There is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane - I've delivered airliners to airlines that had squawks...my own airplane had two when I picked it up, new...
But there are a lot of perfectly adequate airplanes.
As far as rational, only two things fall out of the sky: Bird shit and idiots
A young lady I once knew got killed in a skydiving accident one weekend. The following Monday I found an on-line skydiving fatalities database and she wasn't even the most recent one. They were doing a formation jump out of two planes and she went head first into the prop of the plane that was supposed to be ahead by had been accidentally overtaken. Most of these skydive pilots are not military trained. I have exactly zero faith in amateur skydiving.
Hi Kenny, just a few daze ago, 08MAY was 57 years since I first un-assed an aircraft in flight!! Kool vid... definitely from across the pond!! As for the comments from the "Peanut Gallery" they are what we call "WHUFFO's" ,,,,, They show up at the DZ and ask,"Hey boyah, 'WHUFFO' you jump from them par-chutes hawh???" Like what the late Fred Blassie said about the "Pencil Neck Geek's"... "They're a dime a dozen an' i'm lookin' for the guy supplyin' the dimes!!!!" skybill USPA-356, D-6009, SCR-2034, SCS-680, Head Honcho of "DIXIE TRASH!!"...(www.airtrash.com)
I have a friend who was a Marine in Vietnam. Once I was over while he was getting ready for a VFW function. He had jump wings. My son saw them and asked how many times he'd jumped. Dale replied, never. They always pushed, kicked or threw him out.
Nooooooo.......
ReplyDelete#1 seems to be properly motivated...
DeleteJumping out of a perfectly good airplane is not rational.
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane - I've delivered airliners to airlines that had squawks...my own airplane had two when I picked it up, new...
DeleteBut there are a lot of perfectly adequate airplanes.
As far as rational, only two things fall out of the sky: Bird shit and idiots
I've never jumped...... fallen out a few, but never jumped :)
DeleteBut it's fun.
DeleteA perfectly good airplane is one that is not falling out of the sky!!!grayman
DeleteTwo things fall out of the sky, one is bird shit, the other is assholes.
ReplyDeleteGo CAV!!
Saber 7
No eye protection? That could be a problem.
ReplyDeleteWhy? The newbies are all on static lines. They drop a few feet and their canopy opens, they never get any real speed up.
Delete120+ knots horizontal, on the hill, then vertical before the chute inflates.
DeleteJumping out of airplanes......
ReplyDeleteLike riding bareback....
Until that one time....
It’s not fun anymore.
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A young lady I once knew got killed in a skydiving accident one weekend. The following Monday I found an on-line skydiving fatalities database and she wasn't even the most recent one. They were doing a formation jump out of two planes and she went head first into the prop of the plane that was supposed to be ahead by had been accidentally overtaken. Most of these skydive pilots are not military trained. I have exactly zero faith in amateur skydiving.
ReplyDeleteSkydivers, like coffee, good to the last drop!
ReplyDeleteSeem like nice girls. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteHi Kenny,
ReplyDeletejust a few daze ago, 08MAY was 57 years since I first un-assed an aircraft in flight!! Kool vid... definitely from across the pond!!
As for the comments from the "Peanut Gallery" they are what we call "WHUFFO's" ,,,,, They show up at the DZ and ask,"Hey boyah, 'WHUFFO' you jump from them par-chutes hawh???" Like what the late Fred Blassie said about the "Pencil Neck Geek's"... "They're a dime a dozen an' i'm lookin' for the guy supplyin' the dimes!!!!"
skybill
USPA-356, D-6009, SCR-2034, SCS-680, Head Honcho of "DIXIE TRASH!!"...(www.airtrash.com)
I have a friend who was a Marine in Vietnam. Once I was over while he was getting ready for a VFW function. He had jump wings. My son saw them and asked how many times he'd jumped.
ReplyDeleteDale replied, never. They always pushed, kicked or threw him out.