Interesting web site...

[Guru312 0]

I was poking around the edges and corners of the Internet and found a page with lots of interesting photos and stories of jumping in 'Nam.

Here is the page with the most pictures but not from 'Nam:
http://60sjumper.skydiveworld.com/littleton.htm

This is the main page. http://60sjumper.skydiveworld.com/

My apologies if this has been posted prior.

Guru312

I am not DB Cooper

[howardwhite 6]

The Thom Lyons pages are interesting but full of wild inaccuracies.
I emailed him several times asking that he either correct stuff (like reporting inaccurately that someone was dead), or let me do it, but he said he was not interested in doing anything about it.
Last I knew, he lives in Australia and has been involved in politics there.

HW

[Guru312 0]

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The Thom Lyons pages are interesting but full of wild inaccuracies.

HW

I was most intrigued by the pictures and the history of PI at Lakewood. I started a DZ about 100 miles south of PI in 1969 and knew most of the people he mentions.

He has some pictures of old 28' cheapo configurations that I had never seen. He put quite a bit of work into the site bu I caught a number of errors also. He hasn't updated any part for years.

Guru312

I am not DB Cooper

[howardwhite 6]

I have a DVD of Lakewood movies of that vintage taken by Mike Winnick...Lots of people you would know in it. Some early Volplane jumps, some cool bellyflying.

HW

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I have a DVD of Lakewood movies of that vintage taken by Mike Winnick...Lots of people you would know in it. Some early Volplane jumps, some cool bellyflying.

HW

That would be great to see. I knew Mike. When MEPA meets were all the rage years ago I enjoyed talking with him. Very smart guy as was his buddy the multi-lingual commodity broker...whose name escapes my senior's brain.

I'll gladly pay for a DVD and shipping costs to have that if doing so wouldn't be too huge a burden on you.

Guru312

I am not DB Cooper

[howardwhite 6]

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Very smart guy as was his buddy the multi-lingual commodity broker...whose name escapes my senior's brain.

John Sayle or George Krieger, maybe.

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I'll gladly pay for a DVD and shipping costs to have that if doing so wouldn't be too huge a burden on you.

It would be a huge burden. But I'll think about it.

HW

[NickDG 23]

That's some cool stuff. I jumped at Littleton, CO in late 70s . . . and knew the DZO he mentioned, Bob Clark.

Scott Brady I knew too. I'm pretty sure he was killed a few years later on a demo when their three way canopy stack collapsed at low altitude. All three jumpers were killed.

NickD

[zoobrothertom 5]

Yep, there were some problems with accuracy of information. I'm not old enough to have spotted the all.

But overall, it was a good read. I did some of my student jumps at Lakewood in '82 and enjoyed reading about the history while I was still pissing in diapers and doing my dutiful best to deprive my mother of sleep.

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[Usetawuz 1]

I don't think Scott Brady was involved in that canopy stack (if you mean the one in Wheatridge CO). I think Scott moved to FL to work as a rigger for NASA or something like that. Bob Clark moved on down to Ellicott, then to Calhan. Don't know where he is now.

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[NickDG 23]

Thanks and that's good, and I'm glad of it, Scott was a good guy and deserved to grow old.

And yes the one in Wheatridge. I'd already moved and was in CA when it happened, so I wasn't too sure about what was what and who was who . . .

NickD