08-16-2017, 07:08
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Quiet Professional
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Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
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Airborne..
To all that jump out of perfectly good airoplanes.. 
link: Gory Gory..
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08-16-2017, 07:31
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Blackhawks-ville
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To all those that jump:
Happy Airborne Day!
ALL THE WAY!
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08-16-2017, 11:37
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Now who would be the crazy fool to do something like that??? 
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08-16-2017, 14:48
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Hey I've been on some those...trust me they ain't perfectly good air-o-planes. 
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08-16-2017, 15:12
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Area Commander
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Texas, USA
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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!
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08-16-2017, 15:23
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Area Commander
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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!
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"Do not go gentle into that good night..."
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08-16-2017, 15:39
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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 
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08-16-2017, 16:25
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Area Commander
Join Date: Dec 2016
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Happy Airborne Day to some of the best people on this Earth
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.....
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08-16-2017, 16:26
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jumping out of a "perfectly good" airplane...
....that sounds awesome - where can I find one?
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08-17-2017, 09:50
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Area Commander
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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.
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08-17-2017, 16:19
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Asset
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: South Carolina
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Cherry Jump
C 119 March '69. Texas air national guard was supporting jump school that week.
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08-17-2017, 16:36
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Quiet Professional
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Premsore
C 119 March '69. Texas air national guard was supporting jump school that week.
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We may have been in the same class??
27th March??
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08-17-2017, 16:51
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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'.....
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08-17-2017, 17:14
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Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2009
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What the hell, it was fun and it was an extra $110.00 a month.
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08-17-2017, 17:22
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Quiet Professional
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mojaveman
What the hell, it was fun and it was an extra $110.00 a month. |
Lol...55 bucks for most of my carreer
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