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That was the subhead on an August, 1980, Parachutist story announcing that USPA and the National Park Service had agreed on a program for legal El Cap jumps following "almost two years of illegal skydives off the cliff." The article, by Bill Ottley, noted that as of that month, USPA would issue official El Cap numbers and certificates to those who made jumps following the guidelines it had agreed to. The "test jumpers" who had made the first NPS-approved jumps July 1, 1980, included Joe Svec, B.J. Worth, Larry Bagley, J. Scott Hamilton, Nick Kingery, John Noak, Rolayne Mattson, and, of course, Carl Boenish, whose pictures accompanied the story. Not surprisingly, the USPA/NPS love-in did not last, but that's another story. Although the headline was "El Capitan Opens For Skydiving," USPA subsequently decided that base jumping is not skydiving, and therefore not to be dealt with or written about in its publications. HW
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The Q boogie is an official training camp for the CRW world record attempt to be held later in the year. National and world record CRW dogs will be available for both experienced jumpers and coaching for CRW newbies. Yonatan Ran from CK1 will join Jumptown's PJ Jackson for freefly organization and training -- again, jumpers of all levels can play. Flock University will organize, and will have demo suits and training for bird wannabees. And, of course, bellyflying organizers for all sizes and experience levels. Jumptown now holds state records for CRW and large formation RW as well as POPS record. Attempts on these and a bunch of other records are on tap. Get your name in the record books. The weather for this weekend looks great; get a head start and jump the shiny new Super Otter. The CASA should arrive sometime Tuesday afternoon (July 3). HW
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These pictures are from a 1978 Free Fall Kiwi, the New Zealand parachute mag (how's that for an obscure source). A combination of low ceiling and bureaucracy foiled the attempt of an 8-way from 8 Tiger Moths in formation, but the pictures are nice. (If you ever get to jump one, here's the recommended drill. You're in the front seat. On jump run, stand on the seat and hold onto the bar over your head. The pilot now goes into a loop; at the top -- maybe 1,000 feet higher -- he pops the stick as you let go and are projected down. It's a hoot.) HW
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Nothing It figures you would know. I should have excluded you, but I didn't think you had them in AZ. In New England, you find hellgrammites in the beer cooler in convenience stores near fishing holes. HW
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One of these (o.k., it's not a spider) showed up at a local DZ a few years ago and freaked everyone out; they thought it had come in on a bunch of bananas. The color in this random Google-grab seems off; I think it's a lot greener. It's about 2 -2 1/2 inches long. Turns out it's fairly common. Name it, and for extra credit, supply the name it's known by in larval stage (more common.) (It may be a regional thing.) HW
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The antique shop in Orange, MA has a stack of these posters (titled "Lights,") which was one of several produced and sold by Parachutes Inc. in the early seventies. It's 24 x 30 inches, and looks better than this photograph of it. If you're interested in having one for your very own, send me a pm. I'm not interested in making money on them, but need to cover the cost to buy, pack and mail. HW
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That's just silly. I'd sell you mine (when I get it back) but Beatnik has first dibs. I'd jump it, too, but I don't have access to any container big enough and with Capewells. Good luck on that. Very few Sailwings were made. I expect to see Lee Guilfoyle (D-50) next month and will ask him if he knows of any; he made a lot of the early jumps on it for David Barish at Lakewood. Even in the late '60s, only a few years after the initial jumps, there was only one floating around PI/Orange, and I only saw it get chopped, never landed. I'll also see Dan Poynter -- he put some jumps on one too. I think the Vortex ring (at least of the sort Nate Pond jumped -- pictures in several books and web sites) was kind of one-off, but I'll also see him and ask him. His jump was into water. HW
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AFAIK, DVD Studio Pro is no longer available for standalone purchase, but only as a part of the full Final Cut Studio package. That includes, (in addition to FCP,) Motion, Live Type, Compressor and Color-- an entirely new part of the Apple Pro stuff.) It's a great, powerful package, but pricey and a bit fussy about the hardware it likes to run on. The new Motion has a very cool motion stabilizer component which I've already used, with some success, in taking the shakes out of handheld ground-to-air footage. HW
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If it makes people happier, I arranged for a rejump, in which they face the shore. HW
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Nope, that was the Pioneer Volplane. I made a fair number of test jumps on several different Volplanes with different revisions of the hydraulic system. I still have the reefing latch; I'm trying to get my Volplane back from someone I loaned it to several years ago. It now has a slider on it. HW
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I'm not sure. The slides were in a storage trailer at Pepperell, MA, but I'm thinking they (the ones of Bird & co) might have taken at Tahlequah or Waggoner, OK during nationals in mid-seventies. I will ask (again) the people who have them and presumably took them. Or maybe I should just them to Jerry and ask him. HW
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Looks like someone at Parachutist fumble-fingered the name. G is next to H, t is next to y, j is next to k.
