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greenberetTFS
07-29-2010, 18:56
Anyone interested in some old vintage paratrooper photos,songs jump stories try this link for a little nostalgia.........;)
Http://www.Airborne paratroopers of the fifties.com
Big Teddy :munchin
mojaveman
07-29-2010, 20:36
Hey Teddy,
What type of parachutes did you guys use back then? Were T-10s around? I bet jumping an M-1919 was a real challenge.
The Reaper
07-29-2010, 21:15
Probably T-7s.
TR
RichL025
07-29-2010, 21:31
Anyone interested in some old vintage paratrooper photos,songs jump stories try this link for a little nostalgia.........;)
Http://www.Airborne paratroopers of the fifties.com
Big Teddy :munchin
Link broken?
http://home.hiwaay.net/~magro/paraindex.html
Blue
I did my 1st 5 jumps from a C-119,,
The plane with the aerodynamics of a square rock..
Utah Bob
07-30-2010, 07:20
I did my 1st 5 jumps from a C-119,,
The plane with the aerodynamics of a square rock..
SOBs were LOUD too!
I found the C124 stuff interesting...I remember the older guys joking about the jump command "everybody upstairs, downstairs. Everybody downstairs, outside!" They thought jumping a C5A would be the same experience...
I really could relate to the comments about walking on the tops of canopies because the sky was so crowded on a mass tac...I've watched some of the more contemporary jump videos and they are not what I remember from either the 82nd or the 509th...during the 82nd's organizational day, there used to be a competition to see how fast a unit could clear a C130...B Company, 307th Engineers won the competition in 1972 with a time of 9 seconds...I was kinda glad I was a newbie and not invited...
ZonieDiver
07-30-2010, 10:52
I did my 1st 5 jumps from a C-119,,
The plane with the aerodynamics of a square rock..
Did all five from the "$1.19" as well. It was kind of like falling out of bed, compared to the C-130!
x SF med
07-30-2010, 13:29
First 5... C123, C130, C130, C141, C130 ... later on got Chinooks, Hueys, Blackhawks, Twin Otters... Oh and more 130's and 141's
The chutes were either T-10's or MC1-1B's I guess this officially makes me old.
(don't even go there TR, I hear the gears squeaking in your twisted head, and TS, just keep your trap shut too... that goes for the whole lot of you, dammit)
(don't even go there TR, I hear the gears squeaking in your twisted head, and TS, just keep your trap shut too... that goes for the whole lot of you, dammit)
LOL...someone's a little cranky this Friday afternoon.....:D
First 5... (don't even go there TR, I hear the gears squeaking in your twisted head, and TS, just keep your trap shut too... that goes for the whole lot of you, dammit)Hmmm...No Caribous? And I have to agree, it looks like someone is off his meds again...
Trip_Wire (RIP)
07-30-2010, 18:11
Yes, did you visit the Korean War Rangers page there? Yes, it was T-7s back then. I will not go into all the aircraft I have leaped from; however, the strangest one for me was the AF SA-16, I jumped when the PJ's in the AF Reserve unit visited the 12th SFGA at NAS Seattle. We're doing water jumps into Lake Washington. ;)
greenberetTFS
07-30-2010, 18:12
;)Probably T-7s.
TR
TR's right,we had the T-7's............ :) They were about ready to start using the T-10's,the only other time I had jumped the T-7's was in Germany,the riggers in the 10th use to have them for special occasions...........:cool: Opening shock was something else,no need to check your canopy,you knew it was open.
Big Teddy :munchin