. Two jumpers flew w/the log while a third swooped them with a chainsaw. (thank GOD) because of rapid altitude change, they never could get the dang chainsaw started. (they did tweak the carb so it would start at altitude, but it wouldn't run for more than a few seconds.) Ohh, and I use the term Miss. "nuts" with a lot of love and respect. Those guys were the cats ass! Now that is something I would love to see. Too bad they never got the saw going. That would be priceless! My Karma ran over my Dogma!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tbrown 26 #36 October 21, 2005 I throw cash out the door every time I go jumping. Lots and lots of cash. Throwing my body out is almost an afterthought. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tombuch 0 #37 October 21, 2005 Quote The last two years at the Halloween boogie at West Tennessee, home of Mullin's King Air, we had pumpkin drop competitions from 800 feet AGL over a target out away from the hangar on the other side of the main LZ. Loads of fun! Especially the anticipation while you're in the plane watching your pumpkin fall closer and closer, and then watching the huge splatter effect! The Ranch pumpkin drop is this weekend, but we make the drop from under canopy. Details at: http://www.theblueskyranch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=130 .Tom Buchanan Instructor Emeritus Comm Pilot MSEL,G Author: JUMP! Skydiving Made Fun and Easy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outlawphx 1 #38 October 21, 2005 The rigger down in Eloy (Dennis) has a picture of him taking a pig on a tandem. It was dead though, and I belief he said they had a nice BBQ with it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #39 October 21, 2005 a picture of him taking a pig on a tandem *** I have that pic...I'm looking...it had goggles on, and black panties....GREAT photo. A long time ago, I was contacted about dropping a 150 pound cast iron cow, via static line round... into a 4-H event in central Illinois. It was a real challenge working out the exit because the hollow cow was a pretty good size, I ended up mounting it to the 182's jump step. I made 1/2 a dozen 'practice' jumps dropping the thing at our little DZ, and from 1000' feet could pretty much get it in a 50' circle every time. Well.... the day of the event, ole "Bossie" had some stability problems on exit and streamered the 28' un-modified round all the way in! Went 'in' belly to earth, hit hard enough to shatter the thing into 20-30 pieces, the legs pounded in so far they didn't bother to dig them out. Yeah...they were a bit PISSED! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hobbes4star 0 #40 October 21, 2005 Thank you that was the best laugh i have had all day. right on.....if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #41 October 22, 2005 QuoteThank you that was the best laugh i have had all day. right on..... Damn straight!! He has the best stories out of all of us DZ.commers!! "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eule 0 #42 October 22, 2005 Quotebecause of rapid altitude change, they never could get the dang chainsaw started. I wonder if you could rig up a small SCUBA bottle and regulator to give the saw a constant intake air pressure so it would run. Another way... You'd need a jumper that could fly with about 25 to 30 pounds of extra weight, reasonably distributed on his or her body. The chainsaw would also have to have a universal (brush-type) motor. I figure 80 D-cells would run a typical chainsaw for at least a couple of minutes. EulePLF does not stand for Please Land on Face. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
highfly 0 #43 October 23, 2005 Now dat is tha SHIT!!!!! www.myspace.com/durtymac Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
darrenspooner 0 #44 October 23, 2005 Throw Cherie Blair out (the british prime minister's wife) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike111 0 #45 October 23, 2005 And blair to, and brown as a bonus! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bch7773 0 #46 October 23, 2005 I've done a onion, oranges, and a pumpkin. The pumpkin made one hell of a noise when it landed. and this weekend I did my 400th with a pumpkin. photos will be here soon!!! MB 3528, RB 1182 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelem 0 #47 October 23, 2005 Quotewhat would be the weirdest thing to go out of a plane with? Weirdest that I've seen would have to be a living room (on Joe Jenning's Good Stuff video). They got a sofa, coffee table, phone, TV, standard lamp and maybe a couple of other things, nailed them all to a big wooden trolley and chucked it out. The TV and lamp were even working! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peckerhead 0 #48 October 24, 2005 We took a TV out of a 182 back in the early '80s on super bowl sunday. The idea was we were going to "watch it" in freefall and get pictures. It didn't work out so good... The two guys holding on to the "pop-up" handle on the top funneled the exit and the TV did not cooperate very well. It was a stupid thing to do from the very beginning but, at least we were jumping in a remote area over range land. We looked for it for several weeks but never found it. Several years later someone found the remains, there wasn't much left from what I hear. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Av1ator 0 #49 October 28, 2005 Speaking of the county fair: There we where..another Lifetime ago at the county fair...and the first EVER skydiving cat was going to make his jump....The brave kitty took off in the old cessna with a pilot chute from some type of military cargo gear as his main....."Tiger" made his jump.....the chute opened nicely...and the Skydiving Cat was on his way down...UNTIL.....Tiger got scared and started to claw his way to the top of the chute which promptly collapsed it..mothers covered their childrens eyes and there was many a scream as a ball of fur tangled in nylon cratered in.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iceburner 0 #50 October 28, 2005 that's awesome....i mean, it's sad that a cat went in...but i can't stop laughing... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
