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  1. JumpUpMyAss
    Has anyone ever jumped with midgets? Years ago there was one at the DZ but we got tired of helping him into the plane and he always spotted short.
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    Wazup Aggie Dave?? Yepper that's exactly where it is. All hangers now.
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    I still have this canopy. It belongs to John McIver and is a custom 'Falcon' design he had made in 1967. I doubt there's another like it. I jumped it about 10 years ago at 220 lbs. It's shortlined about 36".
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    Me too. I worked as a bricklayer-helper and would jump off the buildings rather than go all around to the roof hatch. 21 and strong but not anymore.
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    Bad way to go I guess. High voltage wires scared me more than anything else, especially at night, the way they criss-cross the countryside. Getting fried like a bug in a bug-zapper - nope - I think the best way is to go in so fast that whoever finds what's left says 'what the hell was this shit?'.
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    Seems like 12-15 mph steady surface wind was a maximum. If you spotted for your round reserve -that was the real limiting factor. High winds can make spotting more difficult so landings off the DZ were common. Fortunately we all drifted along more or less together so if you got hurt or dragged into something you weren't alone.
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    Great opening photos especially the last one. Neat. I used to sleep in my Para Plane in the open t-hangers also.
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    I saw it at the Air Space Museum in DC back in 1979. Must have been fairly new exhibit. Looked current then - archaic now. Come to think of it - just like ME.
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    I will read up on this - thanks.
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    It's interesting to read the different things we all did in this sport. There is a lot to appreciate if someone is interested. The military had a large impact in the civilian development of the sport in the early days. Makes sense. I remember seeing some kind of folding, umbrella looking pilot chute in a front mounted reserve. What was that all about?
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    That's the way I remember the progression too. In 1975 I was 20 yrs old and 185 lbs. I was jumping a 28' 7TU and hammering everytime. After I got off student status (about 24 jumps I think) I bought a 27' Russian PC. All the rigs had Capewells and we all cut-away from mals. Only the static-line jumpers had 2 shots and hand deployed reserves. Never saw anyone with a PC main and hand deploy reserve. In 1972 I made my first jump and saw some experienced jumpers with Cross Bow rigs and 1 shot Capewells.
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    in 1975 at Green County Sport Parachute Center, the student rigs I saw had 2-shots and 24' or 28' flat circular unmodified belly mount reserves with no pilot chute. Students did not 'cut-away' from malfunctions. Mals were categorized as high speed or low speed. No main canopy - 'pull and punch'. Main canopy out but fouled up 'left hand on reserve - pull ripcord-throw away the handle- reach in and grab the bulk-extend arms -throw down and into the turn'.
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    Have you been jumping anywhere? I returned your call a while back - was working/living in Houston for the past 6 months.
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    Dave, I know what this is...... it's a 21' Piglet jumped by a gay, invisible midget inflated inside a 28' C-9 canopy with a 4-line release. Manship did this may times - I've seen it before. Fullerstein
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    I enjoy seeing stuff like this done - thanks for posting the pics. Something to consider: As jumpsuits got larger so did the 'burble'. MA1 pilot chutes gave way to 'hot dogs' with long springs and big inflated diameters to accommodate this. We also learned to 'sit up' or dip a shoulder and look over the opposite shoulder to watch the pilot chute leave our backs. This interrupted the 'burble' and gave the pilot chute clear air. Since most jumpers today have never jumped a ripcord rig the 'pilot chute hesitation' is unknown to them. PCH's can be a big surprise to todays jumpers that venture into rigs from 'back in the day'. They are the root cause of many '70's era' malfunctions never experienced on todays equipment, bag-locks and the most evil malfunction of all - the 'streamer'. Have fun but be careful on the old stuff.
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    Gen. Hal Moore (We were soldiers once...and young)
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    Here's mine.
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    Jump No. 4: 'forgot drcp otherwise good jump'. Kinda funny when you think back on it. 'Now what was I supposed to do? Oh I remember now.......PULL THE RIPCORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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    Those are two funny pictures man.
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    Condensed PLF - instead of 5 points of contact.
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    We messed with each other so much that after packing you locked your rig in you car until your load came up. Somehow my buddies still found a way to reverse the risers on my Russian and I jumped it. Landed heels then back of head. I marked L and R with a magic marker on the risers afterwards.
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    typo meant 1975(6)
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    Interesting. I had Rocket Jet releases on the first Para Plane rig I bought from Tom Manship in 1875(6)? Made about 10 jumps on it before I realized I couldn't get them loose so I put it in another harness/container with Capewells. The first time I saw a belly mount 24' flat circular (uncut) with no pilot chute deployed was as a student. two of us on our first 30 second delay and the guy before me on the load didn't look at his ripcord. He pulled his reserve face down at terminal. We were pretty far out and as I was walking back to the hanger I came across him still laying on his back in the grass. He said he thought his back was broken and wouldn't let me help him stand up. It was getting dark so I just left him out there and went on back to the hangers. I guess someone went out there and picked him up.
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    Doc, you know he's too senile to be trusted by now.
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    I was hoping someone could tell me. Leo said it was before he took over running Elsinore in the 70's. He thinks it might be from late 50's or early 60's.