Today in History

[BillyVance 34]

Was looking through the slides on this article and #13 popped out at me. I vaguely remember this. A bandit jump into the Mets game.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/today-in-history-october-25/ss-AAjjCse?li=BBnb7Kz#image=13

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Niki1 1]

And because of that outlaw jump there were NO parachute demos at MLB games for a very long time. (20, 25 years?)
I don't follow baseball anymore but I remember watching that game with Joe Morgan. He said right then that this stunt would be bad for skydiver demos.

But we both thought it was pretty cool.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done.
Louis D Brandeis

Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

[JohnMitchell 16]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[ryoder 1,590]

That looks like an old Paraflite DC-5.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[councilman24 37]

Maybe more Cirrus Cloud size. I still have mine.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[tkhayes 348]

Does look like a DC-5, that was my first square jump - a bad parachute on a good day.

Above post said a Cirrus Cloud - was that a 5-cell as well? I am not familiar with it.

The DC5 had cells big enough to almost walk into.

[JerryBaumchen 1,365]

Hi tk,

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Above post said a Cirrus Cloud - was that a 5-cell as well?

A little trivia. The DC-5 was marketed as an accuracy canopy. Ted Mayfield got one for demo's and decided it landed too hard. He contacted ParaFlite and asked if they would build a DC-5 with two extra cells on it. They did & he bought it. I do not know if it was ever marketed by them or not.

Jerry Baumchen

[ryoder 1,590]

tkhayes

Does look like a DC-5, that was my first square jump - a bad parachute on a good day.

Above post said a Cirrus Cloud - was that a 5-cell as well? I am not familiar with it.

The DC5 had cells big enough to almost walk into.

Apparently, the DC-5 was just a scaled-up Cirrus Cloud.
Thread here: http://www.dropzone.com/forum/Skydiving_C1/Gear_and_Rigging_F6/Paraflite_Cirrus_Reserve_-_info_wanted_P1743486/

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[keithbar 1]

I agree especially because on the end cell of that canopy it reads DC five

i have on occasion been accused of pulling low . My response. Naw I wasn't low I'm just such a big guy I look closer than I really am .