davidlayne

The same, the one and only! 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!

Excellent wag Jay. You always were a good wagger! 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's Cal Callahan of the 7th Army Parachute Team, Tempelhof Airport Berlin. September 16th and 17th 1972 at the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force. This was the first parachute jumps made over Berlin since the end of WW2. I was right behind him on the demo. I remember that we were only allowed to go to 3000' everything above that was Soviet controlled airspace. A strange thing about this demo was the close proximity of the wall to the landing zone which made direction of jump run and spotting the P.C.'s difficult to say the least. At this demo, on landing we were greeted not by enthusiastic whuffos but by leftist radicals demonstrating the Vietnam War. They yelled at us and caused a disturbance and threw propaganda leaflets at us that I have attached. We also got to meet Peggy March who was an American/German pop star of the day. Also attached is picture of Mike Wasley on the same demo. 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!

Hmmmmm, tell me more about electric stars.

Here's mine! Who can tell me who signed mine? My jumpmaster on my 1st jump didn't sign mine. He was only 13 at the time and had to go do school work when I needed a signature. Come to think of it, he didn't have a license so I suppose its a mute point. 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!

Sorry for not replying. I realised it was me and wondered where you had got the picture. I had forgotten about Gene Hunnel and the DZ USA article. I also forget what made the "McElfish Special" special, I think it must have been some kind of PC conversion. 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!

Between mid-1966 and late 1968, when the lure of freebies out of Beavers, Otters, H-34s, and Hueys over-rode the travails of the longer trip down to Bad Kreuznach (rather than the mere 12-hour slog to the Berlin club's DZ in the Harz Mountains), I would, when time off coincided with a weekend (once every six weeks) wend my way to the 7th Army Team. The signatures I have in my logbook include: John Womack C-3092 Gene 'Indian' DelPaggetto D-580 Cal Callahan D-1217 Bob Donahue D243 Gus Gutshall D-217 Bud O'Conner D-646 Cliff Harris D-1149 Mike Mohundro C-2519 Billy Lockward D-322 (who sold me his PC, on which I made almost 1,000 jumps before retiring it) Could the photo, likely to have been taken at Hoppstadten, Illesheim or Schweinfurt US Army airfield, be any of those? Hoop That was a little before my time. I was on the team from 1970 till it closed down in 1974. The only person there that I recognise is Cal Callahan. When I joined the team Gordan McPherson was the CO. the first shirt was Don Strickland. When they rotated they were replaced by Captain Harper as CO and H.B. Stanley as first shirt. 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!

This sunset picture of a PC was taken in 1968/9 at Bad Kreuznach, German. The parachutist is a member of the 7th Army Parachute Team. 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 a lot George! George was the jumpmaster who put me out on my first static line back in 1966. At that time George was 13 and the B4 harness and container he used was nearly as big as he was! 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 second one is me. The first one is not me and not taken in Ohio, but it is a PC. 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!

Found this picture and thought I would share it with you. Can anyone tell me who, what, when and where? 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!

Didn't Bozo pack for him? 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!

You bet your sweet ass it is! 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 come up with a list of all 10 involved? 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!

p.s. The pink T shirt wasn't mine. 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 are 30 in total and some real old favourites. 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!

You could always use them to make a quilt out of um if you have enough and save them that way. Something like this stratostar? 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!

Broussard 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!

When I went through Airborne School in 1968 I missed out on the tower due to high winds. What is no longer in use is the balloon that was used to train the British Parachute Regiment. I did get to jump the ballon when my unit was a guest of the Parachute Regiment at Aldershot, 1971 I think. 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't quite remember, late 60's early 70's I guess. 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!

Did any of you old timers get one of these? 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!

One of my heros in life. 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!

"All The Way" 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!

Damn, those jumpsuit in the third pic ROCK I see B 4's, plastic handles and blast handles, capewells and R 3's. Anything else? 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!

Isn't that an H-34 Choctah helicopter? It a Wessex. Similar to a CH34 but with a turbine engine. 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!