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Another pretty Parachutist cover, this from May, 1972. It's over Gatstacj Rock, Oregon. Jumpers are Tom Littlehales and Keith Cannon; photo is by Robert Holmes. HW
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OK, here are some more, but these are in worse condition, despite liberal application of film cleaner. CaptHook is another view of the Sky Pirates; Al Krueger and Hank Asciutto nearest the door. By the way, I've learned that these were probably taken at one of the Tahlequah nationals, perhaps at the small "practice" DZ in Waggoner. GCS is probably also at Tahlequah and I assume GCS stands for Greene County Skydiving. DC3 is in really rough shape but has a certain nostalgia, no? Group is another bunch in front of the Beech. I don't recognize any of them. HW
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Might as well go to Jumptown and leap from a Super Otter (and CASA July 4-8) HW
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Extremely quick 'n dirty Photoshop version of one image -- maybe jumpsuit colors will help. HW
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I hope you will find room for my encounter with the Z-Hills police. You called me to your office to tell me they were on the phone and wanted me down at the station. I was read my rights and then told that the bunch of drunken Brits who had asked me for a ride back from the Golden Corral the night before had mooned and otherwise offended the sensibilities of a family just in for supper after church. Thanks for telling ZHPD that I was probably not guilty of participating in the offense. HW
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Some more: Handles -- what the front of the well-dressed skydiver might look like in the mid-70s; AirShow -- unknown jumper in an XX-Rated T-Shirt at an unidentified air show, same vintage; Inn -- ParaFoil jump into The Inn at Orange, legendary post-jump watering hole at the Orange (MA) Sport Parachute Center; TF-- Unidentified canopy landing at the Turners Falls, MA, SPC. HW
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ok, since you asked.... Old1 -- hot stuff RW canopy Old2 -- A DC3 I don't remember. The N-number comes back to an owner in Ohio, status revoked. Old3 -- I believe that's Dave Singer in the USFET (Freefall Exhibition Team) t-shirt Old4 -- Beech exit dirt dive. Check out the cool people with altimeters mounted on their helmets. A lot of these old slides are covered with mildew (as on the DC3 picture). When I find my bottle of film cleaner I'll rescan them. Also in the first batch of pictures, the individual I tentatively identified as Mike Truffer has been more positively identified as Sandy Reid. More to come as time permits. Also I've now looked at these pix on a Windoze machine. They are darker than when I see them on a Mac. I might get around to lightening them a bit. HW
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Here's an autographed picture of the 1974 Wings of Orange posted on flickr by Jon Guignard. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=266115670&context=set-72157594320596718&size=l Maybe it will help identification. I last saw Mike Hurren (second from left, standing) when I jumped out of his King Air near Salt Lake City maybe 10 years ago. Sadly, he later died in a crash of that plane in January, 2001. HW
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I have acquired/borrowed four slide trays. I don't know who took the pictures, or where or when. So the great "ID these pix" game begins: In the first one, I know Jerry Bird and Al Krueger, but the rest..... Mike Truffer in the yellow shirt? In the second and third...ahh, I'm honing in here. These appear to be at least in part Wings of Orange people jumping at Pepperell, MA, probably 1974. IDs again sought. Lots more to come. HW
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Hmm, full flaps? In my pix, it doesn't appear that flaps are used at all. Remember this Rande pic in a Gulch ad? HW
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It's probably not safe to think that a scan from a 30-year-old magazine accurately represents the pitch. When I find the magazine again, maybe I can tell better. Maybe it will turn out that I actually took the pictures. Meanwhile, if it makes everyone feel better, substitute the attached for the original middle picture. HW
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Well, just to drag this out some more ... Some Lodestar exit pix. The plane is still registered, to a corporation in Texas. HW