BIGUN 1,307 #26 October 16, 2005 QuoteIt's vintage ART! It truly is, Jim. I can see a large copy hanging in my office.Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #27 October 17, 2005 QuoteQuote In formation (l. to r.): Bill Zuchelli, Upper Darby, a Bell Employe; Jerry Bradley, Glenolden office worker; Tim McGrath, Narberth, parachute rigger. These guys are all from where I grew up...not more than 6 miles from me. Both the name McGrath and Zuchelli sounds familiar. I'd love to know what DZ. Did he tell you where he jumped? I'll have to check my log book; I can't remember where I was jumping in '64. Cool pics. Brings back lots of memories. Particularly the two-shot Capewells. I hated them. He said he jumped with the Army Parachute team, I'll have to ask him at what dropzone. He and some of his family have seen this thread so maybe he'll sign up and leave some information for us all... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nitrochute 2 #28 October 17, 2005 i guarantee it was united.some of these guys also jumped at steve snyders drop zone, Skydiving Inc. in lumberton new jersey. i remember some of these guys. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wartload 0 #29 October 17, 2005 More to the point, though, what would anyone here have placed the odds on you being at the Vatican (or them allowing you in)! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wartload 0 #30 October 17, 2005 I had the same instrument cluster on my first rig. I ended up selling the (then bent) panel and altimeter, but kept the stopwatch. Coincidentally, I unearthed the stopwatch this past weekend. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wartload 0 #31 October 17, 2005 Quote I still have that 26 ft Navy conical reserve. Cant bear to trash it. Still have mine, too. It packed small, had a great reputation for reliability, and was cheap back then. (Friendly USMC riggers) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,362 #32 October 17, 2005 I paid $25 for the only one I ever owned. It cost more than that to have it modified for steerability. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SunbumPaul 0 #33 October 23, 2005 In 1975, before heading to Casa Grande for the winter, I purchased a SST piggyback container. It was beautiful compared to my military surplus equipment. Unfortunately, my Paracommander would not fit in the small container. I bought two 26' Navy Conical reserves for $25 each, that fit easily into the containers. I used a diaper deployment and rigged the back four lines to release on rings(Four line release). To steer the canopies, I used opposite front risers to steer and used the rear risers to flare. Standups were not a problem, when I wasn't backing up too fast. The turns were a little slow. I crossed a highway and a power line at Casa Grande, before doing a hook turn. It would have been impressive, if I hadn't grabbed the wrong front riser, turned downwind with no time left to correct. I jumped these canopies at the big Turkey meet in Z-Hills in 1976. The organizers reported the number of reserve rides taken during the meet. I was not the only jumper jumping a reserve as main, so their report was probably inaccurate. I finally bought a Strato Star, while in Z-Hills and didn't have to walk out of the swamps as often. Those were fun times. Paul Juel Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 22 #34 October 23, 2005 Always wondered what the Navy 26 ft Conical would do as a main, now I know. My one reserve ride on that canopy was great and the ldg was waaay softer than my USAF C9 28 ft round ever gave me. Shoulda bought a second Navy conical and used it as my main. I NEVER was able to do a standup on my C9. It landed hard hard hard every time. Guess it was very porous.2018 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
SunbumPaul 0 #35 October 23, 2005 I weighed 140 pounds at the time, so standup landings were easy. At that time, a small rig was more important as was the freefall. The canopy was just to get you to the ground so you could make another freefall. I remember the jumpers, that winter of '75 at the Gulch, didn't like to have square canopies on the load. Way too dangerous. Pretty funny now, looking back. I remember one opening on the 26' Navy conical, where the front right lines were tangled a little and shortened, causing the canopy front skirt to fold under and reopen. I thought I might be able to land it without getting hurt but looking for a rush, decided that this was a good enough excuse to cut away. Unlike the main canopy with four risers, the 26'navy reserve was on two risers and that made steering more difficult. I had to grab groups of lines to steer the canopy. It was unmodified, but I think it had a Four-line release. I made a few hundred jumps on the canopy. It did the job. It was stable. It was small. It was cheap. It was strong. I continued flying it even when it was full of holes from lines burns. I might have gotten more forward speed if the holes hadn't been in the front. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #36 October 24, 2005 Hey Paul, I was just going to ask you if you knew Paul Juel, and then I realized it was you....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #37 November 2, 2005 QuoteQuote In formation (l. to r.): Bill Zuchelli, Upper Darby, a Bell Employe; Jerry Bradley, Glenolden office worker; Tim McGrath, Narberth, parachute rigger. These guys are all from where I grew up...not more than 6 miles from me. Both the name McGrath and Zuchelli sounds familiar. I'd love to know what DZ. Did he tell you where he jumped? I'll have to check my log book; I can't remember where I was jumping in '64. Cool pics. Brings back lots of memories. Particularly the two-shot Capewells. I hated them. Here is a part of an email I received from Bill concerning where they jumped (and who they were): ================================== A little info about the army parachute teams back then. There were 2 parachute teams back in 1960. One with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky & the other with the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg.(Golden Knights). Both teams were pretty new at the time. We occasionally jump with each other on demo's. I was with the Screaming Eagles team at Fort Campbell. We billed our team as, The Famed Army Parachute Team. Enclosed is a picture of one of our posters and a team picture. Your friend jim may like the poster. =================================== He sent several more pictures that I will have to downrez to post, but I will in case Jim wants some more art Edited to add the images.... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goose491 0 #38 November 11, 2005 QuoteI thought I was the only one who carried a big ole butcher knife next to his dash board of instruments (back in the good old days). I think hook knives were available back then, but they were harder to come by....Steve1 The knife in the picture was pretty hard to come by as well. Looks to me to be German Issue, WWII. It's the model they gave SS and Hitler youth. I've got one at home. Bought in Austria. My Karma ran over my Dogma!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
