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  1. Bsquared
    The attorney found his expert….no one else need to reply or contact him. Thanks
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    Non-skydiving related. Posting for a friend. Former FAA Manager/attorney seeking expert witness in Seattle area. Master Rigger preferred This is a wing walking incident and the attorney is battling the FAA on the need for air show wing walkers to wear a rig….really bad idea The attorneys number is 562-682-6686 Mods, please delete if this is not appropriate
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    I was a jump pilot at Hinckley back then and I politely refused to fly that load. The DZ owned said that he would fly and make sure that they were over an open area......didn't quite work out so well. It made the front page of USA Today if I recall.
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    Boeing Model 40C recently restored by the Pembertons up in the Northwest US.
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    Off topic, but was Alan's nightclub on the "wrong side of the tracks" down in New Orleans called the Dream Palace? I remember being there during Mardi Gras and seeing some verrrrrry strange things.
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    Back in the late 1970's Tony Fugit would bring his teenage daughter, Tempest, (Tempus Fugit.... latin for time flies) to the DZ. She was absolutely drop dead beautiful, but Tony was not a small guy and he made it clear that she was off limits to all of us 20 year old low life drop zone rats.
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    I was a pilot rated passenger in the right seat of a Twin Beech that buzzed the airport at the Couch Freaks boogie in Iowa in the early 80's as we departed with a full load of jumpers going back to Illinois. At mid field the pilot executed an unannounced pitch up and barrel roll. During the initial pull-up the jumpers in back ended up against the rear bulkhead, drastically altering the CG. I will never forget the panic in his voice as the pilot screamed at me to help him on the yoke to get the nose back down (up) in the middle of the roll. We recovered with the stall horn screaming and the belly dragging through the corn. That pilot disappeared somewhere south of the border a few years later.
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    Fairchild 71?
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    "Back in the day" I docked 10th on a womens 9 way (I am a guy) and submitted my WSCR application. Several weeks later I received WSCR #1000 in the mail and a small write-up in Parachutist magazine. Someone out there has D-1000 and SCR #888.... or better yet, anything with #666. Anyone else have anything like that? My lowest number is CCS 41, received on a world record stack.
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    Its terrible, but after 22 years I cannot remember her name. Attached is a photo of us in Xenia.
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    In July 1985 I went down to Xenia from Chicago to jump the Caravan. I made 10 jumps that weekend and also sort of hooked up with a young blond college girl who was traveling with the Caravan and running the maiifest. I spoke to her several times over the phone over the next month and made tentative plans to get together again in Georgia. Someone from the DZ called me in Chicago the night of the crash to tell me that she was on board.
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    Too easy..... Boeing XB-15 Only one was Built the other guy beat me to it!
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    An acquaintance of mine in N. California who restores D-18/C-45's as a full time business is looking for a copy of the air to air movie clip showing a full load of jumpers on the wing and one photographer above the cockpit (who then runs down the entire fuselage and goes over the tail). He collects Twin Beech trivia. Anyone know where to find it?
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    I don't know about this time that it was broken but I was there when Mark landed Mr. D down wind in the rain on the short grass runway (2500 ft) at Sandwich Il around 1985. There was a small tree at the end of the runway that ended up about 3 feet into the nose of the airplane. A new nose cone and some sheet metal work and it was in the air for the next weekend.
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    1972 olympics, Munich? Just a guess
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    I made a number of jumps from this a/c at the Mardi Gras boogie in Covington LA in the mid 1980's. I heard that its jump ship career ended shortly after that. On one jump I tripped when my shoelace snagged on a rivet while climbing over the spar and I had to really hustle down to do my "hero" back-in on a 16 way diamond.
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    Trimotor exit at an airshow demo in Ohio around 1980. The pic is not backwards, This is one of the few commercial acft with a R/H door. John Conklin took the photo and Jim "Fang" Fangmeyer is in the door.
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    I am easily a level 5 as well. The belly wart that I jumped had an MA-1, but the bridle had 3 snaps on it so you could open the container, un-snap the pilot chute, throw it away and hand deploy the reserve in a low speed malfunction situation. The theory is good but I never knew anyone who actually did it.
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    November 1977..... I was a junior in college with about 300 jumps (GCSPC-Xenia) and practicing for style. accuracy and 4 way sequential at the upcomming collegiate nationals in Deland. I was jumping a para-plane cloud with a 26 Navy reserve in a pigrig that was built by Steve Adams at the loft in Xenia (I don't remember the name of the rig but it was made for comfort!). I won 3rd place in int. accuracy that year with a 30 cm total after 10 jumps..... the Air Force Academy folks were the team to beat. My 4 way team members were Scot Haslam and Jayne Marchant (they were married some years later but killed in a plane crash on the way to a boogie) and Dr. Don Bucklin. The attached photo is me at the nationals in Deland. I am an airplane trivia nut so I enjoy your posts, Howard.
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    The plane is a Myers OTW (95% sure). I remember the picture from a calendar or magazine cover in the early 1980's. I think that it was back east somewhere (NJ or Virginia)
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    KC-97, early 1970's and probably in Arizona. Just a guess.....
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    Greene County SPC Xenia had a Lodestar in the early 80's but it did not fly too much. It ended up inverted a few times with a load of jumpers on board.... but I think that it was intentional. Attached photo is me getting ready to pin the base. (photographer John Conklin, deceased). The pilots were Jim West and Dennis "Dudley" Downing.
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    Parks P-2A Speedster or possibly Detroiter with a Wright J-5 Whirlwind motor. Is the guy holding the prop Richard Bach (Illusions, Nothing by Chance) and the jumper Stu McSomething-or-other who traveled around the country with him that summer doing exhibitions.
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    My brother Kirk and I made a number of jumps together, but we also have an older brother Keith who was on the AF Academy team in the late 1960's. He made about 1100 jumps and won the collegiates several times in accuracy and spinning & looping (style). Neither of us had a chance to jump with him since his AF flight duties keep him from actively jumping.
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    I quit jumping back in 1989 when the career thing got in the way, and just stumbled on this forum recently. I have just spent hours reading about names and events that I have not thought of in years..... what a hoot!!! Back in the mid 1970's in Xenia Ohio there were a number of brothers that were active in RW. One weekend we did a series of jumps to set a record for the most sets of siblings in one formation. We completed a 10-way round out of a Beech 18 flown by "Dudley" Downing with 5 sets of brothers....myself and my brother Kirk, Johnny and Bobby Steele, the Madison brothers, Dave and Jay Johnson and another set of brothers who's name I cannot recall. My question is, has this "unofficial" record ever been broken.