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Parachute 20 year limit
Fred Blair wrote:
I used a round chute when I had to bail out of my Open Cirrus, it just wasn't an $8 million dollar crash. No fireball, either. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA * Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly * Updated! "Transponders in Sailplanes" http://tinyurl.com/y739x4 * New Jan '08 - sections on Mode S, TPAS, ADS-B, Flarm, more * "A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" at www.motorglider.org |
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Parachute 20 year limit
There has to be a story there, also JJ .............tell us more. FB Not much of a story, just a couple of Lieutenants trying to learn how to fly the damned thing. I learned to worry more about aviating and less about the radar. My pilot learned he shouldn't try to pull 6 G's with the power at idle! We punched out at the last minute and everything worked as advertised. They issued us another bird and we finished up our recee training and got an all-expense-paid senior trip to south east asia. JJ |
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Parachute 20 year limit
On Dec 12, 4:13*pm, JJ Sinclair wrote:
There has to be a story there, also JJ .............tell us more. FB Not much of a story, just a couple of Lieutenants trying to learn how to fly the damned thing. I learned to worry *more about aviating and less about the *radar. My pilot learned he shouldn't try to pull 6 G's with the power at idle! We punched out at the last minute and everything worked as advertised. They issued us another bird and we finished up our recee training and got an all-expense-paid senior trip to south east asia. JJ JJ, Was that in F-100, F-101, F-105, or F-4? Or something else? And what extras were you afforded with a "senior" trip to SE Asia? By the way, my Strong chute is a 1987 model. And, since it's a round 'chute, I'll get a-round to sending it to Strong in late winter ... Ray Lovinggood Carrboro, North Carolina, USA |
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Parachute 20 year limit
JJ
I had a flight of T-33's just out of overhaul, being ferried to Iceland to replace old ones. TAC Ferry Command launched us out of Goose Bay (VFR) and Sondy (Sondrestrom) went IFR after we passed point of no return. Held over an hour to let two flights of F-5's land. When we started approach (minimum fuel) GCA lost radio and I went to Guard.. They vectored us around for a new approach and forgot we were on Guard and let us overshoot final and sent us around with 12 gallons of fuel. Climbed to over 10K to be sure would clear Ice Pack and punched on a heading of east to be sure were over land. No survival if we had landed in water. When I hit the frozen ground and rocks all I could see momentarily was red due to impact. With winter and survial gear probaly grossed out between 225-250 lbs. Was picked up by a Danish Chopper and when we landed back at Sondy it went dark walking to ambulance. Lots of little things more but not enough time, without writing a book, to cover them and might not be of interest to the gravity powered pilots. Three airplanes and valued about $55K each due to deprecation. All four pilots walked using round chutes ) Aircraft discussion way off this soaring news group but talking chutes probably ok. Big John ************************************************ On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:03:28 -0800 (PST), JJ Sinclair wrote: I jumped about 10K and 150 mph in controlled flight over a snow storm cloud bank (Greenland). There's got to be a good story there, Big John..........tell us more! I jumped a (round) chute sooooo close to impact that I could feel the heat from the fireball as 8 million taxpayer dollers slammed into the side of a hill a few miles north of Mt. Home, ID (June, 1967). JJ |
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JJ
Have you gotten your Caterpillar Pin? Big John *********************** On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:03:28 -0800 (PST), JJ Sinclair wrote: I jumped about 10K and 150 mph in controlled flight over a snow storm cloud bank (Greenland). There's got to be a good story there, Big John..........tell us more! I jumped a (round) chute sooooo close to impact that I could feel the heat from the fireball as 8 million taxpayer dollers slammed into the side of a hill a few miles north of Mt. Home, ID (June, 1967). JJ |
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Parachute 20 year limit
Fred Blair wrote:
There has to be a story there, also JJ .............tell us more. JJ's stories can be found he http://www.valleysoaring.net/stories.htm The story about his Mtn Home silkworm is titled "15 Minutes to Kill", but my favorite story is "The Torch", in which JJ accidently sets fire to his landout field, providing the inspiration for this episode of Pez D. Spencer - Sailplane Racer: http://www.soaravenal.com/diamond11.htm By the way, Pez cartoonist John Shelton also flew the F-4 in Southeast Asia, and has his own silkworm stories... P7 unit |
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Parachute 20 year limit
Have you gotten your Caterpillar Pin? Big John By the time I retired I had two of them, one from the RF-4C and another from the F-111F. Haven't added to my collection as yet...............? To bring this discussion back to soaring, I went through my egress procedure twice on one very smoky day last year at the sports class nats. None of us could see the ground and I was using the bottom of the Q's as my horizon. If someone suddenly appeared in front of me, I wouldn't have had time to avoid a collision. I didn't see anyone, but I knew 30 sailplanes were running the same set of turnpoints on the west side flying a MAT. A friend later told me he almost nailed me, but I never saw him. We were below IFR minimums on several days, I know because I couldn't see Montague when the GPS said we were 3 miles out! The conditions were part of my reasoning to withdraw from the contest. Cheers, JJ |
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