RogerRamjet

Seems like I saw Hooper do a ton of standups on his. Couple of cutaways too though... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Cool. Buchmann is the spelling. Rig name was Eagle. I built about 100 of them for Bill. I also built the first 100 or so Wonderhogs for Bill Booth. ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Looks like you and Mike got them on the same jump. http://www.starcrestawards.com/database/index.html ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Only have a night number! Did several in the day time but never sent the form or $$.. My night number is #7 Bet I was on one or more of the day hoop jumps. None of us sent them in I think... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Some can be found here: http://www.starcrestawards.com/ ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Steve, yup! I think you are suffering from CRS disease which seem to afflict everyone after a certain age (not saying what age)... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Nevermind, I found the info. He died in 1975, so not him in the photo. I was sure I was around when he crashed... http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19750224&id=bOYeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AGcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6654,4120425 ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Hmmm, I knew he took off in the fog without instrument lights and crashed in the dump. However, I thought this happened while I was still jumping and I made my last jump in 1980. It's the date of the crash I was questioning... If it was really in 1995, then he could easily be in the photo in the OP's post taken in 1979. ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

I'm aware of how he died. Not sure why that would keep him from a 20 way in 1979 though... However, I thought he died much ealier than 1995; are you sure of that? ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Mike, on the left next to the guy in the black jump suite, looks like Billy Revis. Is it and did he live out there then? ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

As the former ASO at Z-Hills, Billy used to make me live in fear that somehow I would be responsible his safety violations. One of his tricks that made my blood run cold and my knees weak was his walk away landings from his Piggyback rig. Shortly after opening, he would open his chest strap and both leg straps. He had quick ejector hardware on the rig. Now he is just sitting in the saddle. Upon landing, as his feet touched the ground, he would just walk away from his gear, with that f*** it smile. Edited to add photos of Billy. Wow, I had forgotten about that! He did that regularly among other things. I remember he had a Tbow that he used to pull the center lines down until it collapsed and let it streamer for a while and then let them go. I always thought it would mal too low one day, but it never did. He once told me he would not reach his 25th birthday and sadly enough, he didn't. He was the first person I saw in freefall from the ground low enough to count his fingers. I thought he would eventually die parachuting; never expected a plane crash in the fog... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Most intense guy I ever met... I was riding in the car with Roger and Carl Nelson following Jim somewhere when all of a sudden, he slid his car to a stop sideways and stood in the door pointing a large revolver at us. The first and only time I've seen a loaded gun pointed in my direction. Interesting sense of humor... I used to enjoy watching Roger (brown belt in Tang Soo Do) spar with Jim (black belt in Isshinryu). Jim always seemed to have the upper hand, but Roger seemed to enjoy it anyway. Never saw Jim cut his main away as described (would not have surprised me a bit), but I did see Billy Revis do it at Z-Hills one day. ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

I made about the same number of jumps on a T-bow as Mike, with a couple of malfunctions - but then, I was a seriously fast trash-packer. (Roger Clark once said something like, "The way you pack, I'm surprised it ever opens!") Went from the T-bow to a Paradactyl, solely for the lower pack volume. Around 300 on that, too. hoop Ha, if you wanted to see pack jobs that would rarely open, you just had to watch Steve Fugleberg pack his PC. I have 13 saves in my riggers log for just him (3 in one day) ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

You've got a point. In some ways it is like a Handbury in my basement, but I can't tell how it might resemble a Wonderhog. The rig in the photo: - Looks kind of like it has that smooth, thickly padded backpad of a Handbury - It almost looks like there's a bellyband, as on some Handburys, sitting across the chair, but I can't tell. - The reserve housing attachments are like a Handbury. - The thin white strip at the left would be the side of the rig, barely visible. It seems rather wavy, which could be the plastic reinforced side that existed for a while on Handburys. However, the chest strap buckle is on the opposite side to the Handbury I have. Someone who is familiar with Wonderhogs may be able to say whether it looks more like one or not. Ok, I left Booth's shop just before the 3-Rings went into production, but this looks like a Wonderhog to me. The yoke is exactly what we made, the chest strap is the same. I can't speak to the reserve tackings since on the capewell equiped rigs, the housing ended above the chest strap (See attached photo). The backpad is consistent with the original Wonderhog also. I don't think Silly reads this forum, but he was still working for Booth when this type of rig hit the market, so he could probably identify it one way or the other (as could Booth who does log in here). http://www.dropzone.com/photos/Detailed/Personal/Left_to_right_Roger_Clark_-_Traci_Trimble_-_Greg_Baker_110879.html ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

