crystalcole1981 0 #1 October 31, 2009 I will have access to a computer at the party and BILL will be able to see them.. Thanks to everyone! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #2 October 31, 2009 Happy Birthday Chuteless! Thanks for showing us the way!!! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NovaTTT 2 #3 October 31, 2009 Happy Birthday, Bill - and many more. Blues!"Even in a world where perfection is unattainable, there's still a difference between excellence and mediocrity." Gary73 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skypuppy 1 #4 October 31, 2009 I'll be at the party, but happy birthday now anyway.... RobIf some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gene03 0 #5 October 31, 2009 Happy Birthday.“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d123 3 #6 November 1, 2009 Hey Bill, Canada loves you man! Be happy to be yourself and happy birthday man!Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_squared431 0 #7 November 1, 2009 I hope you have a great bday.. TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1 I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
labrys 0 #8 November 1, 2009 Happy Birthday, Bill. Anything and everything else aside you're a pioneer, a free spirit, and a skydiver with more brass than most.Owned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dkavadikian 0 #9 November 1, 2009 Happy Birthday Bill, you ARE the man!! And, thank you for helping to make this sport what it is today. Doug Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybill 22 #10 November 2, 2009 Hi Bill Cole!! Happy B'Day Dude!! Love reading your posts of Daze Gone By, reminds me of my own!! Made my first Jump at Hammond Airport, La. on 08MAY64 with Southland Skydivers outa Milt Nobels Cessna 170. Jumped an old Orange and white candy striped 28' 7-LL I borrowed from Dave Murray till I could get my canopy modified!! Those were the Daze!! "PCA!!!" B-4240, C-3114, D-6009, FB-1495, GW-1367, DW-532, DDW-451, 12hr-757, 24hr-210, 36hr-147, 48hr-168, 60hr-230, POPS-3305, SCR-2034, SCS-680, WSCR-371, French SCR-1024, USPA-356, SL- JM&I, AFF-I.SCR-2034, SCS-680 III%, Deli-out Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skypuppy 1 #11 November 2, 2009 Bill's party was hosted by his daughter Crystal. Some of the attendees included Ernie Mueller from the '60, '62, '64 and '68 Canadian Style and Accuracy Team, Neil Perks (I think Cdn style champ from the '70's) and his brother Ray, Dick Wilbur (who for several years worked with the Helldrivers, barnstorming across Canada - parachuting as low as he could before each show because it was usually cold, raining and windy, and then as his alter-ego 'Pooh the Clown' riding around on top of cars and stuff to entertain - Al Griffiths, and Joe Chow, dzo of Skydive Toronto. Dick told the story of running into Ernie Mueller at the Nationals in Cobden, Ontario when Ernie asked him if he was competing. 'I can't, Ernie,' he replied. 'I'm grounded, and you;re one of the guys that grounded me.' Ernie told him not to worry about it. Dick was accompanied by his wife Sue, which made an interesting couple, Dick with 3400+ jumps before quitting in the mid 80's, and Sue, one of CSPA's newest A CofP holders after doing some 45 jumps over the summer after attending the agm in Montreal as an interested observer. Joe read an interesting piece he'd written about how much guts it must have taken, given the parachute technology of the day, to do the two chuteless jumps Bill got in trouble for, as well as the high altitude jumps he made back in the day. Got to meet Ken Wiecek, the guy (from Ohio) who handed a parachute to Cole on his second chuteless jump back in 1972 (I guess he felt he should get a parachute to him since he was Area Safety Officer. Also in attendance was Fred Murrin, one of the premiere WW I aircraft restorers/manufacturers, and a long-time jumper from the states. Bill's scrap books and logbooks were there along with dvds of some of his commercial and exhibition jumps and pictures of his contributions to aviation (he was also a balloon pilot and fixed wing pilot who built about 7 flying WW I era reproductions, including a Fokker triplane).If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 22 #12 November 2, 2009 Happy birthday Bill. I still watch your stunt film now and then. Scares me "chuteless" every time. Glad you lived through all your youthful madness and can look back with a big grin. 3772018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuteless 1 #13 November 2, 2009 My heartfelt thanks to all those who attended, and to those who wrote their best wishes here on DZ.com. I had a great day, and am indebted to Crystal for all the hard work ( and cost) she put into the party. I hope my 77th year which is just beginning, is as much fun as the years gone by have been. Thanks to you all. Bill Cole Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
