Now I Know I'm Crazy!

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My Dad will be turning 80 this coming June. He was a Paratrooper in the US Army Air Corps back in the 40's. He wants to do a jump on his birthday. I agreed to jump with him :shock:
I told my brother that I would pay for his jump too, if he was crazy enough to do it :P
I can't help but think there must be something wrong with someone that wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
 
Now that's neat!
I'm no Burt Munro...but I'd like to be healthy enough for one more run down the track at age 80.
I admire you and your dad!
 
"I can't help but think there must be something wrong with someone that wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane." Roger I guess it would depend on whose flying it! Personally, I would never do it. I am afraid of heights.:0)

Scott on Lil' Rascal & UAL pilot
 
Fishtales":28unqvjk said:
I can't help but think there must be something wrong with someone that wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
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If I'm not mistaken, that is why my first 5 jumps in jump school was out of a C-119........I couldn't exit out the rear door of that craft fast enough. It seemed like it took the whole runway to get it off the ground and probably only made it off the ground then because we all lifted our feet off the floor of the craft! :disgust (I never did make a landing in one, I was always bailing out!) In my mind I always questioned that the C-119 was a "perfectly good airplane".

AIRBORNE! ALL THE WAY!

(P.S. Good on you, Roger for jumping with him. Tell us all about it!)
 
Our neighbor across the canal jumped out of a perfectly good airplane as an 80th birthday celebration several years ago. SHE loved it! As a non-current pilot, I think I'd have to see smoke and flames before I'd consider jumping... or be physically tossed out by several large guys, scratching, clawing, and screaming like a little girl all the while.

I used to watch a competitive jumping team practice at our local airport; they certainly looked and sounded like they were enjoying it. By the same token, I don't want to try snake charming, tight-rope walking over the Grand Canyon, or being fired out of a cannon, either. :wink:

Good luck, Roger!

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Thanks for the words of encouragement-- I will need all the courage I can scrape up.
I'm going to have them video the jump.
My kids "made" me get a "My Space" site a couple months ago, I'll post it on there and give a link. Then you all can watch as I go "scratching, clawing, and screaming like a little girl all the while. " as James so eloquently put it. :wink:

Roger
 
As we used to say in our paratrooper days.........there are only 2 things that fall from the sky........"Paratroopers and Bird S--t" :mrgreen:

One other thing we had to do....if we were to get air sick (a common occurence on the C-119), while in flight, you would use the emesis bag that was handed out and then you had to take it with you. (Those that used them, would tuck them into their webbing and after their chute opened would reach down pull the bag out and let 'er drop. (Was pretty tough on the folks below). :disgust
 
DaveS":5000ieoj said:
As we used to say in our paratrooper days.........there are only 2 things that fall from the sky........"Paratroopers and Bird S--t" :mrgreen:

One other thing we had to do....if we were to get air sick (a common occurence on the C-119), while in flight, you would use the emesis bag that was handed out and then you had to take it with you. (Those that used them, would tuck them into their webbing and after their chute opened would reach down pull the bag out and let 'er drop. (Was pretty tough on the folks below). :disgust
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Add a third thing -- false teeth! Remove 'em before you jump! :xnaughty
 
It has been a long time since I jumped from a perfectly good air plane... however I had no choice. I was afraid of the Marine Gunny that had his foot in my back. All jokes aside... drifting earthward was as calm and peaceful as you'll get in the air. However, the best part of the DoD training was in or better yet under the water. I loved it and still have a fond rememberance of the times I enjoyed it in the defence of our country.
Drop in unannounced, submerge, surface do your job and then dissolve into the darkness. All in the name of peace. may God bless our armed services! Butch
 
Roger! Don't do it! You will not bounce!

That's cool that he wants to do that and you're a good kid for going along.

Susie Q wants to do that sometime, too. I looked into it for a Christmas present but it costs too much for this year since we're already planning to go to that little amusement park just south of you right after Christmas. But, I figured, hey - I can just shove her out of the plane on the way home and she gets it all.
 
My daughter jumped on her 18th birthday. She said there was no sensation of height from that far up, so it was easy to jump. I told her it wasn’t the first 6,960 feet that I would be concerned about, it was the last 40 feet.
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Dave dlt.gif
 
Roger good for you. jumping is the one thing is the corps I did not get to do and really wanted to. i keep threatening susan with going out and doing it but I am not allowed to tell her about it until I get back. I did get to spy rig into and out of a few landing zones and that was fun. good for your father for not sitting on the couch at his age.
 