I see an SCR (14091) for you in the database, but not a SCS. http://www.starcrestawards.com/ ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Wow! Happy anniversary Pat! I can still remember the days of Hinkley and Z-Hills. Had no idea you started in Texas though... Just got back from London where I visited with Hoop after 29 years. If you ever make it down to Deland for one of Carl's big way camps, post something out here and I'll try to come up (I'm in the West Palm Beach area). ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

I was quite fond of both of them. I exchanged emails with Ruth not long before her death (I did not know she was sick). Very sad... The shots in front of the Florida Airlines DC-3 were taken before our jump into the St. Pete/Clearwater air show called the Florida Air Festival. I have added a shot of the poster to the set linked above. For some reason, we had to use the commercial airliner (Florida Airlines flew commercial routes around Florida back then). They removed the last 5 rows of seats and the door for us and provided a full crew including a stewardess (flight attendent now I guess). She wouldn't go past the last set of installed seats, but served cokes on the way up! To see any of the photos full size, click on the "all sizes" link above the shot you have open. ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Tuna, though you never flew for the 1975 version of the Ten High Bunch, you might like these photos anyway: http://www.flickr.com/photos/16626901@N00/sets/72157594321571782/ We took 4th place that year and turned the fastest star of the meet (14.1 seconds). Except for one really bad jump, we might have won. This was where I learned to really skydive and to be really fast. Hoop moved me from 4th to 9th one day and told the team it was because I was "Fast." While this was good for my ego, I spent the next two months entering the star 10th as Fugleburg burned me jump after jump. This pushed me to really learn how to be fast until he could not beat me into the star. A great time in my skydiving carreer for sure! ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

The video is available on Doc's site:http://manifestmaster.com/video/ ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Hoop, I finished the book. Wow, totally immersive. Never been shot at, but I think you brought the feeling of it as close as possible. These guys have to be the bravest souls out there; no armor, virtually no weapons, and flying within range of every weapon the enemy has. I was able to relate some of the stories my Brother told me of his two tours in Nam to those in the book which made it even better for me. I really enjoyed the read and thank you very much for the (humbling) bookplate! ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

When you're writing a new post, look at the buttons at the bottom of the post window. There is a url button that if you push inserts an opening url tag. Then, when you type in the url, just press the /url button to close the tag. The tags look like this (without the spaces) [ u r l ]your url goes here[ / u r l ] Easy! ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Hi Bill; made them into clickable links for you: Eight man patch http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc329/redfish443/2009_1214jacket0007.jpg Ten High bunch patch: http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc329/redfish443/2009_1214jacket0011.jpg Para Gear and Para Ponderosa (Bong AFB, WI) http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc329/redfish443/2009_1214jacket0004.jpg Para Gators (?Jimmy Godwins?) http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc329/redfish443/2009_1214jacket0008.jpg Wisconsin Skydivers and PCA patch http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc329/redfish443/2009_1214jacket0010.jpg Milwaukee Skydivers, center, to the right Tampa Skydivers and below another style of Z-hills patch. http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc329/redfish443/2009_1214jacket0005.jpg ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Hi Jim, Got mine too, thanks! ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

SCR 8258 is Paul Creel (from the Starcrest website). ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

Here is a photo of me and Hoop at the Ritz Hotel in London last week: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2649/4141915163_e09c8a0ccf_b.jpg ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519