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What? I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

If we had to pay $100 per flight our jump ticket price would have to go up $15 each For a Cessna that surely would be $25.00 per jump ticket effectively driving 182's out of the skydiving business. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new website documenting each de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter. (eventually!) http://www.twinotterarchive.com A work in progress, dedicated to Michael J. Ody. Mike documented this aircraft in great detail (20,000 pages!) and has thousands of images in his collections. Neil Aird (DHC-2.COM) joined by researchers Erik Johannesson (Canada) and Ian Macintosh (UK) have undertaken the task of making all this information available on line. The first 150 aircraft are now on the website. New data and photographs will appear daily. We hope Mike would be happy with our work. Detailed PDF's can be downloaded for the history of each airframe. A companion blog is already online, it tracks the movements of Twin Otters worldwide. http://twinotterspotter.blogspot.ca/ Check the sites out, they are there for you. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

It must have been a suave and debonair jumper that wore those jumpsuits. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Maybe attached after deployment? Sparky Perhaps. I wish someone would explain the whys and wherefores. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Thank you daughter. I figured it would be some think like that but am not sure how straps would be attached for deployment etc. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Rule#2 Learn how to post pictures. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Can someone explain the set up used by the video/photographer in the centerfold of the May edition of Parachutist? I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

There's only one "Boss," Jim West. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

How is Al after his accident in '07? I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

7TU I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Another bump. The 7th Army Parachute Team Facebook Group now has 56 photographs, check it out. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Thanks Stephen, I of course remember Toad and Brad. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Thanks Travis Creel. We have determined that the ripcord came from a Vector 1. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

stratostar Thanks for identifying the ripcord as coming from a Vector 1. When was the Vector 1 manufactured? likestojump Well done with coming up with Jerry Wright as the rigger. I remember that name from the skydiving community in this area in the late 1980's drjump Your suggestion makes sense. Probably from one of the old Cotton Council meets. Perhaps Mike Brown or Travis Creel could tell us more? I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

I guess we need Jerry Wright to come along and answer that. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

RobertMBlevins The ripcord was found in dense woods that had been cleared at Roy Ray Airport, Irvington Alabama. There was skydiving there from 1990 to 1995 with very few tandems, if there had been a tandem malfunction I am sure I would have remembered it. There was also skydiving at Roy Ray Airport in the 1970's and 1980's, I feel it comes from that era. Niki1 What is the length of a tandem vector reserve ripcord? I have managed to scrape the corrosion from the lead seal and the riggers ID appears to be PP2. The seal is attached to the handle by nylon thread. councilman24 I have looked closely with a magnifying glass and can see no evidence of a date. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Really. I am not a TM or rigger and didn't recognize it as such. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

I can assure you it has been there a long time. Although it is made of stainless steel there are signs of corrosion. The cable is formed into a loop at the end and is swaged together. I am not familiar with any equiment, main or reserve that used a ripcord like this. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

I found this ripcord in some woods I was clearing. I figure it must have laid there for 30 years or so. The ripcord is 28" long and strangely has the riggers seal on the handle. I'm intrigued to know what type of equipment would have used a ripcord like this, any suggestions? I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Not that much further back, I had one in '78. Throw in the direction of the spin! and pray You missed spit to determine direction of spin. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

Beer I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

The only person I have found so far, "left without paying his bill." I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

So it's all Joe McLaughlin's fault. I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!

pchapman is correct its a Found Centennial 100 I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg!