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Years ago at a dropzone that no longer exists, there was a slurry tanker base for fire fighting aircraft. It wasn't easy, and there was always the possibility of the pilots getting in trouble with the forest service folks for letting "civilians" on the contracted aircraft, but ... jumps were made from C119s, B17, P2V Neptunes, PB4Ys (the single tail version of the B-24), PV2 Harpoon and a few other tanker type aircraft. The pilot of the C119 I jumped out of, who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty, is the only person that ever made me get out of the way of a buzz job. It's hard to moon someone when your face is buried in the dirt! Zing Lurks
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Oops, here's the other one. Zing Lurks
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Guess you wouldn't like my girls then ... they're so cute, in a hairy sort of way. Zing Lurks
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Please ... do post the photos of the fellow. A picture is worth a thousand words, and, as one of those old farts who's memory is better at faces than names ... pictures would be a great help. Denny (Bear) Gaynor, recently passed away, but back in the early ninties, I used to sit and chat with him between flying loads. Bear always said he knew who really was D. B. Cooper, but would not reveal the identity until all involved were dead. Zing Lurks
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If they weren't, how come babies always smile when they fart ... or worse? Zing Lurks
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Don't think that's a brown recluse ... they tend to much smaller than that and there a re a number of spiders with a violin-like pattern on their backs. Zing Lurks
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The Dropzone Pilot Blues to the tune of Folsom Prison Blues I hear the plane a commin' The Otter's on jump run I ain't been off the dropzone since 1971 Well, I'm stuck here at the drop zone manifest won't let me be Now I see the tandems commin' and they won't let me free. When I was a student pilot My instructor told me son, "Don't go down to the drop zone though I admit it looks like fun." Well I flew straight down to Eloy, and once there they let me fly. Now when I hear those turbines starting, I hang my head and cry. etc ... etc... etc ... for about ten more verses. Zing Lurks
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My two cats, Wilma and Margret, are identical twins and carbon copies of your Wesa. They grudgingly allow me to sleep in my bed. Wilma occasionally sleeps sitting up like that too ... snoring and all. Zing Lurks
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Just when you thought OJ was starting to become an OK guy.....
Zing replied to Muenkel's topic in The Bonfire
I thought he found him ... at the golf course. Zing Lurks -
That looks suspiciously like Skip Evans' DC-3 ... if it is, the picture has been reversed, although there were a number of DC-3s built with doors on the right side for the airlines. Zing Lurks
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I got one once that said, "Impress that chick with a bigger dick." All I could think of was that I wouldn't care to impress a chick with a dick whether it was bigger than mine or not. Zing Lurks
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Anybody else heard rumours of a new dropzone at Casa Grande? Zing Lurks
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Anybody here around Ghoulidge back in the days of "The Toads In Space Rocket Club"? There were multiple parachute failures over the years. Zing Lurks
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Fatal 'Swooper' Accident May Lead To New Parachute Rules
Zing replied to 2fat2fly's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Anybody go THROUGH that stuff?!?! H O ~ L Y COW! I met this guy once about five years ago. Then started to hear about his "history." Whew! Zing Lurks -
Back in about 1986 or 87 I landed at the Leesburg, Fla. Airport to see a relative. As I was tying my Supercub down, a Ford TriMotor with the same paint job came intot he pattern and landed. I don't remember the guy's name, but he and his wife owned the airplane and were traveling around the country barnstorming it, selling rides and stopping at airshows. I had a couple hours to kill before my ride showed up and got talking with them. A few people showed up, since he'd spent about 20 minutes flying low over the town before he landed, and soon it was time to take some folks for a ride. He invitied me along, gave me the co-pilots seat and let me fly it some. Got one takeoff and two landings out of the deal, no charge. Quite a treat. Zing Lurks
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The old Norseman at Elsinore was a real ear blaster ... especially when it backfired, which it did an inordinate number of times the last time I jumped out of it. It was permanently retired soon after that. Zing Lurks
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I heard a bunch of stuff was salvaged, but there had been no progress on a rebuild. It was, essentially, a copy of a Ford Tri-Motor with a few updated systems and equipment. One of the owners and a pilot were badly injured in the crash, but no one was killed. Zing Lurks
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Ever find something just a little out of place at work?
Zing replied to Broke's topic in The Bonfire
Working around my land I've encountered these. Zing Lurks -
We used to bomb the student landing area at Ghoulidge with bowling balls, watermelons, old televisions and assorted other junk. I managed a dead center on the wooden arrow, used for directing students into the wind, with a sixteen pound bowling ball. Some one else put a major divot in the main runway with the same ball and Wierd Wayne dropped a large pumpkin that hit the ramp between the trailing edge of the right wing and the horizontal stabilizer of a DC-7. Aaaaaaaah ... the good old days. Zing Lurks
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That bunch is quite a crew. I used to jump at Harry's dz in Alexandria, Minn. Ran a dz at Kindred N.D. where Bob O's crop dusting operation was. Saw Jerry Beck last September on my home from Jay Stokes jump marathon. After flying DC-3s in Arizona for a while, my folks came for a visit. I think Larry Hill's son Shawn was about 14 years old. I just had to ask my dad why he didn't have a fleet of DC-3s, twin beeches and cessnas when I was 14. Zing Lurks
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Old bowling balls are fun too. Ghoulidge lurks. Zing Lurks
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Any kind will do. Your choice. Ain't that a beautimous DC-3? Jerry Beck, Bob Odegaard, Harry Thompson and a few others involved in that airplane and the fargo Air Museum are old friends. My dad lives in the town where Jerry Beck rebuilds warbirds ... from scratch! Zing Lurks
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Hey Twardo ... tell us another story? Please? Zing Lurks
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Was it called a Bushmaster? This one was a replica of a trimotor that crashed at the Fullerton Airport in Calif. last year. I got to fly in it a couple times and jumped out once. Zing Lurks
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This thread made go dig out some old logbooks where I found jumps on a ThunderBow, Crossbow (not a triangle), Irvin Parawing, Delta II and of course, my Paradactyl. Never had any malfunctions on the Irving or Delta II, but then I only jumped them a couple times each. I jumped my dactyl more than 2000 times and had two cutaways, one a streamer, the other a couple broken lines and a blown panel. I was a pretty light weight back then, and that dactyl served me well and I usually stood it up. Oh, there was that time I bounced under it on a demo, but that's a another story. Zing Lurks