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I know you are being sarcastic with the Jesus remark, but do not ignore the very real possbility that the Anti Christ is in the house. Mark of the Beast and all that. I smell Sulphur. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

What in the text above indicates that this was a freefall jump? You can pitch yourself "into the blast" with a static line. Yes Sluggo, no D rings=no reserve... unless you happened to carry a couple of carabiners with you. I still am waiting for solid evidence that KC ever did a freefall jump in the Army. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Were risers found with the Amboy chute? Did they have Capewell canopy release fittings on them? Riggers: were Navy fliers in the mid to late 1940s wearing chutes with Capewells? 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I'd like to challenge the alleged fact that KC did any freefall jumps while serving in Japan. Amazon, your thoughts? If he did who trained him? Show me any Army manuals from this time period that describe freefall jumping. The Army had training manuals for everything they did involving parachutes. You don't just jump out of a C46 and become a stable freefaller. I was the master of the flat spin long before I learned freefall stability. We didn't have AFF. You were told how to fly stable and then jumped solo to try to put words to practice. I think KC may have done S/L demo jumps without carrying external gear payloads, but I am skeptical about freefall claims. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Amazon wrote: Damn right they come down fast. I am soooo grateful for ram air canopies and so are my tibia, fibia, etc. I did like the quiet ride under my cheap surplus C9. It was a peaceful prelude to the violence of the landing. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

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It's a standard bomb drop ballastic calc, not too hard to do. Target shooter's programs could probably be used too. http://ballistic.zdziarski.com/ http://www.wiremod.com/forum/finished-contraptions/16700-e2-ballistic-trajectory-calculator-drag.html Just seat of the pants observation from watching a bunch of DC 9 jet jumps at Rantoul WFFC 2006: Jumpers forward velocity (equal to plane speed at exit) decreases pretty fast and after about 15 seconds of freefall, jumpers look like they are falling pretty much straight down. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Howard, How about putting together a website of unusual jumpships? You come up with the most amazing photos, incl Lockheed 049? 749? Connie, Boeing C 97, DH Heron, Whitworth Argosy, etc. There is a jumper on dropzone who posted about a skydive from a TU 95 Bear bomber. Sure wish we had shots of that one. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I jumped a few weeks ago with pulse oximetry telemetry. My resting heart rate is in the 70s. Going out the door it was 150 and peaked at 162 while waiting for my canopy to inflate. I obviously have not acclimated to skydiving. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

During World War II, the air over the continental United States was a virtual third front. The little-known statistics are alarming: the Army Air Forces lost more than 4,500 aircraft in combat against Japanese army and naval air forces in the war. During the same time, the AAF lost more than 7,100 aircraft in the United States to accidents in training and transportation. Such accidents claimed the lives of more than 15,530 pilots, crewmembers and ground personnel, and the stories of their deaths are largely forgotten. http://www.amazon.com/Forces-Aviation-Accidents-United-1941-1945/dp/0786421061 There were numerous aicraft that were not found until many years after the war. They include the missing P-40 in California in 1941 that was not found until 1959, the two B-24s that disappeared over California the same night in 1943 and were not found until 1955 and 1960. The UC-78 that vanished in Arizona and not found until 1974. The most recent find is the P-38 lost in 1942 and not found until Sep 1997 in Washington State. At the back of Volume III is a list of about 75 USAAF aircraft that have still not been found. If entire planes could disappear over US ground it isnt too hard to imagine thet DBCs carcass might suffer the same fate. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

G wrote: Amazon should chime in cause she trained guys for this stuff. I met a skydiver, very good jumper, who during his skydiving carrer had to do an ejection over water at his day job, Navy pilot. With all his jump experience and military training he damned near drowned. He said it was a very humbling experience. There used to be fatalities in lake jumps when skydivers would cut away or slip out of their harnesses thinking they were 10 or 20 feet above the water and they were actually hundreds of feet up. Its VERY hard to judge height above open water. Water landings in perfect warm weather daytime conditions are tricky. In worse conditions they can be extremely hazardous. Hey G, susnpots are coming back. Fire up that HF rig. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