DaveS":2ikfio5q said:
Fishtales":2ikfio5q said:
I can't help but think there must be something wrong with someone that wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
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If I'm not mistaken, that is why my first 5 jumps in jump school was out of a C-119........I couldn't exit out the rear door of that craft fast enough. It seemed like it took the whole runway to get it off the ground and probably only made it off the ground then because we all lifted our feet off the floor of the craft! :disgust (I never did make a landing in one, I was always bailing out!) In my mind I always questioned that the C-119 was a "perfectly good airplane".

AIRBORNE! ALL THE WAY!

(P.S. Good on you, Roger for jumping with him. Tell us all about it!)
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Yes Dave---- AIRBORNE! ALL THE WAY!

Made my first 5 jumps out of a C-119 too. And the last one out of a C141 at night during a snow storm. Wouldn't really care to do another one now. Used to love it during the day especially out of helicopters. Never was anything but scared &^$&&*---less at night.

Go for it Roger----you won't regret it and you really don't have to be crazy to do it. We always thought that crazy business was just straight leg envy talk. Your Dad and Dave S will know what I mean by that.

Jay
 
DaveS":jb9ps2f5 said:
As we used to say in our paratrooper days.........there are only 2 things that fall from the sky........"Paratroopers and Bird S--t" :mrgreen:

One other thing we had to do....if we were to get air sick (a common occurence on the C-119), while in flight, you would use the emesis bag that was handed out and then you had to take it with you. (Those that used them, would tuck them into their webbing and after their chute opened would reach down pull the bag out and let 'er drop. (Was pretty tough on the folks below). :disgust
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Dave

On one jump I had just about everyone on the plane puking and it wasn't into there emesis bag. I filled a clear bag with soup and tucked it down in my jacket under my chin. When everyone was feeling pretty ill I squeezed it and pretended to be barfing then started licking it off my fingers, that started an imediate chain reaction and one heck of a mess that those airforce guys that used to give us a hard time bragging how they got just as much hazordous duty pay as us and didn't have to jump out to get it had to clean up.

Jay
 
Hunkydory":3jk8r9in said:
Made my first 5 jumps out of a C-119 too. And the last one out of a C141 Used to love it during the day especially out of helicopters.
Jay
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I never got the opportunity to jump out of the C-141. I was on the manifest for the 1st mass troop jump out of a C-141, but got bumped off by some guy that was about to lose his jump status. I too loved the helicopter blasts.....esp. when I was sport jumping! (Just a flying platform). When I was in Special Forces training, all of my jumps were night jumps.....(and no they weren't called night jumps because I closed my eyes... :roll: )
As for the C-119's, there were a few of them based out of our airport (Arlington, Wa.) in the late 70's that were being used to transport fish from Alaska....last I knew they crashed.
 
Dave

For many years the C-119 was one of the primary planes used for carrying fire retardant to fight forest fires. Don't know how long they have been completely out of service.

And my first 5 jumps were night jumps at least it appeared that way with my eyes closed. Can vividly remember the first time I kept them open and what a beautiful sight the aircraft was with the rest of the jumpers exiting as my chute opened and I swung around.

Jay
 
Hunkydory":2hy474b0 said:
DaveS":2hy474b0 said:
As we used to say in our paratrooper days.........there are only 2 things that fall from the sky........"Paratroopers and Bird S--t" :mrgreen:

One other thing we had to do....if we were to get air sick (a common occurence on the C-119), while in flight, you would use the emesis bag that was handed out and then you had to take it with you. (Those that used them, would tuck them into their webbing and after their chute opened would reach down pull the bag out and let 'er drop. (Was pretty tough on the folks below). :disgust
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Dave

On one jump I had just about everyone on the plane puking and it wasn't into there emesis bag. I filled a clear bag with soup and tucked it down in my jacket under my chin. When everyone was feeling pretty ill I squeezed it and pretended to be barfing then started licking it off my fingers, that started an immediate chain reaction and one heck of a mess that those air force guys that used to give us a hard time bragging how they got just as much hazardous duty pay as us and didn't have to jump out to get it had to clean up.

Jay
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Got to thinking, that must sound really gross to most. To put it in perspective at the age I was doing this many of my contemporaries were either seniors in highschool or freshman in college in a fraternity doing animal house stuff.

Jay
 
HA!! Jay you crack me up..... I can just see that mess...what a rip...Ha! now I kinda understand.... When we were at Lake Powell and you climbed up those tiny hand holds.....Way, Way up...now I know why you were not afraid to fall... made me nervous just watching you...

Joel
SEA3PO
 
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