Gainesville, TX

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There used to be a DZ in Gaineville, TX (maybe there still is). I jumped there in 1993 or 1994. What was the name of it?

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John

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North Texas Skydiving Center?

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[slotperfect 7]

I don't think that's it. It's too far east.

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John

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North Texas Skydiving Center was in Gainesville.
The only other one in that area I remember is [Skydive Texas] that Tom owned about 45 minutes north of Ft. Worth.
If memory serves a former GK worked there (ST).

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[slotperfect 7]

Ahhh - it must have moved.

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John

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Ernie at Skydive Dallas can help...
I'm fairly confident he worked at the DZ you're talking about in that time frame.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[voodew1 0]

Wasn't that Forrest McBrides???

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Can't answer that...
I only jumped at SDD and ST and knew of some of the other DZ's in the North Texas area, but most were 182 DZs and I was there to get away from that in Oklahoma.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[beowulf 1]

I don't think there is a DZ in Gainesville anymore. The North Texas Skydiving Center is in Caddo Mills.

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North Texas Skydiving Center was in Gainesville.
The only other one in that area I remember is [Skydive Texas] that Tom owned about 45 minutes north of Ft. Worth.
If memory serves a former GK worked there (ST).

Yep - Billy Godwin. He was one of my instructors (I went through AFF at Skydive Texas in '97).

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[steveorino 7]

Gainesville, TX is my home town (class of 73) No DZ there anymore.

steveOrino

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Good ole Billy G.

Ironically, he hates flying. He used to ride in the back of the F-27 (C-31) in the webbed seats all the time. Most "Old Guys" with tenure on the Team rode in the airline seats up front. I asked him one day why he rode back there with the new guys and he said "did you ever see an airplane back into the side of a mountain?"

When the movie "Alive" came out, the aircraft that crashed down the mountainside and broke into a thousand pieces was the Fairchild version of the F-27. Billy didn't like that visual very much.

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John

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Announced myself into the middle of the song

I closed my eyes and she slipped away??

People are crazy. Cuz there's more of 'em.

[beowulf 1]

Where is Billy Godwin these days? Jumping with Flying Elvis?

[skycc 0]

Yes there was, and it was NTPC. I jumped there from 1991-2000 until it closed, was on the last load.

So we must have crossed paths, I was out every weekend and started doing AFF in 1994 so I was working out there by that time, and doing static lines starting in Jan. of 1992 fairly often, too.

Yep, Forest "Big Daddy" McBride ran the place. When it closed, some had gone to Skydive Dallas, some to Skydive Texas, and some down to the cessna dz Caddo Mills.

Some of the best days of my life were spent at that dz.

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I lost myself in a familiar song

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John

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I was there in October of 1993. We jumped into the Texas State Fair, spent a couple of days training in Gainesville, jumped into a high school in Tyler, then did an airshow in Ft. Worth.

Althought I got some very bad news while I was on that trip, I remember it fondly. I love Texas. The hospitality at Gainesville was outstanding. We also jumped into a neighboring DZ y'all were friendly with at the end of a training day - I don't remember which one.

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John