The creative talent that finds its way to this forum is truly inspiring. We need some sort of dropzone.com DBC forum OSCAR award and a gala ceremony... or is that a Gayla ceremony? Do you think we could get J-Lo or Beyonce' to show up, and perhaps some heavy rappers? They get more media attn than mainline Hollywood stars these days. What has happened with Galen Cook's investigation? That story about the witness seeing DBC on the 727 steps was absurd, Georger even gave quantitative proof that you couldnt resolve that detail at that distance, but the description of the flare arcing in its descent is not absurd at all and makes me wonder if she really saw a flare toss and filled in the rest from flawed memory and post event suggestion. Few non tech people would know that a dropped object from a plane takes an arcuate path to the ground (assuming that the plane has positive ground speed) . Of course this all assumes that she really did report an arcing ballistic flare trajectory. Snowmman continues his DBC research in exhile. Quade will not relent. Duane got a sentence commuted for a felony but Quade thinks forgiveness is for whuffos and sissies. Amnesty International sides with Snow, but they have declined to intervene. I think they like working with the Dalai Lama more than taking on Snowmman's cause because they get to hang with Richard Gere and other stars. Snow's posse is composed of considerably less glitzy folks. They aren't on the A list at any of the cool clubs except the DXCC. Georger has allegedly been seen there at times. Banned for life Snowmman has found some interesting crash reports on the two F4U Corsairs which I will post below. Two WINTERTIME crashes in DBC country. One pilot parachutes and walks out. Doesnt that say DBC had a decent chance of surviving and even escaping if he deployed? Those "death woods" are not fatal to everyone who alights from the sky. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Millions have a past in ORE and WA. Only one jumped out of an NWA 727 in 71. Putting Duane in ORE or WA doesn't do much to solve Norjack. How about less tease and more tell? Still, I wish you good hunting Jo. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

naaaah. I am convinced that Cooper will be identified. Just a matter of time. Earhart too. I the Dorkzone Youtube video to be wildly creative and funny. Hardly bitter and sullen. I wish Blevins well. No such thing as a bad Cooper book at this point. Anything thatcstirs up interest and further inquiry is great. 377 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Jo writes: At a DZ nobody with any brains is looking for riches or fame or if they are they will wise up before long - and NOBODY is looking for the truth. It really is refreshing to get away from all this "moral quest" stuff and just go for the pure hedonism. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Mr. Blevins writes: Are you sayin you n Gayla skydive before your morning coffee... or something else? She is cute Robert. Good for you. As the kids say, you "pwned" your cynical snipers. http://www.urbandictionary.com/iphone/#define?term=pwnd BTW, the person in charge of the Tena Bar crime scene dig was Alexander Haig. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Sluggo said: funny. Sluggo also said: God says the exact same same thing about the world as we know it Sluggo. It is toned done in scripture, but the message is the same. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

