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Yup. Attached is a picture of JB wearing the system plus more description of the canopy. Note the spelling of the last word. I was at Orange most weekends when the Wings of Orange were practicing there. There was general wonderment that they were jumping rounds and front reserves when all the cool jumpers had PCs in their pigs. HW
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Not landings, and not so dramatic as you remember. HW
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O.K., here's another. I have rather crudely airbrushed out identifying information on the front of the canopy. HW
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Yup. But please don't ask me to explain this "coincidence." Nate could, of course, have been D-3 or so, but chose otherwise. HW
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Hmm.... http://www.myspace.com/_uspa USPA wants to be your friend. HW
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Damn, yr good. It was David Barish, and it was the Sailwing, not the Wing Sail. I have one of the "scaled down versons" built under current military contract, and will drag it out of the garage and take a picture of it. Geez, I thought this one was pretty obscure, although it is in some of the old books. I showed it to Nate this summer and he just laughed. Got to go rummaging through the archives some more. HW
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This. For extra points: 1. Name the designer of the canopy; 2. Name the jumper; 3. Describe what current (military) application uses this design. HW
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As I said, I knew what it was -- Zing spoiled the game by posting the right answer 20 minutes after I posted. The pic was scanned from a Pioneer ad, and the jumper is (I believe) Gary Pond, D-6969. The Volplane guess was reasonable, although the Volplane (on which I have maybe 200 jumps), did not have the slots in the tail. The Hornet was Pioneer's next attempt at a square. I was not actively working for PI at the time it came out, and never jumped one, but I did see someone get seriously hurt stalling it very high -- she was an old-time jumper with not even that many PC jumps. I never looked closely at it, but assumed that it was not really "single-surface," but like the Volplane had a lower surface that terminated in a "valve" part way back. Didn't know the Bill Coe story; interesting. And I know that unlike the Volplane, it did pack up small. HW
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The number 11 (or maybe 12) seems to stick in the back of my head; I remember legs sticking into the space behind where the rear firewall should have been. HW
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No less an authority than Kinger has already identified the women as Paulette and Darlene.
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But if you click the clicky on the error page, you'll get to the page you want.
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Anyone care to identify this canopy? No prizes awarded -- just bragging rights. HW (p.s.-- I know what it is.)
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If memory serves, Kurt Russell made a static line jump at Orange, MA, probably in the late 60s. HW
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I suppose that since the movie is out, Nancy won't mind my sharing the attached photo, which she sent to a bunch of friends several months ago. Nancy is on the left, Sally on right. I've shown the picture to a bunch of people who know Nancy, with only the vaguest hints about "someone you know..." The only one who recognized her immediately was Lew Sanborn (D-1). HW
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True, but if you own a legit copy of Photoshop CS2 you can get the free public beta version from Apple. It screams on any Intel Mac and has a great new selection tool, among many other goodies. HW
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Patches from back in the day.
howardwhite replied to mjosparky's topic in Skydiving History & Trivia
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When did wearing a sky diving patch go out of fashion.?
howardwhite replied to steve1's topic in Skydiving History & Trivia
No, early 60s or maybe earlier. Just a guess -- a lot of sport jumpers in those days were military or had served in the military, and were accustomed to patches. Looking through the archives to find pictures... HW -
Attached is new scan, cropped, sharpened, about as good as I can make a 30-year-old crumpled business card. Kinger's IDs: Darlene, Paulette, Kinger,?, Chip (a local college student), ?, Bart. The pilot is Bruce McBeth, aka The Great Waldo Pepper. HW
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Agree, it's Kinger. Maybe I should mail him at Finger Lakes and see if he can ID the others. I assume the ladies on the left are just going along for a passenger ride. HW
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Cool. I probably was at Pepperell (or possibly at Orange) when you came through. I guesstimate I put out more than 1,000 static line jumps out of a Norseman. Not much of an altitude machine, but very efficient for what it was principally used for. Didn't go to Simcoe, though. HW
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This card?.... HW
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Here's an AN-2 used at the 1956 World Meet in Russia
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Yup, that helps. I sort of knew that writing black timecode was no longer done much, but hadn't thought about the other reason for a quick fast forward and rewind. Thanks.
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I Googled "depacked + video tape," but still don't know what you mean by this. Enlightenment? HW
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Same here. Takes more than a minute to get in, and a long time to log in. But it works. (Doesn't look as though there's much activity these days. Most of the images from people I know were posted three years ago.)