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To all that jump out of perfectly good airoplanes.. :lifter
link: Gory Gory.. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8pHvABlJcw)
TacOfficer
08-16-2017, 07:31
To all those that jump:
Happy Airborne Day!
ALL THE WAY!
Now who would be the crazy fool to do something like that??? :p
1stindoor
08-16-2017, 14:48
Hey I've been on some those...trust me they ain't perfectly good air-o-planes.:D
bblhead672
08-16-2017, 15:12
Cheers and thanks to all of you brave enough to jump out of airplanes with a piece of fabric on your back!
Perhaps some day I'll try it....like say around my 80th birthday.
To me it's much safer to get in a metal tube and submerge it under a few hundred feet of water! :D
Nope. Not my cup of tea! Not in a million years for this old sailor, but I'm damn glad there are those so disposed to drink that cup to the dregs and are Airborne (or maybe just curious enough to jump out of airplanes in one condition or other). Thank you Airborne. Enjoy the hell out of your day! Cheers!
Closest I ever came to a "perfectly good airplane" was a C-130 that had 150 Hours on the clock. I can still remember how pretty that plane was:o
rsdengler
08-16-2017, 16:25
Happy Airborne Day to some of the best people on this Earth :o
Hell, I would love to jump from an airplane, that's next on my list. I am thinking for my 54th birthday in January...Tandem of course strapped to the instructor screaming all the way down.....:p
jumping out of a "perfectly good" airplane...
....that sounds awesome - where can I find one?
I just had the opportunity to jump Leapfest in Rhode Island.
What a fantastic, fun, and well run event.
A fair few Long Tabs in key positions to keep the machine running smoothly.
Cheers Rhode Island National Guard, US Army Aviation, and US Army Special Forces.
And last but not least the hardest working people in the Airborne business, the riggers.
Premsore
08-17-2017, 16:19
C 119 March '69. Texas air national guard was supporting jump school that week.
C 119 March '69. Texas air national guard was supporting jump school that week.
We may have been in the same class??
27th March??
First Jumps C-119.....not exactly a perfectly good airplane. Goes to the furthest end of the run way, max revs, takes off at the opposite furthest end...barely.
Great platform tho due to the sloping body. DC3 is a good jump too with the extender.
One of the great things about SF is all of the non standard AC jumps...Puma's, Soviet choppers etc.
The worst were always Marine Corp choppers ....hydraulic fluid pouring from the ceiling....'We're good Jump Master as long as she's leaking'.....
mojaveman
08-17-2017, 17:14
What the hell, it was fun and it was an extra $110.00 a month. :D
What the hell, it was fun and it was an extra $110.00 a month. :D
Lol...55 bucks for most of my carreer
Yeah, started at $55 in 78 and then they raised the enlisted to $83 (if I remember correctly) around 82 before raising enlisted to $110 shortly after
Doing your "Cherry Jump" after jump school with your unit, if your unit thought that was a significant inclusion event, was Mac Daddy fun, 12th SFG(A) made it memorable for many!!!!
The answer to why we jump is, if you've ever ridden in an Air Force plane you know why we jump
Premsore
08-18-2017, 21:44
We may have been in the same class??
27th March??
My certificate is dated April 3, exactly one week behind you. I was in 46th Company in jump school. My cherry jump was on March 31.
In SF, jumped C123's, C130's, C141's, Huey's, and a Hollywood jump from a C47 in '71.
miclo18d
08-19-2017, 05:15
Doing your "Cherry Jump" after jump school with your unit, if your unit thought that was a significant inclusion event, was Mac Daddy fun, 12th SFG(A) made it memorable for many!!!!
A memory I had let lapse until I saw this!
In my LRS unit, the new guys to the unit, for their cherry jump, got their helmets decorated. Initially it started as a small shark fin on top of the helmet and eventually got to the point of huge paper machet sharks that would be taken off before boarding the A/C. I wish I had the pictures still.
A memory I had let lapse until I saw this!
In my LRS unit, the new guys to the unit, for their cherry jump, got their helmets decorated. Initially it started as a small shark fin on top of the helmet and eventually got to the point of huge paper machet sharks that would be taken off before boarding the A/C. I wish I had the pictures still.
Had bright red steel pots for the cherry jump with white cherrys on each side. Guess now of days you would get UCMJ for that:p
Leaving the airplane was easy, just two guys pushing you. hardest were the 5 point landings; knees, hands and face.:D
But for 55 a month, what the heck.
My cheery blast was in the Q course. HA! :p