No need to go to CO. Plenty of Cabin Widows still reside deep in the Washougal Death Woods, which may explain Jerry's long absence. I have a packed stock NB8 bailout rig with an unsleeved C9 canopy inside of anyone needs pix or info. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I think you would be surprised where that poster is right now. She doesn't have unlimited access to a computer where she is right now. When she gets access, I'm sure she'll post a lot. I respect her for what she is doing. I believe 377 will also. She’ll tell her story when she’s ready. She’s stubborn, single-minded, resistive to positive criticism…… but that gal has got guts! You can write that down as a direct quote. You can even put it in a book if you want to. Nope.. wrong guess I'd like to hear from Jerry when Sasquatch lets him go. Jerry's probably too busy catching fall run salmon in his river to waste time here. Any time fish are running doing anything else is wasting time. Just heard from one of my old commercial fishing friends who was unloading in Westport. He has had a record season fishing for Albacore tuna off the OR and WA coast. Half a million pounds so far. In a hook fishery thats a lot of fish. As for Jo, you gotta hand it to her. She perserveres. I disagree with her conclusions and speculation but I admire her determination. I jumped with radio gear last Saturday to once again prove that DB Cooper could have communicated with an accomplice on the ground with a cheap radio. Using 1 watt on 146.46 MHz I made contacts up to 80 miles away from 10,000 ft under canopy. Our team even carried live TV gear and broadcast air to air canopy shots that were received 20 miles away. I do not claim that DBC carried video gear. Below is a photo of me yakking on the radio while flying my canopy up high last weekend. Amazon will recognize the scenery for sure and will even be able to figure out how windy it was by how far out from the DZ I am at about 8000 ft. Quote 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Our group did ham radio jumps at the Byron Boogie last weekend (Oct 16 2010). Telemetry gear worked great sending GPS position and altitude data and heart rate and blood oxygen levels using a pulse ox fingertip sensor and a GPS puck hooked up to an APRS transmitter on 144.390 MHz. This time we borrowed some ATV (Amateur Television) gear from the Mt Diablo Amateur Radio Club and gaffer taped it to Beatnik's rig and helmet. It operated on 1.2 GHz and linked through the Mt Diablo ATV repeater to cover a very wide area. Ham attendees at Pacificon 2010 in San Ramon got live TV coverage of our hop and pop canopy rides from 13.5. They LOVED it. We chatted with a lot of them on 2 Meter FM simplex 146.46 MHz during the long (and very scenic) ride down. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

I always though Venus was an innovative song and now we have new lyrics. Well done Farflung. Tina, She's GOT IT! She sure does... 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

That Tena bar money is sure a nuisance. It messes up so many good DBC scenarios. stories and theories. It is a constraining fact and a really big one at that. The door placard didnt get in the way of much speculation, but the money sure does. Where is the damned rig? I mean they find a flimsy small door placard, lots of decomposed twenties, but no trace of that big canopy, all the suspension lines, nylon webbing and the many pieces of very durable metal harness and container hardware. Frustrating. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Norjack was a "milk run", for an experienced paratrooper/CIA op/aviator/SOG soldier/smoke jumper/load kicker/etc. Milk can makes sense. BTW how could KC multiply his loot by investing without generating 1099s etc? Maybe he financed shady under the radar deals, no IRS paperwork, but huge chances of getting ripped off. If true, that probate report is astounding. There are many explanations besides KC being DBC, and in fact the amount makes me think that there was some other source. It's too much money for DBC. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3971131#3971131 We put together some really cheap GPS and physio telemetry just for fun and it works great. It transmits on ham radio frequency 144.390 MHz and is used by jumpers who are licensed hams. It can't legally be used for commercial operations, but if you could get a license for a business telemetry frequency the rest of the gear is plug and play (sensors, data decoders, radio modem etc). Data loggers worn by jumpers do a fine job but it's fun to see live radio telemetry on the ground and if a jumper landed waaaay out we'd have the GPS position data. We'll be flying live 1.2 GHz video at the Byron Boogie www.bayareaskydiving.com on Oct 16 2010. It will be relayed through a ham TV repeater on Mt Diablo to the Pacificon ham radio convention that is taking place in San Ramon. Watch the jump telemetry on www.aprs.fi on October 16. Use KF6WRW as the search term, jumper 2's callsign. I imagine commercial test jumpers sometimes use radio telemetry gear ($$$$) and hoped this post might stir up some interest in and dialog about cheap home brewed systems. 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

Ham radio operators have put together radio telemetry gear for jumpers that transmits their heart rate, blood oxygen level, position, altitude, etc and mountain top ham radio repeaters automatically upload it to the Internet at www.aprs.fi HR of 170 isn't uncommon after exit. See a screenshot below of an automatically generated Google Earth telemetry map of an 18K HAHO jump (pulled at 16K) made st Skydive Monterey Bay in March of 2010. You can see a telemetry data tag next to one of the jumper position icons. We used fingertip pulseox sensors, decoded the data and transmitted plain text telemetry on the 2 meter ham band national APRS channel (144.390 MHz). 377 2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.